It’s Live At Leeds in May

Live At Leeds brings the best new talent from the UK and beyond to the city for one day in May. Taking place at various venues across Leeds city centre, the festival gets underway on the first bank holiday weekend of the month… on Saturday, 4 May 2019. As with many city-based festivals, the Live…

A Great Escape in Brighton

Taking place across multiple venues in Brighton in May, the Great Escape Festival features a huge line-up of new music with hundreds of up-and-coming acts lined up for the city from 9-11 May 2019. A leading festival for emerging talent, the Great Escape showcases about 500 developing artists from all over the world at more…

Liverpool’s a Sound City

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…

Not Alone in Manchester

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.…

Liverpool’s Threshold Festival

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…

Wee Dub Festival in March

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…

Splendour about to unfold in Nottingham

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.…

Musical odyssey in the Herefordshire hills

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…

Swanage ready for reggae celebration

Wah yuh ah duh dis weekend? Yuh a guh Dorset fah kick up rumpus? Well, after the phenomenal success of last year’s inaugural Wilkswood Reggae Festival, an awful lot of people will be doing just that… heading to the middle of the beautiful Purbeck countryside on the outskirts of Swanage to enjoy a family-friendly weekend…

Tramlines on track for Sheffield celebration

Featuring 73 acts across five stages in the heart of Sheffield, Tramlines takes over the city’s parkland, bars and music venues for a weekend of live music and club nights from 21-23 July 2017. A multi-genre city festival organised by a selection of local promoters, organisations and venues, the event includes artists from the worlds…