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I’ve postponed the Saturday Showcase this week in favour of a quick update to my Festival Guide. This week the Relentless Boardmasters Festival down in Newquay kicked off after camping tickets sold out at the beginning of the week. Luckily we’ve scored some press passes, however my weekend was suddenly not so free…luckily I wasn’t [...]

If you read this blog regularly you’ll know that I’ve just about recovered from my latest festival exploit at the world famous Glastonbury Festival. I’ve been going for a number of years now (including one epic year where I scored a VIP Press Pass which resulted in some serious awesome times with celebs and free [...]

After 6 days without a wash I’m finally showered and about halfway to recovering from the chaos that was Glastonbury 2011…actually I’m fully shattered and need a blooming good sleep…but while I doze and stagger through another day back in the real world I thought I’d share my personal Top 10 Highlights of Glasto 2011 [...]

It’s going to be a bit quiet on the Twitter and blogging front over the next 5 days so I’d thought I’d give you all a heads up…cos I’m nice like that! As of 7am tommorow morning I – along with Kez, my little bro and a whole heap of our mates – will be [...]

The height of summer is quickly approaching and the festival season is soon to be in full swing – and as of last night the biggest UK music festival officially sold it’s last tickets, yup Glastonbury is nearly upon us! The Countdown Begins A month to the day 180,000 welly clad festival goers will descend [...]

As part of our ongoing festival we’re doing our best to get you some up close and personal accounts of the wide range of festivals our lovely planet has to offer – this week we head to Bluesfest in Byron Bay, Australia Tweet

We’ve just started putting together our Festival Feature Guide, so I thought I’d start it off with something very topical at the moment; It’s that time of the year again, where surfers all over the globe are glued to their computer screens, or for those in Australia they head to Snapper Rocks – that’s right, [...]

So the final day of Bluefest came around pretty fast. After 5 days of laid back tuneage, new discoveries and general enjoyment the final day was going to be pretty easy shooting wise as there wasn’t much on the bill that I hadn’t already seen or wanted to shoot. Tweet

Today kicked off rather more smoothly than usual…which worried me slightly! After arriving on site my first port of call (besides writing for you lot and editing pics) was a band called eMDee. The programme described them as a techno didgeridoo and bass setup – sounded like the perfect start to the second to last [...]

After a rather stressful and hectic morning plagued with van related issues I didn’t arrive at the festival until around 3pm – which was rather annoying as it meant I had to cancel an interview with Newton Faulkner…gutted! Tweet

So the day started off rather less than perfect – covert camping involves early rises, something I’m not the best at! It then got worse with the fact that Woolworths was closed due to it being Good Friday. Great. Tweet