Festivals in general Reviews

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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. ...  Read the complete review

Recently, in the past few years, there have been cases of people being severely injured or even killed at gigs and festivals. Roskilde Festival accounted 16 deaths of fans during a Pearl Jam gig who were crushed against the bar at the front of the mosh. Also a 15 year old American girl recently died when she attended a Limp Bizkit gig last ...  Read the complete review

I have been going to Glastonbury festival for the past 11 years when it has been on. We started off as a couple, being absolutely blown away by the experience of such a diverse community coming together to provide an amazing dip into a world that we would love to be reality. We would spend all night wandering around, going from band to ...  Read the complete review

This is an overview of the Uk folk scene, an introduction for those who are curious but know nothing. There are folk festvals around the country most weekends between the end of February and the beginning of November. The ones that fall during the colder parts of the year tend to offer indoor camping. Folk fetivals vary in size and ...  Read the complete review

The recent foot and mouth outbreak in Britain has meant that one cannot do a lot of the things which one is used to doing. Experts are unsure of how long this outbreak is likely to last and therefore my yearly dose of festival fever may be affected severly. They are likely to be called off, if no end to this disaster (in a sense) can be seen. ...  Read the complete review

The announcement this week that there will be no Glastonbury Festival this year has left thousands of people feeling gutted, and I am one of them. OK so twice as many people break in as pay, but who's complaining? Not me, not you, not Martin Evis, not the bands, the stallholders, I think not. No, the only people whinging are the pigs and the ...  Read the complete review

Last year I went to Glastonbury and it was by far the best festival that I have ever been to. Although I have only been to V98 and V99 previous to Glastonbury 2000 I was still able to distinguish between a good festival and a f**king excellent festival and this was definitely the latter. With Glastonbury it is about more than just the ...  Read the complete review

The reading festival comes once a year and is situated in a large mucky field in Caversham only ten minutes walk from the town centre. Thousands and thousands travel from all over the countryside to see their favourite group whatever the weather conditions are. The day before the festival starts most of the supporters arrives causing ...  Read the complete review

Festivals…you’ve got to love ‘em havn’t you! As a really keen festival fan, I’ve decided that it may be helpful to briefly address the relative merits of each of the four main music festivals. I also thought it would be a good idea to point out some of the essential things that you’ll need to take with ...  Read the complete review

A couple of weeks ago Brecon held its annual Jazz Festival. Having never been before, we had high expectations and expected buskers on every street corner. We arrived early to a very quiet town, feeling a bit disappointed. However, as the morning went on people started gathering in the streets. A marching band wound its way through the crowds, ...  Read the complete review

Thanx to those glorious and very generous people at Dooyoo, I was lucky enough to win a pair of weekend camping tickets for the V2000 event in Staffordshire. To say I was extremely excited when I found out would be a vast understatement! After hearing so many good things about the festival (ie, clean, safe, great bands, loads of well maintained ...  Read the complete review

This weekend you can forget about Reading, Leeds or the Notting Hill Carnival. You should be in Liverpool not for Creamfields or for Party at the Pier, but for the Beatles fEstival. three das of live music, real music, no lip synching, no cheesy dancing and no mad raves. By monday the weekend will be on its main event with hundreds of ...  Read the complete review

For me any gathering of people with the collective aim of drinking, smoking (whatever you want)and listening to live music can be called a festival. It doesnt matter if it is in a field in Somerset with world class acts or a local park with local bands. A festival is what you make it. It isnt necessarily camping in cowshit and not washing ...  Read the complete review

The National Eisteddfod is unique throughout Europe, it is the largest and oldest celebration of Welsh culture, and unique because each year it visits a different area of Wales. This year it is situated in Llanelli on the South coast of Wales 10 miles from Swansea. It comences on 7th August and finishes on the 12th. Every year it ...  Read the complete review

When I arrived in Orange Country I was shocked to find that there was a gig on nere by. The biggest surprise was that my favourite band were playing 'The Offspring'. The gig was held at the KROQ Weenie Roast on Saturday, June 17, 2000 at Edison Field (Angels Stadium) in Anaheim, Other bands that played with The ...  Read the complete review

I bet if you were to ask 100 people what the first words to come into their heads were, when asked about The Proms, they'd reply 'snobby', 'for old fogies', 'elitist', etc,etc. Frankly speaking, they'd be wrong. I first went to a Prom last year, predisposed to thinking that all of the above was ...  Read the complete review

Even though you've probably never heard of it, the Ashton Court Festival is the biggest free festival in Europe and around 100,000 people come every year to the Ashton Court Estate in Bristol to enjoy a wonderful couple of days. The reason no one knows about it is that the organisers do not advertise it outside the south-west for fear of being ...  Read the complete review

A lot of festivals have a few good bands and the rest of the line up is cak so for a rock festival i think this would be an excellant line up : Korn limp bizkit iron maiden fu manchu foo fighters rage against the machine slipknot reef fear factory deftones That would be a pretty cool line up as all the ...  Read the complete review