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Rockness 2012
Seemingly situated inside a cloud, Rockness festival takes place on the banks of Loch Ness. Aside from the weather, the area appears to be designed for a festiv
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Seemingly situated inside a cloud, Rockness festival takes place on the banks of Loch Ness. Aside from the weather, the area appears to be designed for a festiv
ahartley · Read
Parklife Weekender 2012
Located SLAP BANG in the middle of Manchester University’s beating heart, Platt Fields Park is once again the venue for its third annual weekender. Such a geogr
Ben Robinson · Read
Rains can’t extinguish Fire in the Mountain
Up-and-coming new folk festival defies bad weather to put on exuberant, fun-filled alternative to Jubilee weekend “Women make an arch – men do the run, men do
Tom D · Read
Meadowlands is my new favourite festival!
Meadowlands is my new favourite festival- it has just the right amount of everything! Since my festival going days were born at Glastonbury nearly 20 years ago
Cathi Moore · Read
Dot To Dot – Manchester 2012
This was my first year attending any of the Dot To Dot events taking place in a small number of selected cities across the country. Over the weekend, a huge num
Daniel Rydings · Read
Bushstock: Bite-size festivalling in west London
Shepherd's Bush: A Bank Holiday is always a risky time to plan an event in London. Not only because numbers may be artificially low, but also due to the curse o
LiamD · Read
Lakefest 2012
Armed with cheese and hot sauce sandwiches, chocolate mini eggs and Shiraz, the drive down to Tewksbury was all without incident, except that is, for the joint
magenta · Read
Bearded Theory
I’m not really sure who’s got it right here, is it me sat in an empty festival ground at 6.45 in the morning, enjoying a bit of fresh air, pondering on such tri
insomniac jack · Read
Liverpool Sound City 2012
Liverpool Sound City, now in it’s fifth year, offered a combination of various daytime Music/Tech conferences and a plethora of artists and bands of diverse sty
Andrew Darwin · Read
The Great Escape: Taking The Express To The Future Of Music
Brighton: The final day of The Great Escape was perhaps a little more muted than the second. Despite the sunny weather, there were grumbles about the length of
LiamD · Read
The Great Escape: Moments To Savour
Brighton: With the weather set to 'sit back, relax', the second day of The Great Escape was perfectly set up for the kind of festival atmosphere that it deserve
LiamD · Read
The Great Escape: Don't rain on my parade
Day One, Thursday 10 May Brighton: That a seaside town in the rain is the coastal version of a child's half-deflated balloon is something of a cliche. Yet I'm
LiamD · Read
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