by Helen Clarke
Gone are the days when festivals meant camping out in a rainy field with cows and portaloos for company. Along with the traditional tent events,…
by David Meller
Salford’s Sounds From The Other City, known for enticing tUnE-yArDs to play down a phone line and breaking the likes of Marina And The Diamonds, The Ting...
by Sam Smith
The 20th London Jazz Festival, created and produced by international live music producers Serious, kicks off on 9 November for ten days of pure jazz...
by Andy Baber
It has not been a typical festival season this year. Sonisphere, Oxegen and Big Chill were all cancelled and Bloc was shut down; weather has...
by Christian Cottingham
So, festival season. It’s not started too well. There’s been Download, with its mud. And the Isle Of Wight Festival, with its mud. And the...
by Daniel Paton
It may generally be seen as something of a niche or specialist festival, but the Cambridge Folk Festival defiantly refuses to conform to any stereotypes...
by Jamil Ahmad
If there’s one thing Bloc has going for it this term, it’s the sheer scale of its ambitious programming and setting. Where previous iterations of...
by Daniel Paton
For those dissuaded from festivals because of their association with the great outdoors, fast food and temporary toilet facilities, the London Jazz Festival offers something...
by Ruth Follows
For most, Bestival signals the end of the festival season and the end of the summer. But far from a sombre affair, Bestival’s party atmosphere...
by Jenni Cole
There are few UK festivals that can match Green Man for location, held as it is in the staggeringly beautiful surroundings of Glanusk Country Park...
by Christian Cottingham
Admittedly, the cynicism in the following statement goes a bit too far but the general point stands: the festival scene has become over-saturated, and the...
by Ruth Follows
Summer Sundae will once again rise like a phoenix from the ashes of more budget controversies, to bring three days and five stages of music...
by Max Raymond
A few years ago, Reading and Leeds were seen as the festivals for those who liked their rock music extremely loud and/or heavy. In 2001,...
by Ben Edgell
The notion of a festival being family-friendly smacks of the bizarre. Fields of rampaging teenagers smacked off their faces to godawfulindiemuzak is enough to send...
by Jenni Cole
Its not clear where along the line of pop history folk festivals became refined affairs, but its certainly the case that the Cambridge Folk Festival...
by Jamie Milton
Since 2006, Lounge On The Farm at Canterburys Merton Farm has grown in reputation andstature, from being just another music fest to becoming a genuinecontender...
by Ian Roullier
Last year saw the first Big Chill since its takeover by Festival Republic, the group already responsible for the Latitude and Reading & Leeds festivals....
