Category: Festival Season
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Slam Dunk Festival 2025: A Day of Discoveries, Nostalgia, and Powerhouse Performances
There’s something about the first summer festival of the year that hits differently. The sun is (mostly) out, the air’s buzzing with adrenaline and Monster Energy, and the Slam Dunk crowd is ready to scream, sweat, and skank their way through one of the most stacked lineups in the UK…
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RADAR Festival 2025 Preview: A Progressive Paradise Returns
If there’s one event in the UK live music calendar that refuses to sit still, it’s RADAR Festival. Award-winning, genre-agnostic and unrelentingly progressive, RADAR is back for its fourth full-scale edition in 2025 , and it’s already shaping up to be the most expansive and exhilarating yet. After firmly planting…
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Sound City 2025 – The Front Row Preview
Liverpool’s Favourite Music Festival Returns: Sound City 2025 PreviewLiverpool City Centre | May 3rd & 4th 2025 Get ready to bounce between some of the best venues in the UK as Sound City takes over Liverpool for another bank holiday weekend of non-stop music. With a fresh lineup that mixes…
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Tramlines Festival 2025: Your Ultimate Guide to Sheffield’s Biggest Party
Sheffield’s premier music festival, Tramlines, is set to return to Hillsborough Park from Friday, July 25th to Sunday, July 27th, 2025. Celebrating its 17th edition, Tramlines has firmly established itself as a highlight of the UK’s festival calendar, offering a diverse mix of music, comedy, art, and family-friendly activities. Festival…
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Slam Dunk Festival 2025: Kicking Off Festival Season with a Bang!
For us at The Front Row, the UK festival season truly begins when Slam Dunk Festival rolls into town. Year after year, it delivers the biggest names in pop-punk, rock, metal, and alternative music, and 2025 is shaping up to be no different. With A Day to Remember making their…
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Larkin Out Festival 2025
Hull has long been a city steeped in history and culture, but in recent years, it’s also been carving out a reputation as a hub for rising indie music. At the heart of this movement is the Larkin Out Festival, now preparing for its second year at the iconic New…
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Tramlines 2025: A Dream Lineup with Pulp, The Reytons, and Kasabian!
Tramlines Festival is pulling out all the stops for its 16th edition in 2025! Returning to Sheffield’s Hillsborough Park from July 25th to 27th, the festival promises an unforgettable weekend of music, community, and celebration. With Pulp, The Reytons, and Kasabian headlining the event, it’s a line-up that feels like…
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The Front Row Ultimate UK Festival Guide 2025
Even though the weather has changed in the UK to cold dark nights, the good news is, festival season is right around the corner, and 2025 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting years yet for live music in the UK! Whether you’re a seasoned festival-goer or…
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SHIIINE ON ANNOUNCE SPECIAL ONE-OFF SHIIINE ON WEEKENDER
Celebrating their 10th Anniversary – Shiiine On – are delighted to announce a special one-off festival for 2025! The event, set to take place in March 2025, will mark a decade-on from the inaugural inaugural Shiiine On Weekender, a three day festival that has become something of a phenomenon in recent times.…
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Tramlines Festival Preview – 3 Weeks to Go!
Get ready, Sheffield! The city’s biggest party, Tramlines Festival, is back and better than ever for 2024 and we’re only three weeks away. This year promises a phenomenal line-up, featuring headliners Paolo Nutini, Jamie T, and Snow Patrol, all making their first appearances at the event. The excitement kicks off…
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The Long Road Festival 2024: Full-Day Lineups Announced and New Artists Added!
Headliners Don McLean, Russell Dickerson, and more will be joined by cross-genre sensation Redferrin and a host of other talented artists. Dates: 23rd-25th August 2024Location: Stanford Hall, Leicestershire Tickets: VIP, weekend, camping, and day tickets are on sale now: The Long Road Tickets. The UK’s premier festival for country, Americana,…
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Live Review: Liverpool Sound City ’24, Sunday, 5/5/2024.
If Sound City’s first day was dominated by hometown artists, then day two probably belonged to Scotland. There were some prominent outliers, a powerful performance from local band Reignmaker in the Grand Central Hall was followed by a typically timeless set from local legend Michael Head and The Red Elastic…
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Live Review: Liverpool Sound City Festival, Saturday 4/5/2024.
Liverpool is a big city. But in some ways it can be a bit of a village. Whatever your proclivities are, be it arc-welding or stamp collecting, fairly soon you’re going to be mixing with all the people who share your interest. And so it was that Spanish Caravan on…
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Festival Review: Live At Leeds 2023.
The UK music festival season is bookended by two of the best inner-city, multi-venue celebrations of emerging musical talent out there. In April it’s Sound City in Liverpool. If It’s October then it must be Live At Leeds. The sheer depth and quality of the line-up of this year’s festival…
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Festival Review: Live at Leeds – In The City, 2022.
Live at Leeds has been nominated in no less than four categories at the 2022 UK Festival Awards. After attending this year’s event, it was easy to see why. It was well organised: wristband collection was simple; entry to venues was smooth; and there were few places where you could…
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival – Cast, The Boo Radleys, The Heavy North. 18/6/2022.
Wearing a John Lennon ‘Working Class Hero‘ T-Shirt he strode up to the microphone and greeted the crowd with, ‘HELLO MIDDLEWICH! Fuck me, I never thought I’d hear myself say that!’. You and me both John Power. Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival was celebrating it’s thirtieth anniversary. I bet it’s…
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LIVE REVIEW: Micro FestEVOL, Hope Anti-Supermarket, New Brighton – 26/3/2022.
The Hope Anti-Supermarket is exactly that. What was once New Brighton’s Kwik-Save, and then it’s Co-op, is now a multi-arts space – ‘A home for independent artists, musicians, crafters, makers and creators to co-exist and collaborate for all of the community to enjoy’. It’s the ideal venue for me to…
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LIVE REVIEW: Sound City Liverpool, 2021.
For most people attending Sound City 2021 their experience would have had a distinct flavour of Scouse. Red Rum Club played a buoyant Saturday headline slot at the Grand Central Hall. Local artists like Courting, SPINN, STONE, and Pixey, were playing highly anticipated festival slots. For me, my taste buds…
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REVIEW: Leeds Festival 2021
It’s been some time since Halfway 2 Nowhere hit the mainstream but this weekend, we were fully immersed in the spectacle that was Leeds Festival. Friday and Sunday were an absolute triumph and whilst we couldn’t attend on Saturday, the early reviews and comments suggest the entire weekend was a…
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Live Review – FestEVOL at Future Yard, Birkenhead, 31/7/2021.
I am sure it was just coincidence that in the same week a major finance company crowned Birkenhead as the ‘Trendiest Town in the UK’, FestEVOL start the first of their triumvirate of local festivals in the town. When you’re hot, you’re hot I guess. And it’s not just the…
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