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The Bees

Wireless Festival confirms further acts

News by Mike Diver

Further acts have been added to the bill for this summer's Wireless Festival, held in both London and Leeds...»

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Dour Festival update: Bright Eyes, Wilco, The Horrors and more confirm Belgian festival appearance

News by Mike Diver

A number of new names have been confirmed for this year's DiS-associated Dour Festival, held in Belgium from June 12-15...»

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New festival news: Field Day

News by Mike Diver

A new one-day festival, to be held in London's Victoria Park, has been announced...»

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Further festival fun: Dot To Dot is lookin' fine

News by Mike Diver

Nottingham's Dot To Dot festival is taking place on May 27, and is this year preceded by a sister event in Bristol. ..»

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Summercase in your face: first information on exciting Spanish festival

News by Mike Diver

DiS is pleased to bring you news of a rather splendid two-day twin-site festival going down in Spain this summer. Summercase is to be held in Barcelona and Madrid on July 13-14, and DiS will be jetting out there to see what it's all about...»

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Truck Festival turns ten: update from the organisers

News by Mike Diver

So you’re yet to hear owt about this year’s Truck Festival, huh? Us too, ‘til this dropped into our inbox, all crispy and fresh like the morning papers dipped in sizzling vegetable oil...»

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Hove Festival continues to take shape. Continues to look GOOD...

News by Mike Diver

The line-up of Norway’s Hove Festival – one of a handful of DiS-associated events going down this summer, y’all – is taking shape very nicely...»

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The Weekly DiScussion: How green is your festival?

In Depth by Gareth Dobson

Looking forward to festivals this year? Killers. No, not the ubiquitous straggly quartet from Las Vegas, you. You who, step-by-step, are destroying the environment and our beautiful planet with your discarded beer cups, burning up, well, everything, and probably hiring an 18-wheeler to transport you and your mates there...»

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Arcade Fire and The Good The Bad & The Queen head up Latitude festival

News by Ben Yates

Arcade Fire, Wilco, CSS and The Good The Bad And The Queen are among the acts confirmed for Latitude Festival this year...»

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Dour Festival update: Explosions have us in Raptures...

News by Mike Diver

The DiS-associated Dour Festival - if you've missed the first few detail-riddled articles, click here - has announced a batch of newly confirmed bands. And we're all like wow and stuff...»

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Skinner to give Loaded festival Streets cred

News by Alex Denney

Mike Skinner’s The Streets have been confirmed as headliners for this year’s Get Loaded in the Park festival...»

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Ether Festival at London South Bank Purcell Room, Mon 12 Mar

Review by Zidane’s Amanuensis

Battles are the new sound. We were sitting when we first came in but we’re all standing now applauding. They’ve left the stage before we stop clapping and cheering and before the sound of the sample stops echoing round the speakers. You didn’t see them? Don’t worry, they’re coming back round again and they’re coming back round again after that...»

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Pelican, Part Chimp and more for Rhaaa Lovely Festival

News by Mike Diver

Pelican (pictured) and Part Chimp are among the top draws - ha, see what we did there? - at this year's Rhaaa Lovely Festival...»

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Primavera Sound(s good): further bands confirmed for Barcelona festival

News by Mike Diver

Further acts have been confirmed for this year's three-day Primavera Sound festival, held in Barcelona from May 31 'til June 2...»

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Venn Festival announces line-up

News by Mike Diver

The Venn Festival - held at various venus in Bristol from May 31 'til June 3 - has announced its initial line-up...»

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DiS in Dour: smashing news on Belgian festival!

News by Mike Diver

DrownedinSound.com - hello, you'e reading us - is very pleased to announce that we'll be extending our fingers of festival fun across onto continental Europe again this summer...»

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T in the Park: homogenous '07 festival convoy heads to Scotland

News by Kev Kharas

The organisers of T in the Park have announced details of who will be playing when at this year's festival...»

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Bloc Parties: band queues up Summer festivals

News by Kev Kharas

Bloc Party have confirmed themselves for three of this Summer's major UK festivals...»

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Top bands announced for groundbreaking Isle of Wight Festival

News by Gareth Dobson

Muse, Snow Patrol, Kasabian and Keane have been announced as headline bands for this year’s Isle of Wight Festival...»

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Hove Festival announces new confirmed acts

News by Mike Diver

A host of new acts have been confirmed for the Hove Festival, taking place this summer in Norway...»

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Hovefestival: first bands announced

News by Colin Roberts

On Thursday we announced our involvement with the inaugural Hovefestival. A fantastic new event in Norway that plays host to a incredible varying bill across day and night stages, all by a beach with boat camping and more. Now we've chosen to announce the first batch of bands to be appearing across the weekend. This is a very small sample of the array of acts performing across the five-day event and there's lots more - of bigger and smaller sizes - to be added. »

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DiS presents... Hovefestival 2007

News by Colin Roberts

This year, DrownedinSound.com is expanding its horizons and making inroads into the magical world of continental Europe, and we're more than happy to start by letting you know about one of the biggest and most exciting of all, the inaugural Hovefestival, in Norway, with which we are in close media partnership...»

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Emo Supremo: huge indoor festival news

News by Kev Kharas

The three-day Give It A Name festival is to return to the UK in April, spread across a trio of major cities...»

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The Killers and Snow Patrol to headline 2007 V Festival

News by Gemma Curry

Snow Patrol - the biggest-selling British band of 2006, official - are to headline the 2007 V Festival which will take place in Chelmsford and Staffordshire on the 18th and 19th of August...»

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The Dears: not fond of V Festival

News by Mike Diver

They might have a sweet-sounding name, but Canadian indie-rockers The Dears are damn fine moaners when the mood suits...»

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ATP lets festival attendees choose its line-up

News by Mike Diver

Weekend Two of next spring's All Tomorrow's Parties festival - held as it is next month at Butlins in Minehead - is to be co-curated by the fans, those actually buying the tickets...»

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Anti*Pop Festival: great bill, but we can't go...

News by Mike Diver

A quite smashing line-up has been assembled for the Anti*Pop Music Festival, held in Orlando from November 13. Why are we telling you this? Because the event features a load of our favourite bands...»

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Scotland to host new festival in 2007

News by Mike Diver

The organisers of T In The Park are to launch a brand-new festival next year, Connect...»

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End of The Road Festival

In Depth by Mat Hocking

It can’t be that hard, can it? Find a field, book some bands, keep everything low-scale and independent, and hope it stays warm enough to relax in the sun drinking quality cider in your shirt and sandals. At least, that’s possibly what Sophia and Simon, the organisers behind the very first End of the Road Festival, had running through their minds last summer...»

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Swansea to host the Fflam Festival

News by Mike Diver

Swansea - it's in Wales - is to get itself a festival next year...»