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Rockaway Beach Festival 2024 – Reviewed
Rockaway Beach Festival at Butlins, Bognor Regis, never fails to put a post-New Year smile on our faces as it’s one of the most consistently well-curated line-ups in the festival calendar. With just two musical stages and a central ‘speakers corner’ to navigate, the festival is super-compact, and the organisers time the performances perfectly so…
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Camp Bestival, the UK’s favourite family festival, has announced The Explorer’s …
Camp Bestival, the UK’s favourite family festival, has announced The Explorer’s Passport – a brand-new magical booklet designed and illustrated by festival co-curator Josie da Bank. The Explorer’s Passport will be free for every child to collect on arrival at the festival and is packed with beautiful illustrations, maps and details, with space for children…
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Crowd reaction of the weekend for SNAYX at Rockaway Beach…
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DEADLETTER at Rockaway Beach 2024…
DEADLETTER take no prisoners by launching straight into ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ as a means of kicking the MainStage into gear with the very first bars of their opening set on the Sunday night of Rockaway Beach. It’s a fast, furious, and rousing song that will hopefully be a significant part of their pensions… But that…
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Definitely the audience reaction of the weekend!!! SNAYX…
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SNAYX at Rockaway Beach Festival 2024…
That familiar ‘snakes on a plane’ intro track signals what so many people have been waiting all weekend for… it’s launch control initiated, and time for the nicest two guys off stage to transform into snarling (but always smiling) anti-establishment ASBOs on stage… SNAYX are all about the bass… and Boys in Blue shakes leftover…
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Joyeria at Rockaway Beach 2024…
Reading up on Joyeria for a bit of background throws up some hints – but few facts. The name of the man is carefully masked, with only a few biographic clues scattered around the internet. He’s Canadian, a chess player, and apparently good at sums. Spotify confusingly states his name is pronounced ‘Pizzeria’. What his…
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Enjoyable Listens at Rockaway Beach 2024….
Luke Duffett presents lounge cabaret for a disaffected generation – with occasional crowd surfing (but not today). There may be a big crowd for this opening set at Rockaway Beach 2024, but it is Sunday, and it is only noon. Few reviews of Enjoyable Listens manage to avoid references to Bryan Ferry, Nick Cave, Jarvis…
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Lonely Tourist at Rockaway Beach 2024
[ad_1] Lonely Tourist at Rockaway Beach 2024 Keeping the tempo up, but bringing in a more relaxing folk-pop vibe is/are Lonely Tourist, a singer/songwriter, duo, or a band (as the mood suits) from Scotland or Bristol (wherever he happens to have last closed the front door). Tonight it’s duo mode, with jobbing guitarist Chris Webb…
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Skids at Rockaway Beach 2023
[ad_1] Skids at Rockaway Beach 2023. As foot-stomping romps down memory lane go, a Skids gig is up there with the best They may not be a band who can play 60 mins of top-ten bangers back-to-back, but they had notable chart success with songs like Into the Valley and Working for the Yankee dollar,…
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DITZ at Rockaway Beach 2024
[ad_1] DITZ at Rockaway Beach 2024 Cal Francis is the androgynous front man of DITZ, and for the last five years or so he and his band have been carving their name into the grain of the Brighton music scene and gradually working on breaking out to wider attention. Whether Butlins at Bognor was on…
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Great shots of ĠENN from Rockaway Beach 2024
[ad_1] Our super-snapper does it again with these great shots of ĠENN from Rockaway Beach 2024 Leona’s voice and vocal stylings coupled with the band’s heavy riffs and angry drums put the Anglo-Maltese band, GENN, into a world populated by Kate Bush, Souisxie Sioux, and the kind of metal bands who are most at home…
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Chalk fundamentally understand the dynamics of a live show – Rockaway Beach 2024
[ad_1] Chalk fundamentally understand the dynamics of a live show… …and singer Ross Cullen REALLY knows his way around a vocal delay effect pedal! If we were to put Chalk into a pigeonhole they would find themselves filed alongside Glasgow’s current industrial post-something darlings of the live music scene, VLURE (who we’ve been championing throughout…
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M(H)aol are an atmospheric experience out of Ireland – at Rockaway Beach 2024
[ad_1] M(H)aol are an atmospheric experience out of Ireland – where they ‘Don’t have Butlins’ so ‘feel like they are on TV’. Eight years after forming and just under a year since the release of their first LP, M(H)aol (that’s ironically ‘Male’), espouse post-punk feminism to a soundtrack that shimmers with a Sonic Youth vibe.…
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Shouty and as politically driven as ever, BENEFITS kick off our 2024 Festival se…
[ad_1] Shouty and as politically driven as ever, BENEFITS kick off our 2024 Festival season with a bang at Rockaway Beach Benefits… question EVERYTHING with their unique brand of LOUD freestyle jazz political poetry amidst a barrage of crowd blinding strobes. Possibly a hint of anti-Tory sentiment in there somewhere? 2024… we’re expectcting great things…
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2023 wrapped up – the best bands on the UK festival and gig circuit
Festival Flyer’s editor reflects on a year of live music – both in fields and grass-roots venues I don’t think I’m the only person who finds it harder every year to get excited by new music. Bands have to work really hard to get onto my Christmas list. So it’s with absolute delight that I…
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Nomad Shakes – get them on your 2024 festival radar…because they are on ours
EP Review: I Wanna Feel This Way Forever (NOMAD SHAKES) There’s an immediate Kasabian vibe to the opening bars of ‘Just Do It Again’… but then the track drops, and we’re getting echoes of Nomad Shakes’ cousins from other brothers, Kid Kapichi. There’s nothing wrong with this, and there’s definitely something in the water of…
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INDIKA Festival Liverpool – full line-up announcement
Headlining the festival will be none other than legendary percussionist, producer and composer Talvin Singh OBE. A giant and pioneer of British-Asian music, Singh’s multi-decade spanning career has seen him collaborate with and write for the likes of Sun Ra, the late Ustad Sultan Khan, Madonna, Yoko Ono and more. Having worked as Björk’s percussionist and artistic director in 1993, Singh garnered critical acclaim…
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Hastings takes Pride… 2023
Hastings loves a festival – at the last count there are some 50 events in and around the area every year, and Pride is a real highlight of the local calendar. Generally held on the August Bank holiday weekend, there is a giant parade that meanders from The Stade open space in Old Town up…
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Suede may not be the best fabric in the rain, but they nailed it at Beautiful Days 2023
For once (sadly) the Met Office hit the nail on the head… because, as predicted, at 4pm the heavens began to open, and by the end of Suede’s headline set everyone at Beautiful Days 2023 was well and truly sodden…but still smiling like lunatics But despite a damp July, the ground was still dry enough…
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Gates open for Beautiful Days 2023 – the 20th edition
The Festival Family is back together to celebrate two decades of friendship and fun Of all the festivals we go to (and we go to a lot of festivals), Beautiful Days is the one that feels most like an annual family reunion. Those who came to the first event (twenty years ago this year)as young…
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A list of annual music festivals in Bedfordshire: what to expect at each
A list of annual music festivals in Bedfordshire: what to expect at each Bedfordshire, a county in England known for its vibrant music scene, hosts a variety of annual music festivals that attract music lovers from near and far. Whether you’re a fan of rock, pop, electronic, or folk music, there’s something for everyone in…
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Which annual festivals in Bedfordshire are great for kids?
Introduction Bedfordshire, a county located in the heart of England, is known for its vibrant and diverse festival scene that caters to people of all ages. If you’re a parent looking for a fun-filled experience for your kids, you’re in luck! Bedfordshire hosts a variety of annual festivals that are perfect for children. We’ve picked…
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Somerset International Festival of the Arts
Somerset International Festival of the Arts: History and Description Welcome to the Somerset International Festival of the Arts, a renowned cultural event that celebrates the diversity and creativity of artists from around the world. This annual festival, held in the picturesque county of Somerset, England, has a rich history spanning several decades. The festival was…
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Bluedot 2023 – when good weather turns bad
Daniel Pratley writes it like he sees it as he sloshes through the mud: The weather Fuxked it The weather stole it and royally shafted the Bluedot staff, the punters and ultimately, the atmosphere. For us, what Bluedot could have been and what it turned out to be are Chalk and Cheese. We endured and…
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Latitude Festival 2023 – in photos
We will be adding some of our favorite photos of the weekend to this page – but you can find loads more over at our Flickr collection page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/festivalflyer/collections/72157721992808500/ Our pick of the best bands of the Latitude weekend Gurriers had been high on our must-see list after we were impressed by them at 2000Trees…
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Gurriers blew our tiny minds at 2000Trees 2023
Fresh meat! Gurriers turned out to be one of theose bands we nearly missed but were over the moon that we didn’t at 2000Trees 2023. When you walk into a tent and are transfixed from the first moment to the end of the closing number, you suddenly remember why you love festivals…the heat of the…
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Working Men’s Club – Glastonbury 2023 photos
Working Men’s Club may have played Glastonbury Festival 2023, burt we can’t find a single review of the set to go with our lovely photos below… so here’s a iece on them in DORK from last year and a video of them playing the festival from the BBC… https://readdork.com/features/working-mens-club-feature-august-2022/ Working Men’s Club Photos – by…
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Viagra Boys – Glastonbury 2023 photos
The Viagra Boys set was one of the most anticipated shows for us at Glastonbury Festival 2023. This Swedish punk outfit take no prisoners and snarl their way through every gig they play in such an unselfconscious way that it feel like they simply exist on a different planet. One thing is for sure – this…
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Sleaze – Glastonbury 2023 photos
Many years ago at a small pub in South East London called the Bridge House Tavern there was a summer solstice gig that went under the name of ‘Stoned Penge’. Chatting to Beans on Toast as Sleaze rocked the Bimble Inn up at the top of the Park Stage we recalled how several of the…
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Shumba Youth – Glastonbury 2023 photos
Shumba Youth definitely fits into the ‘underground’ element of the Glastonbury 2023 bill. Dub, Dancehall, Jungle and Afrobeats are his staple elements as he works his way up from the London Reggae scene to a wider audience. Greenpeace was rocking (gently) to his set and chatting to him afterwards we found him to be one…
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Velvet Fuzz – Glastonbury 2023 photos
Briefly passed by a random Glastonbury 2023 stage and saw Velvet Fuzz playing – so we took some photos… Velvet Fuzz Photos – by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com for Festival Flyer The best of the rest of our Glastonbury 2023 photos:
Skindred – Glastonbury 2023 photos
When we spotted Skindred on the Glastonbury Festival 2023 line-up we knew we were in for a real treat. Not just us of course…but all the metal fans who crammed into the Truth stage at Shangri La for the latest offering from the Earache Records collaboration that has brought the noise to this corner of…
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Sister Suzie – Glastonbury 2023 photos
Sister Suzie played her second consecutive year at Glastonbury Festival in 2023 and holds something of a record for being pretty much the only artist to do nightly residencies. With stage time in such demand it’s testament to her pulling power that the bookers let her play night after night in a prime slot. So,…
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The Hu – Glastonbury 2023 photos
Mongolian folk-metal legends The Hu took on Glastonbury Festival 2023 – and won! See what LOUDER had to say on the subject: https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/the-hu-glastonbury-review-setlist-2023 The Hu Photos – by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com for Festival Flyer The best of the rest of our Glastonbury 2023 photos:
Royal Blood – Glastonbury 2023 photos
Royal Blood’s Glastonbury Festival 2023 set was always going to be a tricky affair after their outburst at the recent Radio 1 Big Weekend. The band brushed the incident under the carpet, but mainstream reviewers still questioned them with a few missing stars… https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/royal-blood-glastonbury-2023-review-b2363048.html For our money this was a great set that showed how…
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RAYE – Glastonbury 2023 photos
RAYE, along with Stormzy and Loyal Carner are all acts from Croydon who have graced big stages at Glastonbury, but seem to still have been left out of the South London borough’s ‘year of culture’ celebrations. Still, RAYE flies the flag for her back-story throughout her set, and shows the world just what she’s made…
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Sparks – Glastonbury 2023 photos
Sparks are almost worthy of the Sunday legends slot at Glastonbury – but here they are on the Park Stage and the fans are delighted…especially when Cate Blanchett joins the band on stage to ‘dance’ her way through ‘The Girl is Crying in Her Latte’. Sparks Photos – by Festival Flyer The best of the…
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Queens of the Stone Age – Glastonbury 2023 photos
Queens of the Stone Age gave a suitably rocky alternative to the Rocket Man over on the main stage as Glastonbury 2023 rolled to an end. It was a great booking decision, as Mojo sums up neatly in their round-up of the last day of the festival. https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/queens-of-the-stone-age-weyes-blood-and-more-at-glastonbury-2023-reviewed/ Queens of the Stone Age Photos –…
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