Category: Festivals

Vanishing Twin, on stage in Hackney 2019
Apr 21

Manchester Psych Fest 2021 full line up

A stel­lar ros­ter of artists awaits those attend­ing Man­ches­ter Psych Fest this year. And the organ­is­ers are delight­ed to announce their full line­up for this year’s fes­ti­val, which takes place on 4th Sep­tem­ber.  Mali­a’s Tinari­wen are co-head­­lin­ers with Stere­o­lab, plus there’s post-punk out­fit Dry Clean­ing, afrobeat eight-piece Koko­roko and Japan­ese psych vet­er­ans Kik­a­gaku Moyo. Also on the bill Jadu Heart, Bil­ly Nomates,…

 Read More
Islet band, Hackney 2019
Mar 11

Review: Gwyl 2021 festival

The future looks promis­ing for live fes­ti­vals, but for now we are still in the land of the vir­tu­al. Gwyl 2021 ear­li­er this month used this mode to its full advan­tage. The event was put togeth­er by four Welsh fes­ti­vals, Focus Wales, Fes­ti­val of Voice, Aberys­t­wyth Fes­ti­val of Com­e­dy and Oth­er Voic­es. Col­lec­tive­ly, they created…

 Read More
Islet band, Hackney 2019
Mar 7

Gwyl 2021 – eight days of music and arts

Excit­ing and inno­v­a­tive new Welsh fes­ti­val Gŵyl 2021 stretch­es over eight days and from the 8th to 12th March, the pro­gramme offers some exclu­sive and unique events. Pre­sent­ed by music-indus­try fes­ti­val Focus Wales, this is a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to lis­ten to live pan­el ses­sions fol­lowed by live show­case per­for­mances. And on Thurs­day, Focus Wales 360°…

 Read More
Mar 5

Gwyl 2021 festival – ready to watch this weekend

There’s a feel­ing of spring in the air and fes­ti­vals both online and live are tan­ta­lis­ing­ly loom­ing on the hori­zon. The fol­low­ing week is good place to begin, with a brand new event to go out online. Called Gŵyl 2021, it show­cas­es con­tri­bu­tions from four Welsh fes­ti­vals: Focus Wales, Fes­ti­val of Voice, Aberys­t­wyth Com­e­dy Festival…

 Read More
aerial festival press image
Sep 1

New Aerial festival in the Lake District

AERIAL is the Lake District’s inno­v­a­tive new fes­ti­val of orig­i­nal work and com­mis­sions – online and free from 26 Sep­tem­ber 2020 Over 20 new works and com­mis­sions from over 40 artists will be acces­si­ble online and for free via aerialfestival.com from 26th Sep­tem­ber This was intend­ed to be Aerial’s inau­gur­al year but like all oth­er live…

 Read More
Apr 15

Sea Change online festival

“In these uncer­tain times, an event like Sea Change is, per­haps, more vital than ever” Rupert Mor­ri­son, fes­ti­val founder Heav­en­ly Record­ings, Rough Trade Books, Erased Tapes, 4AD, Mute, Faber are all con­firmed  Lit­er­ary high­lights include Jon Sav­age on Joy Divi­sion, Rob Chap­man on Syd Bar­rett and Gor­don Burn Prize-win­n­ing author David Keenan host­ing Auto­nom­ic Tarot  Live music…

 Read More
Mar 6

Van Morrison for Wickham Festival 2020

Wick­ham Fes­ti­val does­n’t do things by halves. The line­up of the friend­ly, small 4‑day event has con­sis­tent­ly aimed for the top, and this year has man­aged to secure Van Mor­ri­son for its Sat­ur­day head­lin­er. Van’s the Wick­ham man Organ­is­er Peter Cheg­wyn said: “This is absolute­ly mas­sive for us – and for the vil­lage. It will…

 Read More
Jan 30

Lost Village festival 2020: first announcement

The lit­tle Lin­colnshire fes­ti­val Lost Vil­lage has released its first line­up: Bom­bay Bicy­cle Club, Bonobo (DJ set), Four Tet, Djan­go Djan­go, Float­ing Points (live), Kojey Rad­i­cal, Dixon, Hon­ey Dijon, Ross from Friends, Craig Charles, Nor­man Jay and lots more. Lost Vil­lage cre­ates a son­ic tapes­try with red-hot emerg­ing names and estab­lished lumi­nar­ies in equal mea­sure. A…

 Read More
Sep 30

Review: Bright Fest in Crouch End

Music fes­ti­vals have been a bit thin on the ground in Crouch End of late. All cred­it, then, to Tom Bright, a young and enthu­si­as­tic musi­cian / pro­duc­er / fes­ti­val cre­ator for bring­ing a diverse line­up to the north Lon­don ‘vil­lage’ for the sec­ond year run­ning; a free week­end fundrais­er for the leg­endary Joe Strummer…

 Read More