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The Vicar’s Picnic 2017: a proper grown up little festival

[rwp-review id=”0″] Check below for links to all out photo galleries. Rate the festival if you went this year (login securely with Facebook) You can’t go wrong with an audience made up largely of people in their late forties and early fifties with a set of Mod classics: From the Jam. You’re also on a…
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The best festival in Central Europe delivers everything but the killer blow

Not even a bristling and pitch-perfect set from Radiohead could save the sense that the mighty Glastonbury lacked something truly special this year. Maybe I’m smarting from the fact that the ‘big surprise’ act on the John Peel stage on the Sunday turned out to be The Killers. Pohoda followed suit this year, with a…
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Village Green Festival 2017: reviewed and pictures

[rwp-review id=”0″] Follow the links to each of our great photosets: The Idea 13 Stage: Village Green Festival 2017 Providing a truly eclectic mix of artists hand-picked by those in the know…     The Trusted: Village Green Festival 2017 This hot young act played to an audience that spanned generations and won over everyone…
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Download Festival 2017: the Twitter story

As Sunday night draws in we’ve scanned the Twitter-sphere for people’s reactions to Download Festival 2017…and without a shadow of a doubt this year has been a vintage one…if you ignore calls for Steel Panther to headline, the odd niggle over stage clashes, and no love lost for those down the front not getting properly…
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The Skids – reviewed live, June 2017

The Skids are nine dates in to their 40th anniversary tour when they arrive in Leeds tonight. It’s a gig I’d been looking forward to since the tour was announced. I wasn’t disappointed. The night opens with Arthur & The Invincibles, a four piece indie-punk band from Leamington Spa who hit the stage bouncing with…
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Vintage Trouble – your new bucket list band

¥ If you haven’t yet experienced a Vintage Trouble live show you should add it to your bucket list and get ready for something just a little bit special. What we have here is a band who’ve adopted and adapted the styles, moves, grooves and attitudes of many of the great soul legends. But they’re…
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Bearded Theory 2017

Bearded Theory’s Spring Gathering once again drew crowds and bands from the length and breadth of the country – if you were there here’s a few memories to hang on to. If you weren’t, here’s what you missed…

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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