Apr 8

Hayden Thorpe performs the songs of Wild Beasts

Fans of Wild Beasts and Hay­den Thor­pe will be delight­ed to know that he is prepar­ing to revis­it his for­mer years with the band by per­form­ing the Wild Beasts song­book. Play­ing entire­ly solo, the shows will be an explo­ration of the col­lec­tion in their purest form – voice and instru­ment, as they were writ­ten. These inti­mate shows…

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Mar 29

The Great Fete – a new festival for Hertfordshire

Mak­ing its debut at the beau­ti­ful Hat­field Park on Sat­ur­day 8th & Sun­day 9th August.  The Great Fete has a great line­up for both days includ­ing: Dizzee Ras­cal, SIGMA, Faith­less, Ocean Colour Scene, Feed­er, The Hoosiers, DJ Luck & MC Neat, Inner City, Der­rick Carter, Oxide & Neu­tri­no, Ken­ny Dope, Nor­man Jay and Lisa Loud. Saturday…

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Mar 28

Museum of Youth Culture – permanent home in Camden

On 15 May 2026, the Muse­um of Youth Cul­ture opens in Cam­den as the UK’s first per­ma­nent insti­tu­tion ded­i­cat­ed to pre­serv­ing youth cul­ture as a defin­ing force in mod­ern British his­to­ry. Found­ed in 1997 by Jon Swin­stead, Jamie Brett joined in 2012, togeth­er devel­op­ing the organ­i­sa­tion as a sim­ple pho­to archive in a shed. Pho­tographs were gath­ered before they were lost.…

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Mar 26

Ultimate summer festival guide 2026

Sum­mer fes­ti­val sea­son is on the hori­zon. Here’s our annu­al fab­u­lous fes­ti­val guide to see you through from mid May to the end of Sep­tem­ber. The fes­ti­val land­scape has been chang­ing rapid­ly over the past few years and some events have strug­gled to keep afloat; we’ve said good­bye to a num­ber of much-loved ones. On…

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Mar 24

Spring Solstice: Jim Ghedi, Florence Rose Broomfield photo gallery

Wel­come Spring! I could­n’t find a bet­ter way to ush­er in the sea­son of renew­al than with the evening of folk and exper­i­men­tal artists at Moth Club for a joy­ous cel­e­bra­tion. Hav­ing attend­ed the equal­ly appeal­ing Samhain (Hal­loween) con­cert at Earth Hack­ney, this felt like an appro­pri­ate recon­nec­tion. Scot­tish singer, song­writer and Clàr­sach play­er, Anna McLuckie…

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Mar 20

Technimatic For All Of Us – Brighton

Liq­uid DnB heavy­weights, Tech­n­i­mat­ic, bring their much loved For All Of Us con­cept to the inti­mate set­tings of Pat­terns in Brighton on Sat­ur­day 9th May. From 4:00pm til 9:00pm (Last entry 6:00pm)Pat­terns Brighton Marine Parade Brighton, BN2, Brighton, BN2 1TL Tick­ets are sell­ing fast and are on third release!

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Mar 17

Lindisfarne festival

Head for this end-of-sum­mer par­ty at the glo­ri­ous beach set­ting in Northum­ber­land. And the line­up for Lind­is­farne isn’t half bad either… an eclec­tic mix of dance and folk, with Faith­less, The Pro­claimers and Razorlight head­ing the bill. There’s also Fero­cious Dog, Utah Saints, Heather Small, Ash­ley Singh, Tide Lines and more play­ing over the weekend…

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Mar 16

Daylight Music concerts coming up soon

I have been a fan of the Day­light Music Sat­ur­day after­noon con­cert series for many years since their ear­ly home at Lon­don’s Union Chapel. Day­light Music, run by Arc­tic Cir­cle, has been pre­sent­ing a huge and diverse range of musi­cians over the 17 years they’ve been in exis­tence. Tak­ing a cou­ple of hours out of…

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Mar 13

Ella Clayton: new single “Dolomites” out now

Ella Clay­ton’s sec­ond album Could It Be You? is set for release on 24th April. Mean­while she’s been drop­ping the occa­sion­al track from this new work, and the lat­est is the cap­ti­vat­ing and quirky sin­gle called Dolomites. Record­ed at George Ezra’s stu­dio Hotel Que­bec, Dolomites express­es the desire to be alone. It’s the per­fect vehicle…

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Mar 12

The Orielles release album Only You Left

Hal­i­fax band The Orielles cer­tain­ly can­not be accused of stand­ing still. And with their new album Only You Left, they push the realms of exper­i­men­tal ter­ri­to­ry, con­tin­u­ing a jour­ney that has grad­u­al­ly tak­en them away from their ear­ly indie-garagey pop begin­nings.  That shift became ful­ly appar­ent on Tableau (2022), a gauzy, frag­ile record that immersed…

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