Tag: Cheshire

Feb 28

Bluedot festival day splits and more artists join the lineup

blue­dot has just announced anoth­er wave of artists to join its 2023 bill on July 20–23. The fes­ti­val, whose head­lin­ers for 2023 include Grace Jones, Roisin Mur­phy and Pave­ment has also released a lim­it­ed num­ber of £49 day tick­ets. At this price, those day tick­ets won’t hang around for long so you’ll need to snap them…

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Bluedot family by telescope 2022
Jul 28

Bluedot 22 photo gallery Sunday

Dr Mag­gie Aderin-Pocock­’s talk at Mis­sion Con­trol; music from Sea Pow­er, The Bug Club, Orlan­do Weeks, W H Lung and A Cer­tain Ratio. And some inven­tive out­fits…Check out our Fri­day and Sat­ur­day pho­to gallery here Blue­dot Fri­day and Sat­ur­day pho­to gallery 

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Jul 27

Bluedot 2022 festival review

Since its first year in 2016, Blue­dot has carved out a unique place in the fes­ti­val land­scape, curat­ing a music line­up that can rival any oth­er gath­er­ing. But it also offers some­thing spe­cial – a win­dow into the world of sci­ence and space. Talks and work­shops are giv­en by some of the top names in…

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Homemade rocket at Bluedot festival
Apr 26

Bluedot festival Family Friday

Blue­dot fes­ti­val has announced Fam­i­ly Day, tak­ing place on the first full day, Fri­day 22 July 2022.  Now in its fifth year, blue­dot con­tin­ues to be one of the best fam­i­ly friend­ly fes­ti­vals in the UK. Of course, as the home of Cheshire’s Jodrell Bank Obser­va­to­ry, the team behind the event has put togeth­er top-lev­­el science…

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Bluedot festival main stage
Feb 1

Bluedot festival launches lineup for 2022

We’ve had to wait for two years but Blue­dot is back and their team has just announced its line­up – with sev­er­al more names to come near­er the time. Blue­dot fes­ti­val is set in the grounds of Jodrell Bank Obser­va­to­ry in Cheshire, with the Lovell tele­scope at its cen­tre. The fes­ti­val is known for its…

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Jul 24

Review: Bluedot 2019: a space celebration

If the sci­en­tists at Jodrell Bank could put their col­lec­tive heads togeth­er, it would be per­fect if they could find a way of tele­port­ing us back to the fields of Blue­dot in order to do the fes­ti­val all over again. That way it might be pos­si­ble to expe­ri­ence the stuff you’d missed first time round.…

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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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