As with the friday review, apologies to any bands I missed or cover here with a one-line review – seeing so many bands means that to do them all justice would lead to this review being ridiculously long. Saturday at Bloodstock got off to an early start with Apollyon on the New Blood stage. Some…
When the clock struck midday on Thursday 9th August, this was cause for celebration – not just because I wouldn’t be back at work till Tuesday the next week, but for a far better reason – time to set off for Bloodstock, the highlight of many metalheads calendars. A quick drive to Catton Hall followed…
This was my first time at V festival and I’d heard mixed reports about it, so was keen to see for myself what the festival was like. The festival is held at two sites – Chelmsford, Essex and Weston Park, Staffordshire on the same weekend with bands who play one site on the saturday, playing…
Två gånger är en vana, tre gånger är tradition. Vad fem gånger är vet jag inte, men Scribblefestivalen har blivit ett stående inslag i Mjölby under slutet av sommaren. När det arrangeras för femte gången är lineupen förmodligen den starkaste hittills. Night Train från Vadstena inleder festivalen på eftermiddagen. En ung hårdrockstrio som låter som…
How a 20th anniversary of festival life is could be celebrated? Sziget Festival is the winner of the best European major festival award- written on the hand passes. Idea started 20 years ago, as a small audience and band-meeting camp. Since it is thousands of young and older people biggest party in Europe every summer….
Minus second day was also a kind of surprise for those, who are curious in national music history, as well-known styles, and artists from the first hits of the modern age of Sziget Festival’s organizer Hungary. On 5th of August a whole day music fiesta celebrated the upper mentioned topic, as the song culture and…
DIMMU, HAMMERFALL ON THE TOP- METALDAY IN SZIGET FESTIVAL On the first day of 20th birthday celebrated Sziget Festival, city of Budapest was thrilled by Scandinavian soul, since that day called The Metal Day… Started in the early afternoon Sziget’s island filled up with real music lovers, waiting for the best metal artists, mostly legendically…
The second edition of the fresh Bucharest-based Romanian festival Summer Well started not so well and ended really bad. The lineup announced included The Stone Roses, Hurts, The Vaccines, Patrick Wolf, Wolf Gang, Zulu Winter and many others, but the joy of being able to see Hurts (again in Bucharest) and The Stone Roses for…
Vädret: stekhett, soligt, varmt, svettigt, regnigt, blåst, blixtar, moln, kallt, fullmåne Summering: Woodstock bjöd på allt förutom snö och storm, men mestadels 30 grader och sol 🙂 Folk: 800 000st Polacker (så långt ögat kunde nå), en och annan tysk och så några få procent svenska, vietnameser, fransmän och ryssar. Mer internationellt önskar emellertid både…
One of the good news this year was that the organization did everything in their power to keep the same ticket prices as the previous year:50€(quite cheap right?) and at the same time they continued to improve the conditions of the festival; the beer had a reasonable price (1, 5 €), there were more portable…
Unlike many of the UK’s festivals this year, the Cambridge Folk festival actually had good weather – there was sunshine, the site was green and grassy (rather than a muddy swamp as some festivals had), and it was lovely and warm. That sort of weather always helps put people in a good mood for a…
Camp Bestival is a 3-day weekend event especially catering for families since 2008, offering great music, live acts, authors, comedy and more! The campsite opens on the Thursday giving you plenty of time to get settled and organized before the Friday starts. This is perfect for those travelling here from far away and who just…