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Love Motion 2025: A Celebration of Disco Bank Holiday Sunday 24 August brought thousands of disco lovers, house heads and soul devotees to the iconic Crystal Palace Bowl for Love Motion 2025 — a full-day celebration of groove-driven music fronted by the one and only Nile Rodgers & CHIC. It was the kind of event that reminded everyone why London’s open-air summer shows feel so magical: music echoing across the water, dancers on the grass, shimmering outfits in the sun and a cr

Bank Holiday Monday 26 May, we ventured back again to Brockwell Park for the fourth, and final, day of the Brockwell Park festival marathon! Today it was City Splash that brought us here for a smorgasbord of black music, with Soca, Dancehall, Reggae, Afrobeats, Amapiano, and many more genres on offer. Over 30,000 people were in attendance at City Splash, with many donning flags and colours of their nations, it felt like a beautiful painting of the cultural melting point of th

Festival season 2025 is nearing an end, but it’s by no means over yet. Boundary Brighton provides a fantastic bookend to a wonderful summer, and this year they added an extra day! Located at Stanmer Park, Brighton, the festival brings a mix of mix of House, Drum & Bass, Jungle, Garage, Bass, and more across five stages. Taxi drop off was a little bit of a walk from the festival, but I often enjoy that part with the reverberating bass getting increasingly louder whilst chattin

Following our capers at Wide Awake and Field Day, we were back for day 3 of Brockwell Park’s festival extravaganza weekend – Cross The Tracks. Cross The Tracks has become a staple in our festival calendar, a packed line-up across 7 stages featuring some of the best artists, new and old, in Jazz, Funk & Soul – a real love letter to those genres. Morning weather check completed, festival fit sorted and ‘just in case’ rain jackets packed, and we were off to Brockwell Park. The p

On Friday 15th August, I had the pleasure of attending South Facing Festival at Crystal Palace Bowl in South East London. With Busta Rhymes headlining alongside Redman and Big Daddy Kane, this was a highly anticipated event for fans of all ages. Also on this already legendary line-up was Chali 2na, so you already knew the highest calibre of hip-hop was about to unfold. Arriving at Crystal Palace Park, you could feel the excitement building as attendees eagerly approached the

The last time I walked through the gates at Reading, I was an angsty yet overexcited 17-year-old, surrounded by similarly angsty yet excited 17-year-olds at various levels of sobriety. I’d just dramatically dropped out of sixth form and was itching for a weekend of parentless hedonism. I’m now a somewhat mature, recently married, almost 30-year-old, and going back to Reading initially felt like a strange thing to do. 'It’s for teenagers' I thought. 'I have no place amongst th

Wilderness feels like stepping into a parallel universe for a weekend. Part glitter-fuelled party, part lakeside retreat, part cultural playground, this year’s edition served up sunshine, sequins, and some seriously eclectic experiences, all wrapped in that signature Wilderness magic. Here’s how it went down. Although it’s easy to forget with everything else on offer, Wilderness is still at heart a music festival and this year it delivered across the board. Friday set the ton

The people of London certainly love their wings, and the return of Wingfest brought the inevitable hype and excitement this year. Thousands of chicken lovers flocked to the Olympic Stadium in London for a weekend full of fun, food and cocktails from Friday 25th July – Sunday 27th July 2025. Entry was quick and seamless, with all attendees being gifted a free trucker hat of choice as part of their ticket, which was a nice touch. On entry you were welcomed by the unmistakable s

In a world that is skilled at stressing everyone out, the outlet of live music is always a blessing - and 2000 Trees truly brings the joy and catharsis that a camping festival is meant for. The festival is an absolute gem of the independent festival scene, with a community that is ready to make the Cotswolds mosh every year. The site isn’t incredibly large but it makes excellent use of the rolling farm land - dense enough for a run to a food stall on the opposite end in the g

Only five years-old and Wide Awake has quickly cemented itself as a cultural powerhouse, bringing in audiences from all across London and beyond. They burst onto the scene in 2021 to fill a much-needed gap in the summer festival line-up as artists creating what’s now referred to as the Post-Brexit New Wave quickly outgrew their humble beginnings and needed a showcase worthy of their audience – and kickstarted a yearly tradition that I wouldn’t dream of missing. I arrived at B

Like the cliché millennial Londoner I am, Field Day has a permanent slot in my calendar. In 2025, it moved from Victoria Park in East to it’s new home South of the river – Brockwell Park. This year, the weather gods were firmly on side: a full day of blazing sun over Brockwell Park, the kind of heat that has you stress-texting your mates for SPF but also secretly basking in the smug glow of being outdoors in actual summer. There was a buzz in the air from the get-go - Field

For anyone who grew up in South London, Crystal Palace Park has always been a bit of a favourite. Despite being best known for its Victorian dinosaurs, on this particular Sunday, the scene felt more like a futuristic ritual. Polygon Live, a sensory overload of 360° sound and lights, had turned this leafy bit of South London into a full-blown space-age playground. The first thing that hit us as we approached was an unassuming large big top tent. But there was nothing low key o