There a few ways you can arrive to a festival; in a coach you’ve chipped £40 in for, a car that is highly unsuitable for parking in a field for 4 days & 4 nights or you can travel on numerous busses and trains. Our journey begins with the first of many trains and buses […]
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At Urbanista we love a good road trip and we have an insatiable appetite for top notch house and techno — on Saturday 9th September we’ll be combining the two by attending TAKE’s Manchester debut with their huge booking of CamelPhat! Our electronic music connoisseur, Justin Hopper, will be taking a crew down to Manchester’s […]
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Thursday afternoon. Phone buzzes. Urbanista. “Two press passes to Boomtown tomorrow, can you cover it?”. The answer, of course, a resounding YES. Within a couple of hours and a few phonecalls, we were packed and ready for the rolling hills of the Matterley Estate. Turned for four days into the UK’s craziest city, the Winchester […]
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Words: Kate McCann With my pocket money pressed into my hot little hand, I’d often skip down to the likes of Our Price, HMV or Woolies as a girl to buy a record of one of my favourites. Streaming and downloading just doesn’t cut it for me, far more satisfying to actually hold something. I […]
Read MoreWords and Pictures: Rosie Stanistreet MADE Festival: 4 things we love the most The Atmosphere We arrived to the Digbeth Triangle alive with glittered up glamorous ravers all having the absolute time of their lives! Everyone was having a ball and the air was buzzing with drum and bass, we knew we were in for […]
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Words: Michael Coates Pictures: John W. King The anticipation was perspiring from eager numanoid bodies as they marched past me to the Exhibition centre to witness the genius of the pioneering godfather of electro-pop, Gary Numan. This was Numans 2nd Liverpool gig in 12 months and from overhearing conversations in the ticket queue i learned […]
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Friday 14th, The Ribble Valley; our first time visiting Beat Herder. After a short trip from our hometown Winsford to Lancashire we arrived to see the party was already in full swing and we were faced with the challenge of setting up camp; a challenge we epically failed. Liam’s tent lacked an all-important rain cover, […]
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Words: Lauren Jones Pictures: Andy Von Pip Photography WHEN Beach Boys extraordinaire Brian Wilson comes to town, you know there will be a showstopping performance. Returning for the last ever leg of his Pet Sounds tour, Mr Wilson brought an all star line up of Beach Boy co-founder Al Jardine and guitarist Blondie Chaplin who […]
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Walking through Middlewich on Friday evening was, by all accounts, an interesting experience. Music and noise from every corner of the town flooded the streets, spilling out of pub doors and venue windows and rising up from the Market field, where the bustling Middlewich FAB Festival main stage was positioned. Plastic, a four-piece grunge rock […]
Read MoreBirmingham’s hottest music event returns to Digeth Triangle in the Irish Quarter for the fourth year running with their most explosive line-up ever – no wonder day tickets have sold out. MADE is bringing grime ‘Landlord’ Giggs to the party alongside legendary fezzy DJ duo Chase & Status so hold on to your knickers kids, […]
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