Festivals round-up: Wild In The Country reviews, discarded tents remain at Glastonbury

- Hot Chip's reputation won't be damaged by The Guardian's review of their set at Wild In The Country; The Sun select veterans Underworld as the stand-out performance

- Despite an initiative to send discarded tents to deprived sorts, thousands of shelters remain at Glasto because of a "muck up"

- While this blog gave fairly considered opinions of Secondfest, others have been a little more dismissive

- The Diana Memorial Concert peaked at over 14 million viewers in the UK alone

Posted by Stuart Waterman on July 3, 2025 3:11 PM in Concert For Diana| Glastonbury| Music News| Wild In The Country
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Festivals Update: Spice Girls sad to miss Diana concert, The Guardian guide to boutique festivals, possible T in the Park travel chaos

- The Spice Girls wanted to reform in time for the Diana Memorial Concert this weekend, but conflicting schedules would not allow it

- A rail strike is threatening travel chaos for the opening day of T In The Park

- The Istanbul leg of Live Earth has been cancelled due to lack of funds. Don't worry though, Turkish people - they're putting up big tellies for you to watch

- The Guardian has a handy guide to "boutique" festivals today - it includes Green Man, Wakestock and The Secret Garden Party

- Preston won't let a little thing like divorce get in the way of performing at Kent Music Festival this weekend, the trooper

- Underworld will headline Wild In The Country this weekend - you can read an interview with them here

Posted by Stuart Waterman on June 29, 2025 1:05 PM in Concert For Diana| Kent Music Festival| Live Earth| Music News| T In The Park| Wild In The Country
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Festivals round-up: Hot Chip go Wild In The Country, Ricky Gervais to rock Wembley

- Hot off the presses (OK, almost a week after it was announced) - this weekend's Wildchild Outside festival in London has changed venues from Shoreditch to King's Cross. It will be familar ground for folk who have been to TDK Cross Central before

- Also Wild-related, and also occurring this weekend, is Wild In The Country. It's taking place at Knebworth and the line-up is an electro-dance fan's wet dream - Hot Chip, Justice, Simian Mobile Disco and 2ManyDJs are all on the bill. The £40 tickets are still available here if you fancy 'avin' it

- Rockworld.tv will be screening two shows this Friday full of interviews with acts who performed at Download. Interviewees include My Chemical Romance, 30 Seconds To Mars, Enter Shikari, Megadeth and Slayer. You can find the channel online or on Sky Digital channel 368 - the shows go out at 7pm and 12am.

- Does the Concert For Diana count as a festival? Who cares when it means that Ricky Gervais and Mackenzie Crook will be performing "Free Love On The Freelove Freeway" at Wembley Stadium this Sunday?

- At the same event Tom Jones will perform with Aerosmith axe legend Joe Perry

- Last week Lost Weekend wrote about the French festival Eurockeennes. It's happening this weekend if you fancy your chances at the last minute - the line-up est tres bien

Posted by Stuart Waterman on June 26, 2025 4:20 PM in Concert For Diana| Download Festival| European Festivals| Line-up News| Music News| Wild In The Country
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