STOP MAKING SENSE 2013 – Live Review (Part 2)

…SMS Festival 2013 Review Continued. Click here for Thursday & Friday (Part 1)

Saturday

Saturday, feeling a little worse for wear, I got to the mad queues, yes the only queue or hectic-ness you’ll see at Stop Making … Read More

STOP MAKING SENSE 2013 – Live Review (Part 1)

Hi, my name is Gonzalo, and I think I may be over festivals. Or that is at least the way I felt about a week ago. I’m 29, weak in the knees and just… well it’s not … Read More

HIDEAWAY FESTIVAL 2013 – Live Review

The Hideaway Festival was set within the private grounds of Fawley Hill (Henley-on-Thames), an estate owned by Sir William McAlpine in the Chiltern Hills. A full scale steam railway travels past the main house and around the beautiful grounds … Read More

SECRET GARDEN PARTY 2013 – Live Review

How secretive is Secret Garden Party? Looking around the 30,000 hipster-wannabe-hippies, the majority of which have perfected that bizarre, British festivalite ability to look both glamorously trendy and impossibly wrecked, it’s blatant that the secret has been … Read More

FOLK BY THE OAK 2013 – Live Review

Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, 21st July 2013

Folk By The Oak, set in the beautiful grounds of Hatfield House, is a one day festival with a very distinctive personality. The enchanting festival field, known as ‘The Queen Elizabeth Oak Field’, … Read More

DOUR FESTIVAL 2013 – Live Review (Part 2)

…Dour Festival 2013 Review Continued. Click here for Thursday & Friday (Part 1).

Saturday

Today was always going to be a blast, with the quality of the schedule beyond outstanding, and especially with Gilles Peterson’s Wordlwide buddy – Belgium’s … Read More

DOUR FESTIVAL 2013 – Live Review (Part 1)

The problem with the European festival industry, in my opinion, is that they so often end up catering for and relying on the British festival goer. When a small, independent European festival decides it wants to step … Read More

LATITUDE 2013 – Live Review

Eight years on since its inception and Latitude continues it’s success with another great festival set amid a beautiful Suffolk parkland setting. Offering such a diverse range, from music stages, through comedy, literature, poetry, theatre and art … Read More

BLISSFIELDS 2013 – Live Review

Small yet grand, stylish yet oldschool, Labrador yet lobster thermador, it’s all here good people of the UK….. this is Bliss(ter)fields 2013, and yes it was hotter than a snakes ass!!

So, once again the good ship aaamusic rams … Read More

HENLEY FESTIVAL 2013 – Live Review (11th July)

Thursday, 11th July

This second evening of the scenic Henley Festival, on the banks of the Thames, was bright and warm. Sometimes called ‘the summer’s greatest party’, visitors experience outdoor performances of dance, music, comedy and street theatre, art exhibitions … Read More