taste the world stage at womad
Jun 12

Womad and the Taste the World stage

Here at Gourmet Gigs tow­ers, we love to hear of music and food com­bos. And at Wom­ad fes­ti­val, the Taste the World stage gives their glob­al music stars the chance to shine in the kitchen and share their favourite recipes and sto­ries. It’s a unique musi­cal and culi­nary fusion. Artists hot-foot­ing it from the main…

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May 29

Review: Bearded Theory 2019

Fes­ti­val sea­son kicks off again with Beard­ed The­o­ry at Cat­ton Hall. As always it’s a musi­cal­ly diverse, friend­ly and spir­it­ed event

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W H lung perform at Oslo, Hackney
May 20

W H Lung, debut album at Oslo, Hackney

W H Lung have tak­en around two years to release their first album Inci­den­tal Music. Even when inter­est in their deep and moody music start­ed to esca­late, the band were quite obvi­ous­ly going to do things in their own time. I first heard them at Blue­dot fes­ti­val in 2017 and had one of those moments…

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May 2

The lineup: 12 best festivals for 2019

Fes­ti­val sea­son is on its way! The sheer diver­si­ty of the UK fes­ti­val scene means you can tru­ly immerse your­self in music, dance, talks, lit­er­a­ture, art, nature… there’s bound to be a few which will tick all your per­son­al box­es. Here’s my pick of small(ish), well curat­ed events for 2019, some per­son­al favourites and a…

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Mar 8

Phildel – new album Wave Your Flags plus gigs

Phildel is back. Hav­ing tak­en time out to move to Brighton and raise a young fam­i­ly, the com­pelling and mys­ti­cal vocal­ist and com­pos­er has been nev­er­the­less work­ing away behind the scenes. She has an upcom­ing gig at the Pur­cell Room on March 20th and will play songs from her new album Wave Your Flags. She…

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Mar 1

Bluedot celebrates the Moon Landing

Come and help cel­e­brate the 50th anniver­sary of the Moon Land­ing with the incred­i­ble Moon-themed line-up at Blue­dot fes­ti­val. It was 50 years to the day – 21 July 1969 – that Neil Arm­strong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon. Where bet­ter to be than at the icon­ic Jodrell Bank in Cheshire –…

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Feb 28

Sea Change festival confirms Gruff Rhys and plenty more

Devon’s Sea Change Fes­ti­val has announced the sec­ond wave of artists con­firmed to appear in Totnes and Dart­ing­ton this May. Gruff Rhys – Welsh musi­cian, com­pos­er, pro­duc­er, film­mak­er author and one-fifth of Super Fur­ry Ani­mals will be appear­ing. Also, Bill Ryder Jones, Lubomyr Mel­nyk, Maps, Du Blonde, who has just released her self-pro­­duced Lung Bread…

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