by George Mitton
It’s tricky to preview Secret Garden Party because, of all the UK’s splendid weekend festivals, this is the one where the music matters least. That’s…
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...
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 Jon Falcone
The Hop Farm festival has been steadily growing as a young pup in the festival litter. As one of the newer offerings it seems to...
by Sam Shepherd
With the festival season reaching something of a frenzy at this time of year, anyone attending an open air event has one eye on the...
by Ben Urdang
It’s May and there’s a volcano erupting in Iceland. That means it’s time for Spain’s number one alternative music festival, Primavera Sound. And once again...
by Jude Clarke
Cometh the Winter, cometh the invariably original, ever evolving aural feast that is Nightmare Before Christmas. The Minehead Butlins-based festival,promoted by All Tomorrow’s Parties, is...
by Ash Akhtar
Birmingham’s annual Supersonic festival returns this week in a bid tocontinue the justification of its well-worn accolades. Now in its eighthyear after launching as just...
by admin
The 18th London Jazz Festival, created and produced once again by international live music producers Serious, kicks off on 12th November for 10 days of...
by Michael Hubbard
The rebranded BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms this year channels all its energy and resources into three nights of programming at the festival’s base, Camden’s...
by Christopher Monk
Bestival may well deserve its endearingly corny name. Since its inception in 2005 it has been voted Best Medium-Sized Festival at the UK Festival Awards...
by Daniel Paton
Campfire Trails is being promoted as a festival. In the sense that three-day passes are available, this description is not entirely inaccurate. Unlike most festivals,...
by Ceiri O'Driscoll
London festivals have gone from newfangled hipster haunts for mud haters to lynchpin of the summer cultural landscape in under a decade. The daddy –...
by D B Telford
As the southern reflection of the Reading and Leeds mirror, this year’s Reading Festival has an insanely impressive line up of next big things, old...
