SOUND CITY IS ZIPPING UP ITS BOOTS AND GOING BACK TO ITS ROOTS IN THE CITY CENTRE FOR 2018

Sound City, the latest edition of the award-winning metropolitan festival of live music and arts, takes place on the Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May 2018 to kick-start the UK season in style. Early bird tickets go on sale at 9am today. The festival has earned a reputation for its inventive use of a wide […]
The brand new 3 day festival to take place at Jodrell Bank Observatory has announced the headliners will be Caribou, Underworld and a UK festival exclusive from Jean-Michel Jarre. Taking place 22-24 July at Jodrell Bank, the Cheshire observatory at the cutting edge of humanity’s quest for knowledge, bluedot is a festival of discovery that […]

BLUEDOT FESTIVAL AT JODRELL BANK LINE UP ANNOUNCED: HEADLINERS CARIBOU / UNDERWORLD / JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

NEWS: KENDAL CALLING ANNOUNCES SECOND WAVE OF ACTS

The Lake District’s award-winning Kendal Calling has announced a second wave of artists playing at this year’s event. As Spring has firmly stuck it’s head through the door, more than 60 new acts are confirmed to join the bill for the first weekend in August. Having headlined the festivities back in 2010 with his band, […]
Ben Robinson lives the dream. The 31 year old co-director of niche Cumbrian music festival KENDAL CALLING not only gets to pick the headliners and hang out with the stars, but also performs there with his band, SLAMBOREE. So how difficult is it to set up and run your own festival? We chatted to Ben […]

INTERVIEW: BEN ROBINSON (KENDAL CALLING CO-DIRECTOR)

LIVE: KENDAL CALLING 2011

Saturday Waking up from possibly the worst night’s sleep and feeling like a microwave meal – it was so hot in the tent I burst out before I exploded; I feel far from ‘top of the morning’.  Although we are in the quiet family camping area large groups of teenagers and lads camping together seem […]
– LOWTHER DEER PARK, PENRITH – The final weekend of July sees the 6th Annual addition of Kendal Calling Festival.  Continually growing in strength and size it managed to bag the Best Small Festival award for 2010 and with only 13000 tickets for 2011 it sold out in record time. Since a move in 2009 […]

LIVE: KENDAL CALLING 2011

LIVE: KENDAL CALLING 2009

– LOWTHER DEER PARK, PENRITH – Now in its fourth year, Kendal Calling has grown at an unprecedented rate. When it opened its gates for the first time in 2006, the capacity was a mere 900. This weekend they have sold all six thousand tickets for its arrival in the beautiful surroundings of its new […]