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Festivals To Look Forward To In 2018

The recently announced welcome return of Long Division to the festival calendar (pleasingly coming back over June 1st-3rd) has prompted us to think about what other events there are to look forward to in 2018.

Having taken a year off in 2017 Rockaway Beach returns to the Bognor Regis Butlin’s over January 12-14 & features The Horrors, The Orb, Wild Beasts, Honeyblood, Alabama 3 & a host of other acts. It could be just what you need to get back into the swing of things after the Xmas excesses. Prices currently start at £79 per person for room-only accommodation for the entire three-night festival – for more details click here.

Midway through spring Hipsville returns to Margate's Dreamland on 04-06 May. We’ve not managed to attend since the first one so it’s high time we remedied that.

June will be jam packed, what with Long Division at the start, Beaches Brew back at the Hana Bi in Marina di Ravenna and Edinburgh’s Franklin Fest seeing in its fourth year from 28 to 30 June.

Staying in Scotland, August will see Doune The Rabbit Hole once again set up shop by The Lake of Menteith. This is another event where a few years have elapsed since we last attended so it’ll be interesting to see what sort of beast it’s become.

Later in the year Iceland Airwaves returns over 07-10 November for its 20th year. Earlybird tickets are already on sale for £115 or so. Further details here.

Further updates on all of the above will feature on Musos’ Guide in the months ahead & no doubt other events will take our fancy and get the attention they deserve too.

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Undercover Festival V At Dreamland Margate

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Undercover Festival now in its fifth year are moving to the unique and quirky setting of Dreamland Margate in Kent. Undercover is a festival venue and experience that defies all other conventions and festival templates, not only do they have a cracking alternative line up but festival goers can experience many retro rides and amusements. Plus it is once again held undercover i.e. not outdoors so if it’s peeing down come September it’s not a problem and your beer won’t get diluted. Leave your wellies at home, and enjoy one of the best small alternative festivals the South has to offer this September.

Undercover Festival V boasts Acts such as Tom Robinson (with band), Angelic Upstarts, Ruts DC, Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band, Jilted John, Doctor& The Medics, Eddie and The Hot Rods, Subhumans, The Urban Voodoo Machine, Wonk Unit, Inner Terrestrials, Imperial Leisure, Chords UK, Radical Dance Faction along with a very strong supporting line up of established and up and coming bands, plus many Kent bands that to any lover of alternative music will find more than appealing.

With the recent announcement of the involvement of Scootering Magazine things are going from strength to strength for the festival. The festival is one that prides itself on taking an independent and grassroots approach to things, and is always determined to be different from mainstream events, with two days of alternative action from bands you’d be highly unlikely to see on many other festival line-ups.

The festival now in its fifth year grew out of a small tent tucked in the back corner of the sadly departed GuilFest in Surrey and has now become a firm fixture in many people’s diaries, with dedicated fans coming back year on year.

Undercover Festival V (2017) at Margate Full Line Up

FRI 8TH SEPT

Main Stage

TOM ROBINSON (with band)/ EDDIE AND THE HOT RODS / JILTED JOHN /  THE URBAN VOODOO MACHINE / MENACE / WITCHDOKTORS / MORGELLONS / PHOENIX CHROI / ARCHIVE 45

FRI 8TH SEPT

“The SCOOTERING Magazine Stage”

IMPERIAL LEISURE / DUNCAN REID (the Boys) AND THE BIG HEADS / THE LAGAN / PARANOID VISIONS / THE SPORADICS / KARL PHILLIPS & THE REJECTS /         SKACIETY /  SURGERY WITHOUT RESEARCH /  ANABOLLIC STEROIDS / RUSS CRIMEWAVE

SAT 9TH SEPT

MAIN STAGE

ANGELIC UPSTARTS / RUTS DC/ SUBHUMANS / INNER TERRESTRIALS / RADICAL DANCE FACTION / WONK UNIT / RISKEE & THE RIDICULE / EAST TOWN PIRATES / R.E.D (RELIGION EQUALS DECAY) / RAGE DC / THE FANZINES / SNIDE

SAT 9TH SEPT

“The SCOOTERING Magazine STAGE”

GENO WASHINGTON & THE RAM JAM BAND/ DOCTOR & THE  MEDICS / THE CHORDS UK / DEMOB /  THE SATELLITES / HOBO JONES & THE JUNKYARD DOGS /  THE RACKETEERS / ARMY OF SKANKS / CHURCH OF EON / THE BLUE CARPET BAND / THE  OUTFIT (ft Cockney Rejects Jeff Turner) / THE WEIRD THINGS / STONE HEROES /WYRD SISTERS BACK @ BUSKERS CORNER / KEITH WOODHOUSE MC MAIN STAGE / + DJs MURPH & MABS FROM RUDE BOY PRODUCTIONS SPINNING TUNES IN BETWEEN BANDS + Stage II DJ TREV BOSSOM (GUILDFORDS FINEST)

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