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Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion closes a 25th festival on the state line
Old Crow Medicine Show finished it on State Street, and the 2027 edition is already set for 10 to 12 September.
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Rolling Loud sets 2027 festival dates in Orlando and San Bernardino
Florida returns to Camping World Stadium in May and California moves to December, with no bills announced for either.
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RTE keeps Ireland out of the Eurovision Song Contest 2027
The Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS has withdrawn too, and the Bulgarian contest still runs across three May nights in Burgas.
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Round Top Film Festival adds a Bluebird Cafe songwriter round for 2026
Shane McAnally's episode of the documentary series SONGWRITER screens on 14 November, and he plays afterwards with Josh Osborne.
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Ozzfest confirms a US edition of the metal festival for 2027
Sharon Osbourne says an American date is happening but will not say where, and she wants the bill weighted towards new bands.
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John Summit hangs his Experts Only banner on the stock exchange before the festival
A text message sent fans to a Seaport newsstand for a fake broadsheet and a lanyard, then to a pop-up on the trading floor.
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AVA London publishes the full 2026 festival programme for its club culture conference
Moby, The Avalanches and Oklou take part across three days of talks, workshops and after-hours rooms.
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JazzFest Berlin gives pianist Alexander Hawkins the premiere of Willow Music
His large ensemble piece closes the opening night on 29 October, straight after a new Anthony Braxton septet for four saxophones and three tubas.
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Arca headlines the Rave3000 festival in Buenos Aires on 11 December
A twelve-hour open-air event at Club Ciudad, with hard techno, house and trance across several stages and tickets already selling.
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Punk In The Park promoter Brew Ha Ha plans a new punk festival after the boycott
Cameron Collins cancelled everything he had booked when acts refused to play over his donation to Donald Trump.
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Ultra Japan bans moshing and public defecation before its Tokyo festival weekend
Organisers warn the event may not be able to happen in future if the behaviour continues. Alesso, Peggy Gou and Sara Landry play.
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HiJinx Festival books Excision b2b Wooli and Subtronics for its eighth year
The bass weekend runs 30 and 31 December at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, with Ray Volpe b2b Sullivan King and Dabin also on the bill.
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Fresh Start and Teletech open 2027 with a three-venue techno festival in San Francisco
Pier 80 Warehouse, The Midway and 888 Garage all run at once on Saturday 2 January, with I Hate Models and Eli Brown on the bill.
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XPoNential Music Festival streams its whole Camden bill live on NPR
Dawes, Portugal. The Man and Little Feat close three days on the Wiggins Waterfront Park stage.
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Beatport parks The Block at two Breakaway festival stops
The converted shipping container gives competition winners a 45-minute set, next at Breakaway Carolina.
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Death to T.O., the Toronto Halloween covers festival, fills two stages
Twelve local acts play Lee's Palace and the Dance Cave on 31 October, taking on Dolly Parton, the Bee Gees, Misfits and the Tragically Hip for $21.50 a ticket.
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M for Montreal adds TVOD and Skiifall to its 2026 festival lineup
The 21st edition runs November 18 to 21 across ten venues in the city.
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Dua Lipa and Tame Impala reported in talks for the Coachella 2027 festival
SZA is said to lead for a remaining top slot, with BTS, Oasis and Radiohead chased.
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KATSEYE drop off the Daisy Chain Fields festival after an ankle injury
Devon Again takes the Saturday slot at Olivia Rodrigo's Irvine event, which went on to raise $20 million for ten organisations.
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass adds a fourth round of acts to its 2026 festival
Miko Marks, Alison Brown and The Record Company join the free Golden Gate Park bill.
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Le Guess Who? completes the festival bill for its 20th anniversary edition
Nirosta Steel, Martina Camargo, Okkyung Lee, Shadia Mansour and Cody ChesnuTT join the Utrecht programme, which runs 5 to 8 November.
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Kaskade's Sun Soaked festival returns with Matroda and Cassian
The one-day beach event lands at Huntington State Beach on September 12, with the headliner playing a solo set and a back-to-back with BUNT.
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Report puts Dua Lipa and Tame Impala atop the Coachella 2027 festival bill
Fred again.. is tied to the poster's bottom-line slot, and the desert event has confirmed nothing.
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Guitarist Pete Townshend withdraws from the Crossroads Guitar Festival
Foot damage and balance problems after knee surgery have stopped the trip to Austin, and he is donating $50,000 to Eric Clapton's Antigua clinic instead.
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Ocean Way, a new Santa Monica beach festival, books the Killers and Olivia Dean
Goldenvoice runs the car-free weekend on September 26-27, with Jack White and Khruangbin also billed.
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Dolly Parton's estate sets the DOLLYFEST music festival for Nashville and London
The two weekend event in 2027 revives a plan she had made for her 80th birthday before her health forced her to step back.
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George Strait headlines the 2027 Boots In The Park festival in Albuquerque
Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Zach Top and Jon Pardi fill out a bill running May 14-16.
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311, Dirty Heads and Gym Class Heroes join the Warped Tour Orlando lineup
The two-day Central Florida Fairgrounds finale carries more than 100 acts in November.
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Sprints and Maruja play the 100 Club for the Punk Special 50th anniversary
Tickets cost 1.50 pounds, the same price the London venue charged in 1976.
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Burning Man co-founder John Law says the desert festival has lost its soul
In an essay for The San Francisco Standard, he calls the event a luxury product for wealthy Westerners.
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End Of The Road publishes stage times for its 20th anniversary festival
Pulp clash with Earl Sweatshirt on Saturday, and CMAT with Kurt Vile on Sunday.
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Dolly Parton's DollyFest set as a two-weekend festival in Nashville and London
Dolly Parton's estate says the festival replaces a traditional public memorial for the singer, who died on Aug. 25.
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Drone footage shows the tents left behind at Reading Festival 2026
Organisers had asked fans to take their gear home, then heavy rain arrived during Florence + The Machine's set.
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The 606 Club announces a 50th anniversary jazz festival running Oct. 12 to 25
Jamie Cullum, Julian Joseph, Kyle Eastwood and Liane Carroll are among the names on a two-week bill.
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DJ Sam Feldt joins Dwyane Wade for the Faces of Fitness festival in Miami
The Chicago wellness event makes its Miami debut at Regatta Park on Oct. 24 and 25.
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ADELA premieres a new song called Boys during her Reading festival set
The Slovakian-born pop singer introduced the track as a night out with friends interrupted by unwanted attention.
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Billy Strings joins Cryptopsy onstage at his own Ionia Freak Fair festival
The bluegrass player booked a metal stage at his hometown event in Michigan and turned up on it himself.
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Olivia Rodrigo's first Daisy Chain Fields festival ends with $20 million raised
Melinda French Gates matched the $10 million total onstage in Irvine, and Stevie Nicks closed the night on Landslide.
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Twenty One Pilots debut Robot Voices in their only UK festival set of 2026
Emi Grace sang the Breach track with the duo at All Points East, on a night that also took in Beatles, Radiohead and White Stripes covers.
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Chase & Status close the Reading festival with 12 guest vocalists
ArrDee, D Double E, Novelist, Flowdan and Tom Grennan all appeared, through a torrential downpour.
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Florence + The Machine close the Everybody Scream tour at Reading festival
Welch asked both crowds to put their phones away, and IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen joined her on One Of The Greats.
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Electric Picnic festival boss defends crowd handling after a collapse
Armand Van Helden's set was pulled before he reached the stage, and Melvin Benn called calls for change bonkers.
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Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs pulls out of the Daisy Chain Fields festival
A family emergency kept her on the East Coast, and she was one of three billed special guests.
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Lola Young plays a last-minute secret set at the Reading festival
Announced hours ahead, the 3.15pm slot on The Grid was her debut at the site and ended on Messy.
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Rapper Loyle Carner hits out at J.K. Rowling and the far right at Reading festival
He introduced one song as being in direct opposition to the far right and asked the crowd to cheer the NHS.
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Neighbourhood Weekender 2027 line-up: Paul Heaton, Reytons and Courteeners headline
Rick Astley plays his home town, and a Hacienda Presents takeover joins the Sunday bill in Warrington.
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One dead and five hurt as a sign falls at Big Church Festival
Sussex Police named the man who died as Robert Guanco, a pastor from Eastbourne, and the sold-out event was called off.
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Fontaines D.C. headline the Reading and Leeds festivals and debut Happy For You
Technical problems cut three songs at Reading, so the new track from Dopamine Chamber waited until Bramham Park.
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Singer RAYE headlines the Reading festival for the first time in her career
Escapism opened, sisters Amma and Absolutely joined for Joy, and Where Is My Husband? closed the night.
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Ayra Starr to headline the NFL London halftime show at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
The Nigerian singer plays the Eagles against the Jaguars on October 11, weeks after her third album landed.
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Slayyyter wheels singer Sombr to the Reading festival stage on a stretcher
The two stopped to drop and do press-ups on the walk from an ambulance to the main stage.
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Police seize over 700 pounds of drugs at the Gathering of the Juggalos festival
Officers ran 305 traffic stops with 12 K9 units in Camden County, Missouri, and arrested four people.
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Skepta gives three Fork & Knife songs their first airing at Reading festival
Pandora's Box, Aloe Vera and Innocent Smile went to the crowd first, and two sacked security guards joined him for Toxic.
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Geese pull one of Reading festival's wildest crowds to The Gallery tent
Cameron Winter warned the soaked crowd not to drink the water coming through the tent roof.
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Charli XCX headlines Reading festival with a Music, Fashion, Film set
It was her first full UK show of the new album era, and a Leeds main stage debut followed the next night.
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Pretty Lights grows the Yahn Dawn festival to three days in Colorado
A Trip Thru Time runs September 18 to 20 at Meadow Creek in Buena Vista.
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DJ LeeLee, aged five, awaits a Guinness ruling on her festival DJ set
The kindergartner played 51 minutes at Awaken Music Festival in Utah.
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Nashville concert series Live On The Green returns in 2027
Guster and Grace Potter play an October launch party at Ascend Amphitheater.
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Festival Escenario screens ten free rock documentaries in Buenos Aires
The seventh edition runs August 30 to September 6 across several city cinemas.
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Honky Tonk Fest sets its 2026 lineup for a November date near Austin
Rattlesnake Milk, Summer Dean and The Deslondes play Star Hill Ranch on two stages.
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Las Vegas Songwriters Festival wraps its second year at Mandalay Bay
Around 40 writers played four stages over the weekend, hosted by Matt Warren.
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Royal Blood play a surprise Reading festival set in The Gallery tent
The Brighton duo drew a full tent at 2pm and opened with Out Of The Black.
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Cloud 9 festival adds Loukeman, Lis Dalton and LukeAnthonyBarry for 2026
Three days of electronic music and eco-art at No.9 Gardens, with saunas and cold plunges between sets.
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Kelly Rowland will headline the AIDS Walk Atlanta music festival on September 26
The 35th edition of the charity event brings a 5K run and a bill at Piedmont Park.
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Jamie T asks Reading festival for a slot and gets 33 minutes 10 seconds
The number is a nod to his single 3310. He opened The Grid stage at noon on August 28 and closed with Zombie.
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Kasabian headline the first Thursday night in Leeds Festival history
Serge Pizzorno called the slot history from the stage, closing a night opened by Arkayla and The Lathums.
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The Ondalinda festival returns to Careyes for a tenth-anniversary edition
Three nights on the Jalisco coast in November under the theme Cosmic Code, with Chloe Caillet and Kaz James among the names booked.
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Beyond The Music festival adds a second wave of acts for its Salford edition
SILVERWINGKILLER, Another Country $$$$ and ALT BLK ERA join a bill that runs beside panels, keynotes and an AI summit.
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Boomtown Fair books Adam James to DJ after his story spread online
The 23 year old from High Wycombe saved for a year to attend alone, and a group from Bristol adopted him at the campsite.
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First Class Fest loses Che, Black Kray and Nettspend before its Toronto edition
Organizers lined up a replacement for each act, and the two day bill at Sobeys Stadium went ahead as planned.
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Burning Man asks festival travellers for extra time as the Hawk Fire burns
The Reno-area fire had burned 15,085 acres and destroyed 47 homes; gates open on August 30.
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Toronto's First Class Fest loses a fifth of its rap festival bill
The Bowl at Sobey's Stadium event is the first outdoor show for two promoters who started booking in 2022.
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Beyond The Music festival adds Tom A Smith, Gans and The Slow Readers Club
The Salford event runs across MediaCity from October 6 to 9 and opens with a 24 Hour Party People screening.
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Toronto's PHANTOMFEST: Open Air festival adds acts for 2026 edition
LeeLee Mishi, Antwon Faulkner and Purrpelle join the donation-powered electronic event at Leslie Lookout Park.
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Tomorrowland is adding a second day to its Shanghai festival this October
Tiesto and Axwell headline the October return after last year's sellout debut.
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Space Afrika, Milkweed and more join the growing 2026 Unsound lineup
Marina Herlop and VTSS also join the festival's third wave of announced acts.
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Lost Lands teases another expansion of its Crater stage for 2026
The dubstep festival's signature 360-degree stage keeps growing ahead of its ninth edition.
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Suwannee Amp Jam 2027 lineup led by Joe Russo's Almost Dead and Lettuce
The three-day festival returns to Live Oak, Florida, with Oteil Burbridge serving as Artist at Large.
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Jazzahead! 2027 festival unveils a wave of new announcements
The 21st edition adds a new Asia Pacific focus and names the Baltic states as 2027 partner.
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Tame Impala to headline Rock Werchter 2027
Kevin Parker's project is the first headliner announced for the Belgian festival.
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Swansea International Jazz Festival 2026 gears up for autumn dates
The annual festival returns to venues across the city September 3-6.
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The full 2026 lineup for Pitchfork Music Festival CDMX is here
Umru and Tygapaw round out a bill that also includes American Football, Perfume Genius and Lido Pimienta.
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LCD Soundsystem topped the Just Like Heaven festival, the Strokes came third
Julius Miller put TV Girl second and Chromeo last, in 95-degree heat and a crowd he calls hostile.
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Tame Impala will headline Poland's Open'er festival when it returns in 2027
Kevin Parker's project is set to headline the Orange Main Stage as the festival's first 2027 announcement.
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Santos Bravos became the first Latin American band to play the KCON festival
The five members come from Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Peru and Los Angeles County, and they took on a BTS song to win the crowd.
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Programme announced for third Posk Festival of Jazz Voice
The two-day event runs October 2-3 at Jazz Cafe Posk in Hammersmith.
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Bonnaroo festival will take 2027 off
The Tennessee festival's storm-damaged grounds need time to recover, organizers say.
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DIY Alive 2026 lineup grows with Porij, Picture Parlour and more
They join Sports Team, Nell Mescal, FEET and Walt Disco on October 3 at Dalston's EartH.
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Police investigate a woman's death at Houghton festival
She was found dead in her tent over the weekend, and the festival said it was deeply saddened.
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Glastonbury festival has its 2027 headliners booked, Emily Eavis says
She also shot down talk connecting Madonna to the bill, after speculation built around her new album Confessions II.
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Police deploy facial recognition technology near Boardmasters Festival
The tools are being used in nearby Newquay, though not at the festival site itself.
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23 people injured in crowd crush at Ghana Party in the Park festival
A small fire near the entrance forced the gates shut, then a surge when they reopened.
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Moscow's Outline Festival cancelled over drone strike threat
The lineup included techno pioneers Derrick May and DJ Pierre, none of whom will now perform after authorities stepped in.
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Tomorrowland festival seeks a stolen painting's return and curbs fireworks for weekend two
Belgian authorities limited pyrotechnics over wildfire risk after one of two stolen artworks was recovered.
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Wibbly Woods Festival cancels its 2026 edition over land permission dispute
Organisers say a landowner dispute at the festival's new Loughborough site made relocating in time impossible.
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Reading and Leeds 2026 festival publishes its full stage times
The old Main Stage is now The Grid, Leeds gets a Thursday night for the first time with Kasabian, and Charli XCX goes on at 7:45pm at Reading.
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Tyler, the Creator unveils Camp Flog Gnaw 2026 festival lineup
Future, Don Toliver, Turnstile and Steve Lacy join the November 14-15 bill, days after Tyler's own VMA nomination was announced.
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Dillon Francis and A-Trak join the National Fried Chicken Festival lineup
The New Orleans event grows to three days for its tenth year, with Nelly, 2 Chainz and Big Freedia plus the Louisiana Philharmonic also booked.
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Brussels festival MIRROR WORLD books Kampire and DJ Travella for its first edition
The two-day sister event to Uganda's Nyege Nyege runs 25 and 26 September across the Studio Citygate and La Fabriek venues.
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Bass Canyon festival death leads to an arrest at the Gorge Amphitheatre
Grant County deputies said Zion Randall, 26, died in the medical area, and arrested a 28-year-old man after an undercover purchase on site.
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Las Cafeteras and Thee Sinseers play a free Ritchie Valens tribute show in LA
Grand Performances hosts Ritchie Forever on 22 August in downtown Los Angeles, with the singer's siblings Irma, Connie and Mario Valens speaking.
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Aftershock festival posts set times for its four-day Sacramento bill
The event runs 1 to 4 October across five stages, with My Chemical Romance, Limp Bizkit, Pierce The Veil and Tool closing the main stage on each of the four days.
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BMI reveals its 2026 stage lineup for Austin City Limits Music Festival
The BMI Stage returns to the festival in Zilker Park for its 23rd year.
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Hell's Heroes festival books Overkill and Omen's last US show for 2027
The ninth edition runs March 18 to 20 at White Oak Music Hall in Houston, with Beherit, Armored Saint, Metal Church and Exhumer also booked.
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SCREAM Edmonton festival lineup includes Tiesto, Sara Landry and Alesso
The Halloween EDM event returns for its 27th year at the Edmonton EXPO Centre, October 30-31.
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Inkcarceration Music and Tattoo Festival announces 2027 return to Ohio State Reformatory
General ticket on-sale begins August 24 at noon EST, with dates nearly matching this year's July run.
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GRiZ and Tape B headline the return of Nashville festival To The Future
The BLNK CNVS-curated New Year's Eve takeover runs December 30-31 at The Warehouse at the Nashville Fairgrounds, its third year.
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SteelRadio.org launches new Austin Steel Guitar Fest
The three-day event, October 1-3 in Austin, doubles as the 2026 Steel Guitar Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
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Reading Festival's bid to extend its Thursday music licence meets noise concerns
Local residents' groups oppose the plan even as organisers say it would not hurt the surrounding area.
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LA musicians hold their own show after the LA Jazz Festival collapses
Local acts staged an underground pop-up called Can't Cancel Jazz instead.
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Ozzfest confirms its 2027 return to the metal festival's spiritual home
The event lands at Villa Park in Birmingham, the stadium that hosted Ozzy Osbourne's final show before his death.
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The Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music previews its 2026 edition
UK Jazz News calls the festival's focus on experimental, improvised playing unique among UK jazz events.
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KCON festival draws big crowds to the Los Angeles Convention Center
Attendees lined up for Korean beauty samples and free skin analysis on day one of the three-day event.
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Eternal NYE books RL Grime, Zeds Dead and Knock2 for its biggest festival lineup yet
The Orlando bass festival's two-night December run also doubles as Zeds Dead's last show before a touring hiatus.
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Mersiv returns to The Caverns for a two-night "Stonehenge II" festival run
Taiki Nulight and The Widdler join the bill two years after the first edition.
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Boomtown festival builds a women-led research hub for its 2026 redesign
During the same weekend, a government wildfire alert set off phone sirens across the whole site at once.
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Twenty One Pilots ask fans at the All Points East festival for their own footage
The band want stories from the crowd as well as video.
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Lewis Capaldi turns a Florence + The Machine lyric on himself at Sziget Festival
He referenced Florence Welch's 'One of the Greats' just before her headline set.
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Skrillex and Jorja Smith close out Sziget 2026 festival on the dancefloor
NME's live review says Zimmer90 and Soulwax also helped send off the festival's final night.
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Zimmer90 plays an unreleased track at Sziget Festival
The German dream-pop band previewed a song ahead of a tour due in three months.
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Summer Sonic festival teases a Radiohead return to Tokyo for 2027
Guitarist Ed O'Brien has confirmed the band plans to play 20 shows a year on a rotating continent.
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RESISTANCE Ibiza festival starts its fifth season at Amnesia
The house and techno run from Ultra Worldwide continues through mid-September with Adam Beyer, ARTBAT and Eric Prydz among the headliners.
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Breakaway festival ends its 2026 run with a first Houston edition
The November 13-14 stop headlined by Dom Dolla, GRiZ, Cloonee and Tape B closes the biggest touring season in the brand's history.
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Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean headline the 2026 Global Citizen Festival
The free Central Park show on September 26 includes a 30th anniversary set for the Fugees album The Score.
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Mayan Warrior's art car sits out the Burning Man festival's 2026 edition
The Mexico City-born collective is building a new camp called Discosmos instead.
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Lauryn Hill's Diaspora Calling! festival cuts the Fugees' set short
Hill and Wyclef Jean reunited with the group at London's Milton Keynes for the festival's first UK edition.
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Louder Than Life festival sets out its daily running order for September
The festival runs September 17 to 20 in Louisville, Kentucky.
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ACM Honors adds Sheryl Crow and Flatland Cavalry to its 19th lineup
The Academy of Country Music also named Logan Ledger and Zach John King among the acts joining the show.
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Björk played a DJ set at the eclipse festival she staged in Iceland
The one day event drew a crowd of 7,000, and she spent an hour behind the decks.
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Riot Fest adds William Shatner and Chat Pile to a run of Chicago side shows
Shatner's metal band The *uckers debuts live before the festival, Metal Injection reports.
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Lainey Wilson and Shaboozey are booked for Global Citizen Festival
MusicRow's brief item did not name the rest of the acts on the bill.
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Tulagi sets up a four day festival in downtown Boulder
More than 160 acts are billed for the run later this month.
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Eurovision Song Contest 2027 gets its host city and venue in Bulgaria
Burgas beat three other Bulgarian cities in a competitive bidding process.
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Twenty One Pilots headline Sziget Festival day two with a White Stripes cover
Jack White gave the band a pre-recorded blessing to play Seven Nation Army.
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AmericanaFest festival sets a keynote talk and a Dualtone Records showcase
Bernie Taupin and Brandi Carlile are among the names announced, MusicRow reported.
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PC Music sets the POP CRYPT lineup with Dorian Electra and A. G. Cook
The fourth edition runs in three cities for the first time, including a London night at Colour Factory on 31 October.
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Eurovision Song Contest rewrites its rules for countries at war
Under the change, a war-involved winner could lose its right to host the following year.
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Saint Clair, Cutscene and Wool play DIY's Neu Nights gig series in Newcastle
DIY runs the series with PRS For Music, which helps emerging acts collect royalties.
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Bloodstock names 27 acts and three headliners for its 2027 festival lineup
Mercyful Fate, Electric Callboy and Motionless in White top the bill across the weekend, NME reports.
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Zara Larsson opens for Sombr's first European festival headline set at Sziget
The pop singer's own set drew a big crowd before he topped the Budapest bill.
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Daisy Chain Fields festival locks in stage times so no sets overlap
Fourteen sets across two stages are timed so festivalgoers never have to choose between acts.
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Breakaway Philadelphia festival books 26 acts for two days at Subaru Park
The 2026 edition runs September 11 and 12 with two stages and a silent disco, headlined by Tiesto, Marshmello, SOFI TUKKER and ISOxo.
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Reading & Leeds festival partners with Spotify on personalized playlists
The feature scores each fan's music taste against this year's line-up and builds them a personalized playlist ahead of the August bill.
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Nia Archives to DJ the official afterparty for All Points East festival
The Amex Afters show follows her own set at the London festival the week before, and the bill also includes Cheetah, Riria and Zillion.
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The Molotovs open the King's Cross Summer Sounds festival with a free Bowie tribute
NME says the London show is free to attend and ties into an immersive Lightroom exhibition of David Bowie's archive.
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Ronnie Scott's Jazz Orchestra headlines the Battersea Park in Concert festival
The bank holiday bill also includes a South Africa-themed day and an Amy Winehouse tribute set marking 20 years since Back to Black.
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Brown Wimpenny headlines a September fundraiser for the Hebden Bridge Folk Roots Festival
Jennifer Reid and Satnam Galsian also play the Trades Club show, raising money for the festival's 2027 return.
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BKLYN Jazz Festival is postponed too, following the cancelled LA Jazz Festival
JazzTimes points to a lack of executed contracts behind both scrapped debuts.
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LA Jazz Festival cancelled hours before its debut, with Legend and Monae billed
Ezra Collective and Raphael Saadiq were also on the bill for the axed festival, NME reports.
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Maryland Deathfest adds YOB, Anaal Nathrakh and Exumer to its 2027 festival bill
Metal Injection says four-day passes for the 22-year-old festival are almost sold out.
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Old Dominion joins the lineup for the Country Music Hall of Fame's Nightfall At The Hall
The museum is running the event for the 14th year.
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Barry County approves $156K in policing for a Rock the Country festival date
The festival's promoters cover the bill for the Hastings, Michigan show.
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Unsound festival names first acts for its 2026 New York edition
The New York run takes three days at Lincoln Center later this year.
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Summer's Last Dance sets its 2026 lineup with Big Gigantic
The Chicago event also has Henry Fong and Saxsquatch on the bill.
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ArcTanGent festival will move to a new site in 2027
Organisers say it is the first time the festival has changed location.
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Beyond The Music festival lines up Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom for 2026
Bev Craig, the mayor of Greater Manchester, joins the pair on the opening speaker list for the October conference.
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Outside Lands festival will livestream its 2026 sets on Amazon Music
Sets from The Strokes, Charli XCX, Turnstile, Baby Keem and Death Cab for Cutie can be watched from home.
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NashFilm Creators Conference sets its September programming lineup
Leslie Fram and Jackie Jones are among the names MusicRow lists for the schedule.
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Mutations Festival adds 71 more acts to its 2026 Brighton bill
Dove Ellis, Squid and Working Men's Club lead the new names.
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Boardmasters festival opens in Newquay under police facial recognition
This year's bill is headlined by Lily Allen, Kasabian and Fatboy Slim.
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A festival crew freed a woman stuck in Lollapalooza's mud at Grant Park
Safety staff fenced off the hole before pulling Chloe Bahna out.
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Decolonise Fest, the London punk festival, names its last acts for 2026
The bill now runs to twelve acts across two days at Signature Brew Blackhorse Road.
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Mutations festival adds Dove Ellis, Walt Disco and Panic Shack to its Brighton bill
TTSSFU, Silver Gore and Alice Costelloe also join, under headliners Mike D and Fat Dog.
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Big Joanie and Essential Logic booked for the new God Save The Queens punk festival
UP YOURS! Collective set up the event, honouring X-Ray Spex's Poly Styrene at Electric Brixton on 16 October.
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Wings Of Desire say the Valley Fest stage they were booked on did not exist
The indie duo travelled for hours with an 11-week-old baby, then said they will not be gaslit into calling it a miscommunication.
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Latino DJs and ravers took over the Hard Summer festival in Inglewood
Kali Uchis closed the main stage asking where her Latinos were, on a weekend where flags and jerseys did as much work as the lineup.
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Gorillaz, The Strokes and FKA twigs to headline Primavera Sound Buenos Aires
The festival runs on November 28 and 29 at Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
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Sharon Osbourne says the metal festival Ozzfest 2027 is under discussion
She also defended the planned AI powered avatar of her late husband Ozzy Osbourne.
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ARC Music Festival added a fourth day at Chicago's Union Park
Cloonee, Azzecca and two back-to-back pairings were picked out ahead of the 4 to 7 September weekend of house and techno.
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Sonido Konex festival sets its rock and alternative lineup for August
The Buenos Aires showcase, running August 20, spotlights emerging acts Homogenica, Electrochongo and Jero Jones.
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Pitchfork Festival London adds DIIV and Panda Bear to its 2026 festival bill
The second wave of names includes Panda Bear and Sonic Boom joining the Avalanches at Roundhouse and DIIV topping the Dalston Takeover.
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Charli XCX plays her Music, Fashion, Film show in full at Lollapalooza festival
The pop star debuted two songs from her "Wuthering Heights" soundtrack live and closed the bill alongside the Smashing Pumpkins.
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A teenage girl has died at Kendal Calling festival, Cumbria Police say
The 17-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene after a medical episode early on Sunday morning.
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John Summit, Chris Lake and Kaskade headline Breakaway Utah's festival debut
The inaugural stop brings Tiesto and a first-ever Gorgon City b2b MPH set to America First Field on October 2-3.
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Zedd, Excision and Gryffin headline Breakaway Mass festival return to Worcester
The two-day run at Palladium Outdoors adds Crankdat, INZO and Wax Motif to a 24-act bill on August 21-22.
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Warped Tour returned to Long Beach as a five-stop festival
Kevin Lyman says half the 2026 tickets sold before a single band was announced, and a third of the crowd had never been to a festival.
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Iggy Pop and Bikini Kill headlined the 17th Mosswood Meltdown festival
John Waters hosted 20 bands over three days in Oakland, with Pavement on the Friday pre-party and a Ramones tribute band featuring Fred Armisen.
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Goldenvoice books Olivia Dean and the Killers for the Ocean Way festival
The new Santa Monica beach event runs 26 and 27 September with no parking at the site, next to the E Line terminus.
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Justin Bieber joined BTS, Madonna and Shakira on the World Cup halftime show
Chris Martin curated an 11-minute set at MetLife Stadium that also carried Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel, the PS22 Chorus and the Muppets.
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BelicoFest took its musica mexicana festival to Los Angeles and San Jose
Tito Double P, Gerardo Ortiz and Clave Especial headlined the first LA edition at BMO Stadium, three years after the festival started in Phoenix.
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Ozomatli opened the free Grand Performances concert season in downtown LA
The 40th season at California Plaza runs to 29 August, with tributes to Stevie Wonder, Roy Ayers and Ritchie Valens along the way.
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Teen bands ran the stage at the Boyle Heights Youth Fest
A K-pop quintet from Koreatown and a pop-punk trio from Lancaster played the block party, which a cohort of 16 to 22-year-olds programmed themselves.
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Glastonbury Festival gave £4.2m to charity in 2025
More than 300 organisations shared the money, with Oxfam, WaterAid and Greenpeace taking over £2m of it between them.
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Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis turned 90 and looked back
The Glastonbury founder named Neil Young his favourite act of 2025 and said his old fights with the council and the police were what made the thing work.
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Glastonbury Festival set 2027 for 23 to 27 June and drew for charity
The first 25 pairs of tickets went into a prize draw for Medecins Sans Frontieres, which closed on 7 November 2025 and raised £929,480.
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Photos from the 2025 Pilton Party, where RAYE closed the Worthy Farm gig
Inhaler, Revelation Roots and the Outlaw Orchestra also played the Friday fundraiser, which puts money into Pilton village funds.
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Singer Freya Ridings and the Script topped the 2025 Glastonbury Extravaganza
The Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society and the Steve Whalley Band also played the Abbey grounds, and the festival published a photo set on 11 August.
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RAYE headlined a sold-out Pilton Party, with Inhaler second on the bill
Glastonbury's yearly thank-you gig for villagers and workers returned to Worthy Farm on 5 September 2025, with DJ sets from Baggy Mondays and Patmandu.
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Glastonbury Festival closed its 2025 edition with a leave-no-trace ask
Rod Stewart and the Maccabees drew the biggest Sunday crowds, and organisers warned of 31C heat for the Monday drive home.