Festivals in general Reviews

I've been to a few festivals, and until a few years ago, the Sesiwn Fawr (Big Session) which is held in Dolgellau, North Wales. This started off as another huge, free festival, held in the town square. Most of the shops shut for the weekend and all roads were blocked, and we had many super summers there. Most of the "big names" in the ...

WARNING- this is a pretty long review. Feel free to get bored and wander off halfway through. I consider myself a bit of a festival veteran at the grand old age of 20, and I’ve been reading some of the festivals in general reviews. I thought I’d take a different spin on it and give a guide to how to survive festivals with at least some ...

NAME OF FESTIVAL Stainsby Festival is held every July on a field, in Stainsby, Derbyshire overlooking the M1, provided by Paddy Lane who stepped in to buy the site, after the previous owner Dot Brunt died. BACKGROUND The festival celebrated its 35th festival last year on the weekend of 18-20 Jul 2003 and commemorative glasses ...

Having been to many festivals across the UK and Europe, I always return to my local festival, Glastonbury. Having such a festival right on your doorstep is fantastic, big name bands, side-shows, plenty of beer tents and enough weird and wonderful sights to make you think you're in a remake of the Beatles "Yellow ...

InMe: what can I say? They are the best band ever to hit the universe. I'd been waiting for December 18th for a long time, and trust me, was I glad that I got tickets to see them at the Astoria! As I joined the seemingly endless queue to get in, I was bouncing from side to side with excitement! To think about it, damn that queue was ...

I only had 3 hours sleep last night and am not feeling on tip-top form…so I don’t expect this op to be my best ever, but having lost my festival virginity last weekend, I want to share the experience in all its gory and thrilling detail…. OK, so I wasn’t a total virgin. I did V2001 for a day last year, and went to ...

My last opinion was in reply to Jill’s request for everyone to write about their favourite things. I had no hesitation in nominating friendship, the spirit of which is certainly alive and well in a small welsh market town not far away from were I live on the border between England and Wales. For six memorable days every July, ...

A band which caught my eye a few months back now, is a Uk based trio called InMe. It was pure luck how these guys got a record label. Performing live at a show under the name "Drowned", InMe's set was delayed due to a broken cymbal. Music For Nations, just caught InMe's last song of their set, titled 'Lava Twilight' and ...

...But all the best people are! Ah festivals. Love em or hate em, they are here to stay, and I will be attending them until at least I pop my clogs. Where else can you camp in a sea of mud for three days, be completely surrounded by hippes, junkies, rockers, AND clubbers (all at the same time), and get such disgusting toilet ...

The Urdd Eisteddfod. The biggest annual festival in Wales to date. I love it, I watch it eery year and find it quite funny how the same schools win the competitions every year!!! It is Wales's biggest festival and Europe's biggest youth festival! Held in Cardiff this year between June 3rd - June 9th everyday!!! Some parts are ...

My first festival (aged 16) was the immense V97 . I was yet to experience the pure rush of crowd surfing and jumping mad to the beats of a tune , I was to discover these on the first morning . An up-and-coming band called Linoleum were on quite early , I thought they were good but no-one paid much attention , in-fact the crowds were fairly liberal ...

this is a festival for you moshers out there! it comes once a year and it is toally free. Its in hukll and the next one is on the 2nd april. There are plenty of workshops and things to do. My favourite is the breakdancing workshop where you learn to breakdance. I don't know who's playing this year as i haven't seen ...

You have to love Festivals don't you, it is the time when thousands of people nationwide flood to the same place for the same reason, to unite behind the same music. You are suddenly surrounded by thousands of like minded people who are following the same music genre, which with my type of music is a great thing to experience. It ...

The tradition of the rock festival is a long one. While our parents were rocking out at Knebworth and Woodstock, our modern day equivalents aren't so bad in comparison. Sure there are the cons of these gigantic events, but the pros do far outweigh them. I'll go through the cons first. It takes a long time to get there. ...

GODSKITCHEN GLOBAL GATHERING@LONG MARSTON AIRFIELD 28/07/01 Godskitchen, the renowned dance club pioneers collaborated with top names Sidewinder (Garage), Helter Skelter (Drum'n'Bass), Tidy Trax (Hard House) amongst others to make the Global Gathering a dance extravaganza to go down in festival history. The flyer promised 15 ...

Now in it’s sixth year the Gwyl at Ystalyfera is now going strong. The Gwyl is basically Ystalyfera’s locals attempt to help the local facilities and is manned totally by volunteers who put in a massive amount of time and effort. The Gwyl last year saw over seven thousand visitors and is a mixture of Welsh and English culture. ...

Festival Too is a local festival held every year in the small Historic town of King's Lynn in West Norfolk. Street entertainers take over the town centre during the festival days and in the evenings the Market place is transformed to hold a stage for the preformers and a small funfair. Last saturday night i watched Edwin Starr and his band, ...

What a great weekend the Arts in the Park festival has been. Organised by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council’s Festivals and Events Section, this has now become an annual event at Corporation Park, Blackburn. It is a free event with plenty of local bands playing over the two days on three different music stages. There were ...

The music festival season is now well and truly upon us despite the lack of Glastonbury Festival this year due to foot and mouth disease risks. Myself I am a Reading Festival fan, choosing to go for the whole weekend and the complete camping experience so I will try to focus on aspects of both the camping side and the festivals themselves ...

Gosport Summer Festival may be small by comparison to its bigger counterparts but don't let that put you off. They get some pretty big names down here on the South Coast. For those of you that don't know Gosport or where it is, its on the opposite side of Portsmouth Harbour to Portsmouth and just south of Fareham. ...