Nov 25
The End Festival 2015 finale at Earl Haig Hall
A review of the final day of folk music in Crouch End’s Earl Haig Hall. Part of The End festival
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Nov 21
Nadine Khouri, Romeo Stodart, Bernard Butler: The End Festival
Not content with presenting us with a mere weekend of music, this year promoter Howard Monk and the team behind The End Festival, set in Crouch End, extended the event over 11 days. Heady and ambitious stuff. There’s no point pretending it’s all gone like clockwork but that’s not what The End is all about.…
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Nov 16
The End Festival 2015: opening weekend
The End Festival is at the half-way mark, and so far it’s been an enjoyable, if slightly chaotic, experience, with a daily roster of bands appearing at venues around Crouch End. Opening night at Earl Haig featured Icelandic outfit YLJA (they are appearing twice more over the festival’s duration) and are notable for their crystalline…
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Oct 25
Music Festivals – what’s on the horizon?
2012 has not been an easy year for festivals. The economic situation and the depressing wet weather took their toll. The season kicked off with a disastrously sodden Isle of Wight, followed by similar problems at Creamfields dance weekender, and Wakestock in Wales. Even Morrisons, the supermarket chain, was due to get in on the…
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