Interviews

Virtual Festivals' weekly news round up
Jacko, Madness, tears, Reading/Leeds and ice cold beers
More names announced for Electric Picnic
Dinosaur Jr, Kid Creole And The Coconuts, Neko Case...
The Hold Steady to headline End Of The Road
They play the Sunday as under 5's tickets sell out
MSTRKRFT helps completed Get Loaded line-up
Telepathe, Goldfish, Tom Middleton, more added
Tunng helps Kendal Calling complete line-up
Arockalypse Now, Jelly's Last Jam and The Blims added
Jacko, Madness, tears, Reading/Leeds and ice cold beers
More names announced for Electric Picnic
Dinosaur Jr, Kid Creole And The Coconuts, Neko Case...
The Hold Steady to headline End Of The Road
They play the Sunday as under 5's tickets sell out
MSTRKRFT helps completed Get Loaded line-up
Telepathe, Goldfish, Tom Middleton, more added
Tunng helps Kendal Calling complete line-up
Arockalypse Now, Jelly's Last Jam and The Blims added

IOW Festival 2009: John GiddingsWith the Isle of Wight Festival basked in glorious sunshine and the event in full flow, we caught up with boss John Giddings to see how it was all going...
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RockNess 09: Alabama 3Steve Jenner grabbed an enlighenting backstage chinwag with Alabama 3 leader Larry Love (aka Rob Spragg), ahead of the band's roof-raising set at RockNess festival in Scotland.
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RockNess 09: Festival boss Jim KingWe dragged festival director Jim King away from his hard work running the festival to find out how the event was going for him on the second day, and to hear about his plans for RockNess' future...
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Probing the Download boss - John ProbynWith just a week to go, we caught up with Download boss John Probyn to talk about his favourite festival moments, meat hooks, Sonisphere rivalry and this year's event...
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Making the Wight choice - John GiddingsWe caught up with Isle of Wight Festival organiser John Giddings to talk about this year's line-up, losing Oasis and Tim Burgess' Big Top bill...
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Tim Burgess: the Isle of Wight's Big Top jugglerNot only has Tim Burgess programmed the Sunday Big Top bill at the IOW Festival, he's decided to juggle it with DJing and playing with The Charlatans as well. We caught up with him to see what he'd let himself in for...
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SW4 chat to Layo RuskinThe SW4 boys sit down with Layo Ruskin, the guy behind The End presents Shake It stage, a newcomer for the 2009 festival...
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Melvin Benn on Heavenly PlanetEvery recession demands hope. Lifting out of any economic slump relies on optimism. Perhaps Heavenly Planet has arrived at the right time.
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Bombay Bicycle Club taking the stabilisers off
Bombay Bicycle Club on the pitfalls of being fresh-faced and uber-talented...
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Bombay Bicycle Club on the pitfalls of being fresh-faced and uber-talented...
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Black Kids - win when you're singing?
At the turn of the year you might have overlooked Black Kids, squashed as they were between Duffy and Adele in the Ones To Watch lists. But ten months on and they've got two UK Festival Awards nominations. We thought we'd break the news...
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At the turn of the year you might have overlooked Black Kids, squashed as they were between Duffy and Adele in the Ones To Watch lists. But ten months on and they've got two UK Festival Awards nominations. We thought we'd break the news...
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Rob Da Bank - Braving the stormAfter a hat trick of UK Festival Awards, the weather tried to put a dampener on the UK's Best Medium Festival. We caught up with organiser Rob Da Bank to see if he'd weathered the storm...
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Sofia Hagberg on End Of The Road FestivalCountless music obsessives have attempted to translate their unerring passion into a fully functioning festival of their own, and many have failed.
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