Field Day festival 2016

I was tempt­ed to call this review of Field Day, in its 10th cel­e­bra­to­ry year, “A Tale of Two Fes­ti­vals”. Sat­ur­day was pri­mar­i­ly pop­u­lat­ed with a youth­ful crowd, offer­ing plen­ty of dance music and DJs. The cen­tre of the site fea­tured the fes­ti­val’s delight­ful Vil­lage Men­tal­i­ty area where games and gen­er­al silli­ness were in full flow on the ‘vil­lage green’,…

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Review: Laura Marling at York Hall, Bethnal Green, 2013

Lau­ra Mar­ling per­form­ing at York Hall, a box­ing hall in Beth­nal Green, sounds ini­tial­ly like a bit of an mis­match. But dur­ing one of her chat­ty moments between songs, Lau­ra informs us that she used to live local­ly and she asks the audi­ence for an update on the area. These days, Laura’s an L.A. babe.…

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