Festival Features

Rob Da Bank: Doing it for the kids
Rob Da Bank: Doing it for the kids
Ah, kids - can't take them anywhere, or so the saying used to go. But the more festivals spring up, the more parents want to show their children the joys of dancing in a field for three days...
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The big one: O2 Wireless Festival
The big one: O2 Wireless Festival
We look ahead to the weekend's biggest festival, the 02 Wireless Festival in London's Hyde Park.
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The big one: Glastonbury Festival
The big one: Glastonbury Festival
With less than 10 days to go we count down to the biggest festival date in the diary...
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Fields of fun: Making the most of Glastonbury
Fields of fun: Making the most of Glastonbury
Come rain or shine, Glastonbury is a festival with its own set of rules. Here's how to play the game...
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The Courteeners count down to Wireless
The Courteeners count down to Wireless
With just weeks to go, Liam Fray from The Courteeners reveals his top 10 acts to catch in Hyde Park..
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The big one: Rock Ness
The big one: Rock Ness
We look ahead to the weekend's biggest festival, Rockness in Scotland.
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'Avoid The Proclaimers': festival tips from Infadels
'Avoid The Proclaimers': festival tips from Infadels
"We understand festivals and know people want to escape normality."
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Wet or sweat? Festival weather revealed
Wet or sweat? Festival weather revealed
Last year's wash-out may have been soggy enough to put off even the hardest festival goer, but fortunately this summer should prove to be a more predictable affair.
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VF's Top Ten Boutique Festivals
VF's Top Ten Boutique Festivals
While the majors squabble and ink massive cheques for the biggest headliners around, a flourish of non-corporate, more intimate events are cropping up and stealing their fans. Here are the top ten best boutique bashes out there...
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Camden Crawl - What to watch
Camden Crawl - What to watch
It's been quite a few months for Camden: firstly Amy Winehouse's favourite boozer goes up in flames and then April comes and instead of showers they get snow. And all before the indie-Mecca trekker returns with another cracking line-up...
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Satan says: Top 10 rock festivals
Satan says: Top 10 rock festivals
So here it is, the list of top ten rock festivals signed, sealed and delivered to us by Satan himself. Warning: your hair may grow longer and your clothes will turn black the nearer you get to number one...
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How best to get your Glastonbury tickets
How best to get your Glastonbury tickets
It's time. Ticket for this year's Glastonbury Festival go on sale this Sunday (April 6) at 9am.
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Channel vision: 10 European Festivals picks
Channel vision: 10 European Festivals picks
With soaring prices, transport gridlock, rubbish toilets and that bloody rain giving something for us British fist-shakers to moan about this side of the Channel, many eyes are looking to Europe for their festival fix. Here's why...
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