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Line-up news
Celtic Connections Unveils 2027 Lineup: AR Rahman, The Saw Doctors, Beatles Tributes, and £1 Youth Tickets
Apply to Play at Hastings Fat Tuesday Festival
Line-up news: BST Hyde Park, Electric Bay, Escape Reality and more for 2027
Line-up news: Slam Dunk, Country to Country, One Love and more for 2027
Guilfest is back again and it’s a bumper edition of family fun
Without DEVO and B52s, where would we be? See them both LIVE at the O2 in 2026
Reviews
Brighton & Hove Pride 2026: Day One – Pride, Pop and a Whole Lot of Love
Beautiful Days 2026 Media Roundup
Nick Cave Curates a Day of Controlled Chaos Before Delivering Brighton’s Greatest Homecoming
Latitude at 20: has the festival grown up, grown safe, or simply grown with its audience? Opinions are divided…
2000trees 2026: What the Press Said…and what we predicted
‘Great’ was the word For The Great Escape 2026
FEATURES
The UK Festival Awards 2026 Finalists (They’ve come a long way, baby…)
A long time ago, in a pub far-far away I sat down for a drink with Steve Jenner and a few other ‘VirtualFestivals.com’ stalwarts and a plan was hatched for a new awards ceremony celebrating the best of the fests… Nominees were discussed, editorial decisions were curated, and certificates were printed up. That back-room chat…
The new festival regulars: who played everywhere in 2026, and how they got there
We sat down and counted every act we could find on 127 of our favourite festival line-ups from this year. And five of the busiest are bands we were tipping a year or two ago. We went through the 2026 line-ups of the festivals we cover and logged every named act. That came to 8,644…
Festival band applications currently open
As of today (20/10/2026) there’s a huge selection of UK festivals looking for new talent to step forward with submissions to play. Here’s a comprehensive, chronological directory of UK music festivals accepting band and artist applications to perform in 2027. January 2027 Icebreaker Festival (Portsmouth) – Multi-venue showcase festival for emerging talent taking place in…
Why Lemonsuckr Will Be The Next Big Thing
What is it that threads a path between Opus Kink, Adult DVD, Westside Cowboy, Getdown Services, Fujiya and Miyagi, Chemical Brothers, The Fall, Mekons, Big Special, and Sprints? Oh… and I should add Kid Kapichi, GANS and SNAYX to that list from my own human perspective. Well according to the Spotify AI ‘song radio’ feature…
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