Festivals

Robbie Williams In Line For Massive Set at British Summer Time Festival

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Robbie Williams In Line For Massive Set at British Summer Time Festival

Robbie Williams has confirmed he’ll return to London for a massive show at next year’s British Summer Time Hyde Park. The legendary singer will take to the Great Oak Stage on Sunday July 14, with more acts expected to be added to the line-up soon. James King, Senior Vice President of AEG Presents said: ” One of the truly great British entertainers, we’re so excited to finally welcome Robbie Williams to Hyde Park who’s been…

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Wireless Festival to return to finsbury park… If it bans swearing

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Wireless Festival to return to finsbury park… If it bans swearing

The Wireless festival has been granted permission to return to its north London venue, but only on the strict condition that performers do not swear. The licence conditions for the Finsbury Park event also include new tougher sound level limits and have been imposed by the local council after a residents’ group made a series of complaints. Largely featuring music of black origin, such as grime, hiphop and rap, the north London festival attracts almost 50,000 people…

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Nick Mulvey to be Cambridge Folk Festival’s 2019 Guest Curator

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Nick Mulvey to be Cambridge Folk Festival’s 2019 Guest Curator

Cambridge Folk Festival is excited to announce that local lad, Nick Mulvey will be returning to Cambridge in 2019 as the Festival’s guest curator. Responsible for selecting five of his favourite artists to deliver extraordinary sets for the Cherry Hinton crowd, Mulvey’s curation will proudly sit across the line up in August next year.   Beyond his role as guest curator, Mulvey will also take to the main stage for his own performance. He returns…

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Glastonbury 2019 News and rumours for the legendary festival

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Glastonbury 2019 News and rumours for the legendary festival

The legendary Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis has hinted that this next year’s headliners will be “two or three that have never played”. Returning after a barren year, all of the festival-goers and the rumour mill have gone into overdrive as to who the headliners could be, with Emily Eavis adding that one of the headliners is a non-British act. So, let’s take a look at some of the favourites to head up the bill……

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Charities warn festival goers against leaving tents behind as donations

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Charities warn festival goers against leaving tents behind as donations

Thousands upon thousands of tents are abandoned at festivals each year, but it’s not just post-festival lethargy – or poor weather – that is to blame. According to experts, many festival goers leave their tents behind because they think they will be donated to charities. Despite some festivals advertising that leftover tents will go to philanthropic use, up to 90 per cent of tents that get left end up in landfill or the incinerator, explains…

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Largest Music Festivals You Cannot Miss in 2018

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Largest Music Festivals You Cannot Miss in 2018

Thousands of people hear the same live-sound of their favorite artist or band, see the same view and finally share the same emotions. Do you know how all these factors come together and make the whole impression multiplied repeatedly and unforgettable adventure for a long time? Festival “Donauinselfest” Place: Vienna, Austria The music festival on the island of Donauinsel is the largest free music festival in Europe in the open air. The media claim the…

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Festival Catastrophes Lead to Evacuations

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Festival Catastrophes Lead to Evacuations

Frankly, It’s been a bit of an unlucky weekend. For music festivals this side of the pond. Two massive festivals, one in England. One in Spain, faced serious issues.  After a weekend of heavy rain, Y Not Festival was left in a messy state. Though a bit of mud is to be expected at a UK festival. Conditions were severe enough for organizers to cancel the final day. In a statement on the website, organizers…

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Donald Glover calls time on Childish Gambino

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Donald Glover calls time on Childish Gambino

While performing at the Governors Ball Music Festival in New York City, the actor-rapper concluded his set with a surprise announcement. Before leaving the stage, he stated to the audience: “I’ll see you for the last Gambino album.” In an interview with The Huffington Post Donald expressed his explanations as to why he is calling time on Childish Gambino. “There’s nothing worse than like a third sequel, like a third movie and we’re like, ‘again?’”…

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3 UK Festivals worth getting excited about

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3 UK Festivals worth getting excited about

So we all know that Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds and Isle of Wight are going to be huge this year. Pulling hundreds of thousands of people from all across the globe to see acts like Radiohead and Arcade Fire. Those bigger festivals rarely disappoint, with a huge variety of things to do if you don’t count the music itself. But what are some other options for this summer. From some lesser known festivals that could be equally…

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