23 h. ago TRNSMT Glasgow 2025 site map revealed ahead of weekend festival

TRNSMT at Glasgow Green is now less than a month away, with some star-studded acts taking to the stage across the weekend for Scotland's biggest music festival of the year.

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52 h. ago Lola Young conquers her nerves and proves the Adele comparisons are justified

Pop star captivates 2,700-strong crowd with her sardonic persona and bodacious riffs at London’s Royal Festival Hall

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55 h. ago Voting for The Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival talent search is now open

BBC ALBA and The Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival have once again teamed up with a quest to find the best up-and-coming musical talent from the Highlands and Islands. The winner of the talent search will be given the opportunity to perform on the main stage at this year’s Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival. Open to solo artists and bands (where at least 50% of its members have a Highland home address) across all genres, one newcomer will be given the opportunity to perform on the main stage at this year’s Belladrum Tartan Heart Music Festival.

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3 d. ago Serbia’s Exit festival may go ‘into exile’ amid government pressure over student protests

This year’s edition to be last held in country after Belgrade withholds funding over support of anti-corruption activistsOne of Europe’s largest music festivals will no longer be held in Serbia and could go “into exile” in Germany or a neighbouring Balkan state after Belgrade withheld funding over its support of the country’s anti-corruption student protesters.Exit festival, which is held every July in a medieval bastion fortress in Serbia’s second city, Novi Sad, was founded in 2000 by student activists from the protest movement that helped topple Slobodan Milošević. Affordable ticket prices and starry lineups mean it has acquired a reputation as Europe’s premier music event with a social conscience, with 210,000 people from more than 80 countries attending in 2024. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Edinburgh International Book Festival: Music, Poetry and Performance Highlights

Music and words collide in a variety of interesting ways at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, writes Fiona Shepherd

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3 d. ago Massive solid green wall put up around beautiful Cardiff park to stop people getting in

A fencing area has gone up around Blackweir Fields in the lead-up to music festival Blackweir Live

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3 d. ago Will Poulter Spotted with Amelia Dimoldenberg at Music Festival in London!

Will Poulter Spotted with Amelia Dimoldenberg at Music Festival in London!  Just Jared

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4 d. ago A Visit to Friends at Aldeburgh Festival: 'an opera with a totally new harmonic language'

Composer Colin Matthews has produced his first opera and sprung a huge surprise with this ambitious work at Aldeburgh Festival

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4 d. ago Scots can avoid bad breath during festival season with Scottish Dental Group's top tips

As tens of thousands gear up for the mud, music and mayhem of Glastonbury Festival, Clyde Munro Dental Group is urging festival goers not to forget about their dental health. With hygiene routines often sacrificed, Head of Clinical, Charlie Evans says even just a few days of ditching the toothbrush can lead to unhealthy changes in your mouth.

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4 d. ago Amelia Dimoldenberg's £5million empire future in trouble as her latest venture has been branded a 'flop', insiders reveal to MOLLY CLAYTON

When Converse announced it was launching a dating show to be hosted by Amelia Dimoldenberg, it seemed like a shoo-in for success. But it's got insiders asking: What went wrong?

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4 d. ago Charli xcx at LIDO Festival review: strap in for Brat summer 2.0

The singer took to the stage for a victory lap performance featuring all the hits

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4 d. ago John Lundstram parties with Premier League best pal as ex Rangers star gets behind the decks at music festival

Lundstram appeared in video shared on social media looking relaxed as he partied with fellow Scouser Ross Barkley.

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4 d. ago London Grammar tell LIDO Festival fans they hope ‘music can bring us together’

The indie pop group captivated crowds at the show in London’s Victoria Park on a balmy Sunday night.

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4 d. ago Parklife stage closed off and emptied as festival bosses issue message to fans

The stage has been completely emptied of crowds

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5 d. ago 25 photos of Parklife Festival 2025 as fans bring party vibes to Heaton Park

Brat summer is in full swing in Heaton Park as day two of Parklife 2025 gets underway

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5 d. ago I went to Primavera Sound — 1 artist stood out and it wasn't Charli XCX or Chappell Roan

Thousands of music fans descended upon Barcelona last week for the long-awaited 2025 edition of the festival, and for me, there was one musician that truly outshone the rest

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5 d. ago Charli XCX tells LIDO Festival crowds Brat Summer is ‘forever’

The singer writhed, twisted, pumped and raved across the stage to the delight of the sold-out crowd.

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5 d. ago Brits face 29C 'sizzle ’n’ storms' summer as floods threaten festivals and school hols

Forecasters say Brits could be in for a very mixed summer – with both storms and scorching heat set to run through the UK, expected to interrupt music festivals and school holidays

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6 d. ago Bonnaroo 2025 cancelled after just one night due to severe storms days after co

Luke Combs was the only of the four headliners for this year’s festival to take the stage

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6 d. ago Download rockers told to take off smartwatches after moshpit ‘collisions’ cause accidental 999 calls

Police received nearly 700 false emergency alerts from Leicestershire heavy metal event last yearWhen hundreds of 999 calls came in from fans at the Download festival two years ago, the emergency services must have thought a disaster was unfolding at the three-day heavy metal gig in Leicestershire.In fact, the calls were made automatically from smartwatches and other devices worn by fans because “the tech assumed that people in moshpits had been in a collision”, according to Leicestershire police. Continue reading...

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