North East’s biggest music festival takes place in June

The biggest event in the North East is taking place on the Quayside over 2 days in June, and brings the biggest music acts to perform for the appreciative young audience that is expected to number 25,000 each day.

Headline acts are Dizzee Rascal and Deadmau5 with support from artists including Maximo Park, Noah & The Whale, Rizzle Kicks, Miles Kane, Devlin, Band [...]

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Liverpool Sound City announces 2012 line up

The widely respected 3 day festival of music and live arts and international media, music and technology conference is returning in 2012.

The festival is focused on the zeitgeist and looking forward, intent on bringing the best new music, film, art and more from all over the world to Liverpool. The primary convention focus is on bringing [...]

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Croissant Neuf festival returns for the 5th year to the Usk Valley

Croissant Neuf festival returns for 5th year to the Usk Valley

The multi award winning Croissant Neuf solar powered family festival returns to the Usk Valley this year and has just announced its impressive line up for its 2012 summer party. Since it first took place in 2007, the festival has gained an impressive reputation as [...]

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There are no lonely ‘arts’ in the new Beatles exhibition

There are no lonely 'arts' in the new Beatles exhibition

Fans of the Beatles should head down to the top attraction in Central London,Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! London, to get a chance to see the fab four like they have never been seen before.

Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have been immortalised [...]

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The Garsington Opera announces its second season

The Garsington Opera announces its second season

For the second year running, Garsington Opera, in its fabulous new setting at the Wormsley Estate, will be backed by Jefferies, the banking firm that specialises in global investments.

This season runs from 2nd June-3rd July and will be featuring the rarely performed Vivaldi piece L’Olimpiade. Others to look forward [...]

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the Camden Crawl festival returns for the 11th year

For the 11th year, this original urban festival, taking place at multiple venues, returns to Camden, encompassing the best of the arts and music.

The festival has grown enormously  over the years and aside from its famously impressive evening live music schedule, the festival now boasts an extensive arts festival throughout each day.

Cutting edge events will take [...]

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The Mariinsky Opera pull off a terrific Parsifal

At the heart of a very tough UK tour Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Opera were still able to offer Barbican audiences one fascinating performance that included Parsifal, the final opera by Wagner, and then Verdi’s Requiem rounding out the drama for the night. Gergiev did a wonderful job conducting the pit throughout each of the [...]

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The Spirit of Schubert review

Richard the Lionheart has seen his philandering and tyrant ways reincarnated time and time again in various plays and novels, but the most bizarre is without a doubt in Riccardo Primo re d’Inghilterra by Handel.

This rare 1727 opera highlight was easily the best part of the 35th London Handel festival performed as collaboration with the International [...]

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The Wales Millennium Centre benefits from Russian partnership

The Wales Millennium Centre is going to get a fresh breath of air now that conductor Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre have come to visit. The Russians have a partnership agreement with the WMC and have already performed many operas from the Wagner Ring cycle.

This time around they will be here for two days and [...]

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Top acts confirmed for the first Rock Coast Festival in the Canaries

Top acts confirmed for the first Rock Coast Festival in the Canaries

Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands is playing host to the first ever Rock Coast Festival between the 2th-26th May. Taking place in an enormous amusement park that has been built especially for the event, the festival will have one day, the Friday, [...]

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