This is one in a series of ‘hunt them out’ blog posts designed to help you find something new and exciting at Glastonbury Festival 2017. So here’s a tip – Josphine and the Artisans… Who are Josphine and The Artisans… Josephine & The Artizans are a London-based HipHopera group who skillfully blend classical strings, operatic…
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So here we go again (on the road…). After almost 11 years of touring, The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican have launched into yet another summer season packed with festival appearances across the length and breadth of the country, and the Festival Flyer has kindly asked us to share our exploits via our own little…
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For reasons I won’t go into I’ve driven 135 miles to Birmingham for this gig and I’m surprised it’s in Academy 3. It’s a great little venue but with a capacity of only 250, so I’d have thought it would be a sell-out. It isn’t, but (not wanting to give the game away) those who’ve…
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Josh Barry will be returning to Glastonbury for his second year running – this time as winner of the 2017 emerging talent competition. He brings an uplifting and dance-oriented brand of soul to his music, and is definitely on the up, with other festival appearances last year including Coachella, SXSW, Ultra, Reading & Leeds, Wireless,…
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So here goes… after almost 11 years of being on the road, The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican have got a summer season packed with festival appearances across the length and breadth of the country, and the Festival Flyer have kindly asked us to share our exploits via our own little festival blog. From now…
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The Festival Flyer embraces all genres of music. If it rocks your world in a field it’s on our list of ‘good things’. We like to look at music from all perspectives, so this year we’ll be publishing band blogs from some of the hard-working and hard-touring acts that make festivals such special places. For…
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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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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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Hastings is a town with, arguably, one of the highest venues per capita in the UK. There are approaching 100 pubs, bars, dedicated venues and open performance spaces within just a few miles of the newly refurbished pier. This encompasses an area extending out to Rother, a district of East Sussex that sweeps from Bexhill,…
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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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