Most of us will have come across BBC Radio 1’s annual live music shindig at some point or other in time, but, if unacquainted, the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend is a three-day event that showcases live acts from across the spectrum of popular music, covering a wide variety of genres and styles—and featuring acts […]
It is fair to say that Sŵn Festival, the multi-venue event bringing alternative music of all stripes to the Cardiff city centre, can by now be regarded as an institution within the Welsh musical scene. In one form or another, it has been running since 2007, and credit has to be given to its organisers […]
Love it or hate it, it is generally accepted that Autumn marks the end of festival season; yet, for the happiness of those who are not ready to let go of the festival thrills quite yet, it has become increasingly frequent for large-scale events to be held well into the colder season. Cardiff’s Sŵn Festival […]
BBC Radio 2 in the Park brought the stars to Preston, the early September event took place across three days as one big extravaganza celebrating music and all that’s good about the UK’s most listened to radio station. Hosted in Preston’s Moor Park as a late summer hurrah, it was a mixture of sunshine and […]
This year marks the 11th edition of Manchester Psych Fest, the UK’s leading psychedelic music and arts festival, the 2024 event will take place across various venues and spaces in Manchester’s city centre on Saturday, 31st of August. With it comes a plethora of exciting live performances, video installations, workshops, talks, and generally just all […]
At a time where music festivals are under an immense amount of pressure to deliver for their audiences and financial stressors are continuing to cause disruption, it is good to see a festival still going strong. Now in its third year, Live at Leeds: In the Park returned to Temple Newsam for a day-long, multi-stage […]
We love a good festival, especially here in the UK, and Live at Leeds (specifically) always goes down well. The outdoor all-dayer returns this May, to the stunning location of Temple Newsam Park in Leeds. On Saturday, 25th May, spread across five stages, a host of familiar names and exciting emerging talent will perform for […]
Sŵn Festival has by now become a cornerstone of the Welsh music scene, attracting artists (and fans!) from Wales, England, and further afield for three days packed with music and fun. It is a truly joyous event, much needed at a time when the Cardiff weather feels grimmer than ever, and in its 2023 edition […]
October has rolled in, and this can only mean one thing for music lovers in Cardiff: Sŵn Festival is back. Fully back on its feet after the interruption of the pandemic years and following a successful run in 2022, the beloved multi-venue festival is set to bring one of its most ambitious line-ups yet to […]
Perfectly timed on a rather sunny Bank Holiday weekend, Live at Leeds’ annual outdoor gathering in the park returned to the Temple Newsam estate for a day filled with music, food and fun. In the event’s second year running the organisers have taken onboard what worked last time and also added to it, with a […]
Last year’s all-dayer in the park was a roaring success, so it returns again, this May, for Live at Leeds: In The Park 2023. A festival bursting with feel-good energy and a satisfying array of indie’s best and brightest. Happening on Saturday, 27th May, in Leeds’ Temple Newsam park, this is where summer (technically) starts. […]
It may have been a rainy and stormy weekend in Cardiff, but Sŵn Festival brought its own brand of sunshine to the Welsh capital, with three days of quality music taking over the city centre. The multi-venue festival, the biggest of its kind in Wales, has finally returned in its full-scale incarnation, and in spite […]
Summer may be over, but festival season most certainly isn’t, and we have yet another welcome return to celebrate after the lengthy drought imposed by Covid restrictions. Sŵn Festival, the largest multi-venue festival in Wales, is coming back with a bang and taking over the clubs of Cardiff with three days of events celebrating alternative […]
The weekend festival is a staple of the summer season, coming in hot with their first-ever staging outdoors, Live at Leeds gave us their In the Park edition. For one incredible day of live music, they took over the grounds of Temple Newsam—a Tudor-Jacobean-era estate hemmed by rolling hills and sprawling vistas of the West […]
Festivals are back, baby. Throughout all of this uncertainty over the past couple years, music has remained high on the mind and a longing for live performance has never faltered. So… good news for all music fans: Live at Leeds, in 2022, has not just one event planned, but two—and first up is their outdoor […]
Bitter Sweet Symphonies was founded on the basis of two elements: music and community. The want (but more accurately, the need) to share good music with more than just oneself, to foster a collective space in order to start conversations, to spread the word about underground gems and celebrate this communal medium.
Even in the middle of what might well be the wettest Autumn Wales has seen in a long time, the sun shone on the 2019 edition of Sŵn Festival, both literally and figuratively. In its long history, the festival has rarely attempted to fit within its programme not only such a number of quality acts […]
What to say about this year’s round of Neighbourhood Festival? It was eclectic. The programming was focused on a few particular styles of music, yet the acts and what they brought in their live shows ranged from highly conceptualised spectacle, cathartic solitude, breathtaking precision, to beautifully collective uproar – as well as steadily providing entertaining […]
It’s that time of year again, as we reach the end of September the UK’s Northern climate becomes increasingly more seasonal, outdoor living starts to feel less practical, so we retreat indoors, and fill the hallowed spaces of cosy back rooms with renewed warmth. Just as festival season appears to be over for another term, […]
As a third wave of artist announcements has rolled in, and little more than a month separates us from the start of Sŵn Festival, the multi-venue musical event to take place in Cardiff on the weekend of the 18th to 20th October is shaping up to be one to remember. Our previous entries in the […]