Tag: Glastonbury

Jun 23

Snowapple unveil new album Utopia

Always inven­tive, with a unique and expan­sive world view, the inter­na­tion­al, female-led Snowap­ple col­lec­tive has released a new album June 13th titled Utopia, blend­ing music, the­atre and activism. And they will be play­ing at Glas­ton­bury fes­ti­val on 25th June. The Snowap­ple col­lec­tive evades pigeon­hol­ing into par­tic­u­lar genre; instead they embrac­ing and bring togeth­er dif­fer­ent gen­res in…

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Kingshotts coffee
Aug 26

Running a festival business – four traders tell their stories

Do you have a busi­ness that you think would go down well at fes­ti­vals? I asked four such  entre­pre­neur­ial types, with ven­tures in T‑shirts, vin­tage tents, gourmet cof­fee and holis­tic mas­sage – about their expe­ri­ences as fes­ti­val traders. Is it a com­bi­na­tion of fun and prof­it, and are you guar­an­teed enough time out to catch a favourite band? One…

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Phildel CD cover
May 9

Music news: Phildel and Metallica (but not together)

Phildel has just won Pop/Top 40 cat­e­go­ry for Moon­sea in the Inter­na­tion­al Song­writ­ing Com­pe­ti­tion where she was up against over 20,000 entries. A fan­tas­tic result from a mul­ti-tal­en­t­ed and extreme­ly hard­work­ing per­former. This pres­ti­gious songr­writ­ing com­pe­ti­tion was judged this year by such lumi­nar­ies as John May­all, Black Fran­cis (The Pix­ies), Robert Smith (The Cure),  Tom Waits and Imag­ine Drag­ons.This is…

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