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Mammothfest 2017 Poster

Mammothfest director Steve Dicksons stance on “etiquette” and bands applying to play a festival

As Mammothfest grows so does our reach and so every year we find more and more bands are applying to play Mammothfest and from further afield. This is both humbling and concerning as we feel the ever growing pressure to book the best emerging artists we can to support our ever growing headliners. It may…
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We can’t wait to be back in this crowd ️️️️

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WWE NXT Live! Returns to Download 2017

Source: Download Festival 2017 – Line-Up News NXT superstars Bobby Roode, Eric Young, Tye Dillinger, Nikki Cross and more are coming to Download Festival. Last year saw WWE NXT land with a bang at Download, delivering a weekend of crowd shocking moments, high flying manoeuvres and electrifying entertainment. Music fans will once again be stunned…
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The Dog Blog: March 14 2017

Source: Download Festival 2017 – Artist News THE TEAM ARE BACK WITH ANOTHER INSTALMENT OF THE DOG BLOG, LETTING YOU KNOW WHERE THEY’RE AT WITH PLANNING AND IMPROVING ON LAST YEAR’S EVENT. Work is well underway regarding site improvements at Download 2017, including traffic management, improved disabled camping and security, the Dog Squad and many other…
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Main stage views

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One Love 2017 – a reggae extravaganza

Celebrating ten fantastic years of One Love Festival, the event has this year created a platform for the pioneers of the genre to perform alongside the new Roots Generation; embracing UK Sound System Culture and all its sub genres. 1-3 Sept 2017: Tunbridge Wells One Love is celebrating this achievement with two key movers and…
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25 – 27 August

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Festival drugs charges see teens under lock and key

Two teenagers who were arrested for drugs offences at Kendall Calling Festival have between them received a total of 39 months in a young offenders’ institute. They also have a further 8 months worth of sentencing between them running concurrently. The festival saw around 25,000 attend but only 13 arrests were made for drug dealing…
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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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Mammothfest 2017 Poster

Mammothfest announce Fleshgod Apocalypse, Dragged Into Sunlight, Lawnmower Deth and more!

Mammothfest has already made two festival announcements this year for their main event taking place at The Arch in Brighton on 6-8th October, which included first headliners, Rotting Christ (UK exclusive), Tjusder, Meta-stasis, Lagerstein, OHHMS, Patrick Walker (40 Watt Sun) and more. In this new latest announcement, Mammothfest reveals its second headliner will be Italian…
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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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Bloodstock 2017 Poster

Bloodstock adds four more acts

German thrash legends KREATOR shred their way on to BLOODSTOCK’s main stage this Summer in Saturday’s special guest spot! Vocalist/guitarist Mille Petrozza declares, “We are happy to finally return to BLOODSTOCK! KREATOR will give you the full treatment this time. WE SHALL KILL.” The band released their fourteenth studio album, ‘Gods of Violence’ in January…
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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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Festevol 2017

FestEvol gardens lineup announcement

Penultimate acts announced: Pins, All We Are, White Room, Chinah, Bribes, Spinn Second Release Tickets £30.00 plus booking fee on sale 6pm Wednesday 1st March 2017 via seetickets.com, skiddle.com and the new Dice app (no booking fees). FestEvol have increased their line-up of incredible new & emerging talent yet further with the additions of some…
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Liverpool Disco Festival

Liverpool Disco Festival announces Glitterbox, David Morales and DJ Jazzy

With local disco exponents Hustle and Croatian icons SUNcéBeat, they have all come together to present a beautiful weekend of music in the city’s resplendent Baltic Triangle. The new names revealed are the sensational Glitterbox hosting the Camp and Furnace, house music icon David Morales, the very legendary and magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff and Defected’s…
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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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Beat Herder 2017

Beat-Herder Festival announces first acts for 2017

Beat-Herder returns to the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, for its 12th year (14-16 July) with Trentemøller, Sleaford Mods, Toots and the Maytals, The Sugar Hill Gang, David Rodigan, Adrian Sherwood, Faithless, High Contrast & loads more. SLEAFORD MODS (UK NORTHERN FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE) / TRENTEMØLLER / TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS / DAVID RODIGAN / LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY…
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Wood Festival 2017

Wood Festival is back and they have some artists to announce!

The 2017 edition of our festival of music and nature – they’re calling it the Year of the Hedgehog – takes place on the 19th–21st May in the beautiful Chiltern hills at Braziers Park, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Now in its 9th year.  Wood is one of the UK’s most intimate family festivals, winning awards from…
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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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Coachella Website Hacked and User Data Stolen

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has announced that information about users registered on its website (a process required to purchase tickets for the festival) has been digitally compromised. The below statement, emailed to account holders, was forwarded to Pitchfork. A representative for AEG, the company behind Coachella, confirmed that the statement is official. “We…
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