by Helen Clarke
In the second installment of musicOMH’s festivals guide 2013 (read part one on City Festivals here), we look at the multi-day events. The ones you…
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 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 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 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 Michael Hubbard
Despite expanding to accommodate 20,000 people, Field Day, unlike some other festivals utilising its Victoria Park venue space, is not expanding to a several-days affair....
by Gareth Ware
Once a year a quiet corner of the Derbyshire countryside reverberates simultaneously to 40-odd indie-pop bands and steam trains. This can only mean one thing:...
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...
Meister/Hargreaves/Foster @ St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, London
Interview: Little Boots
CocoRosie – Tales Of A GrassWidow
Philharmonia Orchestra/Davis @ Royal Festival Hall, London
Fair Ohs – Jungle Cats
Leigh Franklin – On Saturday Night
The Postal Service @ Brixton Academy, London
The Pastels – Slow Summits