BANG FACE has done everything on its own terms since it began in 2003. “The first BANG FACE was a free party in Shoreditch in a disused public toilet under the pavement,” laughs James. These parties ...

German bass festival Blacklist has announced it will be returning to the Turbinenhalle in Oberhausen on 11 October 2025. The line-up features more than 50 dubstep, trap and drum ‘n’ bass acts who will ...

The main-stage of the Belgian music festival Tomorrowland has been engulfed in fire. Footage shared on Wednesday 16 July shows the main stage crumbling beneath a weight of flames and smoke. Videos ...

We speak with the Lila boss to learn about the need for more South Asian faces in the music industry, and why 2025 could mark a cultural shift in making that happen. June 9, 2025 Vikram Gudi has made ...

Bonnaroo co-founder Jonathan Mayers dies aged 51 Mayers is also the co-founder of Superfly Entertainment alongside Rick Farman, Richard Goodstone and Kerry Black.

EXIT Festival pulls out of Serbia after expressing support for student protests The festival says it has been "completely cut off from public funding at all levels of government," since showing its ...

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Jarvis Cocker, Rod Stewart, Doechii and more photo highlights from Glastonbury 2025. The dust has settled on Glastonbury 2025 ...

John Drury is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex. His research focus is crowds and collective behaviour. He has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, most of ...

Festival Insights and the UK Festival Awards are proud to release the UK Festival Market Report 2017, an in-depth examination of consumer demographics, preferences and behaviour based on research ...

Boardmasters, Cornwall’s own surf and music festival, has shared details of its licensing application which has now been submitted to Cornwall Council. If granted, the new licence will allow ...

Dawn Dines has a mission: To stamp out spiking. We met at this year’s Boardmasters Festival, where the message from the charity she heads up, the aptly-named Stamp Out Spiking, was clearly ...