Festivals
Going to Your First Festival Ever? Here's Some Survival Tips
It's 2022, you can’t just show up to your first music festival with a few Depop two-pieces and a fiver.
All Hail the Spiedie, the Greatest Sandwich on Earth
Spiedies are deceptively simple: marinated meat on a roll and nothing more. But biting into one is a life-changing experience.
What Coachella Influencer Parties Are Really Like
TikTok user Ruby Saracino went as a plus one to the invite-only Revolve Festival and documented the whole behind-the-scenes experience.
How to Have Sex at a Music Festival
For most people in the UK, festival camping sex is a rite of passage. Let us share some tips gleaned from a lifetime of experience.
Photos of France's Weird and Wonderful Festivals
From medieval fest celebrating spoons to colourful carnival parties, these traditional events have been going strong for centuries.
Are Fancy Dress Shops on the Verge of Going Extinct?
It's never been harder to run a business that brings joy – and giant banana costumes – to so many.
Is When We Were Young Festival a Scam? Live Nation Responds to Claims
We reached out to the festival organisers of the 2022 Las Vegas emo festival.
The Big Return – and Decline in Quality – of MDMA
Pills were largely dreadful this year, but it still helped to propel pingers back to the top of the agenda.
I Survived the Redneck Rave, America's Wildest Country Party
Last June, the festival ended in mass arrests, an impalement, and a throat slashing. We traveled to Kentucky to witness the mud and mayhem firsthand.
DJs, Swords, Goblin People: Everything We Saw at Greece’s Narthex Festival
Founded by two Berlin-based DJs and held at the base of an active volcano, Narthex is where medieval fantasy and hard-style Sugababes edits unite.
Photographing the Young Goths of Yorkshire
Last weekend, devotees from all corners of the North made the pilgrimage to Leeds for the UK's first goth festival since pre-pandemic times.