LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2018 – SUNDAY

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- [The final of our three-part Bluedot Festival 2018 review, one for each day.] The press office is a dark-walled structure by an ice cream van. It is inauspicious; you peer into the café when you walk up the path, at the cups, buffet and cheap tables. Within it, however, I splutter […]

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- [The second of three parts of our Bluedot Festival 2018 review, one for each day. Come back over the next 24hrs for our coverage of Sunday’s festivities.] The morning is hotter than the fear of parasitic death. Sorry, but that’s the frame of thought I’m in after listening to Mark Taylor. […]

LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2018 – SATURDAY

LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2018 – FRIDAY

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- [The first of three parts of our Bluedot Festival 2018 review, one for each day. Come back over the next 48hrs for our coverage of Saturday and Sunday’s festivities.] “All things are artificial,” goes the famous saying of Thomas Browne, one of our country’s most acrobatic thinkers, “for nature is the […]

Bluedot Festival: Official | Facebook | Twitter “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.” The words of the great cosmologist Carl Sagan, the spiritual godfather of Bluedot Festival, the annual celebration of music, science, arts, culture and exploration that this month returns for its third instalment. For the first time the […]

BLUEDOT FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS THIRD YEAR, TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

MORE NEW ARTISTS FOR BLUEDOT 2017 PLUS DAY TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE

Taking place Friday 7th-Sunday 9th July 2017, bluedot – the unique festival at Jodrell Bank Observatory that fuses music, arts and culture – has today announced a fourth wave of artists to join its already impressive bill. Singer-songwriter and producer, Astronomyy is a welcome addition to the festival. Known for his atmospheric chillwave and R&B-influenced […]

Taking place 7th-9th July 2017, bluedot – the unique festival at Jodrell Bank Observatory that fuses music, arts and culture – has added a second wave of artists to its already impressive bill. Announced today is art-electronic duo Goldfrapp. Fronted by ethereal chanteuse Alison Goldfrapp, their show heralds a return to live performances, with the […]

BLUEDOT 2017 ANNOUNCE MORE ARTISTS INCLUDING GOLDFRAPP

BLUEDOT FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR 2017

Following an inaugural event last summer packed with incredible performances from across the musical spectrum, spectacular scientific happenings and a mind-expanding programme of arts and culture, bluedot returns again to Jodrell Bank – the Cheshire observatory at the cutting edge of humanity’s quest for knowledge – on 7-9 July 2017 for a highly anticipated second […]

Bluedot Festival has announced Steve Davis, Beth Orton, The Membranes, Tim Burgess, Stephen Morris, Nzca Lines, I Like Trains, Shaun Keaveny, Una Bombers, DJ Cheeba and many more to it’s line-up. Taking place 22-24 July at Jodrell Bank, the Cheshire observatory at the cutting edge of humanity’s quest for knowledge, bluedot has revealed a host […]

BLUEDOT FESTIVAL ADDS TO LINE-UP

BLUEDOT FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LATEST LINEUP

Air, Brian Eno, Lanterns on the Lake, Helen Keen, The Clangers, Krysco, Marc Riley and many more join the line-up Taking place 22-24 July at Jodrell Bank, the Cheshire observatory at the cutting edge of humanity’s quest for knowledge, bluedot is a brand new three-day festival of discovery that promises to fuse a complex mix […]

‘INCOMING TRANSMISSION’ The multi award winning Live From Jodrell Bank series is thrilled to announce another Transmission from the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire. Sigur Rós are confirmed to headline this unique event in the shadow of the iconic Lovell Telescope, one of the biggest and most powerful radio telescopes in the world. Previous Live […]