Wilkestock 2019 Friday Music, Charity and Leather Sofas
On a sunny Friday afternoon, I navigated the country lanes of between Stevenage and Hertford in Hertfordshire to get to a small site for the 12th Wilkestock Festival. Wilkestock is very quirky and unique with all profits going to charity. Namely, Bloodwise Leukaemia...
Victorious Festival 2019: Sunday Night At The Seaside
Another day, another sky, deep blue from horizon to horizon. The Ambre Solaire salesman was sweating on August, but the targets came in, right at the end. Yesterday I walked seven and a half miles back and forth between the Castle and Common stages and my plates of...
Victorious Festival 2019: Saturday Night At The Seaside
If anything, the temperatures for Victorious Festival’s middle day were set to outstrip those of day one. One of the many benefits of the Victorious site is its seaside location. On offshore blast may have conspired against the festival last year, but for 2019,...
Victorious Festival 2019: Friday Night At The Seaside
Victorious is Britain’s biggest metropolitan festival. From humble beginnings a few years ago at a site in Portsmouth’s Historic Naval Dockyard, the event is now in its eighth year and has expanded to occupy a giant swathe of Southsea Common and promenade. There are a...
All The World’s A Fair: Womad 2019
Womad is a big part of our family. We’ve been going since the now grown-up kids were small, not every year but most, starting off the summer holidays on the first weekend after school broke up. Now it’s become a weekend where the whole family comes together, relaxes...
Things That Make You Go Boom: Boomtown Fair 2019
In a week when other UK festivals and events were cancelling due to severe weather warnings, Boomtown Fair, to everyone's delight continued as scheduled at the gigantic Matterley Estate, Winchester. Now in its 11th year or as titled, Chapter 11 A Radical City, 2019...
Viva La Rock With Marco Mendoza In The Underworld
Camden Town has been a mecca for live music fans for sometime and continues to offer live music just about every night of the week. There really is a wealth of emerging talent currently in the U.K. rock scene and a trip on the Northern Line to this vibrant area of...
Prophets Of Rage Bring Their Politically Charged Noise To Manchester
As I arrive at Manchester Academy, the queue of people already eager to catch the superstars of Rock / Rap already snake right down Oxford Road as far as the eye can see, it’s safe to say when Tom Morello, Chuck D, B Real and co are in town it’s kind of a big deal....
Truck Festival In Oxfordshire – Paul Gets Involved With Gaffa Tape Sandy – Day 4
We woke up to the last day of Truck to glorious sunshine again. Given the stories we had heard of other festivals during the weekend, we felt extremely Lucky in Oxfordshire. I was still in the media tent writing up day 3 when Paul went out for the annual Mr Motivator...
Truck Festival In Oxfordshire The Smaller Stages Mount A Coup – Day 3
Friday night had ended with rain cooling things down, and it rained all night, which is not great when you are under canvas, but this is the UK so we are used to it. I woke up on Saturday and the rain was still falling. The outlook did not look that good, and we...
Puddle Of Mudd Sizzle On The Hottest Of Hot Days
On the hottest day in England since records began, I had a sweaty, heavy post-grunge gig at the Islington Assembly in North London to attend, with a nice hot journey to and from the venue on the Northern ‘furnace” Line to boot. That’s the negatives out of the way....
Truck Festival In Oxfordshire Mercury Rises And Mercury Prizes – Days One & Two
The 22nd Truck Festival promised to be epic with the current Mercury Prize Winners Headlining on Friday, and originally no less than three out of the twelve nominees for 2019. This was unfortunately cut down to two as Fontaines DC had to pull out of several festivals...
A Summer Sunday At Ramblin Man Fair 2019
Sunday was always forecast as being the best day of the weekend weather-wise but I feel the line-up was slightly weaker than Saturday. Looking at some of the punters, they were perhaps a little weaker today also following Saturday’s partying. No complaints mind, as...
A Beautiful Saturday At Ramblin Man Fair 2019
The weather forecast for Saturday at Ramblin Man Fair was certainly going to be an improvement over a wet Friday but there was still a little rain around early on. The rain, however, had fizzled out before the doors opened and it was surprisingly dry underfoot. It was...
Ramblers Rock Up For The Darkness At 2019 Ramblin’ Man Fair
Ramblin’ Man Fair, held tucked under the North Downs in picturesque Mote Park, Maidstone, is now in its fifth year and after a rocky (no pun intended) start (original owners of the RMF brand, Team Rock went bust in 2016), the festival has gone from strength to...
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