wet leg at kaleidoscope festival 2026
Jul 11

Wet Leg, English Teacher and Los Bitchos shine in the sun at Ally Pally: photo gallery

On a beau­ti­ful evening with the sun­set glow­ing through the win­dows of Alexan­dra Palace, the sun-soaked crowd mean­dered through the park and onto the grassy slopes to enjoy three fan­tas­tic acts. Los Bitchos got the crowd into par­ty spir­it with their dance-ori­en­t­ed Turk­ish dis­co sound. Next were Eng­lish Teacher who I’ve seen many times since their…

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Jul 7

Dovetailed release beguiling track “Kethers”

Glas­gow musi­cians Kim Grant of Rav­eloe and Simon Lid­dell of Olympic Swim­mers / Fright­ened Rab­bit have formed a new col­lab­o­ra­tive project called Dove­tailed. And their new num­ber called Kethers fea­tures drum­ming and gui­tar from Jon­ny Scott (Chvrch­es) Dove­tailed’s sound is giv­en its full­ness by Kim’s rich vocals that suf­fuse the track with a shim­mery, dream…

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Jul 3

Mucky Weekender nearly sold out – Fire Garden, Riot Truck & ‘Circus of Freaks’ Await

Here at Gourmet Gigs we’re very fond of inde­pen­dent fes­ti­vals. Treat them kind­ly – there are less than ever and this endan­gered species embod­ies the true fes­ti­val spir­it. Small but mighty, Mucky Week­ender is once again on course to sell out. Return­ing to Vic­arage Farm, Win­ches­ter from 10–12th Sep­tem­ber, the inde­pen­dent music and arts bou­tique fes­ti­val com­bines an…

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Jun 30

Love to Be… festival announces fab upgrades!

Love to be… returns with its flag­ship fes­ti­val at The Stray in Har­ro­gate, Sat­ur­day 5th Sep­tem­ber with a new­ly reworked site designed to make your expe­ri­ence even bet­ter.  The 2026 edi­tion intro­duces an expand­ed main stage, new chill­out zone, upgrad­ed VIP offer­ing and a host of fresh addi­tions. Get GlamA stand­out new fea­ture for 2026 is the Glam Van from Ilkley…

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Jun 29

The Coral announce new tour – and a video

The Coral have announced their first head­line UK tour in almost three years a month after releas­ing their thir­teenth album, 388. There’s a run of six shows, plus three are­na sup­port dates with The Mary Wal­lop­ers, and a simul­ta­ne­ous release of a new video for opti­mistic new sin­gle, Leave It In The Past. The album 388 was ful­ly released at the…

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Grace Jones at Bluedot festival
Jun 23

Electric Paradise one-day mega lineup festival

SATURDAY 8TH AUGUST AT THE MILTON KEYNES NATIONAL BOWL Elec­tric Par­adise arrives this sum­mer as a brand-new open-air fes­ti­val expe­ri­ence. An era-span­n­ing blend of dis­co, funk, soul and house plays out across mul­ti­ple stages of this inau­gur­al edi­tion,. Elec­tric Par­adise will wel­come up to 50,000 atten­dees to the Bowl’s nat­ur­al amphithe­atre, which boasts high-spec production,…

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HENGE on stage at Bluedot
Jun 20

HENGE to commence 75-show tour

One of the most unique and pop­u­lar bands on the fes­ti­val cir­cuit is undoubt­ed­ly space-rock genius­es, HENGE. And the Man­ches­ter cos­mic rock col­lec­tive are about to com­mence their, cur­rent­ly 75-date ‘world tour’ span­ning the UK, Europe, Cana­da, USA and Mex­i­co with more to be announced. There are 18 dates across the UK and Ire­land starting…

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Jun 19

Panda Bear & Sonic Boom announce new album A ? of WHEN

Tak­ing things off line and get­ting back to real con­nec­tiv­i­ty is what Pan­da Bear and Son­ic Boom are cham­pi­oning right now. The duo have announced a new album A ? of WHEN, release date July 10th, on Domi­no Records. The album will be avail­able on vinyl, CD, cas­sette and down­load only and there are lis­ten­ing parties…

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Magnetic Skies band live 2024
Jun 16

Magnetic Skies remix ‘Closing In’ – out now

Hav­ing been fans of Mag­net­ic Skies since their ear­li­est releas­es, we’re always keen to hear what the band does next. Their lat­est offer­ing is a new remix of Clos­ing In, a stand­out track from their sopho­more album Frag­ments, released last year. Already a dark and atmos­pher­ic piece, Clos­ing In has been reimag­ined with even greater intensity,…

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hue and cry cover
May 30

Review: Hue And Cry deliver their 16th album: Everybody

Scot­tish pop duo Hue And Cry release their 16th stu­dio album: Every­body on May 29. Broth­ers Greg and Pat Kane, who ini­tial­ly rose to fame in the 80s with Labour of Love (and their debut album Seduced and Aban­doned) are back with a set of songs that prove their abil­i­ty to con­tin­ue to shapeshift and…

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