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Music Festivals, UK Festivals and London Festivals

Glastonbury 2011: The Review

Gulls circle the great British landmark that is Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage as the sun rises on Friday morning. It's all still to come. You can feel the tingles of over-excitement as Thursday too quickly...

Secret Garden Party 2011: The Review

The facts, even when beaded on a chain, still do not have real order. The brass tacks are scattered. Things are separate and haphazard and random...

Lovebox 2011: The Review

Kindra - Friday: Finally the most awaited city festival has arrived. Summer, for once, has graced us with good weather not only mitigating sto...

Review: Sunrise Celebration 2011

Sunrise Celebration is big on generosity. It indulges the attendee in that which we each of us crave by virtue of the inherently liberty-seeki...

Primavera 2011

If there is a festival with a better USP than Primavera, then I haven’t found it. Taking over various points around Barcelona, it&rsquo...;

Glade 2011: The Review

Beats or Junk? The Infamous Dance-Off The very word Glade conjures beats, pieces, glory, wrongness, sunlight through trees, arms in the air,...

Review: Glade Festival Psychedelic Field 2011

Abundant salutations are in order. The organisers of the psychedelic field at Glade Festival this year were triumphant in laying the foundatio...

Five finds at Primavera

It was Primavera the weekend just gone, and as it’s the first proper festival of the season, we bravely battled through the numerous queues...

Five finds at Glastonbury

There really is so much to be found at Glastonbury festival. You may discover you love Burmese stew whilst realising you look great in a hamster...

Big Chill 2011 announce first acts

It seems not a day goes by where festival news isn’t flooding in to us at Spoonfed.  Yesterday we brought you news of Blink 182 dropping...

What to do at Wilderness Festival

So Wilderness Festival is round the corner: the thinking man's crumpet, this brand new festival sounds like exactly what we at Spoonfed need...

Who to see at South West Four

SaturdayJames Zabiela This Southampton born producer/DJ has been nothing short of a club scene phenomenon for the last 10 years. Having m...

London's smallest festival announced

At a time when bigger is used pretty much as a synonym for better, it's rather refreshing when something comes along that champions not its si...

The UK's Best New Festivals

It's FESTIVAL TIME! Summer is so bloody very nearly here! Excited Brits across the country are buying tickets and tents, trawling websites for...

Ones to Watch at Field Day 2011

This Saturday, Victoria Park turns from a peaceful, tranquil place where people can sit down to enjoy ukulele lessons into a 12-hour riot of...

Ariel Pink to play Field Day after-party at Shacklewell Arms

Big news from the Field Day camp today! Not content with just putting on an incredible looking fest down in Victoria party, they've only gone...

Richie Hawtin takes Plastikman on world tour

Richie Hawtin - the man behind M_nus Records - the world's best known techno label - is going on tour, reigniting his Plastikman alias.The Plastikma...

SW4 bring Richie Hawtin

SW4 have pulled an absolute treat out of the bag. They have just announced that king of M_nus, the planet's most notorious techno DJ Mr Richie...

Field Day announce new acts and stages

The Shacklewell Arms have announced that they will team up with infamous Camden boozer The Lock Tavern to curate a stage at this year's Field...

Odd Future, Tom Vek and Professor Green to play Bestival

The Bestival line up continues to grow with Odd Future, Professor Green, Tom Vek and Hercules and the Love Affair being added to the bill.Odd ...

Arctic Monkeys and Eminem to headline V Festival

It's just been announced that Eminem and Arctic Monkeys are set to headline V Festival this year, which takes place between August 20th and 21st...

Standon Calling to go ahead after organiser is jailed

Standon Calling organiser Alex Trenchard was sentenced to a 30-month custodial sentence yesterday after pleading guilty to theft and fraud by...

Boomtown Fair announces Bassline Circus dance stage

Alternative and escapist festival Boomtown Fair is pushing boundaries this year with a fresh and heavy line-up headed up by DJ Zinc - the m...

Festival Kit List

Odds on, you are planning to go to at least one festival this year.Festivals have become a summer staple. A rite of passage. It’s amazing ...

Bassnectar announced for Secret Garden Party

Sizzling off the press this week comes news that our absolute favourite festival pranksters Bearded Kitten have scored the one, the only Bassnectar...

A Beginner's Guide To Snoop Dogg

Calvin Broadus Jr. a.k.a Snoop Doggy Dogg performs the classic 'Doggystyle' on Saturday at Lovebox this year, and for those who don't know who...

SW4 announce main stage line-up

The Clapham Common rave SW4 brings John Digweed, Laidback Luke, Annie Mac, James Zabiela and more to their massive main stage this August.Having ...

SW4 announce arena hosts

Clapham Common rave South West Four already has three exclusives in the bag (step forward Underworld, Pendulum and Magnetic Man) and they've...

Leftfield and Blondie announced for Secret Garden Party

Secert Garden Party news just in! This year, it's Leftfield who will be providing the main stage beats, while Blondie brings a touch of reminisce...

Bjork, Snoop Dogg and Damon Albarn confirmed to play Manchester International Festival

Already confirmed to play this year’s Lovebox Festival, the D.O. Double G has announced a one-off date at Manchester’s O2 Apollo...

Snoop Dogg to play Lovebox 2011

All the while we do it Doggy Style......The hip hop legend that is Snoop Dogg will play his eponymous debut album Doggystyle in its entirety ...

My Chemical Romance, The Strokes and Muse on Reading and Leeds Festival leak?

So, we at Spoonfed aren’t often keen on fuelling rumours, but when it comes to something like Reading and Leeds Festivals, even we bow...

Pendulum, PJ Harvey, The Cure and Public Enemy announced for Bestival 2011

"My brain literally never stops whirring, thinking and puzzling over who to book for Bestival," says Rob da Bank. "The 'anything goes' approach...

Shambala 2011: The Review

There is a whisper in the wind. You hear a friend of a friend has been to the festival, but when you ask them about it they simply raise a fing...

Playgroup Festival 2011: The Review

Festival goers, artists, traders, bar staff, stewards and even security become one tribe in the menagerie of woodland creatures – both...

What To See at Bestival

I’m not going to talk about the headliners. I’d wager if you’ve made it as far as the Spoonfed music section, than you&rsq...;

SW4 Saturday: The review

With one of the biggest electronic line-ups of the London summer season, SW4 should be a sure fire success. Sven Vath’s Cocoon records...

The Secret Garden Party 2010: The Review

So, I’m photocopying my tits in a garden shed, while a member of the Freefall Collective swigs cognac and a smoking blonde tries to cram hers onto the glass beside me. Copy. Copy. Copy. Save this...

Spoonfed Festival Anecdotes

  Festivals inspire wildness. The cool breeze of liberty inflates your sails as you realise you are free to do whatever you like, whene...

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