Bearded Theory photo gallery Sunday

Lots going on all after­noon with The Under­tones, High Vis, HENGE, Love­ly Eggs, Pre­tenders, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs and for the finale were Pub­lic Ser­vice Broad­cast­ing over at the Mead­ow Stage and Pri­mal Scream. Over on the Wood­land Stage were Rho­da Dakar & The LoTek Four. And there was lots hap­pen­ing in…

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Bearded Theory photo gallery Sunday fun

Stick­ing with tra­di­tion, Beard­ed The­o­ry Sun­days always start with the fan­cy dress com­pe­ti­tion on the main stage. This year’s theme was Fairy­tales and Folk­lore. And when the win­ners are picked, it’s time for The Bar-Stew­ard Sons of Val Doon­i­can to grace the stage for some rous­ing tunes. Here’s a few of the fab­u­lous out­fits dreamed…

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Bearded Theory photo gallery Friday and Saturday

Yard Act and Anna Calvi plus Flog­ging Mol­ly, Coach Par­ty and She Drew the Gun gave it their all on the Pal­let (main) stage. Pale Blue Eyes played on the new Mead­ow Stage for a great per­for­mance on Sat­ur­day after­noon. William the Con­queror played a Fri­day eve set on the Wood­land stage. Mud­dy Sum­mers opened…

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Bearded Theory photo gallery Thursday and Friday

Beard­ed The­o­ry 2023 – first pho­tos of the sun­ny fes­ti­val from open­ing acts on Thurs­day evening through to Fri­day after­noon. Thurs­day: Heart­worms, Oh My God! It’s the Church and The Orielles. Fri­day: Pan­ic Shack, Girl­band, High Hors­es, Dea Matrona, The Go! Team, The Bug Club, Beth Orton.  Beard­ed Theory 

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Bluedot celebrates 60 years of Doctor Who

The fes­ti­val has today announced a pro­gramme of per­for­mances, pan­els and talks set to enthral Dr Who fans, apt­ly tak­ing place at Cheshire’s Jodrell Bank Obser­va­to­ry. Jodrell Bank Obser­va­to­ry is renowned in Whov­ian lore hav­ing pro­vid­ed the back­drop to the fourth Doctor’s tran­si­tion to the fifth (when Tom Bak­er hand­ed the role over to Peter Davi­son in 1982)…

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Pale Blue Eyes second album “This House”

Pale Blue Eyes are about to launch their sec­ond album, release date is set for 1st Sep­tem­ber. Called ‘This House”, on Full Time Hob­by, it alludes to the one you’ll spot on the album’s front cov­er, the child­hood home of the trio’s vocal­ist and gui­tarist, Matt Board. Defined by clo­sure and mov­ing on, This House…

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The Finsbury: Percy Rico, Luxury Goods, Natsuma

The Fins­bury pub and music venue has been qui­et­ly get­ting on with host­ing music prac­ti­cal­ly every night for many years and it’s sur­pris­ing how many local(ish) peo­ple just don’t know about its exis­tence. I became a con­vert after The Bed­room Hour played there and that was back in 2014. Apart from the music there’s a…

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Firestations unveil new single ‘Undercover’ with new album on the way

Lon­don based band Firesta­tions have just released their lat­est sin­gle called ‘Under­cov­er’. It is released on Lost Map Records on 25th April. It’s the first sin­gle tak­en from their forth­com­ing album ‘Thick Ter­rain’, out 14th July, and is, the band say, “an effer­ves­cent pop song about depres­sion and self-dis­­­cov­­ery”. The band con­sists of Michael Cran­ny, Lau­ra Copsey, Mar­tin Thompson,…

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Victorious festival ranked 3rd best in the UK

Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val has been ranked the third best fes­ti­val in the UK after data analy­sis con­duct­ed across the country’s fes­ti­val land­scape, with results show­ing Vic­to­ri­ous as one of the best val­ue-for-mon­ey fes­ti­vals in the UK Mul­ti-award-win­n­ing Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val (25/26/27 August 2023) – the UK’s biggest met­ro­pol­i­tan fes­ti­val – has been rat­ed as the third best fes­ti­val in the UK.  Training…

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