FESTIVALS

Stuck for something to do this weekend? Looking for the perfect sun-drenched (hopefully) antidote to that long, hot working week? Look no further than this musical offering to whisk you a way to a truly enchanted land. Known to insiders as Curious Yellow, this is a boutique music festival spread ...
Read More

Somewhere over the rainbow – beyond Kanye’s head – was a magical land rumoured to be setting for the “best Splendour in the Grass yet”. Exploding with strobe lit forests, haunted houses and a giant, unmistakably holy, Kanye x Rainbow art piece (branded as our unofficial meeting point over the ...
Read More

You know how much we love giving a helping hand to great new events in and around our beloved London Town – which is precisely why you need to get your scrawny, hipster (and non-hipster) butts down to Hackney Summer Festival. Taking place on Saturday 7th July (yup, that's tomorrow), ...
Read More

Gathering over 400 up-and-coming artists from around the globe in one coastal city was always an ambitious feat. Couple that with plenty of eccentricity, torrential rain and our nation's finely honed penchant for queuing, and the result is what can only be described as the most British festival you could wish for. Tipped by ...
Read More

Getting the festival season underway in style, Groovin The Moo – one of Australia's largest travelling festivals – has returned for yet another exciting installment. Spread across six locations, this year's sweet line-up went on the road across the golden land of Australia, touching down in Wayville, Maitland, Townsville, Bendigo, Canberra and ...
Read More

When it comes to fresh new music, The Great Escape has it all. In fact, with the sheer volume of fresh new talent on offer, it leaves us feeling a little like a confused kid in a candy shop. That's where One Stop Record Shop comes in. Like the musical explorers we ...
Read More

Secret Garden Party is no more. Well... that's a bit of a lie actually. Allow me to rephrase. Secret Garden Party will be no more AFTER one of the biggest farewell celebrations seen in Cambridge since Oxford's boat ended up at the bottom of the Thames (the boat race of '51 if ...
Read More

Turning our backs on the British winter means it's time for us festival junkies to get to work. Scouring the internet for various line-up announcements and securing those elusive tickets, it's time to wash our sleeping bags, ready for another summer of music (definitely), fun (hopefully) and mud (inevitably). We’ve ...
Read More

Music fans, it's finally time to reveal the first wave of acts taking to the stage at Slam Dunk Festival 2017! Following an announcement earlier in the year that Enter Shikari would be headlining the day festival to celebrate 10 years of Take To The Skies, a host of fierce ...
Read More

It’s big announcement time! This October, the crew of One Stop Record Shop will be joining forces with Lost In The Manor to host a night of FREE live music featuring some of our favourite featured bands. One Stop favourites ECHOVOX (formerly ZOO) have been announced as our headliner, blending ...
Read More

Much like cups of tea and strawberries and cream, music festivals have become a thoroughly British institution. And whether you’re into heavy metal, pure pop or hardcore dance music, rest assured there’s a festival out there for you. If you’re a seasoned festival-goer, then you're probably able to navigate your ...
Read More

It's safe to say it's been a jam-packed 15 months on the road for the Mumford & Sons boys. Touring their third album, Wilder Mind, Friday saw these folk-laded London lads touch down for the ultimate homecoming show. It was a line-up entirely curated by the band themselves; from The ...
Read More

The Isle Of Wight Festival - a weekend of summer musical madness, with a festival lineup like no other. Lush green fields by the sea are the perfect venue for a festival, especially for the family oriented ones like the Isle of Wight. Guests are completely spoiled for choice with ...
Read More

As the first (and certainly one of the most prominent) appointments in the international festival calendar, Primavera Sound celebrated it's 16th year in style, hanging 'sold out' signs weeks before the festival had even begun. Taking place at various locations spread across the Catalan capital, this year looked to be ...
Read More

It may be a newcomer to the festival circuit, but this year The East London Fringe Festival will see its Scottish counterpart taking a back seat – stand and weep Edinburgh. Taking place between 9th July and 7th August, the festival sets out to celebrate creativity and the arts, with ...
Read More

Super Furry Animals have been announced as the latest headline act to perform at Green Man Festival 2015.The Welsh rockers will take to the stage alongside fellow headliners St Vincent and Hot Chip – a festival line up that features so many big names, we’re dreading the line-up clashes that ...
Read More