Festival Preview: Hope Fest 2015
Hope Fest 18th – 20th September 2015 Wristbands for Hope Fest are on sale now by donations and gift cards for full information clickity click here. Keep updated: Website // Facebook // Twitter Hope Fest is a grass roots music festival in Liverpool unlike no other. Rather than just ask for money for their wristbands … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Leeds 2015
Leeds 2015 Our third year back at Leeds festival and as always we can’t wait. The festival offers us a chance to catch up with some bands we don’t usually go to see, some bands we’ve been writing about for ages and some we’ve never seen! As always the line up is looking strong and … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Festevol 2015 Pt2
Festevol 2015 Words: Gary Lambert The Saturday after the Saturday before. We come to Festevol Part 2, headlined by the fabulous All We Are, and I am excited. After a fantastic day of revelry last week mixed with some brilliant music from the likes of The Probes, Zuzu and a knockout set from The Vryll … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Festevol 2015 Pt1
Festevol 2015 Words: Gary Lambert One of the highlights of the Liverpool Music Calendar is the Saturday shenanigans of Festevol. A music festival put together by Liverpool promoter Evol spread over two Saturday afternoons and nights on consecutive weekends held at the beloved Kazimier and Kazimier Gardens. A Scouse-centric line up as per tradition allows … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Kendal Calling
Kendal Calling 2015 Words: Gary Lambert This year celebrates the tenth birthday of the annual uniting of the musical clans of the north of England that is Kendal Calling. To make it even more special old friends and indie legends James have been invited along to open on the Thursday night and make it a … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Beat-Herder 2015
Beat-Herder Perhaps not our usual kind of festival but when every other person you know is raving about it you have to take a closer look. Beat-Herder has been going a full ten years without me having paid all that much attention and seems we have been missing out. Just look at that line … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Astral Coast
Astral Coast Words: Gary Lambert This weekend sees the third Astral Coast Festival hit New Brighton, but this year as well as sending in the Cavalry (yes, I went there) they are teaming up with Arts and Minds Festival to put on a free event. This joint initiative means that as well as up-and-coming Merseyside … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Liverpool Sound City 2015 Part 2
Liverpool Sound City 2015 This year’s Liverpool Sound City is going to be entirely different to anything that has taken past in their 7 year history this time it’s a little less City, a little more Docks. As they began to out grow their city centre shackles a move was imminent and the Sound City … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Evolution Emerging
Evolution Emerging 2015 Evolution Emerging is Generator NE’s day long music festival dedicated to emerging music. The festival takes place on Saturday 23rd of May in Ouseburn Valley Newcastle. Generator NE is one of the UK’s go-to music development agencies for new music, running the Tipping Point, a concept whereby they invite new music experts … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Live At Leeds
Live At Leeds 2015 Live At Leeds returns for another year with another massive massive list of new bands who are all battling it out for your attention. The festival has a focus on new music and even some of the headlining acts are still relatively babes in arms, with a few exceptions of the … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Liverpool Sound City 2015 Part 1
Liverpool Sound City 2015 This year’s Liverpool Sound City is going to be entirely different to anything that has taken past in their 7 year history this time it’s a little less City, a little more Docks. As they began to out grow their city centre shackles a move was imminent and the Sound City … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Threshold 2015 – Weekend
Threshold V 27th – 29th March 2015 You may have noticed we’ve already covered a preview on each individual day of this year’s Threshold Festival, Threshold V (it’s its 5th year don’t you know?). But we felt it wasn’t quite right not to give you even more info as this festival isn’t just put on … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Threshold 2015 – Friday
Threshold V 27th-29th March 2015 Having attended Liverpool’s Threshold Festival in 2014 it was immediately a priority on the Popped Music festival calendar for 2015. This year’s festival is set once again in Liverpool’s creative hub of the Baltic Triangle and will feature and celebrate the best of grass roots and beyond in areas such as … Continue reading
Festival Update: Leeds – The Big Preview
Leeds 2014 Last year’s Leeds festival was a bundle of laughs despite trudging through what can only be described as mud soup and with a split welly. The weather didn’t put too much of a dampener on things though and this year we’ve decided to go it again, come rain or shine. The only difference … Continue reading
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