Festival Review: Bushstock 2017
Bushstock 2017 Various Venues, London, 10th June 2017 Words: Leander Hobbs Photos: Elena Katrina It’s a sweltering hot day in June and I’m sitting in a small wine bar in Shepherd’s Bush; breathing room only. There’s a buzz in the air as the maximum capacity crowd fidget around the makeshift performance area of two stools … 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 Review: Dot To Dot Manchester 2017
Dot to Dot Manchester Various Venues Manchester, 26th May 2017 Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Elena Katrina I wish the Manchester leg of Dot To Dot 2017 was just another festival for me to go to, another event of live music, good times, and good people. However with the sickening events of the previous Monday 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 Review: Live At Leeds 2017
Live At Leeds 2017 Various Venues, Leeds Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Elena Katrina “I spy with my little eye… BAD BITCHES! DREAM WIFE FOR LIFE!” was without doubt Popped Music’s calling card at Live At Leeds. From early on in the event, photographer and editor Elena Katrina and fellow Popped photographer Fiona Carroll took up … Continue reading
Live Review: When In Manchester 2017
When In Manchester 2017 15th April 2017 Words: Julia Grantham Photos: Lydia Maycock Are you familiar with the phrase: “Don’t open all your Christmas presents at once?” Or words to that effect. I think it means something along the lines of: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait. Hopefully my friends from the band, Cupids, … Continue reading
Festival Review: Threshold 2017
Threshold 7 Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Georgia Flynn & Elena Katrina Threshold Festival 2017, or Threshold7 to give it the preferred shortened name, was always likely to be one that would stay in the memory. From the announcement that a crowdfunding campaign was needed in order to raise some much needed funds, people seemed to … 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
Festival Preview: Live At Leeds 2017
Live At Leeds 2017 Various Venues, Leeds, 29th April 2017 Words: Gary Lambert Keep Up To Date: Website // Facebook // Twitter Tickets are £32.50 and available to buy here Live At Leeds is one of the true highlights of the British Festival Season. A metropolitan festival which has still stayed close to its multi-venue … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Flying Vinyl
Flying Vinyl All Dayer The Oval, London, 7th April 2017 Words: Elena Katrina With ten of our favourite acts all descending upon one venue for Flying Vinyl’s all dayer this weekend it’s pretty much impossible for us to do our usual festival preview so instead we’re going to post a track by each band and … Continue reading
Festival Preview: When In Manchester
When In Manchester 15th April – Various Venues NQ, Manchester Keep up on Facebook Words: Julia Grantham Are you sick and tired of all the insipid mainstream music out there in the world today? Perhaps, like me, you are increasingly bored of all the mass-produced stuff that’s forced upon us at every possible marketing opportunity, … Continue reading
Festival Review: Ditto Live – Liverpool
Ditto Live Camp & Furnace, Liverpool, March 2017 Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Mark Holmes Festival Season does not start on a Friday night before the clocks go back, but if it did then Ditto Music’s live event at Camp and Furnace in the Baltic Triangle area of Liverpool city centre would be the perfect way … Continue reading
Festival Preview: Threshold 2017 Pt4
Threshold Seven 31st March -2nd April 2017 Tickets for Threshold Seven are on sale Online now Keep updated: Website // Facebook // Twitter Threshold Festival, now in it’s 7th splendid year, is a collaborative approach to a festival – with many other people involved in curating the music stages and events and this year we … Continue reading
