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Alien Chicks at The Great Escape 2024

All the way from Brixton, Alien Chicks haven’t traveled as far as many of the globe-trotting acts at The Great Escape, but they have already sold out gigs at The 100 Club and The Lexington and have garnered radio play on BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music, as well as scoring some great reviews along…
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Asha Jefferies at The Great Escape 2024

‘Australian frog enthusiast’ aren’t three words often found in the opening sentence of an artist’s official Spotify biography. But Asha Jefferies is one where they do. Whether frogs feature in any of the musical tales on her forthcoming debut 10-track album, ‘EGO RIDE’ you will have to listen out for yourself. But listen you will,…
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Baby Said at The Great Escape 2024

Two UK-based Italian/Punjabi teenage sisters have taken their name (Baby Said) from one of the songs of their favourite artists (Måneskin Now), and having brought in help on rythmn guitar and drums have created an indie-rock band with a fast and furious trajectory. A heavy gig-schedule under another name in advance of unleashing their punk-pop…
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BEX at The Great Escape 2024

BEX is a proper punk frontwoman. Confident and BS-free lyrics challenge stereotypes and leave no prisoners. And with a real focus on words her messages come across clear and loud in the mix. Add to this her powerful stage presence and a solid work-ethic and there’s no reason to believe BEX won’t be hitting some…
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Cat and Calmell at The Great Escape 2024

These two Australian pop-princesses have all the Gen Z bases covered. As well as a powerfully-produced alternative take on strong, modern chart anthems they have made headway in all the various strands of the multiverse, be that as tastemakers or with collaborations across magazines and TV. Importantly though, their music is reaching the masses and…
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Deary at The Great Escape 2024

When you see a band who mentions Slowdive and St Etienne under supports and collaborations you know the direction of travel. The introspective gaze of this two-piece act is firmly on their shoes. Deary hit number 1 in the UK vinyl singles chart back in May 2023 with ‘Fairground’…ones to watch. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

Gut Health at The Great Escape 2024

Aussie pop-punk with a really dance-able fizz about their music (there’s some DEVO echoes lurking in the mix we think), Gut Health seem to have ‘fun’ written through them like bitter-sweet sticks of Brighton rock. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

Lemondaze at The Great Escape 2024

Lemondaze to rhyme with Shoegaze – and five ears since their initial musical releases this erstwhile Cambridge crew have garnered admiration from members of bands such as Lush and Ride, clearly cementing them into the fraternity of bands who sway to the beat of a slow drum. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY

Malice K at The Great Escape 2024

If two and a half million streams counts as a hit then Malice K has at least one with his wistful song, ‘Beautiful People’… with its circular refrain that drifts lazily around your head and epitomises his ability to thread the warp and weft of song structure into delightful tapestries of happy/sad vignettes on relationships…
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Mary in the Junkyard at The Great Escape 2024

Dreamily moody and stripped down rock of the kind much loved by festivals such as End of the Road who specialise in the more cerebral end of the indie spectrum, Mary and The Junkyard could be the soundtrack to the thoughtful moments of your life. PHOTOS: SARA-LOUISE BOWREY [flick_set id = ‘72177720317245619’]

Really Good Time at The Great Escape 2024

Here’s another Irish band who have caught our ear recently. They are only a few years past their first sweaty gig, but have developed a real momentum and deserve to be on watch lists… PHOTOS: Sara-Louise Bowrey

YARD at The Great Escape 2024

YARD: More evidence if an were needed that Ireland is churning out some great electro-rock crossover acts right now…

SNAYX at The Great Escape 2024

You know why we love SNAYZ so much… they are simply one of the best things on the live circuit these days. Not to be missed.

TASH at The Great Escape 2024

TASH isn’t afraid of putting twenty-seven tempo changes into her songs… meaning the pace of the pit shifts and darts about to her own internal metronome.

The Buoys at The Great Escape 2024

Australian garage-poppers who have been bobbing around since 2016 and deliver a cheerfully layered style of chart-rock.

Venus Grrrls, Eaves Wilder & Cassandra Jenkins at The Great Escape 2024

Queens of the new-goth scene, Venus Grrrls, happy-sad, left-field pop-princess Eaves Wilder and Cassandra Jenkins, with her dusky songs of New York dreams at The Great Escape 2024.

Crysometimes at Homegrown Festival 2024

Is ‘post-pop’ a thing? I can’t be bothered to look it up because I’m sure it is… and if I did the Google thing I’m pretty sure that crysometimes would appear as a top hit. There’s something very 90s about these songs … clearly defined and sugar coated with a mildly bitter-sweet centre… sort of…
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Ireland attacks – and conquers: Lifts and CHALK at Brighton’s Green Door Store

Talking to two-thirds of CHALK (Benedict and Luke) at the merch table before their sold-out Brighton gig at The Green Door Store the chatter revolved mainly around the current Irish powerhouse music scene and how there seem to be so many bands emerging from the Emerald Isle right now. Mentions of some of our current…
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Food, glorious Glastonbury food

So much to great Glastonbury Festival food choose from, so few days to explore One thing’s for sure, it’s hard to imagine any taste not catered for at Glastonbury, because with over 300 food traders on site there is a massive range of great food in every corner of the festival site. Last year (2023)…
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Beans on Toast finally forms a full-blown band, and it’s a belter!

Beans on Toast has been a mainstay of the festival scene since the mid-2000s… in fact we are proud to have been responsible for his first ever ‘official’ Glastonbury show at the Left Field way back in 2007. Over the years he has regularly collaborated with numerous other musicians, most notably and frequently perhaps, Matt…
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Rockaway Beach Festival 2024 – Reviewed

Rockaway Beach Festival at Butlins, Bognor Regis, never fails to put a post-New Year smile on our faces as it’s one of the most consistently well-curated line-ups in the festival calendar. With just two musical stages and a central ‘speakers corner’ to navigate, the festival is super-compact, and the organisers time the performances perfectly so…
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SNAYX at Rockaway Beach Festival 2024…

That familiar ‘snakes on a plane’ intro track signals what so many people have been waiting all weekend for… it’s launch control initiated, and time for the nicest two guys off stage to transform into snarling (but always smiling) anti-establishment ASBOs on stage… SNAYX are all about the bass… and Boys in Blue shakes leftover…
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Joyeria at Rockaway Beach 2024…

Reading up on Joyeria for a bit of background throws up some hints – but few facts. The name of the man is carefully masked, with only a few biographic clues scattered around the internet. He’s Canadian, a chess player, and apparently good at sums. Spotify confusingly states his name is pronounced ‘Pizzeria’. What his…
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Enjoyable Listens at Rockaway Beach 2024….

Luke Duffett presents lounge cabaret for a disaffected generation – with occasional crowd surfing (but not today). There may be a big crowd for this opening set at Rockaway Beach 2024, but it is Sunday, and it is only noon. Few reviews of Enjoyable Listens manage to avoid references to Bryan Ferry, Nick Cave, Jarvis…
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Skids at Rockaway Beach 2023

[ad_1] Skids at Rockaway Beach 2023. As foot-stomping romps down memory lane go, a Skids gig is up there with the best They may not be a band who can play 60 mins of top-ten bangers back-to-back, but they had notable chart success with songs like Into the Valley and Working for the Yankee dollar,…
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DITZ at Rockaway Beach 2024

[ad_1] DITZ at Rockaway Beach 2024 Cal Francis is the androgynous front man of DITZ, and for the last five years or so he and his band have been carving their name into the grain of the Brighton music scene and gradually working on breaking out to wider attention. Whether Butlins at Bognor was on…
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Great shots of ĠENN from Rockaway Beach 2024

[ad_1] Our super-snapper does it again with these great shots of ĠENN from Rockaway Beach 2024 Leona’s voice and vocal stylings coupled with the band’s heavy riffs and angry drums put the Anglo-Maltese band, GENN, into a world populated by Kate Bush, Souisxie Sioux, and the kind of metal bands who are most at home…
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Sara Bowrey Photography - Sara-Louise Bowrey Photography

Festival news and photos Sara Bowrey Photography – Sara-Louise Bowrey Photography

Latest update from Festival Flyer: Sara Bowrey Photography – Sara-Louise Bowrey Photography [ad_1] Are you following our top-snapper on Instagram yet?? https://www.sarabowreyphotos.com/#instagram – if not, why not?? Sara-Louise Bowrey Sara Bowrey Photography – Sara-Louise Bowrey Photography [ad_2] Full photo galleries coming soon, but meanwhile here are a few choice shots we have picked out from…
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Hastings takes Pride… 2023

Hastings loves a festival – at the last count there are some 50 events in and around the area every year, and Pride is a real highlight of the local calendar. Generally held on the August Bank holiday weekend, there is a giant parade that meanders from The Stade open space in Old Town up…
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Suede may not be the best fabric in the rain, but they nailed it at Beautiful Days 2023

For once (sadly) the Met Office hit the nail on the head… because, as predicted, at 4pm the heavens began to open, and by the end of Suede’s headline set everyone at Beautiful Days 2023 was well and truly sodden…but still smiling like lunatics But despite a damp July, the ground was still dry enough…
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Gates open for Beautiful Days 2023 – the 20th edition

The Festival Family is back together to celebrate two decades of friendship and fun Of all the festivals we go to (and we go to a lot of festivals), Beautiful Days is the one that feels most like an annual family reunion. Those who came to the first event (twenty years ago this year)as young…
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Latitude Festival 2023 – in photos

We will be adding some of our favorite photos of the weekend to this page – but you can find loads more over at our Flickr collection page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/festivalflyer/collections/72157721992808500/ Our pick of the best bands of the Latitude weekend Gurriers had been high on our must-see list after we were impressed by them at 2000Trees…
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Gurriers blew our tiny minds at 2000Trees 2023

Fresh meat! Gurriers turned out to be one of theose bands we nearly missed but were over the moon that we didn’t at 2000Trees 2023. When you walk into a tent and are transfixed from the first moment to the end of the closing number, you suddenly remember why you love festivals…the heat of the…
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Some piratical shenanigans in Hastings this weekend at the Hastings Pirate Day cabaret....

Festival news and photos Some piratical shenanigans in Hastings this weekend at the Hastings Pirate Day cabaret….

Latest update from Festival Flyer: Some piratical shenanigans in Hastings this weekend at the Hastings Pirate Day cabaret…. [ad_1] Some piratical shenanigans in Hastings this weekend at the Hastings Pirate Day cabaret. Last chance for tickets…don’t miss the amazing ‘Old Time Sailors’ who are headlining at the “Shiver-Me-Timbers” Pirate Cabaret, on The Stade – this…
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Quite possibly the most important set at Glastonbury this year … VLURE...

Festival news and photos Quite possibly the most important set at Glastonbury this year … VLURE…

Latest update from Festival Flyer: Quite possibly the most important set at Glastonbury this year … VLURE… [ad_1] Quite possibly the most important set at Glastonbury this year … VLURE [ad_2] Full photo galleries coming soon, but meanwhile here are a few choice shots we have picked out from the weekend…. Original post by: Festival…
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Stefflon Don at Glastonbury 2023

Stefflon Don – Glastonbury 2023 photos

Well Rolling Stone Magazine recked that Stefflon Don’s dancehall takeover of the Pyramid Stage at  Glastonbury Festival 2023 was a winner – so who are we to argue? https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/live-reviews/stefflon-don-live-at-glastonbury-dancehall-queen-triumphs-on-the-pyramid-30482/ This Birmingham dancehall diva certainly walks the walk and talks the talk, and we think she justified her position on a stellar bill with aplomb. Stefflon…
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Texas at Glastonbury 2023

Texas – Glastonbury 2023 photos

It’s been 24 years (count them!) since Texas last played this festival… but here they are at Glastonbury Festival in 2023, and they sound as fresh and relevant as they ever did back in the day. Sharing a drummer with the rather shouty politico band BENEFITS over on the Left Field stage, Texas have a…
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Working Men's Club at Glastonbury 2023

Working Men’s Club – Glastonbury 2023 photos

Working Men’s Club may have played Glastonbury Festival 2023, burt we can’t find a single review of the set to go with our lovely photos below… so here’s a iece on them in DORK from last year and a video of them playing the festival from the BBC… https://readdork.com/features/working-mens-club-feature-august-2022/ Working Men’s Club Photos – by…
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor at Glastonbury Festival 2023

Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Glastonbury 2023 photos

Sophie Ellis-Bextor simply does what she does, and she does it well. You may not be a fan or know a song even, but when she takes to a stage if you open your heart to her vibe you’ll find yourself having a really nice time. She’s not The Foo Fighters or Chemical Brothers, but…
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Viagra Boys at Glastonbury 2023

Viagra Boys – Glastonbury 2023 photos

The Viagra Boys set was one of the most anticipated shows for us at Glastonbury Festival 2023. This Swedish punk outfit take no prisoners and snarl their way through every gig they play in such an unselfconscious way that it feel like they simply exist on a different planet. One thing is for sure – this…
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