Los Colorados / Sonido Vegetal / Worldly Savages / This Way To The Egress / UFOslavians / Crash Nomada / Gypsy Ska Orquesta / Los Kamer / Batov Records Takeover Boomtown Fair 2017 has announced the latest news and line up for their thigh-slapping, swashbuckling district, Oldtown. With a brand new immersive main stage created…
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So, after months of speculation, Glastonbury has today dropped their first official poster into our inbox. Putting aside the headliners (everone talks about the headliners), we’re particularly looking forward to sets from The Avalanches, Loyle Carner, and Biffy Clyro. The Avalanches are over in the UK for a short three-date tour (plus Glastonbury) – so…
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Forbidden Fruit is back with their seventh instalment of this unique three-day festival in the Irish Museum Of Modern Art at The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. June Bank Holiday Weekend, 3rd – 5th June For the second week running the festival has announced part of their bill and has issued a reminder that Saturday and Sunday tickets SOLD OUT…
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Manchester Folk Festival: 19 – 21 October 2017 http://www.manchesterfolkfestival.org.uk Tickets from £12 The festival has just announced its first six concerts ahead of a full programme launch this April. From protest song to ballads and featuring familiar names alongside exciting new talent, MFF takes place from 19 – 21 October across the city with a…
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The Baltic Weekender is a celebration of the continued diversity of the richly vibrant music culture that has driven the Baltic Triangle’s development, which lays claim to be “Liverpool’s most important cultural destination”. The project is a union between 24 Kitchen Street and Abandon Silence, two of the driving catalysts for growth in Liverpool’s night…
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Boomtown has just announced the full music lineup and activities for the Whistlers Green area of the festival. With over 100 different workshops, skills and crafts on offer, as well as all the acts for the new Windmill stage, hosting some of the finest jazz, world fusion and roots reggae acts on the circuit right…
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Joining Canadian superstar Bryan Adams for the Festival’s farewell weekend on 7-9 July, will be big band supremo and national treasure Jools Holland, Chrissie Hynde’s perennial Pretenders, and a host of Cornbury favourites including Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Jack Savoretti and Scouting For Girls. Yorkshire rockers Kaiser Chiefs make their Cornbury debut headlining Friday night. Recent No.1…
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Anthemic black metallers WINTERFYLLETH join the main stage fray. Bloodstock are also excited to reveal a handful of bands for the Sophie Lancaster stage. DENDERA bring their classic metal to BLOODSTOCK for a Friday slot. Saturday sees doomsters KROH join the Sophie bill. Also landing a Saturday slot are ABHORRENT DECIMATION, whose ‘Miasmic Mutation’ album…
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Celebrating its twelfth year, Derbyshire’s finest festival Y Not (27-30 July) has today announced the second wave of artists to join an already impressive bill. Legendary rave rockers and Madchester’s finest, Happy Mondays, will be bringing their iconic brand of acid-soaked indie dance to Derbyshire this summer. Celebrating the 27th anniversary of their platinum-selling landmark…
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Download Festival, the undisputed champion of rock and metal, has today announced the grand return of WWE NXT LIVE! to the hallowed grounds of Donington Park. Music fans will once again be electrified with incredible displays of skill and athleticism, as the hugest names in Sports Entertainment deliver the complete WWE NXT experience alongside the…
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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The first acts in the line-up announced as Hacienda Classical with special guests, The Fratellis, former Keane frontman Tom Chaplin and Reverend & The Makers our The Great Exhibition Stage. With over 50 more acts to be announced. HOPE & GLORY will bring a glorious mix of incredible music, comedy and fun to the centre of Liverpool. PLUS: Be…
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Boom – the news everyone was expecting and hoping wasn’t just a rumour. Here’s the moment when it became real news that the Foos were heading to Glastonbury for what is sure to be one of the stand-out moments of the summer festival season!
Having previously hosted acts such as Scouting For Girls, The Feeling and the Lightning Seeds, this year’s lineup sees Newton Faulkner, Wheatus and Toploader take to the stage in the grounds of Melford Hall in Suffolk and they will now be joined by Goldie Lookin Chain. Whilst Newton Faulkner and Wheatus will headline the Saturday…
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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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Following the success of their Platinum-selling album, legends of the stage Michael Ball & Alfie Boe will perform at Hampton Court on Friday 23rd June. The two critically-acclaimed artists have received a plethora of prestigious awards, record-breaking sales and chart successes. Michael is a double Olivier Award winner, multi-platform recording artist and hugely popular radio…
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Nozstock The Hidden Valley, the family-run, family friendly and home-made festival set across a working farm in stunning rural Herefordshire, returns for its 19th year across Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd July, and this morning is revealing its first wave of artists, with many more to be revealed over the coming weeks. Father and daughter…
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Having bid an emotional farewell to their longstanding event series back in 2015, the team behind Southport Weekender has announced its return with a one-day festival on Saturday 10th June at London’s Finsbury Park. Hailed as ‘the world’s friendliest party’ and one of the UK’s most musically diverse, Southport Weekender’s London debut symbolises thirty years…
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Moovin Festival is back once again in 2017 and promises to be another boutique bass, funk, soul, reggae, house , jazz, and d&b gathering for real music lovers. With big hitters like Roy Ayres, Black Grape Gilles Peterson and Roni Size all set to play, this truly promises to be the best edition yet. Mr…
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Taking place 7-9 July, bluedot – the unique festival at Jodrell Bank Observatory that fuses music, arts and culture – has added a second wave of artists to its already impressive bill. Announced today is art-electronic duo Goldfrapp. Fronted by ethereal chanteuse Alison Goldfrapp their show heralds a return to live performances with the promise…
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The festival takes place on the bank holiday weekend of 27th and 28th May, is held at Melford Hall in Suffolk, and will this year see Newton Faulkner joined by American rockers Wheatus and British act Toploader both returning to play the festival for a second time. Newton Faulkner shot to fame in 2007 when…
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Undercover Festival 2017 now in its FIFTH year have just announced their full line up. The festival will this year be held in the unique setting of Dreamland Margate in Kent. Undercover a festival venue and experience that defies all other conventions and festival templates, not only do they have a cracking line up but…
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Eden Festival 2017 has announced it’s second wave of headline acts. BONEY M / JUNGLE (DJ Set) / SO SOLID CREW / ADMIRAL FALLOW/ MUNGO’S HI-FI Ft SOLO BANTON/ AUNTI FLO / GYPSY DISCO / THE CHAIR / HARRI & DOMINIC (30 Years of Sub Club) / FLEC Scotland’s second largest music festival of 2017…
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Knockengorroch World Ceilidh, Scotland’s only international traditional and roots dance music festival releases the first names in its line-up for 2017! The acts represent music from Scotland and across the world with a strong emphasis on traditional music both ancient and contemporary. Molotov Jukebox – Fronted by the charismatic Natalia Tena of Game of Thrones…
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