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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.

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.

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…

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...

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

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

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.

Brand new documentary follows the legendary Secret Garden Party

Watch the trailer for a brand-new feature documentary, That Was a Serious Party, directed by Dylan Harvey

ACT OF GOD OBSCURES THE WHOLE OF THE MOON

It seems that God is a purist when it comes to Americana

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....