Mumford & Sons
Get on Board the Rockness Express for Mumford & Sons, Deadmau5 and Ed Sheeran
RockNess 2012 launches today (Thursday 27th January) with a gargantuan roar as the first acts of the multi award winning Scottish festival are announced. Topping off an incredible twelve months for the NME Awards 2011 ‘Best Small Festival’ Winner, the three day knees up beside world famous Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands brings together the hottest [...]
Just over a week left to enter The Road To Blissfields
Time is running out for local acts who want to enter this years Road To Blissfields competition. You have until the end of January if you want to enter to win a slot at one of the countries best small festivals. The annual competition will this year be visiting three new areas (Reading, Basingstoke and Brighton) [...]
Blissfields announce 2012 theme and Christmas Ticket details
Following their biggest, most successful and creative year yet in summer 2011, Blissfields Festival returns in 2012 to Winchester, Hampshire on the weekend of 29th June to 1st July, while organisers are now pleased to announce that tickets are on sale via www.blissfields.co.uk priced at £70.00 for an adult and £47.00 for a youth weekend / camping ticket. [...]
review: Glastonbury 2011
With over 50 stages to cover and little me as the sole reviewer in what was one of the hardest Glastonbury’s ever, it was inevitable that I’d miss a lot of what I planned to see…..however, the beauty of Glastonbury is that if you do miss something, you will definitely see something magical elsewhere on [...]
BBC announces most comprehensive multi-platform coverage of Glastonbury to date
The BBC today announces its most comprehensive coverage of Glastonbury to date. Offering a complete multi-platform experience with coverage from six stages, between Thursday 23 June and Friday 1 July, there will be a host of programming, including live headline sets, festival highlights, interviews and a special first-time radio triple-cast, taking viewers and listeners directly into [...]
Marcus Foster tour and début album
Marcus Foster releases his new single, ‘Rushes & Reeds’ on the 5 June through Communion/Geffen Records. It is taken from the debut album, ‘Nameless Path’ to be released on 27 September. To promote the album, as well as a visit to Camp Bestival, Marcus also calls in to Brighton Komedia on June 27th and Southampton [...]
Communion to release The Flowerpot Sessions LP
Communion are pleased to announce details of ‘The Flowerpot Sessions LP’, due for release in May. The album, which stretches across 3 CDs, features a series of collaborations recorded in the Summer of 2010 at London’s now defunct Flowerpot venue in Kentish Town. A documentary DVD is also included in the package which features exclusive [...]
Review: All The Shapes- All The Shapes EP
Despite their name, there is no great desire to show off ‘All the Shapes‘ here. But what you do get is some pretty solid folk rock- if there’s one word for this, it’s ‘ pastoral’. Only four tracks long, but there is a definite sense of the outdoors here- even the sleeve art shows a [...]
Glastonbury Festival Line-up revealed
Glastonbury Festival organisers have today announced the full line-up ahead of Sunday’s ticket resale. Added to the bill are acts including Morrissey, Paul Simon, Wu Tang Clan, Tinie Tempah, The Chemical Brothers, Mumford & Sons, Biffy Clyro, Queens of The Stone Age and many, many more. As always, Glastonbury will have plenty more surprises in store, [...]
Glastonbury tickets resale date set for April 17th
The resale of cancelled/refunded tickets for this year’s Glastonbury Festival will take place at 9am on Sunday, 17th April 2011. Tickets will be sold online at www.seetickets.com/g2011 and via the Seetickets booking line 0844 412 4635. The number of tickets available is expected to be quite limited, because these are returns, not a second batch. Tickets [...]
Glastonbury Announce Primal Scream, BB King, Mumford and more for June festival
Glastonbury organisers have today released 14 of the acts who will be playing this years festival. In Alphabetical order they are as follows: Anna Calvi BB King Big Boi The Chemical Brothers Crystal Castles Friendly Fires Fleet Foxes Gruff Rhys James Blake Janelle Monae Laura Marling Mumford & Sons Primal Scream Warpaint These acts are [...]
Review: Mumford & Sons at the Brighton Dome
I awoke to a message from Rob Ball who was looking for someone to review the Mumford and Sons gig in Brighton that night. Â I said yes, of course, but how do you just review a band everyone knows? The last time I saw Mumford play Brighton we ran into them, by chance, as they [...]
Review: Bestival 2010 (Day 2)
2am Friday night, me to Rob after far to many Bulmers. ‘I’ll tell you what would be a really good idea, why don’t I get the review of Friday written up tomorrow morning so we can get it up by lunchtime!’ ‘Yeah, do it, that would be amazing!’ Of all the stupid things I have [...]