amber arcades
Aug 24

Green Man festival review 2018

Some­thing was def­i­nite­ly miss­ing from Green Man fes­ti­val 2018 – that wet stuff falling from the sky which churns the Bre­con Bea­cons mud to a smelly mush. Instead, this year’s fes­ti­val was blessed by sun and waft­ing clouds; so it was off with the cagoules and on with the fan­cy dress… and the fine weather…

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Jul 27

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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Jul 26

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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bluedot18_ball
Jul 25

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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Bluedot spaceshed theatre production
Jun 28

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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Big Snowball by Shirley Baker
Jun 15

Invitation to Shirley Baker exhibition

The print exhi­bi­tion is at The Pho­tog­ra­phers’ Gallery in Lon­don and starts on Thurs­day 21st June. It runs until the 28th July, with a selec­tion of prints on show, all avail­able to buy.

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oumou sangare
Jun 4

Field Day 2018: Charlotte Gainsbourg and Oumou Sangare

I’ve always had a soft spot for Field Day fes­ti­val: its cura­tors have form in entic­ing less­er-seen artists onto their fes­ti­val stages, such as Mazzy Star’s mem­o­rable set in 2012. Field Day’s move this year from Vic­to­ria Park to the con­sid­er­ably small­er Brock­well Park has not been with­out its issues – from pre-event con­cerns from…

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May 30

All Points East: Alexis Taylor, Mattiel and Bjork shine

New Lon­don mega-fes­ti­val All Points East at Vic­to­ria Park offered sparkling line­ups: the first Sun­day intro­duced slinky Tex­an out­fit Khru­ang­bin, fol­lowed by a dancey set from Alex­is Tay­lor. Father John Misty offered lush vocals to a mel­low ear­ly evening crowd before Bjork’s fan­tas­ti­cal set end­ed the evening

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Mar 17

Turin Brakes live at the London Palladium: review

Turin Brakes know how to make the Lon­don Pal­la­di­um feel as inti­mate as a rough-and-ready base­ment pub venue. They start by intro­duc­ing songs from their brand new album. Over the next cou­ple of hours or so, the band take us on a jour­ney back and forth over the past 18 years, many mem­bers of the…

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