May 5

Guide to day festivals – no tent required

Day fes­ti­vals are becom­ing increas­ing­ly pop­u­lar – they give you the fes­ti­val expe­ri­ence with­out the need to take a whole week­end out of your sched­ule. There are lots of new­bies pop­ping up this year cov­er­ing a mul­ti­tude of gen­res, so you can get your fes­ti­val fix and col­lapse into your own cozy bed at the…

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Mar 26

Ultimate summer festival guide 2026

Here’s our fab­u­lous fes­ti­val guide to see you through to the end of Sep­tem­ber. The fes­ti­val land­scape has been chang­ing rapid­ly over the past few years and some have strug­gled to keep afloat, hence we’ve said good­bye to a num­ber of much-loved events. On the upside, new­bies are emerg­ing, with an increase in non-cam­p­ing city…

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Jul 15

Review Kaleidoscope 2026: sun, sounds and a secret set

Kalei­do­scope Fes­ti­val Alexan­dra Palace, now in its 6th year, has become some­thing of a local sum­mer insti­tu­tion, espe­cial­ly with fam­i­lies. Could a day fes­ti­val ever be in a bet­ter loca­tion? Well done to the Vic­to­ri­ans for build­ing the palace and cre­at­ing such a fes­­ti­­val-friend­­ly site. The main stage, perched upon Ally Pal­ly’s grassy slope, means you…

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Jul 13

Kaleidoscope festival 2026: photo gallery

Kalei­do­scope opened this year with the Amy Wine­house Band, fol­lowed by mega-choir Some Voic­es. Up on the Cloud 10 dance are­na, Roni Size deliv­ered a set to get every­one in the par­ty groove. Lat­er, Black Grape per­formed on the main stage while Bez’s Acid House Expe­ri­ence led foot­ball chants over on the Fringe stage. Kids…

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Jul 11

Wet Leg, English Teacher and Los Bitchos shine in the sun at Ally Pally: photo gallery

On a beau­ti­ful evening with the sun­set glow­ing through the win­dows of Alexan­dra Palace, the sun-soaked crowd mean­dered through the park and onto the grassy slopes to enjoy three fan­tas­tic acts. Los Bitchos got the crowd into par­ty spir­it with their dance-ori­en­t­ed Turk­ish dis­co sound. Next were Eng­lish Teacher who I’ve seen many times since their…

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Jul 7

Dovetailed release beguiling track “Kethers”

Glas­gow musi­cians Kim Grant of Rav­eloe and Simon Lid­dell of Olympic Swim­mers / Fright­ened Rab­bit have formed a new col­lab­o­ra­tive project called Dove­tailed. And their new num­ber called Kethers fea­tures drum­ming and gui­tar from Jon­ny Scott (Chvrch­es) Dove­tailed’s sound is giv­en its full­ness by Kim’s rich vocals that suf­fuse the track with a shim­mery, dream…

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Jul 3

Mucky Weekender nearly sold out – Fire Garden, Riot Truck & ‘Circus of Freaks’ Await

Here at Gourmet Gigs we’re very fond of inde­pen­dent fes­ti­vals. Treat them kind­ly – there are less than ever and this endan­gered species embod­ies the true fes­ti­val spir­it. Small but mighty, Mucky Week­ender is once again on course to sell out. Return­ing to Vic­arage Farm, Win­ches­ter from 10–12th Sep­tem­ber, the inde­pen­dent music and arts bou­tique fes­ti­val com­bines an…

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Jun 30

Love to Be… festival announces fab upgrades!

Love to be… returns with its flag­ship fes­ti­val at The Stray in Har­ro­gate, Sat­ur­day 5th Sep­tem­ber with a new­ly reworked site designed to make your expe­ri­ence even bet­ter.  The 2026 edi­tion intro­duces an expand­ed main stage, new chill­out zone, upgrad­ed VIP offer­ing and a host of fresh addi­tions. Get GlamA stand­out new fea­ture for 2026 is the Glam Van from Ilkley…

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Jun 29

The Coral announce new tour – and a video

The Coral have announced their first head­line UK tour in almost three years a month after releas­ing their thir­teenth album, 388. There’s a run of six shows, plus three are­na sup­port dates with The Mary Wal­lop­ers, and a simul­ta­ne­ous release of a new video for opti­mistic new sin­gle, Leave It In The Past. The album 388 was ful­ly released at the…

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Grace Jones at Bluedot festival
Jun 23

Electric Paradise one-day mega lineup festival

SATURDAY 8TH AUGUST AT THE MILTON KEYNES NATIONAL BOWL Elec­tric Par­adise arrives this sum­mer as a brand-new open-air fes­ti­val expe­ri­ence. An era-span­n­ing blend of dis­co, funk, soul and house plays out across mul­ti­ple stages of this inau­gur­al edi­tion,. Elec­tric Par­adise will wel­come up to 50,000 atten­dees to the Bowl’s nat­ur­al amphithe­atre, which boasts high-spec production,…

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HENGE on stage at Bluedot
Jun 20

HENGE to commence 75-show tour

One of the most unique and pop­u­lar bands on the fes­ti­val cir­cuit is undoubt­ed­ly space-rock genius­es, HENGE. And the Man­ches­ter cos­mic rock col­lec­tive are about to com­mence their, cur­rent­ly 75-date ‘world tour’ span­ning the UK, Europe, Cana­da, USA and Mex­i­co with more to be announced. There are 18 dates across the UK and Ire­land starting…

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Jun 20

As One In The Park 2026

Come and join As One In the Park’s com­mu­ni­ty! On Sat 18th July at Wal­pole Park, Lon­don’s LGBTQ+ Fes­ti­val returns… with one huge day of music, colour, cock­tails and danc­ing in the heart of Lon­don – across three stages and a full park of par­ty peo­ple 🥳 THREE STAGES. ALL DAY. From house, trib­al, pop and techno…

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