Latest Blogs
New bands blog - No 3
By chrise
on
15 February 2012
This week we’ve given Chris Eustace reign of our new music radar. Enjoy.Outfit Outfit - Dashing In Passing by TheSoundsOfSweetNothing
People have been getting excited about Outfit for a little bit and a the Liverpool five-piece look like...
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New bands blog - No 2
By
on
06 February 2012
Bob Tollast from In The Woods 2012 festival urges you to check out Kwes.The first we heard of Kwes was the beautiful ‘Hearts
in Home’ single, a track which effortlessly blends the delicate sounds of Icelandic bands Mum with dubby bass and...
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New bands blog - No 1
By
on
25 January 2012
Long-standing Camden Crawl supremo Lisa Paulon chooses some of her favourite bands of the moment. Are there any hints as to
who will play Camden Crawl 2012 in May?Funeral Suits On a personal level, one of the most exciting things about this year...
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Blog: Re-Experience The Prodigy
The rave scene was a rabid epidemic, running unabated and wild in the summer of 1991. This free party outbreak spread with
a ferocity of typhoid fever, stretching from satellite sites around the capital, infecting crowds of 50,000 or more in one
nigh...
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Blog: Alex's Almanack - what will happen in 2012?
The Old Moore’s Almanack is a curious book. First published in 1697, it sought the advice of astrology to make predictions
for the upcoming year and back then, who could have guessed it would still be here in 2012?For all of its forward thinkin...
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Stone Roses Resurrected: Should they reform?
By philbrady
on
18 October 2011
YES says Phil BradyImagine if Elvis never died. Imagine if the king of rock and roll ditched the coke habit, went on a diet,
lost a couple of stone and shook those hips again like it was 1957. Imagine if The Beatles didn't split bringing out album
af...
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Blog: Are there too many festivals in the UK?
By chrise
on
10 August 2011
On Tuesday, after 31 festival cancellations this summer, Isle Of Wight Festival boss John Giddings spoke out suggesting that
the festival market is overcrowded.Meanwhile Melvin Benn of Festival Republic argued that despite slower ticket sales, festiv...
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Festivals aren't on their way out - they're just at a crossroads
By chrise
on
11 July 2011
Coming on the same weekend as the sold-out T In The Park and Sonisphere, it seems a bit odd, but is there trouble on the horizon?
Eavis also mentions "WOMAD and Latitude not selling out" - although to be fair the latter is, according to The Guardian,...
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How to festival with a conscience: Glastonbury special
By DanVF
on
26 June 2011
There is a certain peace to Glastonbury’s Green Fields. A quiet and relaxed nirvana of overhanging trees, people-powered
soundsystems and enough positive karma to get the whole of Odd Future into heaven.It’s here that we wind through bloo...
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End Of The Road blog #1: five videos that make up 2011
End of the Road director Simon Taffe selects five videos and talks about what's new at this year's festival.We've just finished
putting together the final touches for this year's lineup - as always, it has been like assembling a three-day long, three...
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Stagg dos and don'ts: a response to the Telegraph's festival tips
By DanVF
on
17 June 2011
“Who?” you may cry! Why, he’s the author of the Top ten festival tips article in the Telegraph; a real outdoor
warrior, last spotted at Glasto ’71 with Ray Mears as they put together a makeshift tent with just disused burger b...
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Going green: how to festival with a conscience
By
on
17 June 2011
Fresh out of a beautiful and successful Sunrise 2011 we are buzzing with new ideas and a sense of what worked and what didn’t
work for us.It is so crucial that festivals are part of the growing green consciousness that is sweeping the planet. I...
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Download Festival 2011: turning it down from 11
By Verbgirl
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16 June 2011
Dave McPherson crouches alone under the droopy sogginess of the Jagermeister sign, concluding the small acoustic stage with
twenty wet onlookers and no actual Jager to be seen; the fiery beverage truck had been relocated to the main stage. Compared
t...
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Moaning Old Hippie: undeserving headliners
Well another festival season in underway and another succession of undeserving headline acts and shoddy line-up choices. Seems
to me, nowadays legendary rock gods are reduced to mere mortals in the wake of this year’s latest fad. You know who
I...
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The Sky's the Limit: Is an entirely green festival myth or reality?
By
on
31 May 2011
The state of the environment has entered the public’s conscience in a big way in recent years and festivals are committed
to raising their green credentials. Is it possible for such-large scale events to be truly environmentally friendly though...
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A Greener Festival: Green News
We had a massive number of entries into this year's Great Big Green Ideas competition - the competition that lets you suggest
new greenining initiatives to festival organisers. It's taken some time to look at all the ideas but we now have the winners...
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A Greener Festival announce the Great Big Green Ideas 2011 winners
A number of entries were very keen on promoting alternatives to the car – in particular we liked Peter Nolan’s
idea of giving green travellers real advantages in ditching the car – by allowing them early entry to the festival site
a...
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Share you festival survival tips!
By
on
19 May 2011
Steer clear of the drugsWhilst it has been said a billion times by every Tom, Dick and Harry, avoiding taking drugs is my
best tip for enjoying your weekend of music this summer. A bad experience at T in the Park last year led me to missing Jay-Z
and...
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A Greener Festival announce 2011 Australian Award winners
It can’t have escaped you that the weather has been terrible in Australia in the last twelve months - so congratulations
to all of the Australian A GREENER FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS 2011 for their brilliant efforts in reducing their environmental...
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TRUCK and WOOD Blog #1: Tracks to mend a broken leg
By
on
18 May 2011
Here he recommends some music to brighten your day and he heals his broken leg…'Buy Nothing Day' by The Go! Team March
2nd is etched in my memory as I broke my leg representing Truck FC in the Abingdon 5-aside Tuesday Bundesliga. A very high...
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