The full line-up for Coachella’s 2026 edition has just been unveiled, and it sees Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter and Karol G headline the California-based festival. Taking place from 10-12 and 17-19 April, the three superstars join the likes of The Strokes, Central Cee, David Byrne, Young Thug and many more across the two weekends. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Coachella (@coachella) The festival will also welcome a brand new show from British dance duo Disclosure, girl group Katseye, and a special presentation of Anyma’s Æden project. Last year’s edition saw Lady Gaga, Green Day…
Author: Jack Needham
Garden centres are known for a pretty limited amount of things. They sell plants, and are a source for respectable advice about premium mulch. They’re places where you take your mum for a soup and sandwich or where you buy fresh produce from the farm shop. Rarely, though, are they a place for a multi-stage daytime rave. That’s where Green Island Festival has changed things, perhaps to the detriment of avid horticulturists looking to pick up a hibiscus plant on a Saturday afternoon. Green Island is a meeting of minds between Stephan Agbogbe and George McGirr. In their everyday lives,…
The 700 acre Roundhay Park, found in Leeds, UK, is set to welcome a major music festival in the summer of 2026. The festival, aptly titled Roundhay Festival, is being launched by promoters AEG, the team behind the London flagship festival BST Hyde Park, and will raise the park’s profile “with national and international audiences while delivering an important boost to the local economy,” says Councillor James Lewis, leader of Leeds City Council. Lewis Capaldi has also been announced as the first act for the event, and will perform at Roundhay Park on 4 July 2026. The festival is launched in…
It’s been 25 years since Shambala Festival first made itself known to the world. Like most festivals, it started with a group of mates who wanted to throw a massive rave. In Shambala’s case, this started with student house parties (probably without the landlord’s knowledge), and with a massive sound system in tow spread through the Welsh valleys. For a brief moment, the Shambala story was something quite unremarkable. Post-university, this group of newly retired students were disillusioned, skint, and needed a job but didn’t really want one. That’s when they pooled their resources and created Jibbering Records, a slightly…
A collective of festival organisers and venues have come together to organise what is being described as a “pioneering, gamechanging music collective,” to help support alternative live music. As reported by The Guardian, the group will “bring together independent festivals, venues and collectives to share resources, cut costs and pool audiences.” This comes after festival organisers and venues have outlined how rising logistical costs and an increased dominance in large-scale music festivals and events are harming independent promoters. The initiative is being led by Si Chai, Creative Director of both the Bristol-based venue Chai Wallahs and booking agency Diplomats of…
Sweden’s Way Out West may have been able to rest on its laurels as a major festival through its past acts alone. Since its founding in 2007, the festival has hosted the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Florence + The Machine, Neil Young and The Cure. Oh, Prince also played the festival in 2011. But when Way Out West really broke the mould was in 2012. With its meat-free initiative, which banned all meat food options within the event, it was one of the first major festivals to address the festival industry’s impact on climate change through meaningful action. This would…
Ginger Owl Productions, which offers pro services for live events in accreditation, artist liaison, event management and more, is toasting 12 months of GOAllAreas, a software service for live events. Since debuting in August 2024, GOAllAreas has supported over 30 events across the UK and Europe, including the BRIT Awards 2025 and British Summertime Festival. The GOAllAreas system helps streamline operations for festivals, sporting events, awards ceremonies, fashion shows and TV events. The service combines accreditation, catering, induction tracking and sustainability data collection into one platform. The system also allows for long-range scanning capability, which enables secure, contactless access for VIPs and artists…
Lincolnshire metal and rock festival Call of the Wild Festival has announced a host of new and returning acts for its 2026 edition, taking place 28-31 May 2026. Australian band Sisters Doll will return to rock festival, while Silveroller, who formed in 2023, are taking a main stage spot at next year’s event. Other newly announced acts include rock act The Hot One Two, grunge band Muddibrooke, a festival debut from Fireheart and Blackpool based trio Apriori. More new acts playing the northern festival include Heartbreak Remedy, The Rattlebacks, Pyroclast and RetsecroWs. Raz White, Festival Director and Booker, said: “Upstaged are…
Another sun has set on Shambala Festival. This year’s sold out event, which took place from 21-24 August, welcomed thousands of revellers to a quaint pocket of the Northamptonshire countryside for four days of music, mischief and, if you wandered into the right tent, mysticism. The iconic festival celebrated its 25th year with stand-out performances from the likes of Grammy-winning jazz rap acts Digable Planets, Moonchild Sanelly, Nubiyan Twist Soundsystem and many more. Shambala began in 2000 as a DIY gathering of like-minded pals, but has since grown to become an event that enjoys cult-like status from all those who…
The festival season may be soon coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean the work ends there. We’ve seen Brat girl summer have its second coming and Glastonbury bow out before taking its fallow year. Oasis have dominated the live music headlines, and if you’ve recently taken a walk through Manchester our collective fashion choices too. But amongst the Adidas sponsored bucket hat-mania, London’s grime elite reunited for Drake’s Wireless takeover and McFly became unlikely rock gods at Download Festival. There are many people behind the scenes that make this complicated ecosystem of revelry work. There are production teams…