Victorious festival tickets on sale from Friday 28th August

This week, the icon­ic Vic­to­ri­ous sign has once again appeared on South­sea seafront, ahead of fes­ti­val tick­ets going on sale. The phrase ‘We Miss You’ can be found across Cas­tle Field, the loca­tion of the fes­ti­val’s sec­ond main stage. His­tor­i­cal­ly, the Cas­tle Field sign has been a teas­er for artist announce­ments. How­ev­er, this year the…

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Sea Change online festival

Take a trip, vir­tu­al­ly speak­ing, to Devon and immerse your­self in Sea Change fes­ti­val this week­end 25th and 26th April.  The dis­tinc­tive and inde­pen­dent event, now into its fifth year, had to be post­poned, much to every­one’s dis­ap­point­ment. Sea Change have organ­ised a spe­cial ver­sion of the fes­ti­val. Tak­ing part are: Yann Tiersen, Shirley Collins,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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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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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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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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