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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 [...]
Blissfields and Pulse Festival release joint festival ticket
Two Hampshire festivals have today announced that, for a limited period, they are selling a joint ticket for both festivals. This means you can buy a ticket for both Pulse - which is held on the outskirts of Southampton in May – and Blissfields - the July bash near Winchester – for under £100.00. Both festivals have a [...]
All change for Pulse Festival
After the cancellation of this years Pulse Festival due to the poor weather, organisers have announced a few changes to next year’s bash, which takes place on the outskirts of Southampton. As well as changing to a two day festival with (very limited) camping, they will also be bringing the date forward. They have said [...]
Dreadzone and Subgiant at The Brook this Friday
Two of the countries hardest working and most popular festival acts, Dreadzone and Subgiant return to (the award winning) The Brook this Friday, 19th October 2012. Hit records, critical acclaim and a huge, devoted fan base are theirs, due in part to their utterly storming live shows and Dreadzone show no sign of slowing down this Autumn. [...]
It’s make or break time for the Boscombe Community Fair
Boscombe Community Fair returns to Kings Park this weekend (September 14-16th) , and the event needs all the support possible from the local community. Now in its 17th year this not for profit event looks to be as fun packed as ever with so many different styles of music and performers on display there is [...]
The Pulse Keeps Beating
With news of the cancellation of this year’s Pulse Festival being announced by festival organisers last week, a promotional event planned for the festival taking place at The Railway Inn in Winchester on 14th Aug 2012 will go ahead as a fundraising show instead, with proceeds going to the Oceanward charity. Pulse Festival was set [...]
Review: Blissfields 2012
Seriously, if Blissfields 2013 gets any better than it did this year, I will actually explode. At Blissfields, the sun always shines on the righteous. But after a summer of write-off’s and constant rain, sun burn and flip flops were the fashion of the weekend at the 12th Blissfields. This year, for once, it did [...]
Blissfields: Who’s House Are You In?
To coincide with this years theme, everybody who is attending this year’s Blissfields Festival has been placed into different “School Houses”. Everybody, including all of the performers, have been placed into either Bentworth, Bradley, Candover or Wallop. Here is our guide to who is in what house: BRADLEY Bradley House values the heritage and history [...]
First wave of acts announced for Pulse Festival
Southampton’s most popular one day music bash, Pulse Festival, has this week announced the first wave of this years line. The festival will take place on Sunnyfields Farm near Totton on Saturday 1st September 2012. Headlining this years festival will be the funky reggae band, Blackbeat Sound System from Cornwall. The bill sees the return [...]
First wave of Blissfields acts announced
Following their most exciting summer in 2011, Blissfields Festival returns in 2012 to Winchester, Hampshire on the weekend of 29th June to 1st July. The first wave of local acts to perform have now been announced along with a Blissfields favorite, Imperial Leisure, who will headline the opening night. A band that have become synonymous [...]
Dreadzone and Subgiant to play The Brook tomorrow
Dreadzone, the fervently followed British institution and musical pioneers have announced a major UK to support the recently released compendium of their musical story so far: ‘The Good, The Bad And The Dread’. They call arrive at Southampton’s The Brook tomorrow (Friday December 9th), where they play with Subgiant. (tickets here) Still going strong after seventeen [...]
Last festival of the year close to selling out
What is most certainly the last festival of the year, Close Encounters, takes place this weekend (15-16th October) near Landford/Nomansland. Featuring some of the best live acts on the festival circuit, the 2 day event offers people one last chance to dance the night away, go camping and chill around a camp fire before the cold weather [...]
Review: Bestival
F*CK OFF! That is my message to those idiots who go to see an act that they have no interest in, then shout their way through the set, only shutting up when the one song they’ve heard on the radio gets played. It happened twice to me over the course of the weekend, first at [...]
Preview: Pulse Festival – Part Two
Pulse Festival organisers are getting excited as the site has been growing over the past couple of days to weather that seems to be getting hotter and hotter. The fence has been going up today and organiser Mark Ward told me they’ve already sold more than double the amount of tickets than they had at [...]
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