Lodestar – and so it grows…

admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:08:51 +0000

There are few things more enjoyable than sitting in the sunshine in a beautiful sunshine listening to great music, cider in hand. Can’t guarantee the sunshine, but the other ingredients will be all there in abundance at Cambridge’s Lodestar festival. Taking place from 30^th August to 1^st September, the three days are self described as ‘The place for lovers of great music!’ (the stellar line up includes The Joy Formidable, Hatcham Social, Thumpers, Dragonette and Mausi) but is also for lovers of all things fun, and wandering around the farm that has been owned and loved by founder of Lodestar Doug and his family for four generations you will find literature, zorbing, archery, samba, workshops, dancing, circus, fringe theatre and plenty of smiling faces.
The line up is evolving on a thrillingly regular basis, and latest additions include the liltingly lovely Lady Lamb The Beekeeper, Fiery Furnaces’ Eleanor Friedberger and her intense, edgy yet elegant sounds, perfect sunshine sounds from An Escape Plan , sonic loveliness from Swedish El Perro Del Mar mistress of reinvention VV Brown.
As well as hot indie darlings ike these and global superstars capable of hanging out with Dave Grohl the festival supports local artists, and this year acoustic indie-folk four-piece Fred’s House and indie dance group The Sticks are just two of the many who will be part of the event. Buy your tickets here…and keep an eye out for a competition from myself, Cool For Cats and Lodestar very soon!
For a sneak preview head down to the Old Blue Last on August 7^th where Hatcham Social and Flowers play a preview show, and make this Spotify playlist your soundtrack now.

LodeStar Festival

admin — Mon, 06 May 2013 08:40:49 +0000

I’ve never been to Cambridge. Come 31st August, all that will have changed, as LodeStar kicks into gear. Held on vast flat fenland 15mins from Cambridge city centre on one of the best weather weekends of the year, LodeStar Festival provides a full weekend of entertainment, including live music, comedy, theatre, market stalls, quality catering and even sport activities. Full of variety for those who like more than one spice in their life, the festival is now entering its fifth year and has is by all accounts most relaxed and chilled boutique festivals in the UK and has been universally praised for its affordable prices and for the quality of the acts involved. The incredible The Joy Formidable will be playing, their epic and grand sets often worth a festival ticket alone, as well as buzz boy Mausi, London rocker Hatcham Social, and, amongst others Dragonette, El Perro Del Mar, Thumpers, Ryan Keen, Paper Aeroplanes, Kimberly Anne, Caracol, The Vestals, The Birthday Kiss, Flowers, Candy Says and Lonely The Brave. More are to be announced and mid priced tickets are available now from the festival website www.lodestarfestival.com.

mausi – and so she thinks

Lodestar – and so it grows…

LodeStar Festival