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From Wealden Literary Festival with Love
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine Boomtown
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443 reviewsFrom Wealden Literary Festival with Love
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine Boomtown
Neil del Strother · Read
Black Deer brings Mississippi Delta to rural Sussex
Seventy-one year old Chrissie Hynde was anticipating a younger audience. She told us this twice so she must have meant it.
Neil del Strother · Read
How the Light Gets In Illuminates the Dark Recesses of My Brain
Sometimes it’s easier to define something by what it is not: How The Light Gets In is not Boomtown. In fact it’s just about as diametrically opposite to Boomtown as it’s possible to be.
Neil del Strother www.neildelstrother.co.uk · Read
Feasty Fest 2022 Review
Our second year attending Feasty Fest with warm memories from the previous year we were hopeful that 2022 would live up to the previous.
Ben Robinson · Read
Into The Wild 2022 - Patchouli Oil Running Around My Brain
Into the Wild is a warm-hearted festival of the old skool: no corporates, plenty of tie-dye and diaphanous robes on display, friendly security, more Indian knick-knacks on sale than you can shake a stick at, and no booze or drugs.
Neil del Strother · Read
8 Things We Loved About Beat-Herder 2022
Beat-Herder is a magical oasis of pleasure seeking mayhem, hedonistic self-gratification and electronic debauchery. Nestled away slap bang on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border...
Duncan Whittaker · Read
Middle-Aged Womad Offers Embarrassment of Riches
Womad is the most magical of festivals. Forty years old, it still maintains an innocence, humility and sense of wonder that few, if any, other festivals can rival
Neil del Strother · Read
Retro in the Park 2022
One of the biggest nights on the East Lancashire “getting on it big time” scene has to be Burnley’s Retro in the Park. Last year’s event was a monster of a success – Roger Sanchez
Duncan Whittaker · Read
Love Supreme Serves a Lavish Helping of Relevance
Whoever booked Erykah Badu to headline at this year’s comeback Love Supreme deserves a biscuit, and a chocolate one at that. She was an inspired choice.
Neil del Strother · Read
ACT OF GOD OBSCURES THE WHOLE OF THE MOON
It seems that God is a purist when it comes to Americana
Neil del Strother · Read
Bearded Theory 2022
This years Bearded Theory was promising to be a particularly sweet occasion following several postponed attempts and subsequent cancelled re-arrangements due to the pandemic....
Keith Dennelly · Read
Byline brings intelligence and insight to new urban location
There’s something satisfyingly substantial about Byline. It’s an intelligent – intellectually stimulating – festival chock full of insight, interest and intrigue. Albeit the latter I’ve added just for the sake of alliteration.
Neil del Strother · Read
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