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End Of The Road
Will the Dorset event escape the weather? Bon Iver, Mercury Rev, Conor Oberst, A Hawk And A Hacksaw and Calexico are among the laid-back delights.
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Bestival
From Baaba Maal via My Bloody Valentine to Will Young, the Isle Of Wight gathering really does have something for everyone.
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Offset Festival
Promising to showcase "the UK's most exciting bands - and the artists who have influenced them", a forest at the end of the Central Line is set to get rather loud...
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Reading and Leeds
Rage Against The Machine, Metallica and The Killers headline the annual end of summer bash
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The Green Man
Pentangle are back together and headline the Brecon Beacons fest this year, which also features Super Furry Animals and Mercury-nominated Laura Marling
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Field Day
Head honcho Tom Baker explains why this year will be better than last.
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The Big Chill
From The Mighty Boosh via Bill Bailey to Róisín Murphy, Eastnor has something for every taste.
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Secret Garden Party
Pull up to headliner Grace Jones' bumper, baby. If you dare...
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Latitude
Music meets comedy, film meets theatre and somewhere in the middle of it all Sigur Ros, Interpol and Franz Ferdinand headline.
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Lovebox Weekender
Groove Armada's eclectic weekend in Victoria Park presents Flaming Lips, Manu Chao and the Human League. Oh, and a legendary DJ or two.
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Camp Bestival
Bestival's second strand heads for Wiltshire. Is there room enough on the calendar? Chuck Berry thinks so...
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Melt!
Anyone disappointed with Björk's cancellation and the subsequent collapse of Wild In The Country can still see the Icelandic queen of quirk by hotfooting it to Ferropolis, City of Steel, in Germany...
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Wild In The Country
Knebworth House holds court for an 18 hour marathon of bands and DJs with Sasha, Foals, Soulwax and Hercules & Love Affair.
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Daydream
Radiohead headline their own event for one night in Barcelona, featuring acts they've worked with or like, including Clinic, Bat For Lashes, Liars and M83.
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Primavera Sound
Three days of sun, sea and sangria, with one of Europe's best festival line-ups this year, Barcelona's Primavera doesn't even have mud. And the headliners include Portishead and Rufus Wainwright.
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Gatecrasher Summer Sound System
Laying claim to be the UK's most impressive dance event of 2008, with a new venue and hundreds of DJs and electronica acts, from Paul van Dyk through Vitalic to a celebration of Acid House's 20th birthday. Boutique camping, anyone?
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Glastonbudget
Glastonbury? Pfft. So corporate darling. To experience a true festival you need to think more frugally. You need too Glastonbudget!
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The Great Escape
The UK's premier new music festival showcase (and industry convention) returns to Brighton for its third year, bigger and bolder. But why are The Fratellis playing?
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Stag & Dagger
One night crawling around Shoreditch in search of ace new bands. It's the first Stag & Dagger. Does the Camden Crawl have a challenger?
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The Camden Crawl
Two days and two nights of acts new and not quite so new bring NW1 to a standstill. Amid the mayhem, some secret headline guests and assorted impromptu gigs.
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End Of The Road
The end of the festival season is nigh as Bon Iver, Mercury Rev, Dirty Three, Calexico and Conor Oberst gather amongst twinkly lights at Larmer Tree Gardens...
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Bestival
Rain, rain and more rain; stages sink, power fails, sets are cancelled and through it all comes Amy Winehouse and her extensive rider. Oh, and Grace Jones, Will Young and My Bloody Valentine...
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Offset Festival
Gang Of Four and Wire headline in a forest at the end of the Central Line.
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Leeds Festival
Metallica bestride the main stage on the first day; Rage Against The Machine, Queens Of The Stone Age take Day 2 and The Killers round out Day 3
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Get Loaded In The Park
Iggy Pop and Gogol Bordello headline SW4's day-long jambouree
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The Green Man
As has become the 2008 festival season norm, it rained. But with a programme encompassing the return of Pentangle and lectures on kerbside herbs, the Brecon Beacons was still the place to be.
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Field Day
The Field, Richie Hawtin, Brodinski, Laura Marling, carrot eating contests and a few games of tug-o-war in London's Victoria Park
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Bloom
A festival on a hill with superb views. One problem: the o'erhanging firmament...
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Cropredy
Supergrass, Levellers and Julie Fowlis join Fairport Convention for a curiosly conventional Cropredy...
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The Big Chill
Leonard Cohen, Bill Bailey, Camille and The Orb head to Herefordshire
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Secret Garden Party
Grace Jones, a gypsy orkestar and a burning galleon are amongst the eclectic treats at Huntingdon's boutique event
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Latitude
Interpol, Grinderman, Joanna Newsom, Sigur Rós and a Radio 4 arena pitch up on Suffolk's Sunshine Coast
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Lovebox Weekender
The Flaming Lips, The Human League, Manu Chao and a chill wind get London's Victoria Park into 10th birthday mood...
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Camp Bestival
Under-10s go wild for Kate Nash at Rob Da Bank's second-string festival adventure
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Melt!
In a mine near Berlin, with Bjork, Battles, Robyn, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip and Los Campesinos!
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Wireless
Jay-Z, Morrissey and Fatboy Slim headline the London festival for heiresses and oligarchs.
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Daydream
The inaugural Daydream Festival brings Radiohead and friends to Barcelona for one day and one night.
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Primavera Sound
Three days of sun, sea and sangria, with one of Europe's best festival line-ups this year, Barcelona's Primavera doesn't even have mud. And the headliners included Portishead and Husker Dü.
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Gatecrasher Summer Sound System
Dance, death and destruction as tents go flying and the Chemical Brothers go cancelling.
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Glastonbudget
The festival of cover bands braves rain and gales.
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Rocket Festival
Coldcut and Pendulum headline the Andalucian microcosm of Glasto.
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Stag & Dagger
The East End's answer to the Camden Crawl takes in 15 venues in Shoreditch and Hoxton during one evening.
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Camden Crawl
The UK's festival season gets underway with a stumble around NW1, with Esser, Crystal Castles, Slagsmålsklubben, Ladyhawke, Sam Sparro, The Shortwave Set, Lykke Li, Robyn, The Wave Pictures, M83 and many more...
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West Coast Blues'n'Roots Festival
Seasick Steve, Xavier Rudd, Ozomatli, KT Tunstall, Ray Davies, Angus And Julia Stone and many more descend on Fremantle's Esplanade.
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Big Day Out
musicOMH decamps to western Australia and witnesses Billy Bragg duet with Kate Nash, Rage Against The Machine's headline set and the kooky monster that is Björk.
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