UP N GO Brazilian band play Nambucca

They call their music ‘pop soul funk’ – and the Brazil­ian out­fit UP N GO play Nam­buc­ca in Lon­don. It’s their sec­ond per­for­mance as they played a last-minute set at Ron­nie Scot­t’s jam ses­sion where the band got to show off their ver­sa­til­i­ty with a set of cov­ers to suit the jazz and blues evening…

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Cassoulet Nights pop-up dining in Hackney

Tasty French coun­try food pop­up Cas­soulet Nights is set to run through to Decem­ber 23rd. There’s a new Xmas menu with Veg­e­tar­i­an option, plus a la carte dish­es but you can pop in for drinks and snacks if you like

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Bearded Theory 2019 early news

EARLY BIRD TICKETS NOW SOLD OUT! REGULAR PRICE TICKETS NOW ON SALE AT £122. That’s £17 more. 4 (ish) pints. Go on, treat your­self. Get ready – tick­ets for Beard­ed The­o­ry 2019 go on sale on Sat­ur­day 15th Sep­tem­ber and the first 1,500 tick­ets are dis­count­ed to £105. Some peo­ple are busy count­ing off the…

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The Chemical Brothers and Crazy P at Bluedot festival

The Chem­i­cal Broth­ers set ends Blue­dot fes­ti­val 2018 on a high note, and the hordes pack out the Lovell stage to hear the god­fa­thers of the electronic/dance scene; the sound so colos­sal and lasers so far-reach­ing you would think they were com­pet­ing with the Jodrell Bank tele­scope itself 

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Sea Change festival additions

Sea Change fes­ti­val takes over the town of Totnes in south Devon over the August Bank Hol­i­day Week­end. The event finds its way into mul­ti­ple his­toric venues in the town. Found­ed and curat­ed by Totnes’s own Drift Records, Sea Change presents spe­cial guests beneath the beau­ti­ful gold leaf ceil­ing of the Bar­rel House Ball­room, St. Mary’s Church,…

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Bluedot 2018: out of this world music and science mashup

Blue­dot fes­ti­val moves into its third year with its unique brand of music, sci­ence and space mashup. There is prob­a­bly no oth­er fes­ti­val like it: music fans can take their fill of sev­er­al stages and sci­ence geeks have a wealth talks and work­shops with experts, although its fair to say most fes­ti­val goers dip into…

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Is Bluedot the UK’s most planet-friendly festival?

It has tak­en a huge effort for fes­ti­vals to adopt an eco-friend­­ly approach. But the days of walk­ing over a crunchy car­pet of beer cans to get to the main stage is well and tru­ly over. None more so than at Blue­dot fes­ti­val, which, in its own words, ‘will be send­ing 0% waste to landfill…

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Port Eliot festival 2018 – the first lineup

Pic­turesque Port Eliot fes­ti­val, set on the South East Cor­nish coast, has built a rep­u­ta­tion for its thought­ful­ly curat­ed line­up, a mix of music, com­e­dy, work­shops and talks. Food, fash­ion and lit­er­a­ture also fea­ture. The beau­ti­ful estate is buzzing from dawn to mid­night and beyond with a huge vari­ety of events, so one minute you…

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Sea Change festival adds Dartington Hall as a venue

Sea Change fes­ti­val in Totnes has estab­lished quite a name for itself in its two years of its exis­tence. Start­ed by Drift Record shop, its knowl­edge­able own­ers have enticed a raft of stel­lar names both emerg­ing and estab­lished, to play at a host of quirky venues around the town. There’s the restored Totnes Cin­e­ma, two…

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