Festivals

Recession or rubbish bands!?

Another festival confirmed

Trad rock rules at biggest UK rock festival

punk legends The Cortinas join Rancid at the world's biggest punk festival in Blackpool

Our man grapples with V Festival

our thoughts go to the victims

' The atmosphere is cranked. Cock Sparrer are on stage and their endless rush of anthems that are getting sung along to like we are on one of the hottest football terraces ever....'

The 'big four' live at the festival that the BBC 'forgot' to cover

the full line up of Sonisphere Rock festival

Godflesh Supersonic Festival Birmingham 23 October 2010 Given the current enthusiasm for reunions there are very few significant bands in the rock'n'roll graveyard left uninterred. The unexpected...

“I said to Tony Wilson, I said \'Madchester? What\'s all that about? Where can you go in Manchester after 2am?\' And he couldn\'t answer me. There was fuck all in Manchester, it\'s a myth, it was all in Blackburn.”

A wackoid troupe of dancing, freaking, musical mavericks is pushing the festival into a welcome blast of technicolour