15 h. ago Glasgow to hold 'world’s smallest whisky festival' with live music and DJs

The Gate in Glasgow will host a two-day whisky festival with tastings, live music and DJs on September 27–28, with tickets from £25 to £40.

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7 d. ago Notting Hill Carnival live: Thousands join London's festival of Caribbean culture

Notting Hill Carnival live: Thousands join London's festival of Caribbean culture  BBC

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8 d. ago Manchester Pride 2025 LIVE Sunday updates as Nelly Furtado and Olly Alexander headline festival

It's another big day at Manchester Pride 2025

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1 week ago Kneecap press on with European tour despite Hungary ban and cancelled gigs

Rap trio will face intense scrutiny from French authorities when they play Rock en Seine festival on SundayThe Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap are ploughing ahead with their European tour despite a ban on entering Hungary, the cancellation of a string of concerts in Austria and Germany, and the intense scrutiny of authorities in France.The Irish-language group will this Sunday play in front an expected 40,000 spectators at the Rock en Seine festival west of Paris, one of France’s biggest live music events of the year, just days after one of their members appeared at a London court on a terrorism charge. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Activists at women's rights rally at Glasgow University are refused service at the student union bar 'over their opinions and beliefs' and signs 'that make staff feel unsafe'

Let Women Speak (LWS) had booked a private room at Glasgow University Union (GUU) where they planned to hold a social after their rally on Sunday.

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3 w. ago ‘The Welsh language has been aggressively oppressed’: Tristwch y Fenywod, the gothic trio communing with a mystical Wales

Inspired by the ‘enchanted, sapphic feeling’ of the coast and with bat sounds for drums, this Wales-obsessed band sound like no one else. They explain how queerness, neurodivergence and anti-colonialism guide what they do‘It’s often dealing with quite elemental things,” says the vocalist Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth of Tristwch y Fenywod’s music. “The sense of being in an ancient landscape; or the enchanted, sapphic feeling of being by the ocean. Our music addresses things that are simple and foundational, but very powerful.”Released last August – and now being performed live by the band across the summer festival circuit – the trio’s self-titled debut album is a lush, cathartic mix of gothic instrumentation and eldritch melody, like a lost Cocteau Twins masterpiece recorded in a cave in Eryri, stirring intense feelings even in those who can’t understand its Welsh lyrics. There’s a political dimension too. “The oppression of the Welsh language over the past 200 years was so aggressive,” ...

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4 w. ago Edinburgh Fringe music reviews: MUO Live | Blue Note Nights – JazzMain on the Fringe

Prepare yourselves for a big old cosmic waves machine and an immensely enjoyable tribute to one of the seminal jazz record labels in our latest batch of Fringe music reviews.

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