The people at Boardmasters this year have introduced an all new attraction in the form of Day Sessions. Located on the beautiful Fistral Beach these sessions will be free of charge. Live music will be on between 2pm and 4pm on Wednesday 8th August, Thursday 9th August and Sunday 12th August. So whilst you’re catching…
Every time I go and see these guys I’m always taken aback by what an incredible sound they can make. Who needs a bass player when you can sound this good as a duo? Their joint presence fills the stage enough; the musical chemistry between them is obvious, the breaks are spot-on, the fills are…
Not heard of Savages? Neither had I until a few weeks ago, but this post-punk London all-girl four-piece, (who have barely been together for a year) are certainly receiving some welcomed interest. They describe their intention as being to “create a sound, indestructible and musically solid, written for the stage, designed with enough nuances to…
My expectations for this year’s 15th Truck Festival were fairly high, so I went along to see what all the fuss was about. I was certainly not to be disappointed. The festival had a brilliant, packed line-up (including Mystery Jets, Tim Minchin and The Temper Trap), was an ideal size, a fantastic location and newly…
It is a freezing cold and blizzard like scene as I step out of Wood Green Underground station, my Converse shoes which have holes in were probably not the best option as they become soaked within seconds. All this on top of a 1 and a half hour journey from my house; a journey I…
Pure Love have faced quite a bit of stick since they formed last year, with lead singer Frank Carter leaving Gallows behind him to create the band. To go from hardcore to pop rock is quite a feat but they seem to be pulling it off very very well. Clwb Ifor Bach, one of Cardiff’s…
“Mother, I can never come home again ‘cos I seem to have left a very important part of my brain somewhere… somewhere in a field in Hampshire.” These words, famously uttered by Jarvis Cocker in Pulp’s ‘Sorted out for E’s & Wizz’, are the most accurate way I can summarise the 2007 UK Festival Awards’…
Saturday saw me hanging around the main stage again for most of the day, kicking off at one o’clock with Big Country. Their inoffensive brand of 80s stadium-rock was the perfect cure for my birthday hangover from the previous day, the band storming through a catalogue of their greatest hits and seeming like they were…
For those of you looking to escape to the beach this summer, look no further! Located on the wonderful Cornwall coast in Newquay, Relentless Energy Drink Boardmasters is set to be an amazing weekend for all those attending. With the line-up getting bigger and better each year, it’s soon becoming one of must-go-to festivals of…
Think of Glastonbury. Thousands of enthusiastic, happy festival-goers. A wide variety of music. Crazy outfits. Hippies. Booze. Mud. Now scale this down by a hundred or so and you have the briefest of snapshots into the weird and wonderful world of Truck Festival. Founded in 1998 by Robin and Joe Bennett (of the band Goldrush, and…
I entered the festival innocent, naïve, clean. I left a man. Isle of Wight was the first festival I had ever gone to, and it confirmed every perception I had of what festivals were like: the overflowing toilets, the mud, the post-GCSE’s teenagers just discovering alcohol (and similarly, vomit). But bodily fluids and unsanitary conditions aside,…
The original back garden festival goes into its seventh year and proves to be a great success.
What to look out for at this year’s Bestival.
The Royal Albert Hall’s grandiose and atmosphere is perhaps one of the best settings to see a gig in London. On July 2nd it was host to opening act Only Son, and – the reason that everyone was there – Regina Spektor. Only Son, real name Jack Dishel, took to the stage a little late…