Festivals: Last News

Home Office in a ‘last-minute decision’ meaning he is unable to headline at Strawberries & Creem on Saturday. The Lollipop artist was expected to perform at the Cambridge festival alongside the likes of Tion Wayne, Mabel, Wilkinson, and Katy B. Instead, Grammy-winning artist Ludacris will now take Lil Wayne’s spot.   Strawberries & Creem said they had ‘received minimal notice’ of Lil Wayne’s circumstance and that the ‘timing of the decision is upsetting for all involved’. ‘Due to extreme circumstances beyond our control or influence, we are very sorry to inform you that Lil Wayne is now unable to perform at the festival,’ they said in a statement. ‘Lil Wayne has been refused entry to the UK directly by the Home Office in a last-minute decision.

Governors Ball returns to its regular spot on the June calendar. Once again, it will be held at the home of the New York Mets, Citi Field. Kid Cudi headlines Day 1, with Migos, Black Pumas and “First Class” rapper Jack Harlow also rocking the crowd.

COVID-19 pandemic shutting down music festivals and artist tours across the globe, Bourbon & Beyond is set to return with a slew of A-list headliners, including Pearl Jam, Brandi Carlile, Greta Van Fleet, St. Vincent, Jack White, Alanis Morissette, Yola, Kings of Leon, Chris Stapleton and many more.The four-day festival will run from Sept.

South Beach Wine & Food Fest (SOBEWFF) — the nation’s largest wine and food event, which turns Miami into foodie central during the last week of February — is celebrating its 21st birthday. And like any newly legal-to-imbibe adolescent, the annual four-day festival is going big this year.Not only will the festival boast an impressive lineup of chefs and culinary personalities, but a red-carpet’s worth of celebrities (many of whom have brands to showcase) will be in attendance.With so many talent-packed events to choose from, here is a how-to guide when it comes to eating, drinking and maybe even rubbing elbows with the sun-kissed stars of this year’s SOBEWFF.The award-winning actress, entrepreneur and activist will present her new ultra-premium female-powered tequila, Casa Del Sol, at an al fresco dinner on Friday evening at Verde, the Pérez Art Museum Miami’s picturesque restaurant overlooking Biscayne Bay.

When We Were Young festival, has released a statement addressing safety concerns following the Astroworld tragedy.Announced earlier this week, When We Were Young will be headlined by My Chemical Romance and Paramore, with fellow ’00s emo acts like Avril Lavigne, Jimmy Eat World and pop-punk revivalists Meet Me @ The Altar also playing.The first date sold out instantly, as did the second. However, fans have taken to Twitter to voice their concerns after realising Live Nation were also behind Travis Scott’s Astroworld, where 10 people tragically lost their lives during a crowd crush and hundreds more were injured.The company has been named in a number of the nearly-300 suits filed in Harris County but in December, Live Nation and its subsidiary ScoreMore, Astroworld’s promoters, denied in filed documents all the allegations against them.“The safety of fans, artists and staff is thoroughly planned for among event organisers and in coordination with local authorities,” Live Nation wrote in a statement in response to concerns about When We Were Young.We are incredibly humbled by the support of this community.

from his ‘homophobic’ rant about gay men and Aids as another festival has booted him from its line up.Austin City Limits announced on Tuesday that the rapper will not be performing at the event which will take place in Austin, Texas in October.The news was announced via a message from the festival’s official Twitter account which read: ‘DaBaby will no longer be performing at Austin City Limits Music Festival — lineup update coming soon.’The star, real name Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, came under fire for launching into a vile rant on stage at Rolling Loud, telling men who ‘aren’t sucking d**k in the parking lot’ to put their phone torches on.He reportedly told the crowd the incorrect claim that HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases kill

eased out of lockdown by the end of June, organisers told fans they ‘can’t wait to get back in the fields’ via the festival’s official Twitter page. Alongside a clip sharing footage from the festival from past years, their tweet read: ‘Reading and Leeds 2021.

Barcelona, held a trial last month to see what the future could look like for music events amid the pandemic.The event, named Prima-CoV, trialled whether masks and testing for Covid-19 could potentially allow the live events industry to open up in future. Primavera Sound, the Hospital Germans Trias and the Fight AIDS and Infectious Diseases Foundation had 1,000 people attend an event in a 1,600 capacity venue. Of the group, 463 attended the concert while 496 were placed into a control group with no access to the venue. All participants in the trial took a same-day coronavirus antigen test and a follow-up test eight days later, which saw no positive results among the 463 people who attended the gig and two positives in the control group.The

Biffy Clyro, Sam Smith, Rita Ora and more are set to appear

Coachella will be dropping a documentary to celebrate 20 years of the festival on the day it was supposed to be kicking off in 2020 before it was postponed.

Open Pit and Anamanaguchi are throwing a coronavirus relief virtual music festival on Saturday, April 11 that takes place within the video game world of Minecraft. It’s called Nether Meant, and it’s set to feature performances from American Football, Anamanaguchi, Baths, HANA, and more. It starts at 6 p.m. Eastern.

The 2020 Isle of Wight Festival has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Big Boi has announced his inaugural Kryptonite Festival, set to take place April 18 at the Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park in his hometown of Atlanta. The one-day music festival will feature performances by Big Boi, Goodie Mob, EarthGang, and Kneel’n Rey.

Thom Yorke has announced that he’ll perform a rare acoustic solo set at the London festival All Points East. He’ll open for Massive Attack (who invited him to play) on Sunday, May 24. The set will features performances of Yorke’s solo work, as well as some Radiohead songs. See the full lineup below.

BBC has teased The Glastonbury Experience which will go ahead next month on the weekend the festival was due to go ahead for its 50th anniversary.

ROME — The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as scheduled at the beginning of September, Luca Zaia, the governor of the region around the Italian city said on Sunday as the spread of the new coronavirus in the country slows.