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Chic Feat. Nile Rodgers Confirmed For BluesFest 2017

Following their limelight-stealing set at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, Chic and Nile Rodgers can now be announced as one of the headliners for this year’s BluesFest. They will open the festival with a show at The O2 Arena on Friday 27 October Chic have enjoyed widespread mainstream success since their inception in the late ‘70s…
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Hackney Summer Fete: Paddock DJ announcement

The line-up for ‘The Paddock’ DJ stage has finally been announced for Hackney Summer Fete. It will include sets from Visions Festival, Lion Coffee + Records, Cafe Miami , Kyri (R2 Records) and  St John Sessions. Music aside, there will be plenty of food and drink to choose from this year including The Pie Cart,…
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Boomtown 2017 to provide drug testing and trained counsellors

Boomtown has announced its 2017 drugs policy. The sold-out 60,000 capacity festival is taking extensive action to increase drug awareness and education, and promote harm reduction. This will include substance testing with The Loop, trained drug counsellors at each of the campsite hubs to help educate and support young festival goers and pre-event awareness campaigns.…
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Fairport Convention and Lindesfarne to headline Ilfracombe

Fairport Convention and Lindesfarne will headline Ilfracombe Folk, Roots & World Music Festival at Ilfracombe Holiday Park on 20-22 October. Following the great success of last year’s event the festival has decided to go with a new genre, with two blockbusting headliners and has made a promise to be one of North Devon’s finest festivals…
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Livewire Festival adds The Christians, Mica Paris, Phats and Small, Fatman Scoop & Tiger-S to bill

Blackpool Headland Arena – 25-27 August 2017 Limited tickets (from £30/£35) still available from: livewire.co.uk/tickets Blackpool’s Livewire Festival has announced the support acts for its inaugural year, which will feature Motown legends The Jacksons, who have just wowed Glastonbury audiences, as well as the first ever UK live performance for Will Smith & DJ Jazzy…
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Liam Gallagher has released the track list for his upcoming album ‘As You Were’!…

[ad_1] Liam Gallagher has released the track list for his upcoming album ‘As You Were’! We cannot wait to hear it 🙏🙏🙏[fb_vid autoplay= “true” id=”10154457315375738″] [ad_2] Source

Leefest announces new list of names for 2017

Friday 10 – Sunday 12 August: John Darlings Farm, Edenbridge With less than six weeks to go, LeeFest is nearing what is set to be their most exciting show ever. Parcels, Zak Abel, Hey Charlie, Yassassin, Yowl, Lissy Taylor and some extra Special Secret Guests join the LeeFest Presents The Neverland lineup. Since their very…
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Bestival heads for Bali

The UK’s multi-award winning festival brand is setting sail for a new far-eastern adventure between 30 September and 1 October 2017. On a mission to spread peace and love to Asia, Bestival will be bringing its trademark unique creative vision from the UK, and promises to put on one of the most colourful shows Bali…
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Bloodstock: day tickets and gallery news

BLOODSTOCK release their day tickets at 9am on 30 June, priced at £60 (plus booking fee) http://bloodstock.seetickets.com. Four-day ‘weekend tickets with camping’ are also still available, for £139 (plus booking fee). Children’s weekend tickets are just £35 (+ booking fee) and under 4’s go free. Weekend tickets are reportedly selling faster than ever this year…
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Why Green Day in Hyde Park is the most important gig of the summer

Green Day may not be the biggest headliner of them all on this year’s festival calendar, or even on British Summer Time Festival’s gargantuan bill, but they are definitely the most important. Father and son tag-team Steve and Josh Jenner explain why, from two very different perspectives… Josh Jenner, age 13: ​23rd August 2013 was…
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Slaves – Glastonbury 2017

Slaves – Glastonbury 2017 From one man and his dog gigs to the second biggest stage at Glastonbury (and the much lauded ‘classic Sunday morning opening set’), Slaves have come a long way in a short time and have a long and shiny future ahead of them…unless they simply explode in a ball of energy……
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Laura Marling – Glastonbury 2017

Laura Marling – Glastonbury 2017     type=events

Ed Sheeran – Glastonbury 2017

Ed Sheeran – Glastonbury 2017 So the question is – was Ed’s guitar out of tune for most of the set? There were enough people saying it was…but what did you think?  

Glastonbury 2017 – Saturday and Sunday

Just a small selection of choice photos to help you remember Glastonbury 2017

Album of the Week: Breaking Benjamin’s ‘Dark Before Dawn’

[ad_1] ALBUM. OF. THE. WEEK. 🚨 This week’s album is Breaking Benjamin’s ‘Dark Before Dawn’ and was chosen by Jerwin Kooi 💪 Does anyone have any suggestions for next week? Album of the Week: Breaking Benjamin’s ‘Dark Before Dawn’ Last week we had Deap Vally on repeat, now we’re turning our attention to Breaking Benjamin’s…
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