Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds 2006

by Tom Woods

Some would say that the perfect way to end the summer holidays is to discover that quiet corner of this much-trodden planet and wilfully pass...

Preview: Benicassim Festival 2006

by Jamil Ahmad

Welcome to the Latin Quarter.Eight days, 100 bands, a sleepy town on the Med. The Benicassim organisers were on to a plan when they hatched...

The Big Chill 2006

by Ian Roullier

The Big Chill started life twelve years ago as a monthly Sunday club in the mattress-strewn confines of Islington’s Union Chapel. Back then there were...

Preview: The Great Escape 2006

by Michael Hubbard

SXSW has become gargantuan. The music industry event and festival, held annually in Austin, Texas, attracted everyone from latest sensations Tapes’n'Tapes to that old timer...

Preview: Cropredy 2005

by Barnaby Smith

Bert Jansch and his Pentangle as fore-fathers, the exotic, erratic, outrageously brilliant Incredible String Band occupying the lunatic fringe, resident larrikin John Martyn struggling to...