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The Great Escape booker Adam Ryan: ‘This year we have a few surprises’
The Great Escape Festival has earned its reputation as the UK’s answer to SXSW, with eight years of heavy focus »
Melvin Benn on Latitude: ‘It’s a thinking person’s festival’
Last night we headed down to the Latitude Festival 2013 launch party at the Maida Vale Studios, which was broadcast »
Hideout Festival 2013 Preview – Fastest selling year to date
I was desperate to book myself a beach holiday this year, and also set on going to a house music »
Leeds Festival 2013 – to the faithful, it’s a religion
Men! Women! Children! What are you up to from 23rd – 25th August? Maybe you’re planning a trip to Lanzarote. »
Southport Weekender preview – Minehead Mayhem!
With memories of the Christmas and New Year festivities just beginning to fade my attention has been drawn to what »
Who’s to blame for bursting the festival bubble?
Recently there’s been some reports in the press about the decline in festival goers. It doesn’t take Inspector Morse to »
FM’s Christmas Wish List of Fantasy Festival Inventions
Christmas is just around the corner, as you will no doubt be able to discern from the endless adverts on »
Freeze Festival Preview – Cooler than a dead penguin
Battersea Power Station becomes Mount Battersea on 26th and 27th October as dance, hip hop and snowboarding’s elite converge by »
Ticket Tout Interview – The other side of the fence
One of the icons of the festival industry is the ticket tout. Now we’ve read tons of bad press about »
So you didn’t get Glastonbury tickets – Now what?
We’ve all been there. Old laptops that haven’t seen the light of day for years dusted off and booted up. »
Shakedown Festival 2012 Preview – Last chance to dance
Dictionary: Summer [suhm-er] Noun – a period of hot, usually sunny weather “One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.” »
UK Winter Festival Guide – It’s not over yet!
It’s not over yet. Bestival may have concluded another incredible summer of festivals, but don’t cry yourself to sleep just »
Interview with Dog Is Dead at In The Woods Festival
Before I meet two members of Nottingham band Dog Is Dead backstage at Kent-based festival In The Woods, I’m a »
Get the BEST of Bestival – 2012 Preview
I can’t believe it’s that time again. For the fourth year running I find myself manically running round getting ready »
Leeds Festival 2012 Preview – A final summer party
For anyone who was lucky enough to be a teenager throughout the late nineties and early noughties, the Reading and »