Latest Blogs
Going for bold
It seems like an Olympiad since I last wrote, in reality it's a period of weeks that's taken us through the best of British,
devastating rainfall to scorching summer days. It's been filled with festival highs, lows and comical back stage spats. But
t...
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Downside to being pretty
Last night I was accosted by a young lady on the street, she stopped me just seconds before I got on my bus, tapping me on
the shoulder to let me know my bag was half open. She smiled and let me zip up before I jumped on the 25 out east.You're probab...
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It's the ecology, stupid
It is with a heavy heart I write this editorial piece. After just two days up a mountain, walking off-piste to the chuckle
of the comedy troupe at Altitude Festival the news of a festival cancellation swept me off my feet. I wasn't really ready
for t...
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Blog: An Axl to grind
It's good to report back after a week of long days and longer nights, working from Maida Vale Studios to bring you coverage
of BBC 6 Music's 10th birthday sessions and exclusive interviews with Paul Weller, Orbital and De La Soul's First Serve. We
sa...
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Blog: The Big Ticket Scandal
For a talking point with teeth the Dispatches investigation into the murky world of ticket resellers was an eye-opener for
all those unfamiliar with their dirty tactics. Virtual Festivals responded and urged readers to support legislation to keep
the...
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Blog: Brits, tits and merits
You probably hated the Brits. In fact you probably still wake, sweaty-browed, from nausea-inducing nightmares that fright
the frail bones from your fragile body and leave you, an empty, unfurling cage of unfathomable pain. Yep you read that right.
It...
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Blog: Re-Experience The Prodigy
The rave scene was a rabid epidemic, running unabated and wild in the summer of 1991. This free party outbreak spread with
a ferocity of typhoid fever, stretching from satellite sites around the capital, infecting crowds of 50,000 or more in one
nigh...
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My love affair with the Deftones
It ain’t romantic to be in love with a metal band. Not cool. Not sexy. Not allowed.But this forbidden love was the Romeo
and Juliet story of my teens. Deftones with their hard-as-fuck guitar tone and soft rolling drum beats captured a generatio...
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Should Beyonce headline Glastonbury Festival 2011?
YES says Chris EustaceAnd so it looks like Beyonce will grab that third headline spot at Glastonbury 2011, with U2 and Coldplay
seemingly shoe-ins already. The twitterati are out in force, moaning that she's "not Glastonbury material",...
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Should The Rolling Stones headline Glastonbury Festival 2011?
YES says Chris Swindells Should The Rolling Stones paint Glastonbury black in 2011? Should we get Andy Gray attending weekly
WI meetings and Louie ‘Pineapple’ Spence giving up on his fame-driven endeavours? You don’t need me to answ...
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