by Jonny Carey
Located in Brighton’s Victoria Gardens Loop festival returns for a third year, displaying one of the summer’s more interesting and diverse line ups in both…
by Ian Roullier
This year sees the Big Chill celebrating its 15th year having evolved from a Sunday social of lazing around on mattresses listening to ambient music...
by Jamil Ahmad
The August bank holiday weekend being sandwiched full of parties, carnivals and festivals up and down the land poses the mother of what-to-dos – probably...
by Ben Hogwood
Does bigger mean better? In the case of Groove Armada’s increasingly successful Lovebox Weekender, it certainly looks that way – and 2009 sees them stepping...
by Barnaby Smith
Nearly every year in recent times has seen one celebration or another going on at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention.Last year it was the 30th anniversary since...
by Laura Poliakoff
Those who were frustrated by the post-midnight sound levels at Glade last year can breathe a sigh of relief – as this year’s premier festival...
by Rob Watson
Ahhhh. Smell that? That faint lingering smell of deep fat fryers, raw sewage and burning… well… everything?That’s the smell of the Great British summertime, that...
by Darren Harvey
Thank goodness for Latitude. A proper, bona fide festival atmosphere; but wholly devoid of stripey-trousered goons on stilts, wacky dealers in oversized felt jesters’ hats,...
by Gideon Brody
No festival attracts quite as much comment about its line-up more than Glastonbury. Whoever the Eavis family book to turn Worthy Farm to mud, somebody...
by Michael Cragg
It wouldn’t be over-stating it to say that London’s Field Day hasn’t exactly had a run of luck since its inception in 2007.The first year...
by Rob Watson
It’s been nigh-on nine months since musicOMH rolled up its tent and swore never to drink overpriced lager in a wet field full of people...
by Christian Cottingham
Right, so somehow it’s festival season already: you’ve bought your tickets, spun a tissue of lies that in no way hang together to your employer...
by Michael Hubbard
As has become something like traditional, the Camden Crawl returns to fire the starting gun for another festival season. Once again spread over a Friday...
by Michael Hubbard
The third BBC Electric Proms gets underway this week.Five nights of collaborative music and film projects and talks will be staged in Camden, but this...
by Neil Jones
The mark of a good festival is possibly the fact that after a while it becomes synonymous with the time of year it takes place.And...
by John Murphy
If Glastonbury is the Mother Of All Festivals, dispensing peace, love and good vibes to all and sundry, then Reading and Leeds is more like...
by Jonny Carey
Festivals have been held in some strange locations. ATP for one has proven how much fun one can have in a run-down Pontins chalet.But the...
