Bearded Theory photo gallery Sunday fun

Stick­ing with tra­di­tion, Beard­ed The­o­ry Sun­days always start with the fan­cy dress com­pe­ti­tion on the main stage. This year’s theme was Fairy­tales and Folk­lore. And when the win­ners are picked, it’s time for The Bar-Stew­ard Sons of Val Doon­i­can to grace the stage for some rous­ing tunes. Here’s a few of the fab­u­lous out­fits dreamed…

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Bearded Theory photo gallery Friday and Saturday

Yard Act and Anna Calvi plus Flog­ging Mol­ly, Coach Par­ty and She Drew the Gun gave it their all on the Pal­let (main) stage. Pale Blue Eyes played on the new Mead­ow Stage for a great per­for­mance on Sat­ur­day after­noon. William the Con­queror played a Fri­day eve set on the Wood­land stage. Mud­dy Sum­mers opened…

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Bearded Theory photo gallery Thursday and Friday

Beard­ed The­o­ry 2023 – first pho­tos of the sun­ny fes­ti­val from open­ing acts on Thurs­day evening through to Fri­day after­noon. Thurs­day: Heart­worms, Oh My God! It’s the Church and The Orielles. Fri­day: Pan­ic Shack, Girl­band, High Hors­es, Dea Matrona, The Go! Team, The Bug Club, Beth Orton.  Beard­ed Theory 

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Bluedot celebrates 60 years of Doctor Who

Jodrell Bank Obser­va­to­ry is renowned in Whov­ian lore hav­ing pro­vid­ed the back­drop to the fourth Doctor’s tran­si­tion to the fifth (when Tom Bak­er hand­ed the role over to Peter Davi­son in 1982) with the icon­ic Lovell Tele­scope becom­ing the Pharos Project Radio Tele­scope from which the fourth Doc­tor fell, trig­ger­ing his regen­er­a­tion. Almost as impor­tant as the TARDIS…

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Victorious festival ranked 3rd best in the UK

Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val has been ranked the third best fes­ti­val in the UK after data analy­sis con­duct­ed across the country’s fes­ti­val land­scape, with results show­ing Vic­to­ri­ous as one of the best val­ue-for-mon­ey fes­ti­vals in the UK Mul­ti-award-win­n­ing Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val (25/26/27 August 2023) – the UK’s biggest met­ro­pol­i­tan fes­ti­val – has been rat­ed as the third best fes­ti­val in the UK.  Training…

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Best festivals for 2023: the list

Ahh fes­ti­val sea­son! It’s not long now and we can’t wait. Here’s our fes­ti­val cal­en­dar for the sum­mer. All of those fea­tured still have lim­it­ed tick­ets avail­able. Peo­ple may be being a bit care­ful due the cost of liv­ing cri­sis but sales are nonethe­less healthy, so if there’s a fes­ti­val you’ve got your eye on,…

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Sea Change festival close to selling out

UPDATE. NOW SOLD OUT. The fes­ti­val is already 85% sold out so if you are think­ing of going, don’t think for too long! Here’s a taste of what’s in store at the always-inno­v­a­­tive, Totnes-based week­ender. A new venue for 2023 is The Alba­tross, the stun­ning com­mu­ni­ty space run by the esteemed and adven­tur­ous Bull Inn.…

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30 more artists for Bearded Theory

Beard­ed The­o­ry at Cat­ton Hall is going to need that extra new stage with all the artists who are going to be pack­ing out the fes­ti­val this year. Thir­ty more artists have now been added to the already bril­liant line­up – and don’t for­get there’s more music going on from noon to the ear­ly hours…

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