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One Love / One Sun Festival Confirms 2027 Return to Bentley Estate
One Love / One Sun Festival, renowned for blending reggae and electronic music, confirms its return to Bentley Estate in 2027. Organizers plan to enhance the experience, broaden the audience, and maintain the festival's independent spirit.
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3959 articlesOne Love / One Sun Festival Confirms 2027 Return to Bentley Estate
One Love / One Sun Festival, renowned for blending reggae and electronic music, confirms its return to Bentley Estate in 2027. Organizers plan to enhance the experience, broaden the audience, and maintain the festival's independent spirit.
Ben Robinson· Read
Drugs, Detection and Denial: A Weekend Inside Creamfields
“I’ll do it if you do it, d’you know what I mean”, I heard two boys in the tent next to me say. The ‘it’ in question was ketamine, and the tents were so packed together that I heard the whole exchange before they went off into the night.
Amber Byran· ReadAll Points East 2026: Twenty One Pilots deliver an incredible finale
All Points East 2026 festival concluded with a memorable performance by GRAMMY Award-winning band Twenty One Pilots. The duo's electrifying set captivated the audience, showcasing unique production and a diverse lineup of artists.
Ben Robinson· ReadReading Festival 2026 Turns Muddy as Rain Hits Site
Rain has turned Richfield Avenue into a mud bath as Reading Festival 2026 enters its final day. The Warehouse stage saw disruption over the weekend — but don't believe everything you see online, some reports are actually about Leeds. Here's what we actually know, plus Sunday's forecast.
Isabelle· ReadReading Festival 2026 review: brilliant bands, mediocre festival
Reading Festival 2026 (27–30 August, Richfield Avenue) has six strong headliners and one problem: you could see most of them somewhere better. With BBC Introducing axed, £325 tickets and hour-long queues, the festival is coasting on its bookings. UKFG wasn’t on site — this is a reported round-up.
Grace· ReadCharli XCX First Full UK Set of New Era at Reading Festival 2026
Charli XCX headlined The Grid at Reading Festival 2026 on Friday night, delivering the first full UK show of her Music, Fashion, Film era as heavy earlier rain finally eased across the site.
Grace· ReadTame Impala 2027 UK Tour - Manchester and London Shows
Tame Impala are returning to the UK in 2027, with Wet Leg joining Kevin Parker for three major arena shows in Manchester and London.
Grace· ReadCreamfields 2026 is Underway with Calvin Harris, disclosure and More
Creamfields 2026 is officially here, with tens of thousands of dance music fans heading to Daresbury in Cheshire for one of the biggest electronic music weekends of the year.
Ben· ReadLeeds Festival 2026 Line-Up, New Stages and Weekend Weather
Leeds Festival 2026 is underway at Bramham Park, with four days of music bringing some of the biggest names in pop, rock, rap, indie and dance to West Yorkshire.
Grace· ReadReading 2026 Clash Finder
All 155 published set times across seven stages. Pick your weekend, see instantly what clashes, and find the most sets one person can actually watch.
UK Festival Guides· ReadReading 2026 clashes: 155 sets, and you can only see 45
Reading Festival 2026 has at least 155 published sets across seven stages. We put every start and finish time into a spreadsheet. On the best route we could build, one person can watch around 45 of them in full — and only by staying up to 3am. Here are the clashes that actually hurt.
ReadReading & Leeds 2026: Have Big UK Festivals Lost It?
Reading and Leeds 2026 sold out with a bill topped by pop, rap and dance, and cue the annual funeral. The history says something more awkward: Reading has never changed gracefully, and the festivals genuinely in trouble are the independents — 141 UK festivals have gone since 2024.
Wayne Feltham· Read