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Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park’s FREE OPEN HOUSE 2017

Movie nights, live music & entertainment, street food, pop-up bars, tennis screenings, theatre, sports, and much more at Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park’s OPEN HOUSE returns for a marvellous week of free entry to our summer activities, in-between two weekends of legendary musical line-ups. On offer will be outdoor movie nights, tennis screenings live from Wimbledon, street food stalls from…
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Tramlines 2017 after-party line-up finalised

Tramlines, Sheffield’s award-winning inner-city festival, has unveiled a stack of new talent for the Saturday instalment of its official after-parties, which will take place at Fusion & Foundry and Yellow Arch Studios on Saturday 22nd July. A host of leading DJ talent has been added to the bill, including Gilles Peterson, Gerd Janson, Nightmares On…
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Zooquarium – brilliant value, and on a pier

ZOOQUARIUM is a new one-day festival hosted by Hastings Pier Charity on Saturday 15 July 2017. A day of brilliant music with over 30 amazingly talented bands and artists from the South East performing on the beautiful pier and not a drop of mud in sight. If you are 14-24 years old, this festival is…
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While She Sleeps is doing a live Q&A on our Instagram Story this Friday at 4pm! …

[ad_1] While She Sleeps is doing a live Q&A on our Instagram Story this Friday at 4pm! Comment below your questions for the band 👇👇👇 [ad_2] Source

When the sun sets over Reading

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August needs to hurry up….

[ad_1] August needs to hurry up…. 🙏🙏🙏 [ad_2] Source

BBC Music joins forces with The Great Escape Festival for 2017

This year’s Great Escape sees the BBC join as an official partner of the event. On offer will be: Paganini Ballroom takeover by BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Music Introducing and BBC Radio 3 featuring Ibibio Sound Machine, Aldous Harding and Ayanna Witter-Johnson. Live broadcasts from BBC Radio 1’s MistaJam and BBC Radio 6 Music’s…
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Record breaking beard-wearing event planned for Bearded Theory Fest.

One of the events that makes Bearded Theory’s family-friendly atmosphere so unique is the festival’s annual attempt to break the world record for the largest number of people wearing false beards. Starting life as a spontaneous response to the festival’s rather unorthodox name (who’s true origins still remain shrouded in mystery and intrigue), over the…
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Frankie Cosmos, Skinny Girl Diet + more for Indietracks 2017

Frankie Cosmos, Skinny Girl Diet and The Just Joans are among 19 artists and DJs added to the Indietracks festival line-up this week. They’ll join The Wedding Present, Cate Le Bon, Martha, Joanna Gruesome, The Tuts and dozens more performers at the festival, which takes place on the weekend of 28-30 July 2017 at a…
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Reading & Leeds 2017: Eminem, Muse, Kasabian and more, a playlist by Reading and Leeds Festival on Spotify

[ad_1] Turn your volume up to max… our Reading ‘17 playlist has been updated ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Reading & Leeds 2017: Eminem, Muse, Kasabian and more, a playlist by Reading and Leeds Festival on Spotify Reading & Leeds Festival 2017 takes place on Friday 25th – Sunday 27th August. Tickets can be found here po.st/RL2017 [ad_2] Source

Liam Gallagher for Reading and Leeds 2017

With a phenomenal line-up already in place, Reading & Leeds have just hit us with more great names. 25 – 27 August 2017 at Richfield Avenue, Reading and Bramham Park, Leeds. Tickets are available here. That unmistakable icon of music history, Liam Gallagher will be bringing his highly anticipated solo performance to Reading and Leeds.…
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Tramlines full 2017 lineup

UK rap queen Lady Leshurr leads the final additions plus dancehall duo The Heatwave, who wil perform alongside the likes of The Libertines, Primal Scream, Metronomy, Toots & The Maytals, Kano, The Coral, The Pharcyde and All Saints. The festival returns to Sheffield from 21 – 23 July The biggest event in Sheffield’s musical calendar…
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Victorious 2017 adds Maximo Park, Mary Chain and more

Maximo Park, The Dandy Warhols, Band of Skulls, Jesus and Mary Chain Join Victorious Bill Victorious (25-27 August 2017) – the UK’s biggest metropolitan festival – has today announced its third wave of artists on a burgeoning line-up that already features headliners Stereophonics, Madness and Elbow and many, many more. Back with their eagerly awaited…
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Loads more names and stage splits just announced for Reading ’17 …

[ad_1] Loads more names and stage splits just announced for Reading ’17 🙌🙌 Tickets 👉 po.st/SSAnno [ad_2] Source

Set your alarms…line up announcement and stage splits tomorrow at 10am

[ad_1] Set your alarms…line up announcement and stage splits tomorrow at 10am 🙏🙏🙏 [ad_2] Source

Back To The Old Pool: a festival of old skool club classics

The old skool and club classics festival is set to make history as the first dance music event to take place at Blackpool’s Tower Festival Headland. Organisers will be bringing a bigger line-up than last year and will host more arenas featuring some of dance music’s most illustrious names. Back to the Old Pool will…
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Line up announcement this Friday….

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Camp at Reading and let Pink Moon Camping do all the work 🤗…

[ad_1] Camp at Reading and let Pink Moon Camping do all the work 🤗 Packages include access to hot showers, toilets, pamper parlour and so much more! Info here: po.st/ReadPinkMoon [ad_2] Source

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[ad_1] Presenting Jack Rocks 7: BANG BANG ROMEO, Broken Witt Rebels, The Blinders, The Sundowners, The Wholls, Trampolene & White Room Seven hotly tipped bands coming to Reading this August with Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey in partnership with This Feeling. See them plus more at the Jack Rocks stage 🙌🙌🙌🙌 gph.is [ad_2] Source

“I’m in front of the Main Stage on the left….”

[ad_1] “I’m in front of the Main Stage on the left….” 📱😂😂 [ad_2] Source

BLOODSTOCK confirm GHOST as final headliner

BLOODSTOCK fans will be looking forward to GHOST as the Saturday night headliner. This will be GHOST’s first ‘ritual’ at BLOODSTOCK and watching their amazing stage show after dark is sure to be quite the religious experience.  Check out a taster of what might be in store via this clip from Hellfest 2016… A Nameless…
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Third wave of new acts for Boardmasters 2017

Boardmasters has today revealed its third wave of 22 new acts joining headliners Two Door Cinema Club, Jamiroquai and Alt-J, as well as the likes of The Flaming Lips, The Vaccines and Stormzy. Taking place this year from Wednesday 9 – Sunday 13 August at Watergate Bay and Fistral Beach on the sun-drenched Cornish coast,…
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Chagstock 2017 – day tickets now on sale

Chagstock Festival has announced day tickets are now on sale for 2017, starting at just £55 per adult, and £40 per teenager. Accompanied children under 12 are free as always and, uniquely, a day-ticket also includes one night’’s camping. CHAGSTOCK FESTIVAL 2017 “The Best Little Festival in The South West” FRIDAY 21 to– SATURDAY 22…
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Green Day curate a classic punk lineup for Hyde Park

Five new acts have been announced to join Green Day on 1 July at Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park. The Damned, The Stranglers, The Orwells, Bash & Pop, and Jesse Malin will now be on the bill alongside Rancid, Gogol Bordello, The Hives, The Living End, Beach Slang, SWMRS, Sunflower Bean and Public…
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We can’t wait to wake up here again

[ad_1] We can’t wait to wake up here again 😍😍😍 [ad_2] Source

FATMAN SCOOP added to COMMON PEOPLE line-up

Fatman Scoop is the latest addition Southampton’s Common People bill The legendary hype-man, Fatman Scoop, has been added to the bulging Common People bill.  Famed for his UK number 1 hit ‘Be Faithful’ and collaborations with Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Skrillex, the multi-Grammy winner will be taking on the Uncontained Stage on Sunday with his catalogue of hip-hop…
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Another 20 bands come crashing into Download 2017

Source: Download Festival 2017 – Line-Up News Not content with our already stellar line up, we’re adding another 20 names into the mix. From legends to brand new talent, the spiritual home of rock is about to get LOUD. m/ Metal behemoth, Devin Townsend Project will be making their return to Download, featuring the living…
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Throwback to Major Lazer at Reading 2013

[ad_1] Throwback to Major Lazer at Reading 2013 🙌🙌🙌 [ad_2] Source

Boomtown 2017 launches this year’s Oldtown line-up

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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Take us to the tents now.

[ad_1] Take us to the tents now. 🙏🙏🙏 [ad_2] Source

The Jesus & Mary Chain – as relevant as ever

Quite simply, The Jesus & Mary Chain are a band who, if ever the label was deserved, can be described as ‘seminal‘. Their sparse, dark, and enthralling sound heralded a new era in rock’n’roll when they burst into the public gaze way back in 1983. Now, 34 (gulp) years later, and out on the road…
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150 days…..

[ad_1] 150 days….. 🙏😍👌💃👀 [ad_2] Source

Quiz: Which Eminem Are You?

[ad_1] Eminem…Slim Shady…Marshall Mathers…which one are you? Let us know 👇👇👇 Quiz: Which Eminem Are You? Are your palms sweaty, knees weak, arms heavy? ‘Lose Yourself’ in this quiz. [ad_2] Source

The Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonican: blogging all over the world

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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