Womad 2024 cemented its position as one of the most underrated festivals in the UK’s packed summer schedule. You’ll struggle to find a more inclusive, friendly and chilled out event. Set in the idyllic Charlton Park near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, it boasts 4 days of top-notch food from all over the…
https://dice.fm/event/adrlx-totally-wired-live-tge-free-pre-party-11th-may-brighton-electric-brighton-tickets Brighton radio show Totally Wired are throwing a TGE pre-party event at Brighton Electric the day before The Great Escape Festival with some of the finest up-and-coming acts performing over the festival. Line up – Flowvers The Dryas Harvey…
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The annual Boomtown Fair grabs your average UK festival and throws it into the stewing pot, adding a heavy emphasis on immersive storyline, and stage designs, that are blown so far out of proportion that only Glastonbury comes close. Then they sprinkle a thousand-and-one paid actors to guide you on…
Womad, now in it’s 37th year, saw temperatures rocket to 38 degrees on the Thursday as we arrived from Brighton in several traffic jams to Wiltshire at the hottest part of the day, the trees were still and not one cloud gave us hope of shelter from the relentlessly burning…
When done right, festivals achieve a special kind of magic. Brainchild is a festival that’s done right. Not-for-profit, serious about social issues yet gloriously fun, and a celebration of artistic expression and personal freedom, it has that particular magic in spades. Now into its eighth year, Brainchild has become an…
Started in 2013, and billed as the first outdoor jazz festival for over 20 years, Love Supreme has always been about combining contemporary and old school jazz flavours, with crowd pleasing pop, along with a little bit of soul, funk, hip hop, electronica, and r’n’b. And while it took a…
With an apparent administrative cock up with dates to deal with, The Great Escape was a week earlier than normal, very soon after Easter and the Labour Day Bank Holiday. Would this have an affect? Would there be less sun and less people? Well, when you’re living in a highly…
You simply cannot keep a great songwriter down. A founding member of Brighton based The Mojo Fins, Stephen (SJ) Brett has found his feet again, with a new band that includes Paul Pascoe on bass, Oddur Runnarson on guitar and Nick Van Vlaenderen on drums. This is only their…
Off the back of his fourth solo album Yawn, Bill Ryder-Jones returned to Brighton to treat us to a truly humble and intimate set of old and new favourites. Playing to an almost sold-out room at The Haunt, it was clear Bill had pulled in a number of his die-hard…