Port Eliot lineup – the first wave

Gor­geous inde­pen­dent Cor­nish fes­ti­val Port Eliot Fes­ti­val has unveiled the first set of artists for 2019. Set on the ancient St Ger­mans estate, the fes­ti­val runs from 25–28 July 2019. Tick­ets and full details at porteliotfestival.com  LARGE THURSDAY line-up for week­end tick­ethold­ers head­lined by Aldous Hard­ing.  OPEN FIRE STAGE & Geor­gian Big Kitchen fea­tur­ing the…

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Kendal Calling lineup!

KENDAL CALLING ANNOUNCES HUGE LINEUP FOR 2019 Courte­neers, Doves, Man­ic Street Preach­ers, Nile Rodgers & Chic and Orbital to head­line. They’ll be joined by Tom Jones, Years & Years, Ger­ry Cin­na­mon, Miles Kane, The Fratel­lis, Gomez, Idles, KT Tun­stall, Mys­tery Jets, SlowThai, The Sub­ways and Nina Nes­bitt.  There are four incred­i­ble days of music, arts, comedy…

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Steve Mason: About the Light at Rough Trade

Steve Mason aired his new album About the Light at Rough Trade Steve Mason is back – with a beau­ti­ful and con­fi­dent new album to start off 2019 on a pos­i­tive note. About The Light dropped this week and he start­ed pro­mot­ing it with an appear­ance at Rough Trade East: I love these lit­tle gigs in…

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Sea Change 2019 line-up

Metron­o­my, The Comet is Com­ing, Stew­art Lee and Bag­puss are all con­firmed for Sea Change 2019. The Totnes-based event, found­ed by Tot­nes’s Drift Record Shop, has moved from its for­mer end-of-sum­mer posi­tion to May Bank Hol­i­day. The Qui­etus presents Gazelle Twin, with full line-up to fol­low. Han­nah Peel and Will Burns, and Dutch 4‑piece Pip…

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Independent Venue Week gathers pace

Hav­ing put on a few gigs myself at a local venue, a par­tic­u­lar­ly atmos­pher­ic and beau­ti­ful space, which was sub­se­quent­ly sold off to be trans­formed into flats and a hotel, Inde­pen­dent Venue Week is a much-need­ed ven­ture. Run­ning from Mon­day 28th Jan­u­ary to Sun­day 3rd Feb­ru­ary 19, for IVW19 there are near­ly 190 venues signed up…

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UP N GO Brazilian band play Nambucca

They call their music ‘pop soul funk’ – and the Brazil­ian out­fit UP N GO play Nam­buc­ca in Lon­don. It’s their sec­ond per­for­mance as they played a last-minute set at Ron­nie Scot­t’s jam ses­sion where the band got to show off their ver­sa­til­i­ty with a set of cov­ers to suit the jazz and blues evening…

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Cassoulet Nights pop-up dining in Hackney

Tasty French coun­try food pop­up Cas­soulet Nights is set to run through to Decem­ber 23rd. There’s a new Xmas menu with Veg­e­tar­i­an option, plus a la carte dish­es but you can pop in for drinks and snacks if you like

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Gilles Peterson talks to Will Ashon and Dave Haslam

As part of the Safaplace men­tal health char­i­ty pop-up called Look Up, run by Stoke New­ing­ton School, Gilles Peter­son inter­viewed Will Ashon and Dave Haslam. Aside from the week-long series of events, Gilles also curat­ed the record and book shop. Both Will Ashon and Dave Haslam have been involved in the music busi­ness and made…

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Bearded Theory 2019 early news

EARLY BIRD TICKETS NOW SOLD OUT! REGULAR PRICE TICKETS NOW ON SALE AT £122. That’s £17 more. 4 (ish) pints. Go on, treat your­self. Get ready – tick­ets for Beard­ed The­o­ry 2019 go on sale on Sat­ur­day 15th Sep­tem­ber and the first 1,500 tick­ets are dis­count­ed to £105. Some peo­ple are busy count­ing off the…

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