Bearded Theory photo gallery Thursday and Friday

Beard­ed The­o­ry 2023 – first pho­tos of the sun­ny fes­ti­val from open­ing acts on Thurs­day evening through to Fri­day after­noon. Thurs­day: Heart­worms, Oh My God! It’s the Church and The Orielles. Fri­day: Pan­ic Shack, Girl­band, High Hors­es, Dea Matrona, The Go! Team, The Bug Club, Beth Orton.  Beard­ed Theory 

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Bluedot celebrates 60 years of Doctor Who

The fes­ti­val has today announced a pro­gramme of per­for­mances, pan­els and talks set to enthral Dr Who fans, apt­ly tak­ing place at Cheshire’s Jodrell Bank Obser­va­to­ry. Jodrell Bank Obser­va­to­ry is renowned in Whov­ian lore hav­ing pro­vid­ed the back­drop to the fourth Doctor’s tran­si­tion to the fifth (when Tom Bak­er hand­ed the role over to Peter Davi­son in 1982)…

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Pale Blue Eyes second album “This House”

Pale Blue Eyes are about to launch their sec­ond album, release date is set for 1st Sep­tem­ber. Called ‘This House”, on Full Time Hob­by, it alludes to the one you’ll spot on the album’s front cov­er, the child­hood home of the trio’s vocal­ist and gui­tarist, Matt Board. Defined by clo­sure and mov­ing on, This House…

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The Finsbury: Percy Rico, Luxury Goods, Natsuma

The Fins­bury pub and music venue has been qui­et­ly get­ting on with host­ing music prac­ti­cal­ly every night for many years and it’s sur­pris­ing how many local(ish) peo­ple just don’t know about its exis­tence. I became a con­vert after The Bed­room Hour played there and that was back in 2014. Apart from the music there’s a…

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Firestations unveil new single ‘Undercover’ with new album on the way

Lon­don based band Firesta­tions have just released their lat­est sin­gle called ‘Under­cov­er’. It is released on Lost Map Records on 25th April. It’s the first sin­gle tak­en from their forth­com­ing album ‘Thick Ter­rain’, out 14th July, and is, the band say, “an effer­ves­cent pop song about depres­sion and self-dis­­­cov­­ery”. The band con­sists of Michael Cran­ny, Lau­ra Copsey, Mar­tin Thompson,…

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Victorious festival ranked 3rd best in the UK

Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val has been ranked the third best fes­ti­val in the UK after data analy­sis con­duct­ed across the country’s fes­ti­val land­scape, with results show­ing Vic­to­ri­ous as one of the best val­ue-for-mon­ey fes­ti­vals in the UK Mul­ti-award-win­n­ing Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val (25/26/27 August 2023) – the UK’s biggest met­ro­pol­i­tan fes­ti­val – has been rat­ed as the third best fes­ti­val in the UK.  Training…

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Dark Tropics new single “I Bet You Can”

Dark Trop­ics (Rio McGuin­ness and Ger­ard Sands) have just released a sul­try sin­gle called I Bet You Can, release date 28th April. There’s a lot going on for the duo right now too, there’s just been a Belfast head­line show plus they’re sup­port­ing Belle & Sebas­t­ian lat­er in the year on their Irish tour.  I Bet…

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Save Brixton Academy

We need to keep Brix­ton Acad­e­my from clo­sure. The met police have request­ed it is closed for good. How­ev­er with a change of secu­ri­ty and of man­age­ment sure­ly this icon­ic and famous venue could be saved. At the moment, the live music scene is in a frag­ile state and we need every venue kept open.…

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Anna Demetriou album launch ‘More To This’ 12th May

Singer and actress Anna Demetri­ou launch­es her debut album More To This on 12th May. A hand­ful of sin­gles are out already, high­light­ing the dis­tinc­tive and expres­sive voice behind the com­po­si­tions. Anna unveiled I Can’t Wait in 2021 fol­lowed by Twice The Breath, with accom­pa­ny­ing video. She fol­lowed with the album’s title track More To…

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