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Womad 2013

09/08/2013

Has the cross pollination of sound led to a syncretic culture? True to form, WOMAD 2013 poses as many questions as it answers....

Loitered Lens : Mud Morganfield

07/08/2013

'dressed like a high-class gangster in his high pin-stripe suit with a silky handkerchief in the top pocket'. Mud Morganfield...

Cambridge Folk Festival 2013: Review

02/08/2013

Beards and flat caps are very much the exception rather than the rule at the Cambridge Folk Festival...

Bloodstock Art Competition Shortlist

02/07/2013

We asked for artwork relating to Bloodstock, and offered two tickets to the festival in return for the best of the bunch. Behold... the shortlist....

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown

26/06/2013

Overall, while this could never be described as radical (and wasn't intended as such), it was a technically and visually impressive event, with several moments of great power and subtlety....

Win Two Tickets to Bloodstock

25/06/2013

Trebuchet Magazine, Bloodstock Festival and Cosa Nostra Pr are giving away two tickets (weekend camping tickets) to 2013 Bloodstock festival...

WOMAD 2013 – Lineup!

17/06/2013

2012 presented a ridiculously high water-mark of exceptional performances from some fantastic global acts. Will WOMAD 2013 stack up? ...

Guerilla Zoo’s James Elphick [Interview]

17/06/2013

May Day, traditionally associated with revelry and mystique - this is what I think the whole event captured, that playful, fantastical element....

New Festival to be Launched on the Isle of Man

27/05/2013

The Isle of Man Festival in association with MTV, a brand new festival for 2013! ...

Marillion Convention Weekend [Review]

01/05/2013

Weekend-long fan conventions have been a regular feature of the Marillion calendar since the first one at an out-of-season Pontins back in 2002...

Anita Goldstein : Interview

28/04/2013

The West-Bank wall is covered on its Palestinian side with lots of graffiti (many slogans, but also street art) whereas its Israeli side is completely blank. I think it's a nice metaphor...

Swans Review : Mouth to Mouth

20/04/2013

Review of Mouth to Mouth Festival. Curated by Swans leader Michael Gira news of Mouth to Mouth bolstered expectations of an loud night of outsider noise and insider musical elitism. ...

Geographies of War [Exhibition]

19/03/2013

The first lesson taught by physically tasting war is that ruination is the essence of all being. Death has no meaning and everything can be reduced to nothing in seconds....

New York Finds Cool Again: Fountain Art Fair

11/03/2013

'It was the hippest New York scene outside of the eastbound L train you’ll find until next year.' Scott Laudati reports from New York's Fountain Art Fair...

Earnest Endeavours | Mono/Poly

06/03/2013

Secret Video Invite : MONO/POLY + FREE THE ROBOTS EUROPE TOUR MARCH 2013. Thurs 14-Mar-13 @ Village Underground...

Skirmish of Ideas?

15/12/2012

IoI has its own clear agendas but the festival definitely has a positive function in bringing hidden or repressed debates to the surface and airing them to a much wider public than they might...

Singapore’s Affordable Art

26/11/2012

I’ve been slowly unraveling the mazes of subtle complexities in the art world here, and one of the first events to land on Singaporean soil as I did was the Affordable Art Fair....

SWN Festival

17/11/2012

A brilliant little festival. Lots going in on, all within a stone's throw....

Loitered Lens: The London Punk Festival

09/10/2012

Punk is dead? Well no-one told the mass of sweating, heaving bodies, young, old (some maybe a little too old) who were dancing, sweating, singing and generally having a right old time at...

Mad Sin: 25 Years ‘Still Mad’

08/10/2012

Personally I’d rather see them live or listen to Burn and Rise, but this is an ideal Halloween present for any hardcore fan with a Mad Sin patch sewn onto their sleeveless denim jacket. And it’s...

Festival de Musique Emergente, Quebec

19/09/2012

Held in Rouyn – Noranda and now in its tenth year Festival de Musique Emergente, otherwise known as Emerging Music Festival, itself emerged as an elegant solution to a local problem. Generous,...

Listener [Live]

10/09/2012

Performing a set covering both old and newer material, Listener create an electric, vacuous atmosphere of mystification and strike the crowd near-dumb. The usual glazed, blank looks at the back of...

Green Man [Festival]

10/09/2012

What with hugging around the Green Man and reading people’s wishes on little mailing labels around the tree, this has been a pleasant valley, bucolic, neo-druidic experience. Thoughts of love, to...

Bloodstock 2012

05/09/2012

Their fist-pumping fusion of brutish guitar and folk-esque synth lines make for a brilliant way to kick off my Bloodstock. They bring a feeling of raw ‘epic-ness’ that, although strived for by...

Loitered Lens: Public Image Limited

02/09/2012

Bowie may have snubbed the closing ceremony, Fatboy Slim may have been caught miming by the second loop of the supposedly live soundtrack, and the faint strains of the Sex Pistols may well have been...

Feed the Rhino: Hevy Fest

24/08/2012

In an age where (a little sadly) aesthetics are as important to the hardcore scene as musical ability, Feed The Rhino cover all of the bases – as one hipster said to another, “we’ve gotta catch...

The Mercy House: Interview

23/08/2012

The genre obsessions have to stop, I guess something is going right when everyone becomes the great ‘opinionizer’, but I think that’s what can be exciting about music, take something out of the...

BLOCatastrophe

22/08/2012

After what I experienced at Bloc I have to admit that I and thousands of others were completely taken in by the promise of a professionally-run event in an innovative new venue with an incredible...

Devil Sold His Soul [Live]

21/08/2012

Then, coming to the end of a great set, disaster strikes. “This is our last song”, announces Ed. We’re treated to the opening guitar line of what I suspect was ‘Darkness Prevails’, before...

HEVY Festival

16/08/2012

When your guitar feedback section is so long that your guitarist has time to have a crafty check of his iPhone, maybe it's time to just get on with the song already. HEVY Festival is HUGE. This...

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