Festivals round-up: Wickerman review, arrests at Global Gathering, Lovebox Weekender gets thumbs-up

- Skiddle.com has a comprehensive review of events at the Wickerman festival where, you'll be pleased to hear, the food wasn't "dog shit on a plate". The Proclaimers must have been relieved

- The Secret Garden Party, whose website so warmed my cockles recently, struck a writer at The Telegraph as an excuse for adults to behave like kids. Like most festivals, then?

- Some people were arrested for drugs offences at Global Gathering. The world continues to turn

- The usually sniffy Drowned In Sound very much enjoyed Lovebox Weekender

- The BBC website has a focus on the up-and-coming young folk acts who performed at Cambridge Folk Festival at the weekend

Posted by Stuart Waterman on July 31, 2025 10:29 AM in Cambridge Folk Festival| Global Gathering| Lovebox Weekender| Music News| The Secret Garden| Wickerman
Permalink | Comments (0) | digg this | del.icio.us this |

This weekend's festival news update

Fingers are crossed all over the country that the evil weather will quieten down in the next few days to allow this weekend’s festival brood to go on unscathed. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, here’s a round up of the latest news on what to expect.

- Global Gathering will defy the weather to stay on this weekend, says the NME. All hail Long Marston Airfield’s drainage system, apparently the reason for the braving of the elements. Basement Jaxx and Faithless will probably not be bothered about the availability of hot showers what with their luxury tour buses, but the punters will be chuffed to bits.

Posted by Sophie Bruce on July 24, 2025 8:42 AM in Cambridge Folk Festival| Global Gathering| Line-up News| Music News| The Secret Garden| WOMAD
Permalink | Comments (0) | digg this | del.icio.us this |

The Secret Garden Party's website is a 360-degree delight

It's pissing down outside and I'm hungover. Putting a smile on my face was going to be no easy task today. But the website of The Secret Garden Party managed it. Let me count the reasons why.

1. You can scroll around it in a 360 degree kind of way, as if you were on a roundabout in the sky or something. (I apologise for my vocabulary defects in point no.1)

2. When you do the scrolling thing, the cursor turns into a flying ladybird. Delightful. Also, funny little characters pop up. One of these is a man who is then picked up and carried off by a big crow. Glastonbury's website had a noticeable dearth of man-stealing crows.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on July 20, 2025 1:21 PM in Music News| The Secret Garden
Permalink | Comments (0) | digg this | del.icio.us this |