Pukkelpop has announced that its one-day festival for fans of indie and alternative music will not return in 2023. Hear Hear! was launched in August 2022, drawing 15,000 fans to Hasselt, Belgium, for performances from the likes of Editors, Pixies, Liam Gallagher, Future Islands, Wolf Alice and Anna Calvi. At the time of the announcement, […]
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The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs are set to play a huge gig in London for All Points East 2023 this summer – see the full line-up below and find ticket details here. The bands will head to Victoria Park on Friday, August 25, joining Stormzy‘s ‘This Is What We Mean Day’ as the second […]
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Guns ‘N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has seemingly confirmed that the band will play this year’s Glastonbury Festival. READ MORE: Glastonbury Festival 2022 – review: camping, killer tunes and catharsis on Worthy Farm The hard rockers have been heavily rumoured to play 2023’s edition of the festival, which has so far only revealed one headliner in […]
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Twenty festivals and concerts in Malta are set to benefit from a €300,000 fund devised to support their events. The Rock’N Malta fund was set up by government body Festivals Malta in a bid to raise the profile of Maltese culture in the community and to promote Malta internationally as a festival destination. It opened […]
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Denmark’s Roskilde Festival, the Netherlands’ Mojo Concerts and Atlas Ukraine were among the big winners at last night’s European Festival Awards (EFA). The in-person ceremony, held at De Oosterpoort in Groningen, the Netherlands as part of Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS), returned to celebrate the best of the 2022 season after a forced hiatus due to the […]
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Wakefield music festival Long Division is set to end after 12 years. The festival has previously hosted acts such as Billy Bragg, The Cribs, Asian Dub Foundation and The Fall, often attracting up to 4,000 festivalgoers each year. Long Division has also run an education programme alongside its annual festival, aiming to inspire young people in […]
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Coachella organisers have renewed their partnership with YouTube, making the music festival available to stream for free on the platform for another three years. YouTube announced the renewal of their partnership with Coachella promoters Goldenvoice yesterday (January 17). Per YouTube’s official blog post, the exclusive multi-year deal will make Coachella available for free on the […]
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California-based nostalgia festival Just Like Heaven has returned with its 2023 line-up, featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT, The Walkmen and more. The festival launched in 2019 with Yeah Yeah Yeahs and MGMT alongside Phoenix, before a two-year COVID break before it returned in 2022 with Interpol, Modest Mouse, The Shins and M.I.A. Two of the 2019 headliners will return this […]
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Melanie C has shared an update about suggestions The Spice Girls were set to play this year’s Glastonbury festival. READ MORE: Spice Girls’ ‘Wannabe’ at 25: what we’ve learned from the iconic girl group since Back in December, Mel B teased that the Spice Girls could be set to reunite once again for a special performance […]
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Finland’s Flow Festival is planning a shake up of its formula as it builds from a position of strength following its biggest edition yet in 2022. Organisers of the Superstruct-backed festival, which welcomed 90,000 visitors to the post-industrial Suvilahti area in Helsinki over three days last summer, unveiled their first raft of acts for 2023 […]
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