Festival Review: Beat Herder 2016
Beat Herder 2016 Words: Elena Katrina Photos: Daisy Smart/Elena Katrina I first discovered Beat Herder festival only last year, perhaps because it’s not really known for being a festival for the kind of music we write about – but it does have an entire stage dedicated to it and that is partly why we returned, … Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Liverpool International Music Festival 2016
LIMF 2016 23-24th July 2016, Liverpool Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Elena Katrina As Leanne from Radio City’s Breakfast Show screamed every time she was on stage, Liverpool International Music Festival is the largest free music festival in Europe. This has to stay in our minds throughout the event. This is not a festival where … Continue reading
Festival Review: X&Y Part 2
X&Y Part 2 Words: Gary Lambert The second leg of X&Y Festival started with blue skies, an instant vibe and had this writer contemplating “what makes a festival”. I will admit it was rather profound for a Friday evening, but when you’ve got a few hundred people in and around a giant greenhouse having a … Continue reading
Festival Review: Barn On The Farm
Barn On The Farm 1-2 July 2016 Words: Elena Katrina I started this blog the same year that Barn On The Farm first started. Yes, that long ago. I believe they started it for their mates and I started this just for something to do and to keep my love of new music alive. So … Continue reading
Festival Review: Bushstock – London
Bushstock 18th June 2016, London Words: Elena Katrina Photos: Daisy Smart Bushstock has been one of my favourite festivals of the past four or so years and last year I let someone else take my place to hit up the Communion Music presented festival in South West London’s Shepherds Bush to review for Popped. I … Continue reading
Festival Review: X&Y – Part 1
X&Y 9th-10th June 2016, Liverpool Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Fi Carroll Sefton Park in south Liverpool, of a summer’s evening, produces a fine depiction of the suburban area. The park is bustling with clean energy. There are joggers, cyclists, people clad in Lycra for purposes beyond comprehension and dog walkers with a few too many … Continue reading
Festival Review: Liverpool Sound City 2016
Liverpool Sound City 2016 Words: Elena Katrina Photos: Fi Carroll After last year’s move away from the city and along to Bramley-Moore Docks there was much to think about and much to feel excited about. As the year went on the prospect of another year at the docks slowly sunk in. It’s difficult sometimes to … Continue reading
Festival Review: Festevol 2016
Festevol 2016 1st May 2016, Liverpool Words: Elena Katrina Photos: Gaz Jones//Elena Katrina From the get go this festival was always going to be of interest, after all Liverpool promoter Evol is well known to us for putting on great shows featuring many of the bands we love. Gary went along last year, and this … Continue reading
Festival Review: Threshold Festival 2016
Threshold Festival Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Fi Carroll There seemed to be a change in the air for the sixth annual Threshold Festival held in Liverpool’s uber cool Baltic Triangle area. Whilst previously this festival had felt more of a hipster village fete than a true option within festival season from speaking to people and … Continue reading
Festival Review: Flying Vinyl – London
Flying Vinyl Hackney Shapes, 9th April 2016 Words: Lauren Grigor Flying Vinyl sure know how to put on a good show. The vinyl subscription service has had healthy growth in the last year, proving that vinyl is still alive and really doing more than just well. It was great to see the amount of people … Continue reading
Festival Review: Leeds 2015
LEEDS 2015 28th-30th August 2015 Words and Photos: Elena Katrina Leeds has always been a firm must in our festival diary, it’s one of our favourites. You might think that it’s perhaps not the best festival to find new music but I disagree they always have bands for me to discover and not always on … Continue reading
Festival Review: Bingley Music Live
Bingley Music Live Words and Photos: Gary Lambert There is a stretch of England through the Pennines where Lancashire and Yorkshire are almost indecipherable from each other; where ITV can fit more Sunday night drama into a 60 minutes than happens in a year in reality; and where places can be further north, but nowhere … Continue reading
Festival Review: Liverpool International Music Festival
Liverpool International Music Festival August 29th-31st 2015 Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Gaz Jones For those of you who don’t know the recent history, Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF to its friends) came about when Liverpool City Council decided that the behemoth of tribute acts which was The Mathew Street Festival was a bit of a blot … Continue reading
Festival Review: Festevol Part 2
Festevol Part 2 The Kazimier August 8th 2015 Words and photos: Gary Lambert Warning: This review contains no song titles or insightful technical details on music performance. This is a study in the sheer enjoyment of being with friends, having beer in a plastic cup and watching live music. After Festevol Part 1 and … Continue reading
Festival Review: Kendal Calling 2015
Kendal Calling 30th July – 3rd August 2015 This is the third year in a row that I’ve been to Kendal Calling and it was thrilling to be there as part of their ten year birthday bash! We didn’t make it there for the Thursday early entrance which saw indie legends James take to the … Continue reading
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