Wickham festival near sell-out

If you’re think­ing of head­ing to Wick­ham fes­ti­val, bet­ter get your skates on. The strongest line­up ever has seen a surge in sales. Not sur­pris­ing when their head­lin­ers include Frank Turn­er and the Sleep­ing Souls, Lucin­da Williams, The Pro­claimers, Judy Collins, Gra­ham Nash and Kiefer Suther­land. This is a real fam­i­ly fes­ti­val but with an…

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Review: Bearded Theory 2019

Fes­ti­val sea­son kicks off again with Beard­ed The­o­ry at Cat­ton Hall. As always it’s a musi­cal­ly diverse, friend­ly and spir­it­ed event

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The lineup: 12 best festivals for 2019

Fes­ti­val sea­son is on its way! The sheer diver­si­ty of the UK fes­ti­val scene means you can tru­ly immerse your­self in music, dance, talks, lit­er­a­ture, art, nature… there’s bound to be a few which will tick all your per­son­al box­es. Here’s my pick of small(ish), well curat­ed events for 2019, some per­son­al favourites and a…

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Bluedot celebrates the Moon Landing

Come and help cel­e­brate the 50th anniver­sary of the Moon Land­ing with the incred­i­ble Moon-themed line-up at Blue­dot fes­ti­val. It was 50 years to the day – 21 July 1969 – that Neil Arm­strong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon. Where bet­ter to be than at the icon­ic Jodrell Bank in Cheshire –…

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Sea Change festival confirms Gruff Rhys and plenty more

Devon’s Sea Change Fes­ti­val has announced the sec­ond wave of artists con­firmed to appear in Totnes and Dart­ing­ton this May. Gruff Rhys – Welsh musi­cian, com­pos­er, pro­duc­er, film­mak­er author and one-fifth of Super Fur­ry Ani­mals will be appear­ing. Also, Bill Ryder Jones, Lubomyr Mel­nyk, Maps, Du Blonde, who has just released her self-pro­­duced Lung Bread…

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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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