Category: Festivals

Sep 14

Babyshambles headliners for Skegness Shiiine On weekender

If you’re look­ing for a non-cam­p­ing fes­ti­val ear­ly next year, check out Shi­i­ine On Week­ender, which returns to Butlin’s Skeg­ness from 19–21 March 2027. Babysham­bles are to head­line Sat­ur­day night. Join­ing them on the Sat­ur­day bill are Gene, along­side Shi­i­ine favourites Ned’s Atom­ic Dust­bin. Cast will head­line Fri­day night, with sup­port from Black Grape and Jim Bob, while over in Reds are…

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Sep 2

LIDO festival photo gallery

LIDO fes­ti­val at Vic­to­ria Park, east Lon­don, resched­uled for Bank Hol­i­day Mon­day, was a beau­ti­ful­ly chilled and uplift­ing day. From the line­up, fea­tured in order: Yemz, MADMADMAD, Theo Par­rish B2B Moody­mann, Lady Wray, Marie David­son (live), Kelis, LTJ Bukem, Kel­ly Lee Owens (DJ set) and Mari­bou State. LIDO fes­ti­val, August 31, 2026 | LIDO festival

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Aug 25

Autumn and winter festival guide 2026–27

The tent may be packed away but fes­ti­vals are car­ry­ing on at venues around the coun­try through­out autumn and win­ter. From all-day­ers to week­enders, from city events embrac­ing a mul­ti­tude of grass­roots venues, to small, spe­cialised gath­er­ings in pubs up and down the land. Designed to give you an uplift­ing fes­ti­val expe­ri­ence even in the…

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Aug 5

Found: the festival that feels like coming home

If you loved Tow­ersey fes­ti­val, you’ll want to find Found Back in 2012, a friend intro­duced me to Tow­ersey fes­ti­val. The event was a huge and essen­tial part of her fam­i­ly’s life; every year they would descend on the Tow­ersey vil­lage site with an army of rel­a­tives and friends in tow and set up camp. On…

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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 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 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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May 27

Bearded Theory 2026 Sunday photo gallery: Lynks, Wildhearts, Garbage

It’s a tra­di­tion: The Bar-Stew­ard Sons of Val Doon­i­can must com­mence Sun­day’s pro­ceed­ings. This year not one, but two boats sailed out across the crowds. There was lots to get excit­ed about on the music front: Au Pairs, GANS, Neville Sta­ple, New­dad, Lynks, The Twi­light Sad, Basht., The Wild­hearts and Garbage. All mak­ing this one…

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