Tag: Festivals

Festivals

An uncompromising sonic attack: Damnation Festival

2015 promises to be an 11th installment of Damnation Festival to remember. Leeds November 7th 2015...

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Legends of music congregate for the faithful (Ramblin’ Man Fair 2015)

It was a weekend to wear your denim (double or triple) and not to care too deeply about musical fashions, time, or even bad behaviour. ...

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Loitered Lens: Ramblin’ Man Fair

Photos from Ramblin' Man Fair. Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July 2015, Maidstone, Kent...

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Loitered Lens : Presence Autochtone

The festival takes over La Place des Festivals, in the heart of Montreal's entertainment district, with a huge suspended teepee as the centrepiece....

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Two Joans, good grace & strong cider. Cambridge Folk Festival 2015

Blessed by great weather the festival was a sold out success with myth making performances from The Proclaimers, Joan Baez, Wilko Johnson, Joan Armatrading and The Unthanks....

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Presence Autochtone : Finding and Founding First Nation Culture in Montreal

This year, Présence Autochtone (Montreal First Peoples Festival) celebrated its 25th anniversary of bringing the culture of the aboriginal people of Canada and the rest of the Americas, through...

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Sunrise Celebration at Boomtown Fair

BoomTown Fair is a 49,999 capacity theatrical festival that creates a totally immersive environment with ambitious themed stage sets and winding streets, complete with interactive venues transporting...

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3 Weeks to Go! Countdown to Bloodstock!

BLOODSTOCK HQ is a-buzz with activity with just over three weeks to go!...

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Sleepers awake as Camden Rocks.

Skindred, LTNT, Red House Glory, Outside the Coma, Beasts, The Dirty Youth - for each band there is a different tributary toward whatever end they see coming....

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Amenra and Sólstafir Join Damnation Festival 2015

Sólstafir will be the first band in Damnation history to play the festival in two consecutive years...

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Ethno World at Tandem Folk Festival

Ethno World returns to the UK to host one of their globally renowned music camps ...

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A Solid day of Metal Misbehaviour : Impericon Festival

If you aren’t familiar with Manchester Academy, it’s like a music-y Hogwarts… every time you visit, it’s sprouted a few new performance spaces and the butterbeer’s gone up another six quid....

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Fasten your fascinators, Swingamajig is landing

An eclectic line up boasting not only the Electric Swing Circus, but a whole host of seriously crowd rousing beats...

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Bloodstock 2015 Updates and Club Nights tour

Bloodstock 2015 strengthens its lineup with seven more bands, and announces a slew of club nights to warm up the metal glands...

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HRH Prog 2015

Pwllheli is a long way from anywhere at the far end of a winding single-track railway line. The train stops many, many times at little request stops, but only if you know how to pronounce the...

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Bloodstock 2015 Update : Godflesh to Play

BLOODSTOCK is excited to announce their third headliner for the Sophie Lancaster Stage...

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Ramblin’ Man Fair [25-26 July]

Blues, Classic rock, country, prog, gourmet food, a beer festival, spoken word stage, music cinema, luxury camping and accommodation. Hoo YAH!...

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Your Band Plays Bloodstock! How?

Details of a raft of options for you to get your band to Bloodstock....

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Damnation Festival 2014

To compare this to tinned sardines doesn’t really do it justice… it’s closer to tinned beans, or cous-cous squashed unceremonially into a really small tub...

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Damnation Festival : Preview

Damnation have assembled themselves a blistering lineup for this year’s event, held on Saturday 1st November at Leeds Student Union...

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Cambridge Rock Festival [Part 2]

The veteran acts topping the bill pulled in the punters while the newer acts lower down the bill ended up giving the best performances....

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Cambridge Rock Festival [Part One]

The brother of Jimi Hendrix fails to impress, but the rest of Cambridge Rock Festival comes up shining....

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Bloodstock 2014

Whereas most crowds will sing the words to a song, Megadeth’s break from tradition a little bit by singing the riffs. ...

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Présence Autochtone: Montreal First Peoples Festival

Présence Autochtone, Montreal First Peoples Festival, celebrates the cultural heritage of the Americas' aboriginal nations through film, music, dance and other visual arts....

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Cambridge Folk Festival

Cambridge Folk Festival has a fete-like atmosphere that swells and sweats music from every pore...

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Kendal Calling : Festivals, Politics and Culture

Kendal Calling’s strength comes from its ability to tap into and play host to what has emerged since the digital revolution gave bands and artists the ability to promote themselves....

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The Festival Burner

Now with bank apps, emails, incriminating pictures, your phone is an invitation to be blackmailed, divorced or arrested. A lost phone infinitely more so....

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Alt-Fest Organiser Dominic Void [Interview]

Promising edgy art, truly creative sideshows, and oddball theatre, Alt-Fest is more than just an alternative music festival. Dominic Void explains all....

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Art Exhibition at Bloodstock

Tolkien and Metal Art at Bloodstock festival....

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Bloodstock 2014 : Preview

As always with a Bloodstock lineup, there’s a hugely eclectic mix of Metal sounds and subgenres taking to the stage...

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