One of the UK’s leading independent festivals for new music, Sound City returns to Liverpool for another whirlwind weekend of music from 3-5 May 2019. Renowned for its musical heritage, Liverpool radiates an energy unlike any other city in the UK and the unforgettable three-day festival captures the city’s vibrancy with some of the country’s…
The best of Nashville hits stages in London, Dublin and Glasgow for the three nights in March when Europe’s biggest country music festival, C2C: Country to Country, takes place. Inaugurated in 2013, the event brings some of the biggest names in Nashville to London, Glasgow and Dublin every spring, with Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes, Tim…
A new festival heads to Manchester’s city centre in March when You Are Not Alone takes over the city on Saturday, 30 March 2019. The line-up and venues will be announced over the coming months, but a host of local favourites have already shown support for the multi-venue event in aid of charity Manchester Mind.…
Expanding on last year’s scaled-back Across the Threshold event, the 2019 Threshold Festival from 29-30 March goes back to its roots with a wider blueprint featuring grass-roots music, visual arts, performance and activities from talented people from Liverpool and further afield. Now in its ninth year, the multi-arts festival takes place across the city’s Baltic…
Ink it into your calendar, Manchester plays host to the Tattoo Tea Party from 2-3 March this year. Celebrating everything that is wonderful about the tattoo scene in the UK and Ireland, the 2019 Tattoo Tea Party will be held in EventCity, next to The Trafford Centre. The convention, now in it’s eighth year, hosts…
Scotland’s biggest celebration of reggae, dub and sound-system culture returns to Edinburgh on the first weekend of March 2019 with a massive line-up covering reggae, roots, dub, dance-hall, jungle and bass in many forms, topped by two giants of the scene: Jah Shaka and Adrian Sherwood. Spread over four main sessions powered by Scotland’s best…
Surrounded by green hills and lush forest in the shadow of an old power station you wouldn’t expect to find a freshwater lagoon that’s 300 metres long and an ideal spot for surfing… but that’s what you’ll find in the Conwy Valley beneath the mountains of Snowdonia. Welcome to the Surf Snowdonia Adventure Parc, a…
Kent Beer Festival celebrates its 43rd birthday this year when glasses will be raised at Merton Farm near Canterbury to great Kentish beer. The festival, which gets underway this weekend (20-22 July), sees more than 200 ales and ciders on sale, plus a foreign beer bar, tasty local grub and sound live entertainment. There’s also…
Wollaton Park will be a place of Splendour on Saturday, 22 July, when Nottingham’s favourite family festival makes its annual pilgrimage to the city. Organised by Nottingham City Council and DHP Concerts, the event sees a diverse blend of musical styles descend on the park, including local unsigned bands and star attractions, past and present.…
This weekend an odyssey gets underway in rural Herefordshire – from 21-23 July – when Nozstock sets up camp on a beautiful working farm filled with fun, adventure, charm and a sprinkling of magic. It started off in 1998 as a large barbecue at the Nosworthy family home in Bromyard but has since moved to…
