Victorious festival 2025 first announcements!

KINGS, QUEENS AND VAMPIRES SET TO DESCEND ON VICTORIOUS FESTIVAL 2025 Set on the pic­turesque South­sea seafront, mul­ti-award-win­n­ing Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val (22/23/24 August 2025) – the UK’s biggest met­ro­pol­i­tan fes­ti­val – has today announced a mas­sive billing of head­lin­ers along­side a host of amaz­ing artists and come­di­ans for the ulti­mate August Bank Hol­i­day week­ender. On top of today’s…

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Faithless announced for Kaleidoscope festival 2025

Kalei­do­scope fes­ti­val, the fam­i­ly event sit­u­at­ed on the slopes of Alexan­dra Palace park in north Lon­don, has just made its first announce­ment, and it’s Faith­less doing a full live show for the head­lin­er on their spec­tac­u­lar main stage. Also appear­ing: Goldie, Eats Every­thing, Sara Cox, Sleep­er, DJ Spoony, Bea­t­les Dub Club and ‘R’ Voic­es choir. Two…

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The Libertines, Soft Play, Sports Team for Dreamland Margate

On the 5th July next sum­mer, The Lib­ertines head­line the Sum­mer Series at Dream­land Mar­gate, plus Soft Play, Sports Team and lots more tba are appear­ing for a mas­sive home­town con­cert. Two decades after their land­mark debut Up the Brack­et, The Lib­ertines con­tin­ue to make music as pow­er­ful as ever. In 2023, they released All…

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Autumn and winter music festivals: the list 2024

There are plen­ty of autumn and win­ter fes­ti­vals hap­pen­ing around the coun­try, help­ing liv­en up these dark and drea­ry months. No tents involved. Most­ly at cities and towns around the UK with sev­er­al mul­ti-venue events, one-day or week­enders. Check these good­ies out… and check back as we are adding lots more! WOMEX 23–28 Octo­ber Man­ches­ter is…

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Womex Festival, Manchester 23–28th October

Man­ches­ter icon DJ Paulette to host Open­ing Night Con­cert. There are plen­ty of excit­ing events at the 30th edi­tion of WOMEX Fes­ti­val, tak­ing place in Man­ches­ter lat­er this month. WOMEX (World­wide Music Expo), gives music fans a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to access this pres­ti­gious music indus­try event, and dis­cov­er over 50 live acts from across the world…

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Thoughts on summer festivals 2024

It’s Sep­tem­ber and sum­mer is retreat­ing fast. This is what End of the Road fes­ti­val in Dorset is all about – offer­ing one final chance to prance about in a field, choose food from a won­der­ful array of ven­dors, chat to just about any­one, and queue up for the toi­let with a cup of sawdust.…

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More names for Favourite Days festival – The Howlers, Arxx, Balancing Act and more

Favourite Days, the brand new Liv­er­pool fes­ti­val, adds new names to its ros­ter.  On 7 Novem­ber, The Howlers will head­line the Kaz Stock­room. The Lon­don desert-rock­­ers have carved out a fierce rep­u­ta­tion as one of the UK’s most thrilling live acts. The fol­low­ing night, Arxx bring their unpre­dictable and enthralling prowess to town. Bag a tick­et for Jacaran­da Baltic…

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All Points East 2024 photo gallery – Sunday

The clos­ing Sun­day at All Points East, on 25th August, was main­ly ded­i­cat­ed to retro indie bands for a wan­der down nos­tal­gia lane. Teenage Fan Club, The Lemon Twigs, Sleater-Kin­ney, The Postal Service/Death Cab for Cutie all played the East and West stages. The small­er stages at the cen­tre of the park most­ly fea­tured rising…

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All Points East: photo gallery Sofia Kourtesis, Newdad, Pixies, Jockstrap

It was a beau­ti­ful­ly sun­ny All Points East fes­ti­val at Vic­to­ria Park for the final Fri­day – with Sofia Kor­te­sis, Pix­ies, Joe God­dard, New­dad, Jock­strap, Nation of Lan­guage, Float­ing Points, Monobloc, Dove Ellis, Astral Bak­ers, Vagabon, The Kills and more. LCD Soundsys­tem head­lined with a per­for­mance that com­bined pow­er and emo­tion. All Points East festival,…

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Photo gallery: Love Motion at South Facing Festival

The sun bathed the open­ing con­cert of the South Fac­ing fes­ti­val series in a gold­en glow. The crowd stepped up to the occa­sion bedecked in their fin­ery, ready to par­ty in the park to a run of DJs, with Grace Jones clos­ing the evening with her visu­al­ly and aural­ly stun­ning show. Much missed was Roisin…

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