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FRESH Festivals

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Latitude and Four More Essential Festivals for Folk Fans

This year I have one thing to cross off my bucket list – go to a music festival. Any of these five should resonate with folk fans.

Harry Harris

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Tallinn Music Week: Blacked Up Tribute Acts and Math Rock

Estonia don't only love swearing, they love a cracking music festival.

Kate Wellham

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Win A Pair Of Tickets To Benicassim 2013!

Fancy winning a pair of tickets to see Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys and The Killers? Of course you do...Answer the question in the comments section to be in with a chance...

95 Sabotage

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From The Great Escape To Parklife: The Best Urban Festivals

The thought of camping bring you out in a cold sweat? Fear not; here's my guide to the best innercity musical mash-ups....

Tabi Jackson Gee

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Twenty Something London: British Tapas & Secret Cinemas

This week's guide offers south London spanish feasts, decadent cinemas and olympic cafes.

Pascale Barget

RECENT Festivals

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From Download To Hellfest: Europe's Top Five Rock Festivals

There's nothing like going absolutely mental at a rock festival, especially when you're up to your knees in mud... Ready, set, MOSH!

1 Lara Coffey

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Rob da Bank: 20 Tunes To Save A Dead Dancefloor

Aretha, Donna, Prince and Aphex are all good friends that have saved my bacon over the years...

9 Rob da Bank

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V-Festival: A Chav Paradise

The music festival for people that don't actually like music but still want to say that they've been to a music festival. Welcome to the waxed-ch...

150 Jordan Waller

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Wireless Festival 2013: With That Line Up, Expect The Festival Of The Summer

The London-based festival has been guilty of having shaky line-ups in the past, but this year has it spot on...

David Hillier

My Big Fat Serbian Gypsy Festival

If Balkan beats, inebriated Serbs and sizzling trumpet parties are your cup of tea, then ditch Glasto for Guca next summer.

1 Comment Peter Feely

Reeperbahn Festival: 5 Things You Have To Do At Germany's SXSW

Bar hopping in Hamburg will never be as much fun as at Reeperbahn. The spiritual home of The Beatles it may be, but...

Kate Wellham

Hawaiian Shirts, Midgets and Jokes about Faeces: Just another year at the Edinburgh Fringe

One minute your wincing because of terrible jokes about faeces or the Japanese, the next marvelling at the brillian...

Lev Harris

Secret Garden Party 2012: Camels, Mud Wrestling And Backstage With Orbital

This year's Secret Garden Party was a mud bath. No such problems backstage, though, as I caught up with Orbital to ...

Dan Swinhoe

Fashion & Style

What To Wear At Music Festivals This Summer

In timely patriotic fashion, here are the best music festivals in England this summer and how to style yourself for...

19 Comments Deni Kirkova

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Fashion & Style

Don't Wear Wellies In The City

It's pissed it down a lot recently, but this by no means warrants wearing wellies in the city. Wellies belong in fields... here's why anyone brea...

12 Suzie Smith

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Small Festivals Are The Future: Win Two Tickets To Apple Tarts Festival!

Small is definitely beautiful, find out why by winning two tickets to this intimate festival in Kent

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Forget the Olympic Flame, Here's Our Alternative Events Guide For 2012

The Olympics? Forget that, unless you're rich or famous enough to blag a ticket you can just watch it on TV - why not read through our guide of a...

2 Dave Lee

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Putting On A Festival, And How To (Nearly) Bankrupt Yourself In Seven Easy Steps

Organising a festival is a brilliant experience, but if you aren't careful it will leave you seriously out of pocket...

1 Apple Tarts

5 Music Festivals Not To Miss This Summer

With 31 music festivals cancelled or postponed this year enjoying a good festy will be harder than ever but with summer on its merry way here’s a guide to some of the few worth going to.

5 Comments Ned Jones

Moniker Art Fair

Want to check out and buy some ace street art? Then come along to Moniker Art Fair in East London.

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A Photographer's Eye View Of The 2011 Festival Circuit

A selection of great images from Bestival, Galtres, The Big Chill and beyond in the year Amy Winehouse's ghost domi...

5 Comments Jane Hoskyn

Losing My Cherry At Bestival

After deciding to dress as Brian Wilson I inexcusably missed him, but Public Enemy, The Cure and Primal Scream ensu...

2 Comments Samuel Luckhurst

Gogol Bordello: Gypsy Punk Heroes

"In a sea of indie by numbers bands Gogol Bordello are like a fucking riot." John Robb sums up the appeal of this b...

1 Comment John Robb

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8 Reasons Why Lowlands Festival Kicks Ass

Forget Glastonbury, this Dutch festival has security men on bikes, edible food, a lack of traffic, inoffensive drunks and invisible drugs. What's...

8 Tim Thornton

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Twitch House And Balti Burgers At LeeFest

Laid out on an area no bigger than two cricket pitches, LeeFest is a non-profit festival held near Biggin Hill with plenty of fun to be had in it...

6 Adam Sutherland

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Falling Back In Love With Live Music At Benicassim

There's a brilliant festival by the seaside in Spain and we were there. If you like sunshine and brilliant music I recommend you get there soon.

9 James Brown

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Prince At The Hop Farm: The Greatest Show On Earth

Eccentric, enigmatic and egotistical he may be, but Prince proved yesterday that he is still untouchable as a live performer...

24 Robin Lee

How To Eat Like A King At Glastonbury

Far from the usual fare of burger vans serving non descript meat that leave you constipated for days, Glastonbury F...

4 Comments Becky Brynolf

Confessions of a Coke Dealer Part 1: Glastonbury

Not everyone goes to Glastonbury for the mud, music and drugs. Some just go for the drugs. And to make lots and lot...

14 Comments The Cat in The Hat

6 People To Avoid At Glastonbury

All this week people will be converging on Worthy Farm, after 20 years, I know the sort of people you should avoid ...

104 Comments Dave Lee

Your Glastonbury Memories Part II

More mud, drugs and portaloo mayhem remembered. This round of ace anecdotes includes a dead dog, a Lancaster bomber...

6 Comments Sabotage

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Your Glastonbury Memories

Sabotage Times readers scramble through what's left of their memories for their best Glastonbury moments, includes weapons-grade scrumpy, toilet vacuums set to blow not suck and an ill-advised attempt to cop off with Kate Moss

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10 of the World's Greatest Festivals That Aren't Glastonbury

Didn't get tickets to Glasto this summer or perhaps you've had enough of the old routine? Why not try something completely different this year...

5 GFExplorer

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Scenes From A British Summer Country Pop Music Festival

Photographer Stuart Roy Clarke captures all the best bits of the great British festival in this stunning collection of 20 years worth of pictures, that'll have you longing for the summertime.

Stuart Clarke

Bingley Music Live

Bingley Music Live is a festival on my doorstep that seems to get bigger and better every year. This year featured ...

6 Comments Keith Wildman

Edinburgh Fringe: In Pie Charts

Hungry for comedy? Well then why not fill your face with our Edinburgh Festival pie charts.

Trevor Ward

Wakestock Returns

Feeling hot and bothered? Then cool your heels at the Glastonbury of watersports this weekend where you can wakeboa...

Dan Jude

Not Another F*cking Festival Article

Call me old fashioned, call me a bitch, call me what you like, but am I only one who doesn't fancy spending 4 days ...

6 Comments Olivia Foster