All Entries in the "Festivals" Category
REVIEW: AEON FESTIVAL 2010
Deep in the Devonshire countryside, surrounded by fields and a beautiful lake you will discover Aeon Festival. It offers alternative, mystical and hippy vibes which can be enjoyed through yoga and Tai Chi day classes, by embracing local live talent including electronica to folk and MCing to Hip hop music to comedy and poetry acts, [...]
CRAZY ARM PLAY READING FESTIVAL WARM UP IN PLYMOUTH
Plymouth’s hard-twang, roots-punk quartet, Crazy Arm, continue a year of endless touring with appearances this weekend at Reading Festival on Friday 27th and Leeds Festival on Sunday 29th August. But before that, they headline a warm-up show at the White Rabbit, Plymouth, on Wednesday 25th Aug. Also playing are regional luminaries: Bangers, Head Of Programmes [...]
REVIEW: GREEN MAN 2010
Wales is such a beautiful country which helps make Green Man one of the most beautiful festivals…that’s if you ignore the inevitable torrential rain. For revellers arriving on the Thursday night (in time to see the UK exclusive screening of a new Leonard Cohen documentary) there was a brief window of dryness to pitch your [...]
REVIEW: BOOMTOWN FAIR 2010
For its second year running boomtown fair kicks off by storm. Bringing you the filthiest bass lines and dirtiest beats from all over the uk and much much further beyond. Not forgetting the extra helpings of dub, reggae, punk, folk, heavy metal and more to satisfy taste buds of all desires. Boomtown centre was [...]
REVIEW: STANDON CALLING 2010
I found myself travelling into an almost mysterious land just due north of London and into the wilderness of Hertfordshire! Welcome to Standon Calling rings out a voice from a tent with lots of flashing lights. This was the point I knew I must have arrived at the right place and set myself up for [...]
REVIEW: BIG CHILL FESTIVAL 2010
The Chill Out Experience, I’ve found the big chill bars at Brick lane in London and Small Street in Bristol with a pleasant surprisingly, relaxed, atmosphere .The visuals and décor, lending an energy and creativity to the Venue. A place where anything could happen a performance platform for artist. Catalysts of innovation and inspiration. I [...]
KING CHARLES TO HEADLINE HAMSWELL FESTIVAL (NOT THAT KING CHARLES!)
Music lovers will head to the outskirts of Bath this weekend (13-15 August) for the Hamswell Festival. King Charles is a man on a mission. He’s in negotiations with several major-labels about global deals, but that’s not important to him. In the meantime, he’s spending his summer doing what he does best. His trans-genre live [...]
REVIEW: LEOPALLOOZA 2010
Now in it’s fifth year, Leopallooza is a festival which takes place just outside Bude. Run by a bunch of dedicated mates who know how to throw a bloomin’ good party, the festival is growing year on year and is just getting better and better. Tickets are priced at a truly bargainous £20 (which includes [...]
CAMP BESTIVAL 2011: EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Fresh off the back of a wonderful weekend full of family fun, fairytale delights, magical memories and summer Madness (literally!) organiser Rob da Bank is very excited to announce a 2011 Camp Bestival Early Bird Ticket Promotion. He said: “We’re already beavering away on plans for next year so if you want to secure your [...]
REVIEW: ENDORSE IT IN DORSET FESTIVAL 2010
After completely losing a tent to the stormy Endorse It of 2008 I made sure me shelter was smaller and lower than the last beast I rocked up with but I needn’t have worried for the weather was just fine. Endorse it in Dorset (try saying that when you’re twatted off your face on Scrumpy) [...]
REVIEW: CAMP BESTIVAL 2010
With only being in its third year on the festival calendar, Camp Bestival, set in the beautiful grounds of Lulworth Castle certainly lived up to its rapidly growing reputation. This year being bolstered by an ever expanding list of activities and bands to watch, the line up didn’t disappoint with stand out performances from Stornoway, [...]
SAILOR JERRY HITS THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
Sailor Jerry will be making its mark this year by bringing the art of old-school tattooing to two of the most colourful summer festivals – Big Chill and Bestival. Designed in the style of a 1930’s tattoo parlour, Sailor Jerry’s Ink City will be at the Big Chill and Bestival paying homage to the late [...]
REVIEW: KENDAL CALLING 2010
The South West is awesome, truly awesome, and we sure do have enough amazing festivals but occasionally it is well worth the four or five hour journey up north to sample some of their offerings and Kendal Calling is precisely one of these times. Despite the horrendous weather which followed us all the way up [...]
GET READY FOR DODDSTOCK
Get ready for some peace, love, art and music as Doddstock returns to Brixham Rugby Club in Devon on Sat 7 August. Taking place over three stages, bands including OS Vampiros, Diverted Traffic, Ricky and The Pigeons, The Thujons and Johnny Black are amongst over 50 live acts to entertain the masses at this family [...]
PLYMOUTH RESPECT FESTIVAL TAKES TIME OUT
Plymouth’s long running multi-cultural Respect Festival, traditionally held in mid October is taking a break for 2010. A statement from the organisers said: “After 12 years of running Plymouth’s largest, most vibrant, most celebrated, free community event in the heart of the city, it has been decided that it’s now time to move Respect to [...]
REVIEW: PORT ELIOT FESTIVAL 2010
The seventh Port Eliot festival saw 5,000 festival goers of all ages flock to the Cornish coast for a weekend of arts, music and wild swimming. Former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker gave people an insight into the humble beginnings of the festival while broadcasting live to BBC Radio 6 on the Sunday, revealing that the [...]
REVIEW: INDIETRACKS FESTIVAL 2010
There’s a lot of talk about boutique festivals at the moment, often used as shorthand for ‘smaller than Glastonbury’. But Indietracks – with a capacity of 2,000 – is genuinely tiny, and wonderful for it. By the end of the weekend, you recognise everyone there. Bands and punters alike mingle on the campsite, in the [...]
REVIEW: 2000 TREES FESTIVAL 2010
There’s a thin line between too small and small enough and sadly, 2000 Trees festival sits on the wrong side of that line. A genuinely intimate affair with a capacity of just 2,500 – that’s like two schools worth of people and that’s a bit what it felt like. Inevitably attracting the young folk of [...]
REVIEW: LARMER TREE FESTIVAL 2010
The 20th anniversary Larmer Tree Festival was a mixed bag of sunshine and showers but the music was top notch with 4,000 festival goers cherry picking their favourite acts for the weekend. One of the most hardworking man in rock, Frank Turner headlined the Thursday night slot on the Main Lawn. Unfortunately the weather was [...]
