Reviews
Orbital, The Wailers and Utah Saints rock the woodland dance floors buried deep inside the lovely Lancashire countryside
Leafy Lytham has established itself as a heavy weight in the Northern festival scene over recent years
The first rule of FOMO is you can’t go to everything. Or perhaps, seeing as we are all one – as I’m sure free-flowing hippie and afternoon wonder act Joss Stone would agree
Each year Black Deer surprises me. In my everyday life I spend very little time listening to country music, or rather Americana, it’s just not my thing
When you stumble upon somewhere beautiful and unspoiled the temptation is to keep it secret, as a special place just for you, as somewhere to return to and shed the troubles of the world.
Feasty Fest in Cheam delivered an unforgettable day of pure musical bliss, leaving attendees fully satisfied!
There is something endearingly homespun about Into the Wild. It’s this that makes it such a charming and enjoyable festival. Indeed, after a particularly stressful and convoluted drive to its rural idyll Sussex site
Festivals have personality. Some are boisterous, some a little restrained, and some are just beautifully chilled. The Medicine Festival is very much in the latter camp.
Every year Womad reliably serves up an embarrassment of musical riches. There’s a seemingly inexhaustible list of extraordinary and – to me at least...
Let’s start off with the women. A healthy percentage of the acts over the Love Supreme weekend – including the excellent main stage headliners on the Saturday and Sunday nights
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine Boomtown
Seventy-one year old Chrissie Hynde was anticipating a younger audience. She told us this twice so she must have meant it.
Sometimes it’s easier to define something by what it is not: How The Light Gets In is not Boomtown. In fact it’s just about as diametrically opposite to Boomtown as it’s possible to be.
Our second year attending Feasty Fest with warm memories from the previous year we were hopeful that 2022 would live up to the previous.
Into the Wild is a warm-hearted festival of the old skool: no corporates, plenty of tie-dye and diaphanous robes on display, friendly security, more Indian knick-knacks on sale than you can shake a stick at, and no booze or drugs.
Beat-Herder is a magical oasis of pleasure seeking mayhem, hedonistic self-gratification and electronic debauchery. Nestled away slap bang on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border...
Womad is the most magical of festivals. Forty years old, it still maintains an innocence, humility and sense of wonder that few, if any, other festivals can rival
One of the biggest nights on the East Lancashire “getting on it big time” scene has to be Burnley’s Retro in the Park. Last year’s event was a monster of a success – Roger Sanchez
Whoever booked Erykah Badu to headline at this year’s comeback Love Supreme deserves a biscuit, and a chocolate one at that. She was an inspired choice.
It seems that God is a purist when it comes to Americana
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