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Archive for the ‘Festivals’ Category

June 20th, 2008

Amy Winehouse Could Have Tuberculosis | Brit Singer Still Planning To Do Glastonbury

Amy Winehouse was rushed to hospital on Monday after collapsing at home with suspected exhaustion. She has remained in hospital ever since and is still undergoing various scans and tests. However, reports are emerging that she could possibly be suffering from tuberculosis.
When she was taken to hospital on Monday by her doting father Mitch on […]

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June 14th, 2008

UK Summer Festival Season Kicks Off With Isle Of Wight & Download This Weekend

How do you decide when the summer is finally upon us and the rain clouds are going to give way to glorious days of sunshine? Personally, being a music freak, I wait until the summer festival season kicks off in the UK, which is this weekend with both the Isle of Wight and Download festivals […]

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June 10th, 2008

Glastonbury Tickets On Sale At HMV Tomorrow - Duffy Plans To Camp At Festival

The 2008 Glastonbury Festival has had a tumultuous build-up, with complaints from many about the unnecessarily stringent ticket buying policy, and a distinct lack of enthusiasm over the line-up, with Jay-Z’s headline slot coming in for particular criticism.
This, as well as the lack of good weather, has lead to sales hitting a record low, and […]

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June 4th, 2008

Amy Winehouse Comeback Gig Woes | Singer Refutes Claims She Fired Her Band

Amy Winehouse took part in her first gig since coming out of rehab, apart from the live performances for the Grammy Awards, and the Brit Awards, over the weekend at the Rock In Rio festival in Portugal over the weekend. It didn’t go too well, but Winehouse has defended her appearance and denied the rumours […]

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May 21st, 2008

The Zutons Blast Glastonbury Ticketing Rules | The Festival Is Now Too Middle Class!

We heard earlier that the Wax:On Live festival has been cancelled. Now The Zutons have criticised the measures you now have to go through to secure a ticket for Glastonbury, a festival they are actually performing at.
The registration system has been tweaked in recent years and culminated this time around in a complex procedure where […]

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May 20th, 2008

British Summer Festival Cancelled - Wax:On Live Organisers Blame Global Recession

The British summer festival season is almost upon us, but two pieces of news show that it may not be quite as good a year as normal on the scene.
Not only has one festival been canned, The Zutons have criticised the biggest of them all, Glastonbury, which I’ll be posting about later.
The Wax:On Live […]

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April 28th, 2008

Full Glastonbury Line-Up Leaked Early - Kings Of Leon, Editors, Massive Attack, Duffy

The full line-up for this year’s Glastonbury Festival is due to be officially announced at midnight on Tuesday April 29th, but has instead been leaked by an eagle-eyed reader.
Someone posted photos on the eFestivals forum supposedly taken from the latest issue of Q magazine, which is due out tomorrow.
We’ve already heard that the headliners […]

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April 13th, 2008

The Isle Of Skye Music Festival Cancelled After Organisers Racked Up Huge Debts

Scotland has become a kind of Mecca for music festivals and outdoor concerts over the last few years, with T In The Park, Rock Ness and The Isle Of Skye festivals all being hyped up and getting great bands performing.
Unfortunately, despite the hype, the last one on that list is no more, after the organisers […]

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April 5th, 2008

Amy Winehouse Set For Two Glastonbury Sets? | Caviar Helped Cure Skin Condition

Amy Winehouse continues her fight to keep the tabloid newspaper and music magazine journalists (as well as simple bloggers such as me) in gainful employment.
Today, we have two pieces of gossip about her which are doing the rounds. While I can’t state categorically that either are true, I feel it is at least my duty […]

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April 1st, 2008

Reading and Leeds Festival Line-Up: Metallica, Killers, Rage Against The Machine

Wow, what a trio of headliners that is! And that’s not all those punters lucky enough to already get tickets are going to be in for, as the full line-up of acts playing over the three days of the festival has been announced, and it’s a doozy.
Weekend tickets for the festival, held over two venues […]

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