“We were trying to learn some Nick Cave songs, but they were much too hard, so we’re just going to play some Undertones songs instead,” jokes guitarist John O’Neill, in reference to last night’s headliner, before his band launch into a feisty version of ‘Jimmy Jimmy’. The Undertones have survived the decades astonishingly well and […]
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As the sun goes down over the Danube on day two of EXIT 2022, the festival once again springs into life. For such a nocturnal event, the key to maximising your hours is pacing, and this is something that the festival organisers also seem to grasp. The line-up is packed with the crème de la […]
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“I enjoy what I do, and sometimes I do it angry,” Modest Mouse‘s Isaac Brock tells NME at Mad Cool 2022 just after stepping off stage from a killer early evening set. The cause of his ire today? “I was angry at the sun!” Still, he’s not angry now. Quite the opposite in fact, as he […]
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During their headline performance at this year’s Mad Cool Festival in Madrid, The Killers have debuted a new song titled ‘Boy’. “Do you wanna be the first to hear us play a new song right now? It goes like this,” frontman Brandon Flowers told the audience during their main stage set last night (July 7). […]
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Rock Werchter founder Herman Schueremans says the success of this summer’s Belgian festival season is helping to stimulate ticket sales across the board. Boasting a star-studded line-up headed by Pearl Jam, Metallica, Imagine Dragons, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Twenty One Pilots and The Killers, Belgium’s biggest festival sold out in record time in February this […]
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Sea Power have finalised the line-up for the second edition of their Cumbrian festival Krankenhaus – check it out below. The band’s festival debuted in 2019 and returns this August (26-29 at Muncaster Castle) with the likes of Gruff Rhys, Low, This Is The Kit, Richard Dawson, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Simon […]
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Florence And The Machine is set to headline Mad Cool 2022 but the Madrid festival will also see the likes of CHVRCHES, Haim, St. Vincent, Sigrid, Tove Lo, Arlo Parks, Phoebe Bridgers and Zara Larsson all take to the biggest stages while breaking bands like The Regrettes and Brutus are given a chance to prove […]
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The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has responded to criticism that emerged after the band’s headlining performance at this year’s Roskilde festival. The band performed at Roskilde last Saturday (July 2), closing out the Danish festival’s four-day roster. According to setlist.fm, their set – which consisted of 14 songs – started half an hour behind schedule […]
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International K-pop festival HallyuPopFest is expanding to Australia next month. Previously held in Singapore in 2018 and 2019, the event is scheduled to make its UK debut at OVO Arena Wembley (cap. 12,500) from 9-10 July, promoted by TEG MJR. TEG Live is also partnering with the New South Wales government’s tourism and major events […]
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The final day of Open’er 2022 is a bright one, whether because of the sun that blesses the disused Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport site or – once that great ball of fire has set – because of the glowing neon art installations dotted around the site. In the middle of the field that connects the main stage […]
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