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Medicine Festival basks in Summer Sunshine
There are times I feel so unbearably uncool I want to crawl into a dark hole. At Medicine Festival I feel this in spades. If you want to know where all the beautiful – alternative
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Medicine Festival basks in Summer Sunshine
There are times I feel so unbearably uncool I want to crawl into a dark hole. At Medicine Festival I feel this in spades. If you want to know where all the beautiful – alternative
Neil del Strother · Read
Emotional Womad elicits tears and cures physics trauma
There are festivals and then there is Womad. Over an extended Wiltshire July weekend it reliably serves up a vision of a better world, where all ages, creeds
Neil del Strother · Read
Beat-Herder 2024 – Northern Hedonism At Its Very Greatest
Orbital, The Wailers and Utah Saints rock the woodland dance floors buried deep inside the lovely Lancashire countryside
Words by Duncan Whittaker and Clare Viner · Read
Three Lions Roar on the Beach at Lytham
Leafy Lytham has established itself as a heavy weight in the Northern festival scene over recent years
Words by Duncan Whittaker and Clare Viner. · Read
Soul/Jazz festival Love Supreme serves up FOMO feast
The first rule of FOMO is you can’t go to everything. Or perhaps, seeing as we are all one – as I’m sure free-flowing hippie and afternoon wonder act Joss Stone would agree
Neil del Strother · Read
Black Deer sizzles over chill June weekend
Each year Black Deer surprises me. In my everyday life I spend very little time listening to country music, or rather Americana, it’s just not my thing
Neil del Strother · Read
Lovejam is spread across the Susssex countryside
When you stumble upon somewhere beautiful and unspoiled the temptation is to keep it secret, as a special place just for you, as somewhere to return to and shed the troubles of the world.
Neil del Strother · Read
FeastyFest 2023 in Cheam: A Sensation of Music, Family, and Flavor!
Feasty Fest in Cheam delivered an unforgettable day of pure musical bliss, leaving attendees fully satisfied!
Ben Robinson · Read
Come as you are Into the Wild
There is something endearingly homespun about Into the Wild. It’s this that makes it such a charming and enjoyable festival. Indeed, after a particularly stressful and convoluted drive to its rural idyll Sussex site
Neil del Strother · Read
Nature and Heart is Healing Medicine
Festivals have personality. Some are boisterous, some a little restrained, and some are just beautifully chilled. The Medicine Festival is very much in the latter camp.
Neil del Strother · Read
Womad serves up heady mix of war, wet and wonder
Every year Womad reliably serves up an embarrassment of musical riches. There’s a seemingly inexhaustible list of extraordinary and – to me at least...
Neil del Strother · Read
Triumph in the Heart of Downland
Let’s start off with the women. A healthy percentage of the acts over the Love Supreme weekend – including the excellent main stage headliners on the Saturday and Sunday nights
Neil del Strother · Read
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