It’s September and summer is retreating fast. This is what End of the Road festival in Dorset is all about – offering one final chance to prance about in a field, choose food from a wonderful array of vendors, chat to just about anyone, and queue up for the toilet with a cup of sawdust.…
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Bluedot festival announce a special late-night programme culminating on Sunday when Max Cooper and MESH are to premiere a unique A/V soundscape, with accompanying bespoke projections on the 50-metre Lovell telescope. Groove Armada were just one of the headliners last year using the telescope to beam awe-inspiring projections over the site (photo above). Here’s the plan,…
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If you’ve arrived home from Worthy Farm feeling like you could do it all again (but on a smaller scale), or if four days of watching Glasto from your sofa has inspired you to get back in the fields, don’t fret. We’ve compiled a roundup of festivals with a few tickets still available. Don’t hang…
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We LOVE compiling this list each year. And it feels particularly liberating to almost be back to ‘business as usual’ on the festival front – plus some new and expanded events are going ahead, meaning those in charge of the festival purse strings are confident we’re heading back in the fields this summer. So here’s…
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I managed to catch five minutes with Working Men’s Club after their set at Bluedot last Saturday. They’ve been in Sheffield doing a recording session, attending photoshoots, left to head off to Latitude… and they’re now on to Port Eliot festival. Busy busy. The in-depth interview is going to have to wait. Q Hi Jake, that…
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Exctinction Rebellion, Word Wildlife Fund with Our Planet, Liz Bonnin, Helen Pankhurst… these are just a few names on the extensive sustainability programme at Bluedot festival
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Ooh festival season! The thought of it fills me (and so many of you out there, obviously) with joy. 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…
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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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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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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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