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A popular music festival has announced its return with an exciting line-up

From Bestival to Car Fest

Brighton is set to come alive once again as The Great Escape 2025 — the UK’s leading festival for new music — returns from 14th to 17th May 2025, bringing together over 500 emerging artists from around the world across more than 35 iconic venues. Celebrated as Europe’s premier showcase for discovering the next wave […]

From Lost Village to Boomtown (oh yeah, and Glasonbury): it’s time to start planning festival season

Communities across Liverpool will come together this spring to celebrate the rich diversity, traditions and stories of Europe as the Liverpool European Festival returns bigger and bolder for 2025.

From Glastonbury to Parklife, here’s a roundup of the best festivals in the UK for 2025 – dates, locations, and lineups to get you hyped!

With summer  on the horizon, Boomtown 2025, taking place from 6th to 10th August at the Matterley Estate in Hampshire, has officially sold out. Now, with

From whomping dub soundsystems and clattering thrash metal to comedy, jazz and kids’ entertainment, this year’s UK festivals have something for everyone – and you’ve still got time to get in on the alfresco action

AS gloomy weather is replaced with sunny skies, punters can be forgiven for glaring out their windows and longing for the summer months to begin. But while the UK has managed to survive stormy weat…

From tents and camping chairs to dry shampoo, SPF and wellies, tick off this list while you pack

Just a few dates to go on their current European tour and James Brandon Lewis’s trio find themselves on stage in the somewhat chilly marquee that Cheltenham rather grandly call their Jazz Arena at 12.30 p.m. on a Sunday. That doesn’t bring them a huge crowd, but their road-seasoned set lacks nothing in commitment and

The undoubted highlight of this year’s Torino Jazz Festival was its closing event, staged on 30 April to coincide with UNESCO’s International Jazz Day. For the occasion, Artistic Director Stefano Zenni conceived a bold and unique European premiere, handing the reins to Jason Moran. The US pianist/composer was joined by his acclaimed Bandwagon Trio and

Here’s every area line-up poster and stage line-up poster for Boomtown 2025, also known as Boomtown Chapter Four: Power of Now.

If you don’t fancy trekking out of town with a tent in hand, go for a dance at one of the best London music festivals in 2025

London Trans+ Pride returns to central London on Saturday 26th July 2025, marking its seventh year of unapologetic protest, visibility, and solidarity

With old skool and new skool on the menu, expect to see some of the best names in the game and to hear some of the best tunes from the charts. With a whole load of the best UK garage festivals, check them out now!

It’s fair to say there was no shortage of live music in the UK last year – and…

Gone are the days of flower crowns and wellies – some of the major festival trends for 2025 are grounded in sex appeal. Judging by the outfits seen both on and off the stage at Coachella, Kate Moss-worthy naked dresses (as seen on Gabbriette and Alex Consani), hot pants (Jennie) and bra tops (Tyla) are all on the agenda.

The UK’s music festival offering is raring to go.

Whether you’re seeking new music meccas to a pop paradise in London or tranquil retreats in the wilderness, The Independent’s culture team have you covered this summer

UK tour ticket contributions raise £500k for grassroots venues and artists thank to Pulp, Mumford & Sons, and more

FUMING Glastonbury fans have been left gutted yet again after failing to bag themselves any tickets. Final sales for the Worthy Farm extravaganza were up for grabs today – but were sold out w…

Oasis fans make up more than half (56%) of all reported concert ticket scams so far this year, according to Lloyds’ data, losing £436 on average

Coachella attracts around 125,000 people to the desert in California each year – but reports from day one inside the music festival were not all looking positive

Noel Gallagher opens up for the first time about the Oasis ticket sale pandemonium and teased his a possible setlist for the 2025 reunion tour

Millions of fans failed to get tickets to the Live ‘25 tour while others saw standard prices more than double

With 100 days to go before the first leg of Oasis’ epic reunion tour, expectation is rife the Gallagher brothers will make a surprise cameo at Glastonbury Festival. A source has now confirmed there will be only one way to see the band this summer…

Lady Gaga is back to her best with new album Mayhem, and she is heading out on tour next month in Mexico before eventually hitting the UK for four exciting dates

Wads the story IT’S not Liam and Noel’s fault — but Oasis fans were fleeced by Ticketmaster last year. Not maybe, definitely. What possible justification did the ticketing giant have for selling st…

CMA concerned that Ticketmaster may have breached consumer protection law for Oasis reunion tour.

General admission standing tickets for the London show begin from £112.65

The superstar, 37, had been rumoured to be planning a six-concert residency in London in July, after she confirmed production on her first album in nine years was underway.

The Gallagher brothers appear to have chosen a new man on drums for the Oasis tour this Summer which may shock some fans who expected Alan White or Zak Starkey

Architects have announced a UK and European headline tour for 2025. Find the full list of dates and buy tickets here.

British rock band The 1975 and pop star Olivia Rodrigo will each make their debut as headliners

The naysayers are already attacking the newly announced line-up, but look closer and there is much to be excited by

Glastonbury Festival 2025’s line-up has finally been revealed ahead of fans descending on Worthy Farm in Somerset to sees acts like Sir Rod Stewart from June 25 to 29 this year

The K-pop icons are set to make history with their first-ever Wembley headline show

The band will embark on a 12-date tour beginning in October.

As Glastonbury 2025 approaches, festival-goers are already speculating about which artists will grace the iconic stages of Worthy Farm – and one DJ’s name has been thrown into the hat

Brit Award winner Rihanna has long been speculated to perform at Glastonbury Festival over the years and there’s now more rumours of her potentially performing in the UK soon

Beyoncé, 43, is set to take her Cowboy Carter tour to the North London stage in June, with fans desperately trying to bag a ticket to see her perform the Grammy winning album live.

Top ticket prices for Black Sabbath’s final ever gig were an eye-watering £834, but that did not stop them selling out within 16 minutes.

The US rapper will perform at Villa Park on July 10 and tickets are now on sale

Black Sabbath fans were furious after seeing the hefty price tag on tickets for the band’s gig in Birmingham this summer

Beyonce has announced six UK tour dates for August 2025, with the London shows set to take place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – here’s how to get your hands on some tickets

The Grammy Award-winning star will now play six nights when she heads to the UK this June

Ticketmaster is already being investigated over surging Oasis ticket prices

After Liam and Noel Gallagher announced a limited run of stadium shows last summer, thousands of fans flocked to Ticketmaster to try and secure a ticket to see the band play live for the first time since 2009.