Previews
by Fiona Jerome
As befits an offshoot of the Aldeburgh Festival, which since 1948 has provided a showcase for new musical ideas and has commissioned many sterling pieces…
by Clair Whitefield
When you say the word festival most people think of wide eyed hippies struggling out of rancid portaloos in the middle of a muddy field.For...
by John Murphy
Festivals are big business. Long gone are the days when they were an excuse for a group of like-minded souls to gather in a field,...
by David McGonigle
Apart from the mighty colossus that is T-in-the Park, Scotland’s festival season can seem a little sparse.While there may be plenty of action for the...
by Jamil Ahmad
You should just about have recovered from four days of hedonism to take things down a notch for Cambridge Folk (26-29 July).Joan Baez, Steve Earle...
by Jamil Ahmad
If time, money and a job were not a worry, you could spend six months on the festival circuit. Given the opportunity would you do...
by Nick Pickles
When it comes to dance music the party gets well and truly underway this weekend with Gatecrashers Summer Soundsystem.After a four year absence, Gatecrasher returns...
by Jenni Cole
Listen. Glastonbudget. Tribute bands. Ace. In fact, completely and totally ace, all round. No argument.Where else this year could you possibly hear the greatest hits...
by Barnaby Smith
The Spitz Festival of Blues 2007 was declared open on April 4 in an orgy of marinated chicken wings and pork ribs, to the dubious...
by Jamil Ahmad
Stamina is the key to survival. The idiom isn’t just applied to the Camden Crawl. You’re going to need it as we slip into festival...
by Darren Lee
Aside from the burnt turkey, this year’s Christmas began on a downer with the death of James Brown. Whilst his loyal core of fans mourned instantly,...
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...
by Neil Jones
Conceived by organisers suitably impressed by Wales’ Green Man festival, Salisbury’s End Of The Road bash sets out with a noble manifesto. By ignoring over-hyped bands,...
by Barnaby Smith
Now in its second year since its reincarnation, Cropredy is firmly back in its rightful place as one of the most amiable festivals on the...
by Richard Hensman
It’s back – and it’s now in Cardiff as well as London!Metro Weekender is a two-day event over the festival-packed August Bank Holiday weekend, comprising...
by Richard Hensman
Since its inauguration in 2004, the Secret Garden has been offering an escape from reality for everyone with an inner child who remembers what it’s...
by Jamil Ahmad
If you haven’t been left out of pocket by this stage of the festival season, you certainly will be by the close of the August...
by Jenni Cole
If you’re one of those music lovers who thinks that this summer’s lack ofmud, smelly hippies, ill-advised facial hair and wizard hats made out ofhedges...
by Ian Roullier
The Big Chill started life 12 years ago as a monthly Sunday club in the mattress-strewn confines of Islington’s Union Chapel. Back then there were...
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...
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...
Q&A: London Handel Festival’s Samir Savant
Sparks: “You never know when you’re foretelling the future in a song” – Interview
The 1975 – Notes On A Conditional Form
Darren Hayman – Home Time
One For Keeps: Pulp – Different Class
Throwing Muses – Sun Racket
Tim Burgess: “I just dream, and that’s how songs come now” – Interview