Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been appointed the first ever President of the Fringe Society, the charity that organises the Edinburgh Fringe.Read More
The Place will host the festival, which will feature a mix of recorded and live performances across dance, theatre and film.Read More
The Buxton Fringe is however still appealing for other venues interested in hosting events this July to get in touch as soon as they can.Read More
The National Eisteddfod, the biggest cultural event in Wales, has been postponed for a second successive year due to COVID-19.Read More
Turn on Fest, a celebration of queer artists and performers, had originally been due to run at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre this month.Read More
Buxton Festival Fringe 2021 will open for entries this year with an improved and easier entry procedure. The annual festival, which began in 1980, is one of the largest open-access arts festivals in the country and, like other events this year such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, had to move events online this year. Fringe […]Read More
Tom Moorcroft discusses the latest line-up reveal from Barcelona's own Primavera Sound 2021Read More
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With 2000 Trees a month away, the festival organisers have confirmed the line-up for the Forest Sessions Stage. Saturday night Main Stage headliners Deaf Havana lead the line-up for the forest stage but they’ll also be joined by YONAKA, Holding Absence, Grace Petrie, Cavetown and The Skints for some intimate performances. In addition, there will […]Read More
Slam Dunk North moved into its new home at Temple Newsam this weekend with the leafy surroundings and grand manor as its backdrop the festival felt it had finally grown-up. Having lost the Midlands leg of Slam Dunk and moving away from the city centre in Leeds had felt like an risky punt to take […]Read More
There are many things that Leeds covets as a city – cheap beers, being the birthplace of M&S – but perhaps its most precious asset is its thudding music scene, and with it, the annual Live At Leeds Festival. Kicking off my day at 3pm were the floppy-haired rockers Drenge at O2 Academy, who wryly […]Read More
Over 60 new acts have been confirmed for Download Festival 2018. Having already announced Avenged Sevenfold, Ozzy Osbourne and Guns ‘N’ Roses as their headliners, the rock and metal festival is now starting to take shape with this latest announcement. Joining the Main Stage at Download Festival this year are old favourites like Black Stone […]Read More
Will Fisher witnessed DMA’s offhandedly stylish performance at Kendal Calling 2017 and caught up with guitarist Johnny Took from the band to talk about their debut album, festival season and… house plants.Read More
Festival season has come around once again and many savvy festival goers headed to polling stations to vote on the 8th June before beginning their weekend at the first major UK festival of the year on the Isle of Wight. Indie-rock band Misfires made an appearance in the ‘Jack Rocks with This Feeling’ stage, putting […]Read More
Rou Reynolds, frontman of Enter Shikari asks, “Are you all feeling suitably nostalgic?”. While the Main Stage crowd roars back, the affirmation feels something like a simple answer because actually, no, as they rattle through their decade-old debut album ‘Take To The Skies’ it actually feels more relevant than ever before. With the lights and […]Read More
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