Blissfields
The Cabin Fever, Oresteia and more confirmed for Blissfields
Along with Road To Blissfields winners LST and The ManDem, Flight Brigade and Bear Cavalry, Blissfields organisers have today announced details of more acts for this summers bash. Southampton’s next big thing The Cabin Fever, who recently made their hometown debut, have been confirmed to play the main stage. Whilst Oresteia, who impressed at The [...]
Barry Ashworth’s Dub Pistols to play The Brook
This Friday in Southampton, The Dub Pistols make a welcome return to Southampton with a trip to The Brook. The festival favourites are currently preparing to play all the big events again this summer with sets at Glastonbury, Bestival, Blissfields, Endorse It In Dorset, Bearded Theory, Glade and many more. First though, they’ll be playing [...]
mintroducing: Find X, Then Party
Last up in our Road To Blissfields band features are Find X, Then Party. Catch them TONIGHT (Friday 15th April) at The Railway. Extending the band’s palette of influences to now include Foals and Nobuo Uematsu; Find X, Then Party get by with a combination of invisible PAs, nose to drumstick collisions and dudes falling on [...]
mintroducing: Casablancas
Third from last in our Road To Blissfields featured bands is Casablancas who are all set to rock the Railway this Friday (15th April). Young four piece indie/post rock band with a great ear for a tune and growing live following. They recently supported Chapel Club at the Talking Heads in Southampton and impressed. Casablancas [...]
Sound Of Rum confirmed for Pop Factory gig
Having recently finished recording their debut album on Rob Da Bank’s Sunday Best label, Sound of Rum are ready to take on the festival circuit all up and down the country. Consisting of enigmatic MC Kate Tempest, whose lyrical prowess and live energy has been wowing crowds since the band formed in 2008. They visit [...]
RTB: Two down, one to go
The Road to Blissfields competition has so far seen 9 amazing acts from Southampton and Portsmouth play for a slot at this years festival. At Portsmouth last week, over 550 came to see Bear Cavalry impress the judges to win a slot at the July bash. This Friday, at The Cellar, Southampton, it was LST [...]
Win tickets to Blissfields and Pulse at Road To Blissfields
The Road To Blissfields arrives in Southampton tomorrow (Friday, 8th April 2011) with a line up featuring the cream of Southampton talent. The first heat, last Friday at Envy in Portsmouth, saw over 550 through the door to see Bear Cavalry win themselves a slot at the July festival, which will be headlined by Tricky [...]
mintroducing: LST and The ManDem
Next up in our Road To Blissfieds features is LST, a fresh new Southampton based artist who brings a strong positive message to youth of today. With tracks such as ‘Cherish Life‘ & ‘Let Go’ which was recently featured on BBC 1XTRA’s 100% Homegrown with DJ Target. LST also has gained recognition from the internationally known [...]
mintroducing: New Broadcast Group
Appearing at The Road to Blissfields, Southampton, this Friday are the very hotly tipped New Broadcast Group. Since making their debut by opening the Southampton Oxjam Festival last October to a packed Hamptons crowd, the band have quickly gained themselves a reputation as one of the best live acts in the South. Windows by New [...]
mintroducing: Tricycle Tunes
The Road To Blissfields hits Southampton, The Cellar this week, and we begin our feature on the bands playing for a slot at the festival by bringing you Tricycle Tunes. Tricycle Tunes finished sixth in the preliminary round (out of over 100 acts who applied) and are a late addition due to the withdrawal of [...]
mintroducing: BigTopp
Continuing our Road To Blissfields coverage ahead of the Portsmouth gig this Friday, today we bring you BigTopp. BigTopp are a massive ska band from Portsmouth whose front man recently excelled on Total Wipeout by not falling in the water too often! They’ve formed in October 2006 and have since headlined The Joiners, won Battle [...]
Tricky, Delays and Fenech-Soler all confirmed for Blissfields
Tricky has been confirmed as this years Saturday night head-liner at Blissfields Festival. Joining him on the bill are Southampton’s Delays, Fenech-Soler, Chad Valley, Summer Camp and James Yuill, Sound Of Rum, Ridney, King Charles, Crazy P Soundsystem and Alpines. The Full line up, so far: TRICKY – FENECH-SOLER – DELAYS – CRAZY P SOUNDSYSTEM [...]
Subgiant ready for Mr Kyps
On Saturday a group who have supported numerous artists at Mr Kyps, (most recently Dreadzone & The Ozric Tentacles) Subgiant take to the stage for their first headline show. To mark this special occasion the venue have Striking Lighting constructing an incredible array of lighting for the evening. The lighting used is the same infamous [...]
Imperial Leisure confirm local dates and give away next single for free
Imperial have announced details of a UK tour to support their forthcoming album, which is due to be released in May. They call in at Southampton Joiners on Friday 13th May (tickets) followed by a trip to Poole’s Mr Kyps on May 21st. The Festival favourites, regulars at Blissfields, have also made their new single, Dead Model, available for [...]
Road To Blissfields
The Road To Blissfields finalists have all been announced (since we have been going through our upgrade) and, as a catch up, here are all the details In an ongoing effort to support local music, Blissfields Festival will once again be hosting its Road To Blissfields competition. Taking place in three venues around Hampshire, Road [...]
Blissfields launch 2011 website and announce this years theme
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The Road to Blissfields 2011
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Could Kings of Leon be heading to Southampton? (And other Festival rumours)
The festival season finished just over 6 weeks ago, and already rumours are flying around as to who will be playing next years festivals. Here in Southampton, tongues are really starting to wag, especially with news of the city’s own huge music event in May. Rock The Park is a large scale music event planned [...]
Blissfields is moving home
In a statement today from Paul & Mel Bliss: We hope you have all had a great summer whether it has been on holidays or at other amazing festivals. After a very long think and much discussion since Blissfields 2010, we’ve decided that it is time to move the festival from our farm in Bradley [...]