Liam Gallagher at Glastonbury Festival 2019
OK – so he did a ‘cover’ of Wonderwall… we’ll forgive him that sin.
The Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonican at Glastonbury Festival 2019
No airs. No graces. But with almost 1,000 shows under their belts and having played to 20,000 at Cropredy The Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonican take fun VERY VERY seriously…
The Cure at Glastonbury 2019
Winning over new fans and delighting old ones, The Cure were an inspired choice to headline Sunday at Glastonbury 2019. Pure genius…
Marie White – first Glastonbury song…
The Rabbit Hole was jam-packed as emerging talent contest winner, Marie White, took to the stage for the first of her Glastonbury Festival appearances. In trademark odd shoes and sporting her usual no-frills wardrobe, Marie demonstrated precisely why she was the worth winner of this year’s competition. Her songs are genuine, heartfelt, honest, endearing, and…
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The Membranes – ripping it up at the Prince Albert, Brighton
John Robb has a shadowy portrait hidden in an attic somewhere – there is no other explanation for his eternal youth… ….except perhaps for clean living and a genuine belief in the power of music to rejuvenate even the most tired and jaded frame. Despite featuring a slew of great support acts, The Membranes ruled…
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Glastonbury 2019, Wednesday in pictures
The gates have opened, the fun has started, and the sun looks set to shine down on a festival that may well set temperature records. Old Bay Mackerel – a proper hoedown party band and a great find at the Greenpeace stage The Splinters – normally found working as stage crew but a tight-knit little…
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An audience with Marie White – Glastonbury emerging talent contest winner
We want to say a huge thanks to The Stag Inn in Hastings for hosting this great night of banter with the lovely Marie White. Not only is she an amazing songwriter and performer – she’s also a raconteur of the highest order. For someone who will next week be playing at the greatest show…
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PUNK DUO SLAVES CURATE LINEUP FOR WHEELS AND FINS FESTIVAL
Kent-based Slaves have curated the Main Stage lineup for its region’s best-loved seaside festival, Wheels and Fins. Slaves’ takeover happens on Saturday 7th September and packs a punch of punk, rock and pop including Slaves themselves, Willie J Healey, Lady Bird, Queen Zee, Para Fiction, Hockeysmith, FEET, MarthaGunn and Ditz. Wheels and Fins, the boutique…
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New talent to shine at Tramlines 2019
Sheffield’s biggest party, Tramlines Festival, is thrilled to announce 12 new additions to its 2019 lineup comprising of some of the hottest breaking talent around. From thousands of entries via the festival’s Apply To Play scheme, six acts were selected by a panel that included Jon McClure (Reverend and The Makers), BBC Radio Sheffield, Clash…
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Cornwall Rocks – new festival for 2019
Solid Entertainments have today announced that Cornwall Rocks will be held at Tencreek Holiday Park in Looe on 15th, 16th and 17th November 2019 The line-up for their first rock festival in Cornwall had to tick all the right boxes. With The Quireboys, Diamond Head and Massive Wagons headlining plus fifteen other very different, but…
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Setting the Download 2019 fake news straight: a little rain didn’t stop Kane having fun…
It’s on a national news website, so it must be true, right? Not so, says Kane Ashwood from Download Festival 2019. ‘People are leaving Download early over ‘Biblical’ mud’ screamed the Metro headline… And sure enough the story had a handful of accounts of people who’d fallen over and injured themselves and had to go…
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Utopia all-dayer, Brighton, 2019
FEATURING: HEAVY LUNGS + HOTEL LUX + NANCY + BEACHTAPE + SKINNY MILK + JOHN MYRTLE + PUBLIC BODY + MYSTIC PEACH + RAINN BYRNS + BUDDHA BLOOD Following an eight-hour marathon of great live music here’s our mammoth photo gallery from the event from http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com. Full review available at Brighton and Hove News.
Glastonbury 2019 by the numbers
We’ve done the number crunching and the stats behind the sheer quantity of entertainment available at Glastonbury Festival 2019 are simply staggering. Having pulled apart the published running times and put them back together again we can tell you that if you put every piece of programmed music, comedy, circus, poetry, theatre, film, and debate…
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Last few Beautifual Days tickets about to fly out the door as festival announces NOFX and Less Than Jake for main stage
LINE-UP FOR THE BIMBLE INN ALSO RELEASED TODAY The festival have announced the TWO special guests to complete their Main Stage line-up for Beautiful Days 2019. LA punk rockers NOFX and Florida ska-punk legends LESS THAN JAKE are pretty much guaranteed to ensure this is another sell-out year for the immaculately conceived grass-roots festival hosted…
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Bearded Theory 2019 – in photos
Wow – another great year at the Bearded Theory Spring Gathering. This one of those festivals that just keeps pulling you back year after year… The weather was kind and the notorious queues of 2018 to get on site are now just a distant memory as the gate timings and general co-ordination have both improved…
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Bearded Theory 2019
After the travel chaos that plagued the opening day of Bearded Theory last year the organisers pulled out the stops and opened gates a day earlier for the 2019 chapter – and so, thankfully, entry to the site was a breeze. So for anyone who was once bitten, twice shy after the 2018 gridlocks we…
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IOTA at The Great Escape 2019 (photos)
The Hope and Ruin was packed out for this spellbinding show by Bristol five-piece, IOTA. We’re seeing their name crop up more and more often – so could this be the start of something special?
Glastonbury 2019 – all the acts announced so far…
Here’s the first 500-or-so acts announced as playing at Glastonbury Festival 2019… 2 KINGS 24 HR GARAGE GIRLS FT SHOSH 24HR GARAGE GIRLS TAKEOVER . MATT JAM HIMONT • NU COLE . MOSS . DJ CARTIER • MC KIE • FORCA 3 DAFT MONKEYS AAA BADBOY ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE ACIDO PANTERA ADIBAH AFT RECORDS TAKEOVER…
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BLOODSTOCK GOES GREENER
Following along from 2018’s ‘Drastic On Plastic’ initiative, this year the festival team are committing to the ‘BLOODSTOCK Goes Greener’ campaign‘! This year they aim to recycle at least 50% of the festival’s waste and send nothing at all to landfill. They’re encouraging everyone to say a big ‘NO’ to single use tents and plastics…
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Dials Festival announces first wave of acts for 2019
Portsmouth’s DIALS festival has today announced its first wave of artists for 2019. The South coast new music discovery festival returns for its fourth edition on Saturday 5th October 2019 in 5 venues on one street in Southsea, Portsmouth. Like the 2018 event, DIALS continues to focus on showcasing some of the best new music for…
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Small festival magic at Outcider Festival, Compton Martin, on August 2nd – 4th, 2019
Outcider Festival, the alternative music and cider gathering held at Fernhill Farm just outside Bristol, returns for its 6th consecutive year from 2nd – 4th August 2019. This three-day event boasts an eclectic line-up of nationally known acts, emerging artists and local talent in the idyllic surroundings of a working Mendip farm. The 500-capacity festival…
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Glastonbury’s new band battle sees Hastings’ Marie White take the crown
In her usual understated way Marie White has just announced herself as the victor in this year’s Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition… Marie was one of the few artists modest enough to not even submit a public track to the original longslist of acts who were hand picked by the movers and shakers in the taste-making…
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Glastonbury Emerging Talent finalists 2019 – artist interviews
Every year, from thousands of hopefuls Glastonbury, whittles the competetive field of emerging new bands down to just eight. These finalists play live at a gig in Pilton in April and the winners of the free-to-enter competition will not only get a coverted main stage show, but also be awarded a £5,000 talent development prize…
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Skinny Lister – Camden Electric Ballroom (photos)
Rounding off the European leg of their world tour before jetting off to the States, Skinny Lister rammed the Electric Ballroom in Camden with a near-capacity crowd of life-loving music fans – and the night was a riotous joy from start to finish. Joined on stage at one point by Frank Turner, this is a…
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The Wood Burning Savages – Camden Electric Ballroom (photos)
There’s a controlled fury to The Wood Burning Savages that reflects their passionate approach to live performance. ‘We’re from Derry – that’s somewhere in the 16th Century’, quips frontman Paul Connolly, as the band round off their mammoth European tour as support for Skinny Lister. Tonight the Electric Ballroom is set to be rammed –…
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Trapper Schoepp – Camden, 2019 (photos)
Trapper Schoepp in an enthralling songwriter with a genuine knack for Dylanesque observational twists. So it’s perhaps not surprising that he managed to draw himself to the attention of Bob’s legal team after he cheekily rounded off an old, unfinished Dylan ditty. ‘On, Wisconsin‘ was originally conceived back in 1961, and when the manuscript came…
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Skinny Lister – Camden Electric Ballroom, April 2019 (Videos)
What a great night out with Skinny Lister and their touring friends, The Wood Burning Savages, and Trapper Schoepp! And to top it all we even had a bit of Frank Turner thrown in for excellent measure… Here’s a few clips from the night…were you in the final crowd shot?
Larkin Poe – to know them is to love them (Brighton Concorde 2)
A big thanks to Lout Promotions for squeezing us in at the last minute to catch this stellar performance from Larkin Poe at Brighton’s Concorde 2. Straight out of Atlanta, Georgia, and taking over the world one album and one tour at a time, Larkin Poe have that inimitable ability to write and deliver the…
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Levellers round off the 2019 Teenage Cancer Trust gig series in style
For 19 years the Teenage Cancer Trust have been bringing iconic bands to this iconic venue and along the way have raised huge sums of money for teenage cancer sufferers. Tonight the series was rounded off by The Levellers in the only way they know how – with fire, passion, and a hearty lust for…
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Ten more big names for Isle of Wight Festival 2019
The Isle of Wight Festival has announced ten exciting new acts for this year’s event. Garbage, Keane, Dermot Kennedy, Cage The Elephant, Picture This, Ward Thomas, Wet Wet Wet, Björn Again, Feet and The Marcus King Band are now confirmed to play the festival across the long weekend of 13th – 16th June at Seaclose…
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BOOMTOWN RELEASE ECLECTIC LIVE LINE UP FOR TOWN CENTRE
Prophets of Rage / Slaves / Gogol Bordello / Salt-N-Pepa / Atari Teenage Riot / Therapy? / Ozomatli ft Chali 2na / Bedouin Soundclash / Killing Joke / Asian Dub Foundation / Kosheen with Sian Evans / Goldie Lookin Chain / The Neville Staple Band / Brass Against / Submotion Orchestra / Beans on Toast…
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Dreadzone – Brighton Concorde 2 (photos)
Definitely one of the most festival-friendly bands on the circuit, Dreadzone packed out the Concord 2 last night as Brighton’s party people came out in droves to revel in happiness. There was a sad undertone of course as the band and their fans still mourne the passing of fellow soldier Loki Dread (John Power) –…
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There’s some standout tunes on this year’s Glastonbury emerging talent longlist
The 90 acts on the longlist for the Glastonbury EMERGING TALENT COMPETITION 2019, which is supported by PRS for Music and the PRS for Music Foundation have just been announced. These acts were picked by a judging panel made up of 30 of the UK’s best online music writers. Many thousands of acts entered the…
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Rebellion day splits announced for 2019
Returning this summer over four days from the 1st to the 4th of August at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, Rebellion Festival, respected the world over for bringing together the best new and iconic punk and alternative bands annually, has confirmed the day splits for this year’s stellar line-up. Highlights for the main stages each…
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Apply to play at Tramlines
Budding musicians, bands, and artists can now Apply To Play at Sheffield’s biggest ever party, Tramlines Festival, which takes place at Hillsborough Park from Friday 19th July to Sunday 21st July 2019. Entrants hoping to bag a career-changing slot at the 30,000 capacity festival where they’ll be added to a bill alongside the likes of…
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Boomtown 2019: Balkan, roots, and folk-punk based bill for Oldtown
Continuing with Boomtown’s district announcements the festival has unveiled a spectacular balkan roots, and folk punk based bill for Oldtown; one of the oldest and most theatrical of districts. Oldtown is packed full of theatrial venues, artists, street circus performers, painters and poets and a fantastic the bill full of balkan roots and folk punk…
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LARMER TREE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF THIS SUMMER’S COMEDY LINE-UP
Larmer Tree Festival has confirmed details of this year’s late-night comedy line-up, which is headlined by Josie Long and Nish Kumar. Josie Long is one of the most respected and distinctive talents on the comedy circuit. Long’s most recent show Something Better completed two sold-out weeks at London’s Soho Theatre and was filmed for an…
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FOLKEAST UNVEILS MORE TOP NAMES FOR 2019
Blair Dunlop, Siobhan Miller , Sheelanagig & Daphne’s Flight among those joining folk legend Richard Thompson in Suffolk this August. England’s most easterly folk music festival has unveiled more top names for its 2019 line-up this August (16-18). FolkEast, one of the most distinctive festivals to be found on the summer calendar, has announced 17…
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This Is Tomorrow festival announces Johnny Marr, Lewis Capaldi. Ride and more…
With tickets selling fast for the eagerly anticipated launch of This is Tomorrow Festival at its new larger site in Exhibition Park, Newcastle, organisers have revealed that Smiths icon Johnny Marr and the chart-topping Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi have been added to the Stereophonics-headlined bill on Sunday 26th May. Meanwhile, indie legends Ride have also…
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HEBCELT COMPLETES STRONG AND DIVERSE MAIN ARENA LINE-UP
Acclaimed new and up and coming acts will join established festival favourites as the main arena line-up for this year’s HebCelt is finalised. Another ten artists and bands from Scotland, England and Ireland are confirmed for the award-winning international festival just as day tickets have gone on sale. Six performers, including headliners KT Tunstall, The…
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