Sea Change festival close to selling out

The fes­ti­val is already 85% sold out so if you are think­ing of going, don’t think for too long! Here’s a taste of what’s in store at the always-inno­v­a­­tive, Totnes-based week­ender. A new venue for 2023 is The Alba­tross, the stun­ning com­mu­ni­ty space run by the esteemed and adven­tur­ous Bull Inn. Oppo­site The Bull and…

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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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Victorious festival 2023 second wave

Vic­to­ri­ous fes­ti­val has today announced a sec­ond wave of incred­i­ble artists and come­di­ans for this summer’s Bank Hol­i­day extrav­a­gan­za. Head­lin­ing Sat­ur­day evening are UK rock giants Kasabi­an. Front­ed by cre­ative force Serge Piz­zorno, the band will thrill Vic­to­ri­ous crowds with a huge back cat­a­logue of hits includ­ing Fire, Club Foot and L.S.F. Ben Howard head­lines the Cas­tle Stage to close the…

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Bearded Theory 2023

Beard­ed The­o­ry fes­ti­val has always been the per­fect event to ease your­self into fes­ti­val sea­son. It’s a chilled event with a super-friend­­ly crowd and always has a great mix of fam­i­lies and dif­fer­ent ages. And as it takes place over the May Bank Hol­i­day, you’ve got a spe­cial rest and recov­ery day before fac­ing the…

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Winter and Spring music festivals 2023

Dream­ing about sum­mer fes­ti­vals? No need – there are plen­ty of win­ter and ear­ly spring events hap­pen­ing around the coun­try, help­ing liv­en up these dark and drea­ry months. No tents involved. Most­ly at cities and towns around the UK with sev­er­al mul­ti-venue events, one-day or week­enders, there’s plen­ty to choose from, and more sur­fac­ing as…

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KITE festival – Saturday review

Our vis­it to Kite fes­ti­val, set in gen­tle coun­try­side close to Oxford, was pret­ty much based on the fact that Grace Jones was set to head­line on the Sat­ur­day night – not that there weren’t plen­ty of oth­er attrac­tive propo­si­tions through­out this new music and ideas event. Chat­ting to peo­ple around the site it appears…

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LIINES: interview at Bearded Theory festival

Man­ches­ter band LIINES played a blis­ter­ing set on Sun­day 29th at Beard­ed The­o­ry fes­ti­val – the crowd was obvi­ous­ly lov­ing it – and there’s plen­ty of social media com­ments that indi­cate they’ve gained a raft of new fans. I was thrilled to catch up with Zoe McVeigh (vocals/guitar) and Leila O’Sul­li­van (drums) after they came…

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Bearded Theory 2022 Photo Album

Pho­tos from Beard­ed The­o­ry fes­ti­val at Cat­ton Hall, Der­byshire. The Pierce Broth­ers, Dub Pis­tols, Taran­tism, Fero­cious Dog, Astrala­sia, Fat White Fam­i­ly, LIINES, the Flam­ing Lips. Also The Selecter, Nova Twins, Emi­ly Capell and Frank Carter and The Sleep­ing Souls. And, as always, the bril­liant Cow­ley’s Fine Foods. 

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More artists for Camp Bestival, Dorset and Shropshire

Those with tick­ets for Camp Besti­val Dorset and Camp Besti­val Shrop­shire have some wel­come addi­tions to their line­ups – and those still hunt­ing for a tru­ly fam­i­­ly-friend­­ly event should check out these two sum­mer events. Camp Besti­val Shrop­shire The new­bie, Camp Besti­val Shrop­shire is a stand-alone event with all the fam­i­ly friend­ly ele­ments of the…

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Sea Change lineup for 2022 announced

Is there any­one who does­n’t fan­cy the idea of a fes­ti­val with only 600 peo­ple? The event in ques­tion is Sea Change, the – well let’s call it inti­mate – event takes place in Totnes, in a selec­tion of quirky and atmos­pher­ic town venues.  Sea Change Presents announces the first wave of artists for the…

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