Festival Preview: Threshold Festival 2018

Across The Threshold Various Venues, Baltic Triangle, Liverpool 13th – 14th April 2018 Words: Elena Katrina  Keep updated: Website // Facebook // Twitter  Buy Tickets Threshold Festival is a staple in any real music lover’s festival season. It’s the festival that wakes us up for the onslaught to come. It’s the festival that fuses true … Continue reading

Festival Preview: SXSW 2018

SXSW 12-18th March 2018 FIND SXSW ONLINE: Facebook// Website // Twitter Words: Elena Katrina  SXSW is THE festival everyone wants to go to, everyone wants to play, everyone wants to witness and some of us were unsure we’d ever get to do either, the latter the only real option if I’m honest. Yet here I … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Off The Record 2017

Off The  Record 2017 Words: Elena Katrina   Price info: Tickets for Off The Record Festival 2016 are on sale now £15/£20/£35 (+fees) here   Keep Updated: Website// Facebook//Twitter #DiscoverNewMusic Well this is an exciting and still relatively new event for November! Off The Record is a one-day, new artist event in Manchester taking place this … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Liverpool Music Week 2017

 Liverpool Music Week 2017 Various Venues Liverpool 26th October – 4th November 2017 Keep Updated: Website// Facebook Tickets are on sale now. Words: Elena Katrina This is yet another of Liverpool’s award winning music festivals and a firm favourite in many a gig goer and music lover’s diary. This year the festival reaches a milestone … Continue reading

Festival Review: Neighbourhood 2017 – Manchester

Neighbourhood 2017 Various venues, Manchester, 7th October 2017 Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Trust A Fox “In rain we graft” might be a t-shirt slogan, but it sums up the Manchester music scene’s collective ability for hard work, togetherness and fighting through the strife that often comes from the life of being working class in the … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Neighbourhood 2017

Neighbourhood 2017 Vaious Venues: Manchester Keep Up To Date: Website//Facebook//Twitter   Words: Gary Lambert Undoubtedly one of the highlights of 2016’s musical calendar was the inaugural presentation to the world of Manchester’s Neighbourhood Festival. A metropolitan festival in the middle of one of the world’s great music cities, it managed to instantly cement itself in … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Hope & Glory Festival 2017

Hope & Glory 2017 Words: Gary Feeney Find Hope & Glory online: Website // Facebook // Twitter There’s been an explosion of new festivals in recent times, but few have caught the eye quite like the Hope & Glory has. Taking place in Liverpool’s stunning St George’s Quarter on 5th & 6th August, the 12,500 … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Kendal Calling 2017

Kendal Calling 2017 Words Gary Feeney A lot of festivals like to claim that each year’s line-up will be the best they’ve ever had and that every edition of it has been the best to date. Often such claims are a tad hyperbolic, but in the case of Kendal Calling, the organisers go out of … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Liverpool International Music Festival 2017

LIMF 2017 Words: Rebecca Worthington    This weekend, the sensational Liverpool International Musical Festival returns to Sefton Park for a four-day celebration of musical heritage and cultural diversity. This year’s headliners, Gorgon City, Naughty Boy and Cast, are set to wow the masses. But, if it’s emerging, under-the-radar acts you’re after, we’ve selected five exciting … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Blissfields 2017

Blissfields 2017 6th – 7th July, Winchester Blissfields Online: Website // Facebook // Twitter Tickets on sale here Words: Leander Hobbs   What started out 16 years ago as a small gathering of friends at Bradley Farm near Alresford has turned into one of the most celebrated and must attend festivals of the summer. Over … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Barn On The Farm 2017

Barn on The Farm 2017 Words: Elena Katrina Price info: Tickets for Barn on The Farm Festival 2016 are on sale here Keep Updated: Facebook//Twitter    Barn On The Farm started the same year Popped Music was born and last year was the first year we actually got to go. Shocking news I know but … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Bushstock 2017

Bushstock 2017 Words: Elena Katrina Price info: Tickets for Bushstock Festival 2016 are on sale now £35 (+fees) here. Keep Updated: Facebook//Twitter    Bushstock Festival remains one of my personal favourite festivals over the season and it’s not just because I’m a huge fan of Communion, who put it all together. I’ve lost track as … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Dot To Dot Manchester 2017

Dot To Dot 2017 – Manchester Various Venues, Manchester, 26th May 2017 (ALSO: Bristol 27th May 2017 // Nottingham 28th May 2017) Words: Gary Lambert Keep Up To Date: Website // Facebook // Twitter Dot to Dot holds a unique place in the often congested and identikit festival season by being a tightly organised, metropolitan … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Liverpool Sound City 2017

Liverpool Sound City 2017 Tickets for  Liverpool Sound City are on sale now  here. Keep updated: Website // Facebook // Twitter This year’s Liverpool Sound City is celebrating quite an impressive birthday – it’s 10th! And it sees a new home, only a little way down the road, to Clarence Dock, but a new site … Continue reading

Festival Preview: Festevol Gardens 2017

FestEvol Gardens Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool 30th April 2017 Words: Elena Katrina Keep Up To Date: Facebook // Twitter Tickets are £30.00 and available to buy from Skiddle, Dice, See Tickets. Last year’s Festevol was possibly up there as one of our favourite festival all dayers of 2016! We didn’t think that it could be … Continue reading

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