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Glastonbury 2019 predicted to be hottest in festival’s history

Better pack your sun cream...

With Glastonbury kicking off today, meteorologists have begun predicting that this year's edition could be the hottest on record.

Aidan McGivern from the Met Office...

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Shaq festival performances: “I don’t get paid, I do it for the sport of bass music”

The NBA legend made the admission in a recent interview

Shaq has shared that he doesn't get paid for festival gigs.

The NBA star, who began DJing in 1988 but stepped away from music when...

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UK summer festivals sell out in record time following lockdown easing roadmap

Festivals including Eastern Electrics, Field Day, Creamfields and Boomtown have all sold out in the past week

Festivals scheduled to take place in England this summer are selling out at a rapid rate following the Government’s announcement of its roadmap out of...

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Tomorrowland's virtual festival set a new standard for digital events — here's how they did it

With an IRL event impossible this year, the team behind Belgian mega-festival Tomorrowland created a revolutionary interactive virtual world in under three months. Here’s how...

Tomorrowland has never been one for subtleties. As the Belgian festival scaled up from more humble beginnings in 2005, the Boom location became an array...

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Bijou Film Festival and Elements Oakland celebrate Black and queer roots of house music with Juneteenth event series

The events will celebrate what organisers called "Black Fantastic Otherness, a term that highlights the unique otherness that we possess as Black people around the globe"

This Juneteenth, the Black and queer roots of house music will be celebrated with a series of events in Oakland, California. Across June 17th-18th, the...

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The Loop is saving lives at UK festivals with its innovative harm reduction initiative

After the recent tragic deaths of two people at Mutiny Festival in Portsmouth, the issue of drug safety testing has been thrust into the spotlight...

The whole point about harm minimisation is admitting that people are always going to take drugs, whatever anyone in authority says or does — so...

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How could a return to clubs and festivals work in a post-pandemic society?

In the UK and elsewhere, there’s now a pathway towards a staggered reopening of clubs and festivals. But how have venues coped in the past...

When UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the government’s “roadmap” out of lockdown on the 22nd February — a series of dates over which COVID-19...

Tomorrowland Unite Spain has been evacuated following huge blaze on the festival’s main stage

22,000 people have been evacuated from the Barcelona site...

Tomorrowland Unite Spain has been evacuated following a huge blaze on the festival’s main stage in Barcelona this evening (Saturday 29th July).

The fire, which...

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Fyre Festival’s well-documented disaster is set to be turned into a documentary

The festival that keeps on giving, errr, failing...

Fyre Festival — the well-documented music festival disaster from 2017 that left paying festivalgoers stranded on a private island in the Bahamas — is now...