All Entries Tagged With: "festival"
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: 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, [...]
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 [...]
247 South West / August 2010
We catch up with 90′s rave band, Leftfield, ahead of their only Cornish show this summer at the massive Boardmasters Festival in Newquay in August. We also catch up with The Quails from Teignmouth over a few ciders and venture out to Falmouth’s Dr Sketchy for naked drawing, burlesque girls and more. All the other [...]
MUSIC ACTS AT BOARDMASTERS 2010
Here is our editorial choice of music acts you can’t miss at this years Boardmasters, for the full line-up and tickets, see www.relentlessboardmasters.com, but these are ones we recommend: Of course, Chase and Status are one of the headliners on Sat 7 August, this is there new tune to give you a taste of what [...]
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 [...]
REVIEW: RELENTLESS NASS FESTIVAL AT BATH AND WEST SHOWGROUND
Relentless NASS Festival is buzzing with excitement and energy from the moment you walk in through the gates. In front there are talented skaters terrifyingly plunging themselves down the 8 meter roll in leading into Europe’s biggest vert ramp for that adrenaline rush they’ve come here looking for. There are stalls lining the edges of [...]
WIN TICKETS TO SEE DAVID GUETTA AT L.E.D FESTIVAL IN LONDON
Three giants of live music, Cream, Goldenvoice and Loudsound, have joined forces to create what is destined to become one of the most exciting outdoor electronic dance festivals in the UK – L.E.D. festival – and you and a friend could be there too, courtesy of 247 Magazine. Taking place in London’s Victoria Park on [...]
SETH LAKEMAN TEAMS UP WITH AARDMAN FOR HEARTS AND MINDS MUSIC VIDEO
You may have spotted South West folk singer Seth Lakeman busking around the region recently – well he was actually filming his new music video with the help of the Bristol-based Aardman. The video for the title track of his brand new album, Hearts and Minds, took him on a journey from his home-county of [...]
