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 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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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 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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Björk to be Bluedot 2022 closing headliner

Blue­dot fans may remem­ber that Björk was sched­uled to be one of the head­lin­ers for 2019 until the event was post­poned. The unique Ice­landic artist is now sched­uled for next year, 2022, where she will head­line the final Sun­day night show in a unique show with Man­ches­ter’s Hal­lé Orches­tra. Björk will be joined by The…

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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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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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Bluedot 2018: out of this world music and science mashup

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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