Mike Skinner has just been revealed for Neverworld 2019, making him the latest in an eclectic mix of exciting talent for this year’s edition. Chronicling contemporary youth culture under the pseudonym The Streets, Skinner released five studio albums under the musical alias to critical acclaim. Narrating stories from working class Britain, the rapper, songwriter and musician continues to push things…
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You can view our full gallery over on our huge FLICKR collection. Meanwhile here’s our top pick of the pics from Saturday at Latitude festival 2019. All photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
For our full set of Latitude 2019 photo albums keep an eye on our massive Flickr site – here’s the Latitude collection so far. Our favourite shots are below…but everyone has their own tastes – and you never know, we might have snapped you in the crowd somewhere. Photos by Sara-Louise Bowrey
With idyllic settings in the Cotswolds and a history of artists any festival would die for, this festival is one that’s been on the hitlist for us for quite a while. Established back in 2004 and originally called ‘Poshstock’ in the press, the festival boasts attendees at 20,000 per cycle. The top echelons of musical…
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Whether it was Frank Turner sharing vocal duties with Ginger during The Wildhearts set or Gaz Brookfield going commando and ditching the glitchy PA in favour of a fully acoustic song in the middle of the Forest Stage crowd, Friday delivered the goods… Here’s our pictorial round-up of why you MUST be at 2000Trees 2020…
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Here’s some of our favourite shots of – amongst many others – Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls on the main stage. We’ve also tried to add in a taster of everything else we caught across the site that 2000Trees Festival 2019 had to offer on the Friday of the event. This is a fantastic…
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Alex It’s an easy bit of showmanship and stagecraft to engage with your fans by calling up one or two of them to share the big stage with you. It makes you a man of the people and generates a bit of feel-good buzz. So when Dave decided to ask for someone who had a…
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Our hero snapper, Sara-Louise Bowrey, successfully captured most of the main stage action, a stack of smaller bands, and some great crowd shots as she single-handedly strove to document Glastonbury 2019 on digital film. Flick through and enjoy her viewpoint from behind the lens and in front of (or behind) the stages… For the full…
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From London to the bayou, triple filtered through bourbon, banjo, double bass and a touch of alt-country eccentricity. http://danaimmanuel.com Foot-stompin’ fun at the Glastonbury bandstand.
Fresh off the boat from the Noel Gallagher spat, Lewis Capaldi rocked the stage at Glastonbury 2019…
‘He’s that guy who used to play in that band The Smiths’ we heard someone explain to their friend… he’s a bit more than that of course! He was the guitar powerhouse behind some of the most iconic songs of one of the greatest decades in pop. He’s Johnny Marr…
Check out The Courteeners in full on the BBC HERE
OK – so he did a ‘cover’ of Wonderwall… we’ll forgive him that sin.
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…
Winning over new fans and delighting old ones, The Cure were an inspired choice to headline Sunday at Glastonbury 2019. Pure genius…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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?
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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