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17 hours agoYour guide to the UK's music festival season for summer 2026
The UK summer festival season features major events like Reading and Leeds, Isle of Wight, and Boardmasters, catering to diverse musical tastes.
The request is made in her signature Aussie drawl, something that musicians attempting to break into the international market would attempt to disguise in decades previous. Yet for the Amyl and the Sniffers frontwoman, everything from her peroxide mullet to proudly bogan background has become an important hallmark.
A big issue with how we understand Shakespeare and how we're introduced to it is we sit down and read it. But Shakespeare's plays, like any play, are meant to be heard, to be experienced.
Brighton was rarely described as a scene, despite being home to Nick Cave and Paul McCartney and hothousing a surge of remarkable young talent that's still thriving more than 20 years later.
Chief among those additions are red hot, inescapable French Canadian microtonal mathrock duo Angine de Poitrine who have cited King Gizzard as an influence. One can only hope for a live microtonal collab during one of King Gizzard's three headline sets at the festival.
I dreamed of curating a tour with my favourite bands that could bring some positivity in our troubled times. I'm thrilled that this is actually happening this summer with the Things Can Only Get Better Tour... Our aim is to bring some joy with the banging pop anthems that we all know and love.
After a lot of deep and sincere conversations among us members, all 13 of us have decided to renew our contracts. We will continue to sail on the same ship and row forward together.
"It's my privilege to be able to present to you the first track released from Rituals of Shame. Whether you're among those who have been waiting for this for twenty years, or whether you're new to my music, it is with great pleasure and some relief, that I can finally give you a taste of the album that will follow later in the year."
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? went on to become the bestselling British album of the 90s, selling a phenomenal 350,000 copies in its first week of release in October 1995 and would go on to sell 22m, making it one of the top 50 of all time.