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This year’s Reading & Leeds Festivals Alternative Stage line-up has been confirmed, with  a range of performances to appreciate. There will be comedy, performance art, film, cabaret acts and late night DJs after the main stages have closed. The entertainment will keep on going throughout the night which can only be good!

The headliners for the Alternative stage have been revealed as Emo Philips, Jason Byrne, Stephen K Amos, Kevin Bridges, Russell Kane, and Rufus Hound who will all perform at Leeds and Reading seperately.

Later in the day, the Alternative Stage will be showing films after the comedy and cabaret acts. To end the night a host of DJs will be performing up until 2.30 in the morning.

Just a reminder about the Leeds festival line-up,as we are not too far away now! 27^th – 29^th August, Branham Park:

Main Stage

Friday:

• Arcade Fire
• The Libertines
• DIZZEE RASCAL
• THE CRIBS
• THE MACCABEES
• MODEST MOUSE
• THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM
• MYSTERY JETS
• THE FUTUREHEADS
• THE WALKMEN

Saturday:

• Blink 182
• Paramore
• WEEZER
• CYPRESS HILL
• LIMP BIZKIT
• YOU ME AT SIX
• ALL TIME LOW
• THRICE
• THE KING BLUES
• MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK

Sunday:

• Guns N Roses
• Queens of the Stone Age
• BIFFY CLYRO
• LOSTPROPHETS
• NOFX
• GOGOL BORDELLO
• BILLY TALENT
• A DAY TO REMEMBER
• YOUNG GUNS

Many other acts across other stages are also performing including Ash and Marina and the Diamonds. Make sure to keep an eye out for the Reading line up too.

A man aged 24, from Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, collapsed at around midnight at the T in the Park festival, as he made his way from the main area towards the campsite. He was pronounced dead at the scene despite attempts by the emergency services to resuscitate him.

The death came as tens of thousands of music lovers get ready to enjoy the sounds of some of the world’s top bands on the second day of the festival. Organisers expect 85,000 people a day to attend the festival in Balado, Kinross-shire over the weekend.

There are around 450 officers policing the event, with plain clothes officers and specialist drugs dogs part of the team. It is not yet known if the man was drugged or not.

There are so many people traveling to Ibiza, the White Isle at this time of year and so many clubs and parties to go to. Some of the closing parties are shown below, so make sure you go before the end!

# Es Paradis – Closing:
Mondays – Pukka Up – Closing:
Tuesdays- Clubland – Closing:
Saturdays – Fiesta del Agua – Closing:
Sundays – Rizla Rocks – Closing:
# Ibiza Rocks Hotel – Closing: 14th September *2010*
# Eden – Closing:
Mondays – Inside Out – Closing:
Tuesdays – Tranz Ibiza – Closing:
Wednesdays – Garlands – Closing:
Thursday- Electric Vendeta – Closing:
Fridays – Wonderland – Closing: 1st October *2010*
Saturdays – Hed Kandi – Closing:
Sundays – Judgement Sunday – Closing:
# Space – Closing:
Mondays – Mondays Calling – Closing:
Tuesdays – Carl Cox – Closing:
Thursdays – Be – Closing:
Sundays – We Love… – Closing:
# Pacha – open all year round
Mondays – Swedish house Mafia – Closing:
Tuesdays – Retro – Closing
Wednesdays – Subliminal – Closing:
Thursdays – F*** Me Im Famous – Closing:
Fridays – Pure Pacha – Closing:
Saturdays – Defected – Closing: 25th September *2010*
Sunday- Pacha Classics – Closing:

These are just some of the closing parties however, there are many more to attend.

Well that’s it for another year, Glastonbury 2010 or Glastonbury 40 as it has also been known as has finished for another summer. Across all 45 stages many famous acts and many unknowns performed live music infront thousands of fans. The weather was one of the hottest and driest for a long time at Glastonbury, many people had to keep the sun tan lotion close at hand. The Pyramid stage alone hosted 8 acts per night, 24 overall. The highlights for many people included Tinchy Stryder, Muse, Gorillaz, Vampire Weekend, Snoop Dogg, Dizzee Rascal, Shakira, Scissor Sisters, Faithless and Jack Johnson.

T in the park is one of the biggest festivals around with bands such as Jay-z, La Roux, Faithless already signed to play at the event this is going to be a top notch experience. There have also been some new bands just signed to play these are Jamie T, Palma Faith and Delphic. Personally love Delphic’s music and if they play “dout” and “Halcyon” it will be amazing. Unfortunately all the tickets for this festival have sold out, however you can still obtain tickets through fan based ticket sites such as seatwave, but buyer beware as there will no doubt be ticket touts and fake tickets being sold around on the internet. So be sure to check it’s a reputable before committing to any purchasing any tickets. There are however ways to still get cheap tickets using Voucher Codes from internet sources to get some pretty good discounts, but just be aware of the risks. The festival will take place at the Balado airfield on the 9^th of july to the 11^th of july over three days. So you should not have to “hopefully” bring the wellies, although it might be best to take a waterproof coat or a umbrella just in case.

The Eden Sessions will this year play host to Mika on Sunday the 27th June.

The Eden Project in Cornwall every year plays host to a festival like setting, This year Jack Johnson will be playing on the first day with Mika playing on day two.

Mika has had plenty of Success on the festival circuit over the last couple of years, i have seen him myself and although he entertained i was only there because it was sunny and nothing better was on outside!

The concern i have about Mika is the same Concern i have with a few artists such as the Ting Tings, Lily Allen and something Amy Winehouse deffinately fell foul of and that is the lack of new material. Now i don’t know if Mika has new material and i hope he has but the popularity of some artists are producing some very repetitive performances.

However if you are interested in the Eden Sessions with Mika get over to the  Eden sessions website for more information on tickets.

Atomik Weekender announced a little while ago that it would be let loose on the 5th to the 7th March 2010 in the might Pontin Holiday Park, Prestatyn.

There are some usual suspects that are going to this and there are some new faces as well. I thought I would put together who will be attending the event. I really think that this will be a another complete success like it has been ever year previous.

The DJ’s who are going to be there are.

• Tidy Boys
• Paul Glazby
• Alex Kidd
• Lisa Pin-up
• Annie Savage
• Many More

You can get chalets to house 4 to 7 dance fiends at a reasonable price.

Chris Moyles has announced that this years Radio 1 big weekender will be held at Bangor on the 22nd and 23rd May 2010.

The first act that has been announced is none other than Pixie Lott. Obviously over the coming weeks Radio 1 will be playing hidden tracks to show who will be playing at the weekender. I recon that it will be a good weekend to go but unfortunately I think I am away that weekend so I am going to miss it.

But I will have to read up on it and see how the weekend went for the masses.

This year will be the 46th Southport weekender and will be held on the 7th, 8th and 9th of May 2010. The Southport weekender is held at Pontin’s (in Southport funnily enough).

For the 2010 event which is now going annually the accommodation sold out in record time. This doest surprise me as the event has been running for a long time and has continuously put on a quality event time after time and i believe this is why it has sold out all the accommodation so fast.

Its never been one of the massive festivals / events that people always talks about but has constantly delivered, the thing i love about these types of events are that because they fly under the radar the people who go to them are usually there because they love the event and they are not ‘Festival Tourists’ which can often dampen the atmosphere of a festival.