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Womad 2019 is some way beyond brilliant
n truth Womad 2019 wasn’t perfect, but it was bloody brilliant, if not some way beyond it. And my right-on-it teenage daughter thought so too...
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Womad 2019 is some way beyond brilliant
n truth Womad 2019 wasn’t perfect, but it was bloody brilliant, if not some way beyond it. And my right-on-it teenage daughter thought so too...
Neil del Strother · Read
Camp Bestival Review 2019
Wow! What can I say Camp Bestival is an absolute feast for the ears, eyes and definitely taste buds!
Lynn Darracott · Read
7 Things We Loved About Beat-Herder 2019
There is no better feeling than finishing work on the Friday, getting in the car and driving down to what is, in Beat-Herder’s own words, “an orgy of beats and barminess.”
Duncan Whittaker · Read
Love Supreme - South Downs’ Cliff chalks up sheer joy
It’s rare a performance leaves me with a sense of sheer joy, but the great Jimmy Cliff (mystifyingly not a headliner at this year’s Love Supreme) left me reeling...
Neil del Strother · Read
Black Deer 2019 - Cashless, Stashless and Care-less in the Deep South
In its triumphant second year the Black Deer festival has successfully rebranded the leafy afternoon-tea-addicted Sussex/Kent borderlands as the Deep South.
Neil del Strother · Read
Casahless, Stashless and Care-less in the Deep South
Casahless, Stashless and Care-less in the Deep South
Neil Del Strother · Read
Cloudspotting 2019
With the beautiful backdrop of Gisburn forest, there really is no better place for a family orientated festival. With a range of earthy, simple and relaxing activities mixed with an eclectic array of live music
Louise Whittaker · Read
Making Hay and the Philosophers’ Un-stoned
Making Hay and the Philosophers’ Un-stoned
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This is Tomorrow Festival 2019
For the second time in May I made the long drive from Norwich to Newcastle, this time for This is Tomorrow Festival, opposite the University on Exhibition Park, featuring a very impressive line up
Paul M. Jones · Read
Bearded Theory 2019
One of the things I love about Bearded Theory is that its early in the festival season and I, as well as most others seem visibly excited at the prospect of shaking off the winter cobwebs and getting in the swing...
Keith Dennelly · Read
Beltane Into the Wild is a near death experience
It is perhaps unique to report that the highlight of a festival weekend was an intense discussion about grief and death, but Beltane Into the Wild is, well, no ordinary festival.
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Hit the North 2019
Like several others, my buddy Aaron and I travelled north from Live @ Leeds Festival on the Saturday to attend our second multi-venue festival of the weekend on the Sunday; Hit the North in Newcastle.
Paul M. Jones · Read
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