FESTIVAL REVIEW: Friday at ALL POINTS EAST 2023
Words & Photos: Gary Lambert Friday at All Points East – Victoria Park, London – 28 August 2023 Instagram | Website I love festivals. Festivals make me feel like the happiest person on earth. Ten years ago I was sat at a table at Kendal Calling chatting to someone who had finished their shift and said … Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Monday at ALL POINTS EAST 2023
Words & Photos: Amy Butcher Haim at All Points East – Victoria Park, London – 28 August 2023 Instagram | Website One of London’s most popular music festivals, All Points East, often marked in most south based festival goers diaries, with plans made around the two weekends has come back bigger and better than ever … Continue reading
Festival Review: Camp Bestival Shropshire 2023
Words & Photos: Elena Katrina Camp Bestival – Shropshire – August 2023Instagram//2024 TICKETS This is a whole new direction for us here at Popped Music – this is a fully-fledged family festival review. After our trip to Deer Shed without my little ones, I suddenly felt compelled to take them to their first festival and … Continue reading
Festival Review: Kendal Calling 2023
Words: Julia Grantham Kendal Calling -July 2023Instagram There was a sense of elemental foreboding hanging delicately over Kendal Calling 2023. Seeds were sown for the very first KC back in 2006 and this year, the summer of love looked like it very wellmight have been drenched in rain. As I started packing for my two-and-half … Continue reading
Festival Review: No Play Festival 2023
Words: Elena Katrina No Play Festival -Liverpool – 5th August 2023Instagram Although you might not necessarily think of Popped Music as your go-to place for heavier sounds, but believe it or not there are some heavy bands who we absolutely adore and some of whom played at this year’s inaugural No Play Festival in Liverpool. … Continue reading
Festival Review: Deer Shed 2023
Words: Elena Katrina Deer Shed Festival – North Yorkshire – 28th-30th July 2023Instagram//Lineup//2024 TICKETS Now in its 13th year, Deer Shed made its return to its home in Baldersby Park, North Yorkshire. Not only a music festival but one that really and truly looks after everyone. I can really attest to this on a very … Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: TRUCK FESTIVAL 2022
Truck Festival Hill Farm, Steventon, Oxfordshire, 22-24 July 2022 Words & Photos: Amy Butcher Close your eyes and picture this: the sun is beating down warmth onto your face, you’ve got a cold beverage in hand and the sweet melodies of The Magic Gang in your years. You guessed it, you’re at Truck Festival 2022. … Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY
Liverpool Sound City Various venues, Liverpool, 1-3 October 2021 Words and Photos by Gary Lambert It has been a long time since Liverpool Sound City has taken place in Liverpool city centre proper, and it was wonderful to be back there. Getting a wristband and press lanyards at The Bombed Out Church brought back memories of … Continue reading
Festival Review: Close Up 2021
Festival Review: Close Up Festival 2021 Colours Hoxton, 11 September 2021 Words & Photos: Amy Butcher Live music has always been a big part of my life, and to have that taken away for 18 months was like a kick in the teeth. Entering the doors to the venue room at Colours Hoxton, getting the … Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: FESTEVOL (PART 2)
FestEvol Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool, 7 August 2021 Words and Photos by Gary Lambert Whilst FestEvol: Part 1 was a celebration of the Merseyside music scene, FestEvol: Part 2 was about recapturing the magical feeling of going to a festival once again. Admittedly there was no camping, but you had bands and music fans coming from … Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: FESTEVOL (PART 1)
FestEvol Future Yard, Birkenhead, 31 July 2021 Words and Photos by Gary Lambert Oh my God! What a day FestEvol (Future Yard edition) turned out to be. This is very unsurprising news to be fair. A cracking line up of bands primarily from the banks of the Mersey for the Liverpool music scene’s first post-lockdown shindig was always … Continue reading
Live Review: Blossoms – Sefton Park Pilot
Blossoms Sefton Park, Liverpool, 1 May 2021 Words by Gary Lambert In my life I’ve seen Bowie headline Glastonbury; McCartney play Helter Skelter live for the first time; and forgotten the amount of bands I’ve seen in half-filled back rooms go on to bigger and better things; but I’ve never been to a gig this … Continue reading
LIVE REVIEW: THE LIBERTINES
The Libertines Virgin Money Unity Arena, Newcastle, 29 August 2020 Words and Photos by Gary Lambert Yes, we all know the socially-distant gigs at Newcastle’s makeshift arena at Gosforth Park aren’t the most visceral of prospects, and it is very easy to offer criticism of them as corporate blandness masquerading as a music festival, but … Continue reading
Festival Review: Off The Record 2019
Off The Record 2019 Various venues, Manchester, 15 November 2019 Words and Photos by Gary Lambert Off The Record just gets better and better. I would say that this year’s event was the best one I have been to, and I’ve been to all of them. I know that is a bit of a spoiler … Continue reading
Festival Review: 2Q Festival Lincoln 2019
2Q Festival Various Venues, Lincoln, 9 November 2019 Words and Photos by Gary Lambert It was seven o’clock in the morning when my journey to 2Q Festival started. Despite spending Friday night in the far reaches of The Lake District celebrating the love of two of my friends, as soon as best man duty finished … Continue reading
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