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 PREVIEW: All Points East 2023

Words: Amy Butcher All Points East – The Strokes, Friday 25th August 2023 Instagram / Tickets London’s iconic two-day weekend festival, All Points East, is back for another cracking year. Featuring an array of musicians and bands playing across a few stages per day, there is a genre of music for everyone with the eclectically … Continue reading

FESTIVAL PREVIEW: VICTORIOUS FESTIVAL 2022

Victorious Festival 2022 Southsea Seafront, Portsmouth, 26-28 August 2022 Words: Amy Butcher Located down south on the seafront, if there’s any festival to get you into the summer spirit it’s Victorious Festival. Running now for over 10 years, the 3 day festival welcomes the likes of Self Esteem, White Lies, Dodie, Sports Team and more … Continue reading

FESTIVAL VIBES: THE CLAUSE

The Clause Words by Amy Butcher & Photo by Jennifer Lou Birmingham four-piece The Clause are taking the music scene by storm with their groovy, bluesy sound, a jam packed festival season and recent EP release ‘Forever Young’. If you were able to catch their set at Truck Festival a few weeks ago, you know … 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 VIBES: SWIM SCHOOL

Swim School Words by Amy Butcher & Photo by Rory Barnes Scotland’s Swim School bring something fresh yet familiar with their glittering sound and impactful, high energy live performance. For those lucky enough to snag a ticket, you’ll see them at Oxford’s Truck Festival. If you get the chance to catch their set, you’re in for … Continue reading

FESTIVAL PREVIEW: TRUCK FESTIVAL 2022

Truck Festival 2022 Hill Farm, Steventon, Oxfordshire, 22-24 July 2022 Words: Amy Butcher I can’t believe I’m even writing the words, but festival season is properly back this year and so is Truck Festival! If you’re lucky enough to have snagged a ticket to the sold out festivities, you’ll be lucky to see The Big … 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

Festival Review: Liverpool Sound City 2019

Liverpool Sound City 2019 Various venues, Baltic Triangle, Liverpool, 4-5 May Words by Daniel Burton and Gary Lambert Photos by Gary Lambert Sound City 2019 was a festival that was approached with a cautious, tempered excitement. It felt like the organisers had made a bit of a gamble on the line up across the board … Continue reading

Festival Update: Threshold Festival 2016

Threshold Festival 2016 1st-3rd April 2016 Tickets are on sale now for a full weekend or day tickets, clickity click here. Keep updated: Website // Facebook // Twitter We’re proud to be the official provider of all of this year’s Threshold Festival playlists and having recently released their 2nd wave of music announcements it’s time … Continue reading

Festival Update: Kendal Calling

FESTIVAL DATES: FRIDAY 1st  – SUNDAY 3rd AUGUST 2014  Lowther Deer Park, Hackthorpe, The Lake District MULTI AWARD WINING FESTIVAL CONFIRMS SECOND CROP OF ARTISTS   OVER 60 NEW ACTS ANNOUNCED INCLUDING JIMI GOODWIN, FRIGHTENED RABBIT, SIMON & OSCAR FROM OCEAN COLOUR SCENE (ACOUSTIC), LEWIS WATSON, ADMIRAL FALLOW, NORMA JEAN MARTINE, MIRROR SIGNAL, TEAM ME, … Continue reading

FESTIVAL UPDATE: Reading & Leeds

22ND – 24TH AUGUST 2014, BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND   READING & LEEDS FESTIVALS ON TOUR! CLUB NIGHTS BRING THE FESTIVALS TO A VENUE NEAR YOU! Reading & Leeds will be going on tour this month, bringing all the fun of the August Bank Holiday Weekend Festivals to a city near you. The club nights, hosted … Continue reading

Festival Update: Reading & Leeds

  22ND – 24TH AUGUST 2014, BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND   Reading & Leeds Festivals announce ARCTIC MONKEYS as Main Stage headliners!   COURTEENERS, THE 1975, YOU ME AT SIX, SBTRKT, WARPAINT, NETSKY, ANNIE MAC, ROYAL BLOOD, HOZIER, ARCHITECTS, ISSUES, PUSHA T and KREPT & KONAN join the incredible line-up.  It’s shaping up to be a … Continue reading

Festival News: Isle Of Wight 2014

FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE PERFORMANCE SUNDAY 15TH JUNE KINGS OF LEON   ALSO APPEARING CALVIN HARRIS…BIFFY CLYRO…TRAVIS…CLEAN BANDIT…THE SPECIALS JOHN NEWMAN…DEAP VALLY… NINA NESBITT THE HORRORS…GORGON CITY…THE STRYPES THE POLYPHONIC SPREE…FROM THE JAM NEON JUNGLE…SWIM DEEP…CHLÖE HOWL THE SELECTER…DUKE DUMONT…PEACE JULY TALK…THE MOVE… LAWSON…THE VAMPS   TICKETS ON SALE NOW More info: http://www.isleofwightfestival.com

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