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Faetooth @ Ramsgate Music Hall, 20th June 2025 - Photo by Lee Beamish
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Faetooth & Cwfen @ Ramsgate Music Hall, 20th June 2025

5th February 20265th February 2026 Lee Beamish Cwfen, Faetooth, Mother Brain, Ramsgate Music Hall

So here we are, it’s another sweaty June evening, and we are back at one of my favourite places on

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Agriculture & Machukha UK & Euro Tour 2025 Poster
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Agriculture / Machukha / Healing Wound @ Dust, Brighton, 4th September 2025

4th February 20264th February 2026 Nessie Spencer Agriculture, Brighton, Dust, Healing Wound, Machukha

Now that the festival season is coming to an end, and (hopefully) so are the heatwaves and mosquito bites, the

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Ahab @ ArcTanGent 2025 - Photo by Abbi Draper
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ArcTanGent Festival 2025 – Saturday

29th January 202629th January 2026 Tim C Ahab, ArcTanGent Festival, Between The Buried And Me, Bipolar Architecture, Clown Core, DVNE, God Is An Astronaut, Inter Arma, Lo!, Rolo Tomassi, Sugar Horse, Swamp Coffin, The Callous Daoboys, Wren

King Offa of Mercia ruled his Anglo-Saxon kingdom between 757 and 796. Around the middle of his reign, he ordered

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envy @ ArcTanGent 2025 - Photo by Jez Pennington
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ArcTanGent Festival 2025 – Friday

28th January 202628th January 2026 Tim C ArcTanGent Festival, Car Bomb, Coilguns, delving, Dimscûa, envy, Eyes, Frontierer, Giant Walker, Ithaca, meth, Mt. Onsra, Overhead The Albatross, We Lost The Sea

In 1967, French literary critic Roland Barthes published a ground-breaking essay called The Death of the Author. In this piece,

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Pelican @ ArcTanGent 2025 - Photo by Abbi Draper
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ArcTanGent Festival 2025 – Thursday

27th January 202628th January 2026 Tim C Arab Strap, ArcTanGent Festival, Codespeaker, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Kylesa, Lemondaze, Melvins, Pelican, Pothamus, REZN, The Grey, We Lost The Sea

Situated at Fernhill Farm, where cattle and sheep roam the lush grassland of the Mendip Hills, attendees at ArcTanGent Festival

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Slift @ ArcTanGent 2025 - Photo by Derek Bremner
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ArcTanGent Festival 2025 – Wednesday

26th January 202626th January 2026 Tim C ArcTanGent Festival, Colossal Squid, God Alone, Hundred Year Old Man, Slift, Teeth Of The Sea, Year Of No Light

Since pre-historic times, people of varied cultures, creeds and religions have travelled to sites of particular significance to gather, worship

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Faetooth @ The Star & Garter, Manchester, 18th June 2025 – Photo by Lee Edwards
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Through The Lens: Faetooth & Cwfen @ The Star & Garter, Manchester, 18th June 2025

19th January 202619th January 2026 Lee Edwards Cwfen, Faetooth, Manchester, Star & Garter, The Beauty Witch, Through The Lens

On a sweltering summer night in Manchester back on the 18th June last year, The Star & Garter, affectionately dubbed

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Julie Christmas @ Portals Festival 2025 – Photo by Lee Beamish
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Portals Festival 2025 – Sunday

22nd December 202522nd December 2025 Lee Beamish Codices, EartH Hackney, Exxasens, Julie Christmas, Lys Morke, Mouse On The Keys, Peach, Portals Festival, Spurv, The Fierce And The Dead

It’s a perfect Sunday morning weather-wise as we enter day two of Portals Festival 2025, it’s the 25th May, and

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Kalandra @ Portals Festival 2025 – Photo by Lee Beamish
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Portals Festival 2025 – Saturday

22nd December 202522nd December 2025 Lee Beamish Black Aleph, CLT DRP, EartH Hackney, I Hear Sirens, Joliette, Kalandra, Long Distance Calling, Oavette, Portals Festival, Thot, World Coda

So, here we are, it’s Saturday 24th May 2025, and we are in London, well Hackney to be precise, at

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Slift @ Desertfest London 2025 - Photo by Tim Bugbee
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Desertfest London 2025 – Sunday

4th June 20254th June 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Desertfest, Dopelord, Dunbarrow, Earth, London, Mr Bison, Oldblood, Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol, Slift

After killing the morning wandering aimless around Camden, I headed up to Stoner Ally to catch up with Matthew and

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Sons Of Alpha Centauri @ Desertfest London 2025 - Photo by Jessy Lotti
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Desertfest London 2025 – Saturday

3rd June 20253rd June 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Amenra, Desertfest, Indica Blues, London, Maha Sohona, Pallbearer, Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Zeal & Ardor

This year, Saturday was THE day of Desertfest London 2025 for me for the simple reason that Kent’s Sons Of

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Premiere: Ensemble Tikoro ‘Tortoise’ – New Album Lands 23rd October via Jangjang Records
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Premiere: Ensemble Tikoro ‘Tortoise’ – New Album Lands 23rd October via Jangjang Records

22nd October 202622nd October 2026 Lee Edwards

Enter the hypnotic, boundary-pushing world of Ensemble Tikoro as The Shaman premieres their formidable new full-length work, Tortoise, ahead of

Premiere: SEK ‘Amore Mio’ – Debut Album ‘Wallensteins Garage’ Lands 30th October
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Premiere: SEK ‘Amore Mio’ – Debut Album ‘Wallensteins Garage’ Lands 30th October

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Premiere: Spider Kitten ‘God Don’t Sleep’ – New Album Lands This Friday, 2nd October
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Premiere: Spider Kitten ‘God Don’t Sleep’ – New Album Lands This Friday, 2nd October

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Premiere: SALVATION ‘Depression’ – New Album ‘The Haunted’ Lands On 16th October
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Premiere: SALVATION ‘Depression’ – New Album ‘The Haunted’ Lands On 16th October

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