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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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

Slam Dunk is always a special Bank Holiday weekend of alternative and punk music and this year's event promises to be more of the same. With Enter Shikari celebrating 10 years of their seminal debut album 'Take To The Skies' over the…

110 Above is an independently ran festival in rural Leicestershire, and acts on the line-ups each year are typically within the alternative rock genre, although some bands in this year’s line-up could be described as grunge and post punk…

Ever wanted to chill out and watch bands live, but rather than wading through muddy fields to get to the music, your location is instead a beautiful, golden beach? As long as the temperamental British weather holds up nicely, at…

A batch of exciting new names have been added to the line up for Kendal Calling 2017. Amongst the newly announced artists are Welsh rockers Feeder who will expectedly deliver their classic anthems along with tracks from their latest…

Slam Dunk 2017 is just around the corner and if you haven't got a ticket then why not? In short, its going to be great. As one of the few alternative / punk festivals, this three day extravaganza - now in its 12th year - has always brought…

With just under 2 weeks to go until a wealth of talent descends onto the beautiful city of Leeds for a Bank Holiday Weekend party in the shape of metropolitan day festival Live At Leeds, we at The Indiependent thought what better way to get…

Isle of Wight festival is one of the first major UK festival of the year, and with just under two months until the festival commences, here are the top 10 acts that you should definitely see from the line-up announced so far. …

The latest announcement also includes the news that Deaf Havana will be performing a special fan voted for set on the Friday evening. Having headlined the festival back in 2015, the band will return to Upcote Farm for a special set as…