All Entries in the "FESTIVALS" Category
JAMES AND BELLOWHEAD TO HEADLINE CHELTENHAM’S WYCHWOOD FESTIVAL 2012
Bellowhead, Howard Marks, Doctor & The Medics, The Cuban Brothers will join James at Wychwood Festival 2012, it has been revealed. The festival, which takes place from June 8 – 10 at Cheltenham Racecourse in Gloucestershire, will see thousands of music fans gather for another eclectic line up. Festival favourites Bellowhead will headline the main [...]
FEIST REVEALED AS FIRST HEADLINER FOR GREEN MAN FESTIVAL
The wonderful Green Man festival, which takes place in Wales in August, has unveiled Canadian singing sensation Feist as its first headliner. The Limit To Your Love singer will be joined by the likes of The Walkmen, The Felcie Brothers, Yann Tiersen and The Wave Pictures as well as a whole host more of indie [...]
RUN TO THE SUN RETURNS TO NEWQUAY THIS SUMMER
Everyone’s favourite VW festival combo returns to Cornwall in June – with some kick ass headliners already revealed. The annual Run to the Sun shebang (RTTS) takes place on June 1-4 at Trevelgue Holiday Park in Porth, nr Newquay. Entertainment comes from Pendulum, Judge Jules, Lisa Lashes, DJ Hype and Netsky as well as Jaguar [...]
BOOMTOWN FAIR ASKS YOU WHO YOU WANT TO SEE HEADLINE THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL
Bristol-based festival, Boomtown Fair, are running a completion aptly called ‘Who Would You Like To See Headline?’. They’re asking fans of the festival to submit their headliner choice, with the winning choice winning a pair of tickets and the opportunity to meet the artist backstage and have a photo taken for posterity – gotta be [...]
THE NATIONAL TO CURATE ATP FESTIVAL AT BUTLINS, MINEHEAD
The dedicated team of music lovers behind All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP) have excelled themselves this week, by not only securing The Shins for a London gig but also by unveiling their curator for the December event at Butlins in Minehead. US indie heroes The National will not only play their only UK show of the [...]
AFRO CELT SOUND SYSTEM ADDED TO BRISTOL FOLK FESTIVAL LINE-UP
Bristol Folk Festival has scored a coup, securing the supergroup Afro Celt Sound System as its May Bank Holiday Monday headliner in what is likely to be the band’s only UK summer festival appearance this year. Towering and tribal, Simon Emmerson’s stellar, twice-Grammy nominated Afro Celt Sound System fuses traditional Celtic tunes with driving African [...]
TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR WINTER SESSIONS WEEKENDER 2012
One of the world’s best snow festivals takes place in the French Alps at the end of this year’s Ski Season – with early bird tickets now available for the bargain price of £49. Winter Sessions 2012, which takes place in Chamonix on March 31, will feature a stellar line up of live music and [...]
COULD THIS BE THE BEST FESTIVAL OF 2012? COACHELLA REVEALS FULL LINE UP
One of the world’s best known festivals (up there with the legendary Woodstock and our very own Glastonbury) has revealed its 2012 line up and it’s gonna be a hard one to beat! Coachella, which takes place in California in April, unveiled its immense line-up earlier today and its website has briefly crashed under the [...]
SUNRISE FESTIVAL 2012 TO TAKE PLACE ON SUMMER SOLSTICE WEEKEND
Sunrise Celebration is moving dates to 21st-24th June, the solstice weekend, where it began seven years ago and to which it owes its name. 2012, the year of the Olympics, end of the world predictions and a big hole left in the festival season by no Glastonbury! But none of these events should cause a [...]
TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR END OF THE ROAD’S NEW NO DIRECTION HOME FESTIVAL
The wonderful folk behind one of 247 Magazine’s favourite festivals, End of the Road, will this year launch a new sister festival further north, called No Direction Home. Tickets are no on sale for the intimate boutique festival, which takes place at Welbeck Abbey near Sherwood Forest on June 8-10. The first acts have already [...]
REVIEW: ATP NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL 2011
This year’s Nightmare Before Christmas All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP) Festival, which took place from December 9-11, featured three curators – one on each day. Here’s how it went… Friday (curated by Les Savy Fav) Kicking off the first day in true shred style was Marnie Stern. A slight figure of a girl leading a band [...]
BEAUTIFUL DAYS WINS 2011 UK FESTIVAL AWARDS
Beautiful Days festival which takes place at Escot Park near Exeter won Best Family Festival at the 2011 UK Festival Awards in London last week. After being shortlisted for the last five years in the same category, the festival picked up the coveted award at the ceremony at London’s Roundhouse where the industry paid tribute [...]
LAST CHANCE TO GET YOUR TICKETS FOR ATP NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS AT BUTLINS, MINEHEAD
Missing festival season yet? Then fear not for next month sees the inaugural ATP Nightmare Before Christmas at Butlins in Minehead on the North Somerset coastline. And leave your tents at home for tickets for this little beaut come complete with chalet accommodation – showers, kitchens, beds, sofas, TVs, electricity. BOOM. Following the postponement of [...]
REVIEW: RELENTLESS FREEZE FESTIVAL 2011
Naming itself London’s biggest Après Ski Party and being the only official Snow & Ski festival currently run in the U.K. the Relentless Freeze Festival (2011) is still going strong now its 4th year. Having based its grounds in the iconic backdrop of Battersea Power Station transforming the industrial land into an Alpine ski resort. [...]
SOMERSET’S SUNRISE FESTIVAL WINS NATIONAL ETHICAL TRAVEL AWARD
Sunrise Festival has been awarded the Guardian Ethical Travel award 2011. The festival has been running for the last six years on 100% sustainable power with a site wide organic food policy, and is widely acclaimed for its holistic outlook. The Ethical Travel Award was presented to Dan Hurring, Sunrise’s Managing Director last week during [...]
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS FROM END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL 2011 (Part 2)
GRUFF RHYS PHOSPHORESCENT DRUM EYES tUnEyArDs THIS IS THE KIT WILLY MASON EMMY THE GREAT M WARD BOB LOG III FUTUR PRIMITIF All videos by Laura Williams
THE LOOSE SALUTE TO PLAY FALMOUTH’S GYLLYLIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2011
The Loose Salute’s new album, Getting Over Being Under was given a 5-star review in last month’s 247 MAGAZINE, and you can catch them live at Falmouth’s music and culture festival, GyllyLive on Saturday October 1st. Also on the line up: ex-Massive Attack vocalist, Yolanda Quarterly’s band, Phantom Limb, comedian Murray Lachlan Young, local bands [...]
REVIEW: BESTIVAL 2011
Last time I came to Bestival was in 2007. As much as I loved it, it then proceeded to clash with one of my faves, End of the Road, so despite drooling over the line ups in subsequent years, I was destined to miss it. Until now. Back then it was a mere 15,000 people, [...]
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS FROM END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL 2011 (Part 1)
MIDLAKE JOANNA NEWSOM WILD BEASTS BEIRUT BEST COAST AUSTRA JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN All videos by Yatin Amin
REVIEW: END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL 2011
Regular readers of 247 Magazine will know that I am a BIG End of the Road fan, regularly declaring it’s superiority to the ever-growing cache of other festivals in the UK and indeed the world but as I dragged my shit along a rocky path to the newly situated campsite my love began to wane. [...]
