Jazz breaking news: Countdown To The Brecon Jazz Festival
Jazzwise magazine
Saturday begins with a morning Rock Riff Guitar Workshop in the School Room of Christ College with Partikel later on the Christ College stage (midday). The trio – Duncan Eagles, Max Luthert and Eric Ford – are a relatively new band who debuted last …

Packed crowd of 5000 descends on Cloud 9 Festival in Sandbach
Crewe Chronicle
There was an array of pop and rock music across the site during the day and a silent disco in the dance tent until 3am for night owls. Despite the fact that the festival continues to attract bigger crowds every year, organisers have vowed not to …

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It's a duck's life for a pop star
expressandstar.com
Wolverhampton Civic Hall's Jonn Penney says it may be all quiet on the music scene at the moment – bar the festival season – but our beloved rock and pop stars are busy at work on their next magnum opus. Shhhh! Keep still, don't move. …

Out of the office: Barry Rollins
Belfast Telegraph
This summer he is organising Belfast Wine Festival at St George's Market, which takes place on Monday, August 29 Is the glass half full or half empty? It's always half full. Culture vulture, sports fanatic or petrol head? None really but, at a push, …

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Belladrum Festival, Beauly, Nr Inverness
Herald Scotland
The Seedlings stage played host to a slew of great new, unsigned acts, from atmospheric electronic collective Capitals to the joyous pop-rock of Be Like Pablo, while Edinburgh's own We Were Promised Jetpacks made a rare homeland appearance on the …

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Bulldog Bash -Motorcycle And Music Festival
londonbikers.com
This year's annual Bulldog Bash sees three of the biggest names in British musical history set to rock the festival to its very foundations, as Status Quo line-up along side the inimitable Bad Manners and The Damned. Quo front man Rossi said of their …

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Festival Alert: Bingley Music Live
Flecking Records (blog)
Regardless of the temperamental summer weather, you're going to have to dig out your Ray Bans to get your peepers round the glittering line-up of acts heading to Bingley Music Live this summer – from reggae-metal, blistering alt-rock and indie to …

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Interview: Lach on Antifolk and his open stage nights
Edinburgh Festivals
The last Thursday, Friday and Saturday of festival it will be the Antifolk Off. All the semi-finalists are invited back and we're going to record it. Edinburgh-based indie label Song by Toad Records are going to release it. …

The critical importance of festivals and the importance of critics
Stage (blog)
Come festival time, of course, everyone's a critic now, a fact amplified by Twitter, but sometimes it seems that there are more reviewing tickets being issued than tickets being sold. And in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king; …

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North Wales Days Out Festivals and fun for Wales as sunny weather draws crowds
WalesOnline
Aberystwyth's Castell Rock festival finally went ahead after being postponed from June due to bad weather. Meic Stevens was headlining at the town's historic 13th century castle ruins, and crowds enjoyed performances from Virgil and the Accelerators …