It’s truly emblematic of the British festival season that on a week boasting a national heatwave, grey skies and rain greet arrivals for the first day of Tramlines Festival. The Sheffield drizzle fails to dampen Sam Fender‘s ongoing victory lap, though: the headlining guitarist continues to relish the summer of his lifetime as he coasts […]
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Ed Sheeran made a surprise guest appearance during Snow Patrol‘s headline set at Latitude 2022 tonight (July 24) – check out the footage below. The Northern Irish–Scottish band – which features Sheeran’s longtime co-writer Johnny McDaid – closed the Suffolk festival with a 14-track performance on the main stage, per Setlist.FM. Towards the end of […]
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Kid Cudi walked off during his headline set at Rolling Loud last night after crowd members repeatedly threw items onto the stage. The rapper/singer – real name Scott Mescudi – replaced Kanye West on the bill at the Miami event last weekend (July 17) when Ye simply “decided that he [would] no longer be performing”. […]
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Latitude 2022 has opened its gates to festivalgoers – you can check out the latest weather forecast for the bash below. Foals, Lewis Capaldi and Snow Patrol will headline this year’s festival after it returned last summer for the first time since 2019, alongside Maggie Rogers, Little Simz, Manic Street Preachers, Fontaines D.C., and Phoebe […]
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BRIT-Award winning UK singer/songwriter Becky Hill will headline the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 Final Show. Presented by Pepsi Max at London’s 90,000-cap Wembley Stadium on Sunday 31 July, the pre-match event will mark the first time the women’s football showpiece occasion has hosted a live music production of such scale. Hill will be joined on […]
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A raft of new acts have been added to the End Of The Road Festival 2022 line-up. READ MORE: End Of The Road Festival 2021 review: despite difficulties, this miracle event turns back the clock Jockstrap, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Snapped Ankles, Hailu Mergia, and James Holden & Wacław Zimpel have joined the […]
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Tame Impala’s full line-up for this year’s All Points East appearance has been unveiled. READ MORE: All Points East 2021 review: generations collide to end the summer in fervent style Joining Kevin Parker and the band at London’s Victoria Park on August 25 will be Omar Apollo, Working Men’s Cub, Mattiel and Q. The festival will return […]
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Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes have spoken to NME about being given sweets by Metallica icon James Hetfield – as well as what to expect from their next record and new card game Halves. Watch our video interview with the duo above. The band were speaking to NME backstage at the recent Mad Cool 2022, […]
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Community Festival prides itself on being the biggest guitar party around and the 2022 event is the perfect reminder of exactly how much sway the indie scene has. Transferring the giddy chaos of indie discos on sticky bar floors to a scorched London’s Finsbury Park is no easy feat – but Community brought together old favourites […]
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Kanye West will no longer headline this year’s edition of Rolling Loud in Miami, with Kid Cudi – a longtime colleague of West’s, with whom the controversial rapper shares a storied past – confirmed as his replacement. The line-up change was announced earlier this afternoon (July 17), with Rolling Loud’s organisers saying it came “due […]
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