The 23rd Annual Raindance Film Festival opened this week with the world premiere of American spy thriller Newcomer, starring BIFA winner James Floyd (My Brother The Devil) and Anthony LaPaglia, winner of a Golden Globe for his role in Without…
Lindsey Bowden is the founder and producer of the Twin Peaks UK Festival, we had the chance to catch up with Lindsey about what the festival has to offer and pick her brains about the seminal series. How and why…
As one of the biggest festivals in the UK, Reading is always going to come in for some stick from ‘festival purists’. The commercial nature and heavily sponsored image of the world famous event makes certain would-be festival goers claim…
Within moments of campers arriving and the festival kicking off, Nozstock’s eclecticism was made clear. Stages were christened by the weird and wonderful (though some certainly strayed more towards the former) and by the evening everyone was well and truly…
Rating: Barn On The Farm isn’t a festival, it’s a family. It’s that same feeling you get when you arrive home after a long trip, to find everything you’ve ever loved all in one place. You probably wouldn’t believe me…
As far as small family festivals go, Blissfields is representative: friendly staff, chilled out atmosphere, a couple of big acts and a plethora of ones that no one’s ever heard of and are waiting to be discovered. Below are my…
Mac DeMarco If you need any tips on how to completely steal everyone else’s thunder at a festival, look no further than Mac DeMarco. Bang on time, looking like an indie teenage girls dream in army print dungarees, DeMarco kicks…
Telegram Setting the bar high for the rest of the weekend at the Jägerhaus tent, Telegram – all skinny jeans and sunglasses – owned the stage with unapologetic force. Before entering the tent the festival seemed relatively empty (as you’d…
Rating: It seems to be have become the norm for bands who carry success beyond the “difficult second album”, that no sooner do you find a formula that works, it begins to wear thin; “the sweetest honey is loathsome in…
Name: Live At Leeds Where: 20 different venues in Leeds When: 1st-4th May Headliners: Dry The River, Dutch Uncles, Eagulls, Emmy The Great, Gaz Coombes, George The Poet, Hookworms, Lauren Aquilina, Lawson, Lucy Rose, MNEK, Palma Violets, Prides, Raleigh Ritchie,…