Festivals
Competition: Win tickets to see The Cuban Brothers at Roxx
Festival favourites, The Cuban Brothers, are coming to Southampton this Saturday (22nd June), bringing a brand new and unique 4 man show to Roxx. (Full details and ticket links can be found on the official Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/329302847172417/) Born of the loins of seventies Havana, nurtured on a diet of soulful, sexy tunes [...]
Preview: Isle of Wight Festival
The Happy Mondays, The Blockheads and The Farm are amongst the bands opening the Isle of Wight Festival this evening (Thursday 13th June 2013). Jaguar Skillz, Grandmaster Flash and Ms Dynamite will also be getting everybody in the party mood as the festival returns to the island for the 12th time since John Giddings relaunched the iconic [...]
Preview: Ejectorseat Festival, Saturday 8th June
Free community based festival returns to Southampton’s Palmerston Park on Saturday 8th June with music, spoken word and art.
Charley Macaulay to headline BradFest
Southampton singer Charley Macaulay and her seven-piece band are to headline a one-day music festival near Winchester to raise funds for local cancer charities. The 19-year-old who has already appeared at Glastonbury and the Isle of Wight festivals, supported Anastasia and Will Young in concert and has just been signed to the Acid Jazz label. [...]
Ejectorseat festival returns to Southampton
Ejectorseat Festival is back next Saturday 8th June with a stellar line-up of local musical acts and some big names, as well as appearances and stalls from Southampton’s top artists and creatives. Ejectorseat Festival is a free all-day Music and Arts festival, situated in Palmerston Park (just off the High St), Southampton. Having gained a [...]
Review: The Great Escape Festival 2013, Brighton
So, I’ll admit it, I failed. Failed in taking my own advice from the ’10 must see acts at this weekends Great Escape’ article I posted right before I set off last week. I saw four. 4/10 would probably be an exam fail, but it wasn’t through lack of trying. If you’ve never been to [...]
Bestival add more to this years line up
rystal Fighters, Howard Marks, The Correspondents, Valerie June, Seán McGowan, Hudson Mohawke, Mr Tom and Mickey Finn are amongst the acts who will be joining head-liners Elton John, Snoop Dogg and FatBoy Slim
Review: Takedown Festival 2013
Takedown Festival 2013 was a monumental event, perhaps overlooked by outsiders and hosts a musical subculture that is eternally misunderstood. I went this year for an education and to reach new musical comfort zones as much as to review. I am not a metal fan, my knowledge of the metal subculture is very limited , I [...]
Fatboy Slim to headline Friday night at Bestival
Featuring 10 fields of wonderment and 20 stages filled with amazing music, insane sideshows and magical happenings, Bestival’s spectacular 10th birthday bash this September 5th-8th is set to be nothing short of EPIC. Celebrating those 10 years for all they’re worth, we’ve already got a musical line-up that’s second to none, with headline appearances from [...]
10 must see acts at this weekends Great Escape in Brighton
Andy Farley looks ahead to this weekends Great Escape Festival in Brighton: I’m pretty stoked to be attending this year’s Great Escape Festival. It’s the first time I’ve been living in Brighton since the festival started – and I have to say the city is jumping. But then a lot has changed since I last lived here [...]
King Blues man to play two Great Escape shows this weekend
Electro-punk MC Itch will be giving Brighton a taster of his hard-hitting, beats fuelled sound at this year’s Great Escape Festival. Performing two shows on Saturday 18th May, this will be Itch’s first solo outing at the festival since the split of his former band The King Blues. Itch’s first show will be at Above [...]
Seán McGowan covers Billy Bragg ahead of his Great Escape support slot
Legendary protest singer Billy Bragg recently asked Southampton singer-songwriter, Seán McGowan, to join him as main support for his headline show at The Dome which takes place at The Great Escape festival next Friday (17th May). Courtesy Chris Meany Seán, who’s one-off forthcoming full band show at The Joiners on 7th June sold out in [...]
Pulse Festival is back!
The festival hopping ska-rap-punk band, Imperial Leisure, top the bill on first night of Pulse Festival which kicks off this evening on the outskirts of Southampton. Rob Ball Gates open at 4pm this afternoon (10th May) for the 2 day festival which for the first time is allowing campers to pitch their tents. Also playing [...]
One week to go until The Great Escape
The Great Escape, taking place May 16th-18th, recently announced a further 100 artists to complete the 2013 line-up. The programme is fit to burst with over 350 of the best upcoming bands currently making noise across the world, and TGE13 is getting ready to load in to 30+ Brighton venues and kick start the eighth [...]
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