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Saturday tickets for Reading have SOLD OUT! …

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Do you want Something to Smile About? Look back at 2016’s fun…

And then make sure you grab a ticket for Something to Smile About 2017 – click the poster for more details:

Wentworth Festival

New festival for Europe’s largest privately owned house – Wentworth

Wentworth Music Festival 2017 A new one-day festival has been launched at the stunning Wentworth Woodhouse Stately Home – the largest privately owned house in Europe. Live music and comedy will play out over four stages on sunday 28 May. Look out for top names including: HEAVEN 17  •  LEMAR  •  DODGY  •  TONY CHRISTIE…
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Audlem Festival

Audlem Festival 2017

The Audlem Festival has been running and growing in the Cheshire village since 2000 The FREE 17th Audlem Festival runs this year from Thursday 25th May through to Monday 29th May 2017. Over 80 artists at various Audlem Venues. Top performers at multiple venues around the Village, all venues are FREE, and camping available at…
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Macstock Festival

Mac-Stock 2017 – a line-up that can’t be beaten

Mac-Stock 2017, the Macmillan Cancer Support charity fundraising festival runs in Warsop from the evening of Friday 24 to the end of Saturday 25 March with an exceptional line-up of 31 bands and solo artists. With some of the best ska, reggae, indie, punk, folk acoustic solo, electronica and alternative music available anywhere in the…
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ArcTanGent Festival

ArcTanGent new bands added for 2017

God Is An Astronaut will be playing their only UK show at ArcTanGent 2017 alongside the likes of Boris, TTNG, Defeater, Future of the Left, sleepmakeswaves, Listener, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Devil Sold His Soul and Tall Ships. Festival booker, James Scarlett said: “The 38 bands we’re announcing today are making me very…
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Bananallama Festival

Forget the Latitude sheep – Bananallama has Llamas

Bananallama Festival 2017 is held on Barn Farm, at Birchover near Matlock in Derbyshire on Saturday 15 July 2017. It’s a very family-friendly event so all ages welcome (as are well behaved dogs on leads). WEBSITE: http://www.bananallama.co.uk/ Line Up Doctor and the Medics King Zepha “Producer and songwriter King Zepha presents a timeless blend of…
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Beano on the Sea

Beano On The Sea brings Cool Britannia to the south coast

Take one pier, a clutch of Cool Britannia bands (The Bluetones, Reef, Cast, Dodgy, Space and The Supernaturals for starters), and put them together in Hastings (recently announced as the heart of the area that is now dubbed the UK’s new ‘Music City-by-the-sea’) and you have a sure-fire recipe for success. Organisers of ‘The Beano…
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Green Man add exclusive Shins booking and much more to their 2017 bill

Green Man are excited to announce their second wave of acts for #GreenMan17, It’s shaping up to be an extra-special year at the Brecon Beacons’ biggest party. THE SHINS will be playing ahead of the release of their fifth album and this is to be their only UK festival show this year. Poet/musician KATE TEMPEST,…
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Eminem will be headlining Reading on Saturday

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Beautiful line-up for Beautiful Days 2017

Huge interest in the news caused the Beautiful Days festival website to go briefly offline in advance of the line-up news going live, and the Facebook message boards were alive with speculation. The festival poster finally appeared around noon. The bill includes Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott, Levellers (unsurprisingly…it is there party), Frank Turner &…
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Packing up the Garden Party – it’s not a secret any more

One of the most loved festivals in the calendar, Secret Garden Party, has confirmed the rumours of the last few days and officially announced it is shutting up shop. The head gardener has posted onto the festival’s ‘ethos’ page with a message explaining why, after 15 glorious years, it’s finally time to bow out gracefully.…
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Latitude announces first acts for 2017

Latitude Festival has announced the first 16 big acts for its regular summer outing. The 1975, Mumford and Sons and Fleet Foxes aside we’re really looking forward to John Cale, Tinariwen, Grandady, and The Divine Comedy. Of course there is plenty more to choose from. For example, Placebo, Jack Garrett, and Fatboy Slim head up…
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NASS builds the hype with exclusive headline announcement

The South West’s big action, sports, and music extravaganza, NASS will get a little taste of the US East Coast as Method Man and Redman are set to make their only UK appearance of 2017. They will headline alongside Kano and Pendulum at the four-day event that runs from 6-9 July, just a few miles…
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Former Bestival site to host new fest created by site owners

The Isle of Wight is to get a new festival – Eklectica – on the former Bestival site. You can follow them on Facebook here. Eklectica will take place on the regular weekend…potentially posing a small problem for Bestival, who may have hoped to lure a sizeable number of Islanders across to Lulworth for the…
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Hastings Fat Tuesday 2017 – reviewed

Hastings Fat Tuesday (which is actually a five-day Mardi Gras) is a fantastic little festival. Nowhere else in the UK has quite the same grass roots music dynamic at play. [rwp-review id=”0″] At a recent music industry conference in the town, Jeff Thompson, founder of the UnConvention movement, underlined this when he told the audience,…
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Indietracks nails another great set of artists for 2017

Possibly the archetypal original ‘indie’ band, The Wedding Present, are joined by Cate Le Bon, Martha, Joanna Gruesome, The Wave Pictures and The Tutson on this year’s Indietracks festival line-up. The acts are among 38 artists to be confirmed today for the 11th edition of this beautifully-appointed festival, which takes place at a picturesque 1950s…
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Reggae fans rejoice at the latest Boomtown offering

Boomtown has today announced a top-flight selection of Reggae vibes for Trenchtown, the festival’s celebration of Jamaican music and soundsystem culture. On the bill are: Ziggy Marley / Toots & The Maytals The Bonner Brothers / Mr. Vegas Protoje / Lutan Fire / Big Youth + U Roy Raging Fyah / Agent Sasco & Dub…
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Coachella hacked – are other festival sites compromised?

So the news broke just now that user data held by Coachella Festival has been stolen and is now being sold to anyone who deals in this business. It seems, therefore, that the small print in the terms and conditions tucked away at bottom of the festival website – you know, that stuff they say…
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Reading & Leeds 2017: Eminem, Muse, Kasabian and more, a playlist by Reading and Leeds Festival on Spotify

[ad_1] The perfect thing to get you excited for Reading ’17 👇👇👇 Reading & Leeds 2017: Eminem, Muse, Kasabian and more, a playlist by Reading and Leeds Festival on Spotify Reading & Leeds Festival 2017 takes place on Friday 25th – Sunday 27th August. Tickets can be found here po.st/RL2017 [ad_2] Source

Community – a guitar-driven new fest for Finsbury Park

Community is a new one-day festival in Finsbury Park, and with Slaves, Catfish and the Bottlemen and The Wombats heading the bill it’s set to be a cracker. Community takes place on Saturday 1 July, and tickets are priced very fairly at just £35. The Festival Republic team are behind the new venure, and FR…
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Julian Clary set to put the ‘camp’ into Camp Bestival

Camp Bestival has dropped some fresh line-up news this morning for their 2017 adventure. The Lightning Seeds have been added to the bill alongside Leftfield, who will perform Leftism in full. Elsewhere on site the fun tap will be turned to full-on as Julian Clary and David Roberts deliver readings (and live drawings) of ‘Meet…
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Ed Sheeran Friday, Green Day Sunday @ Glastonbury?

So if the BBC is not to be believed and they actually did have the inside skinny on the ‘other two’ Glastonbury 2017 headliners it will be Ed Sheeran on Friday and Green Day on Sunday. From the BBC article: A previous version of this story mistakenly said Ed Sheeran and Green Day have also…
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Funkin’ heaven – Croatia style

Beats, Beers & Boogaloo is the latest offering from the increasingly busy Croatian festival calendar. With the Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club in full force, this looks to be a great weekend away from the humdrum world of Brexit and Trump. The dates are 13-17 July, and the event takes place on the coastal…
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Who will you be seeing at Reading ’17?

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Reading & Leeds 2017 announce Eminem as final headliner & more

This week sees R&L confirming that final headliner for this year’s festivals and Reading’s Saturday night final act will be Eminem. Hip-hop legend will take to the top spot once again, joining the already announced Kasabian (Friday) and Muse (Sunday). Also announced in this latest instalment, we have Haim returning after their cancelation last year, You…
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Eminem will be headlining Reading ’17 plus LOADS more acts announced ️🤗 Tickets…

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This Friday. 7:50am. Set your alarms. ️

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Who’s joining us for Reading ’17? ️️️️

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Your Reading ’17 line up so far ️🤗 …

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Views of the Main Stage ️🤗

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More names for Reading ’17 being announced soon…. 🤗️

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Where is your favourite place to set up camp? ️️️

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Good luck to everyone nominated at the NME Awards …

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Quiz: What Valentine’s Gift Are You?

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The Godfathers: the best gig of 2017, and it’s only February

Godfathers + Johnny Seven + Thee Strawberry Mynde. Westgarth Social Club. 09.02.17 (Words and pictures by Steve White originally posted in Buzzcocksfan) Thee Strawberry Mynde have been around for the best part of 20 years. Back in 1998 they released a 4 track cassette, ‘She Sets The Scene’. The line-up hasn’t changed with Paul Garner…
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