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WOMAD FESTIVAL 27-30 July 2023 Charlton Park, Malmesbury - UK

Festival Reviews
09 September 2023

This year I optednotgo to Cambridge Folk Festival, but to Womad instead, as I was keen to see something different. I had been to Womad before, as a punter, and I knew that the festival can be counted on to program acts that you would not see elsewhere.

 I went as a volunteer this time, therefore a certain amount of time was taken up by work. In the remaining time I tried to catch as much music as possible, which meant I missed out on the many other offerings, such as literary events, the popularTaste The Worldcookery presentations, wellness sessions and the Moon art installation.

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Visions Festival - London - Saturday 22 July 2023

Festival Reviews
09 September 2023

A strong feature in the summer calendar, Visions Festival continues to evolve, this year’s event comprising 5 venues that are closer than ever - all within a 7-8 minute walk. Just as well given the incessant rain today, but with all venues indoors spirits remained undampened. 

 With £30 early bird tickets in the bag a while ago, Visions represents superb value for money for anyone happy to explore new bands and sounds with a couple of more established names occupying the headline slots. 

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Summer Opening Festival, Funchal, Madeira Friday 14th July 2023

Festival Reviews
30 July 2023

While holidaying in Madeira, we couldn’t resist dipping into a day at this festival. It runs over 4 days in all, Friday & Saturday on consecutive weekends in July, from early evening and into the wee hours on each night.

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Glastonbury Festival - Worthy Farm 21-25 June 2023

Festival Reviews
30 June 2023

I have been coming to Glastonbury one and off (more on) since 1994.  This was my 20th Glastonbury and the second time as an Oxfam volunteer.  Glad to have found a way that I can continue going.  There is nothing like Glastonbury anywhere on earth.  The televised bits are excellent but there is so much more.  

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Ceremony3 Festival - Bedford, Esquires -Saturday 10th June 2023

Festival Reviews
30 June 2023

The third annual event under this banner; our second visit.  A one-dayer at the multi-venued Esquires in Bedford. We were attracted back following last year’s visit simply because it represents a great value-for money day, featuring a great selection of under the radar bands.

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Wide Awake Festival - Brockwell Park, London Saturday 27th May 2023

Festival Reviews
30 June 2023

An excellent day out in South London.  Good to see this event is becoming a fixture following its launch immediately before Lockdown.  With no stellar acts on the line-up it was evident that everyone who went was willing to take in and enjoy the full panoply of the undercard. 

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The Great Escape Festival - Brighton -11th May 2023

Festival Reviews
15 May 2023

A brief glimpse into this years Great Escape Festival. Was only there for one day (Thursday) but able to catch a good number of bands and soak up the vibe in the Brighton sunshine.

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Rockaway Beach Festival, Butlins Bognor Regis 6-8 January 2023

Festival Reviews
29 January 2023

Amongst the many plus points that have drawn us back again and again to Rockaway Beach is the timing.  No better time than the first weekend of January to kick-start the gig year. But as well as that it seems to set something of  a template for the year, helping us start to shape our plans for the new music landscape and present and early opportunity to schedule in bands we want to place on the 2023 agenda.

The line-up is traditionally a mix of ‘legend’ bands (this year OMD, Peter Hook & The Light, The Undertones, The Beat) interspersed with a range of new acts to discover or revisit. Two stand-outs already in the diary for Spring gigs: Personal Trainer & Hamish Hawk

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Mutations Festival Brighton 3-6 Nov 2022

Festival Reviews
27 November 2022

 

Mutations is a wonderful festival. it’s a key output of the Brighton music scene, with past headliners including White Denim, Lightning Bolt and other off the wall bands not often seen together. Its had various forms over the years, with 2022 featuring several of the organisers’ favourite venues, many fairly intimate, and a huge number of their current favourite bands - over 80! Big thanks to organisers including Relevant Records, Bella Union, Brixton Windmill and many others.

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End of The Road Festival 2022

Festival Reviews
07 November 2022

Cranborne Chase is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which lies far from the beaten track on the Wiltshire/ Dorset border, the Chase surrounds the Larmer Tree Gardens which were created as a Victorian pleasure ground. Today the gardens are in demand as a wedding venue with black and white half-timbered buildings, peacocks and parakeets, lawns and laurel hedges carefully manicured providing the perfect background to many couple's nuptials. Since 2006 Simon Taffe (co-founder and curator) has used the Larmer Tree Gardens as the venue for End of the Road festival (EotR) interweaving the festival into the architecture and environs of the gardens. 

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End Of The Road Festival 1-4 September 2022

Festival Reviews
13 September 2022

The End Of The Road was my fourth and final festival of the summer. It is a real music lovers festival. Having spent the previous weekend at Shambala, this came as a relief. You can put glitter on your face and fairy lights on your tent, but the main reason people come to the End Of The Road is to hear quality music. Instagrammers, whose main objective is to look to be having fun, are mercifully absent, and although people take photos or the odd short video as a memento, bands are not playing to a sea of phones. 

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Cambridge Folk Festival - 28-31 July 2022

Festival Reviews
10 August 2022

“This is what we were dreaming about for the last two years – to come out and play Cambridge Folk Festival”, said Suzanne Vega during her headline set on Friday.  Indeed – how great it was to be back at Cherry Hinton Hall for four days of simply the best music. 

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