Mystery Land for me has always been one of those festivals I would love to do but I don’t feel I ever will. The main reason being its in Holland! The tickets sell out really fast, and in general I think it may cost to much to go.
Dance music festivals in mainland europe are EPIC!! it started a long time ago with Dance Valley, Dance Valley started off the two day dance festival scene, it has a line-up as long as your arm, it has helicopters dropping rose petals onto the crowd!!
Glastonbury this year will be revealing a new stage for the festival. Glastonbury has always played and supported a large amount of musical genres and artists.
The new stage is the Bourbon Street Jazz n Blues stage. I cant say its a genera that i have ever heard off but i had been lucky enough to get a ticket, i would be checking this place out!! Again, the line-up is nobody i know but its all about hearing new things. Bourbon Street Jazz n Blues sounds like a stage with lots of old people playing trumpets! I’m going to do a bit of digging on You Tube today to educate myself!!
Wakestock is one of the cool kids on the block, It doesn’t try and conform to the regular boxed model of a festival, and that’s because its not. Wakestock is a wake boarding festival that also has live music, It also has some of the best Wake boarders in the world.
We had one of our guys there last year and all his reports came back saying it was an amazing festival. You can expect to see the likes of Scratch Perverts and Audio Bullies.
Its only a couple of weeks away, on the 22nd and 23rd of May Radio 1 big weekend will be in Bangor in Wales. I didn’t get a ticket for the Saturday like i applied for but i didn’t really expect to.
Last years event was covered extensively on line and on TV and produced some really good moments including an acoustic performance by Kelly Rowland of When Love Takes Over
In 2010, im sure they will try and improve on last year, The line-up they have released looks really good, I applied for the Saturday and think this was the best day to attend, however sunday will be equally as good, Ill be following it all which ever way i can, i also hope that Radio 1 use their You Tube channel to show the video’s of the event as a lot of the video’s have now been taken down.
The owner of Glastonbury have revealed that Oasis Snubbed playing at Pilton farm last year. A couple of years ago, the organisers set up Jay-Z to headline Glastonbury, this was much to the dis belief of Noel Gallagher who openly voiced his feelings about having a rap star headlining Glastonbury.
It has been revealed that Oasis were then offered to Headline the year after but snubbed Glastonbury to play two dates at the V festival, the second of these dates were cancelled because the band fell out.
Michael Eavis has said that if they reformed, they would never play at Glastonbury in the future, they should have took up his offer in the first place.
Every year there is an amazing festival called Bestival, The brain child of radio 1’s Rob Da Bank, He has constantly created a festival that everyone wants to go to, and when i say everyone, im not talking about your average punter, im also including other artists and performers.
Every year they also have a fancy dress theme, its certainly the biggest fancy dress party i have heard off!! they have had ocean themes in the past and this year the theme is fantastical, its the year of the fantastic fantasy.
as is every year, there will be a prize for the best dressed, and this year that job has fallen to La Roux. She will pick a winner for the best fancy dress of the festival. Im not to sure how she sees them all but im sure she will have fun looking!
Glastonbury has a very long history, but with time it has always accommodated most if not all varieties of music, When Glastonbury first started dance music as we know it did not exist, a lot of the top Dj’s that rule the scene didnt exist, and now, Glastonbury have a whole village dedicated to it!
I wouldn’t go expecting a line-up to rival Creamfields or the other big dance festivals but you can certainly expect to hear some great music and sets from Dj’s you may not have heard of but can certainly deliver.
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In 2009 Creamfields was a really good weekend, a bit wet on the Sunday but nothing to dampen our spirits, After we had got home we heard the news that a woman had died in a car crash on the way to the festival which was awful news to hear.
In Dominique’s name a charity event took place in Liverpool recently which raised money for youngsters to develop through performing arts. The fund was set up by Edge Hill University were Dominique studied.
One of her close friends had the following to say
I wanted to do something to raise money for the trust set up in Dominique’s name. It will help young girls who want to dance and perform which is what Dom wanted to do. Dom was amazing – every time she went out she looked superb.
Ive not blogged much about Glastonbury this year and in the past it has been a hot topic providing lots of news. In 2010 there doesn’t seem to have been as much hype surrounding the festival, if there has been, it has passed me by.
In more recent years there seems to have been a more pop edge to the festival creeping in and 2010 is no different, Shikera will be playing Glastonbury, don’t get me wrong, im sure she is a good performer, however if i go to a festival i don’t really want to listen to the people i hear on the radio all day at work! Thats the beauty of large festivals though, if i don’t want to listen to Shikera then that is more than ok because there is so much more going on.
South West Four takes place over August Bank Holiday Weekend on Clapham Common in London. The headlines include Armin Van Burren on the Saturday and Fat Boy Slim on the Sunday, both of which are being advertised as the only London Show of 2010.
Tickets for the whole weekend are priced at £75 or you can pick which day you go, it will cost you £40 per day.
The rest of the line-up seems quite good, There are a lot of DJ’s in the country for this weekend because of Creamfields and the Leeds and reading festivals.
Arenas for the weekend include the Kiss Main Stage, Bedrock Arena, Carl Cox and Friends The Gallery Arena, Boyz Noise Records Arena, Tool Room Nights and the Together arena.
