Category: Festivals

Jul 25

After Bluedot: 5 mins with Working Men’s Club

I man­aged to catch five min­utes with Work­ing Men’s Club after their set at Blue­dot last Sat­ur­day. They’ve been in Sheffield doing a record­ing ses­sion, attend­ing pho­to­shoots, left to head off to Lat­i­tude… and they’re now on to Port Eliot fes­ti­val. Busy busy. The in-depth inter­view is going to have to wait. Q Hi Jake, that…

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Jul 24

Review: Bluedot 2019: a space celebration

If the sci­en­tists at Jodrell Bank could put their col­lec­tive heads togeth­er, it would be per­fect if they could find a way of tele­port­ing us back to the fields of Blue­dot in order to do the fes­ti­val all over again. That way it might be pos­si­ble to expe­ri­ence the stuff you’d missed first time round.…

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Jul 23

Ealing Blues Festival 2019: Nick Lowe

Eal­ing Blues fes­ti­val was giv­en the thumbs up – and it man­aged to escape the rain. I was unable to go as I was at Blue­dot fes­ti­val (review to come) but I was sent these pho­tos by a big Nick Lowe fan. He played an engag­ing acoustic set, and left his fans absolute­ly delight­ed. Here…

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Jun 26

Review: Anthropos festival makes its debut

Tes­sa Gordziejko attend­ed the first Anthro­pos fes­ti­val and has writ­ten a review of the occa­sion. It’s always excit­ing to find a new fes­ti­val, but to be at the very first edi­tion of a brand new fes­ti­val is dou­bly intrigu­ing. Such was Anthro­pos electronic/ psy­che­del­ic music and arts fes­ti­val, an ini­tia­tive of Cam­bridge-based Sven and Lars…

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Jun 24

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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May 29

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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May 2

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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