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Review5/10Emotional 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
Review4/10Beat-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
Review5/10Three Lions Roar on the Beach at Lytham
Leafy Lytham has established itself as a heavy weight in the Northern festival scene over recent years
Review5/10Soul/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
Review4/10Black 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
Review5/10Lovejam 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.
Review5/10FeastyFest 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!
Review5/10Come 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
Review4/10Nature 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.
Review5/10Womad 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...
Review4/10Triumph 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
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From Wealden Literary Festival with Love
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine Boomtown
Review5/10Black 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.
Review4/10How 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.
Review4/10Feasty 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.
Review5/10Into 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…
Review5/108 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...
Review4/10Middle-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
Review4/10Retro 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
Review5/10Love 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.
