Splendour in the Grass 2009 (Day 1)
Webcuts decamped to the stunning town of Byron Bay for a weekend’s fun at the Splendour in the Grass festival. Since we’re dealing with an Australian outdoor festival in winter surely the sun will be...
View ArticleWay Out West – Gothenburg – 15 August 2009
Way Out West – Slottsskogen, Gothenburg – Saturday 15 August 2009 Day two and the weather forecast in Gothenburg is grim. The sky is overcast, rain predicted and the bill for Saturday favours the more...
View ArticleWay Out West – Gothenburg – 13-14 August 2009
While the established Scandinavian rock festivals, such Hultsfred and Roskilde, are struggling with decreasing numbers of visitors, new festivals are popping up in every other little town up and down...
View ArticlePrimavera Festival – Barcelona – 27-29 May 2010
What a way to begin your first ever Primavera Festival; trailing illness and a voice that gradually becomes more hoarse until it finally disappears somewhere around the middle of Pavement’s...
View ArticleSplendour in the Grass – Woodford – 30 July-1 August 2010
For its tenth birthday the organisers of Splendour in the Grass threw caution to the wind and altered the structure that had been serving them so well for the previous nine years. The big change was...
View ArticleWay Out West Festival – Gothenburg – 13-14 August 2010
As regular as clockwork, and now for the third year running, Webcuts returned to Slottsskogen in Gothenburg, Sweden for the annual Way Out West Festival. In previous years, we’ve been wow-ed by the...
View ArticlePopaganda Festival – Stockholm – 27-28 August 2010
It was only a few weeks ago that Webcuts and half of Gothenburg invaded Slottskogen for Way Out West, but this weekend it was Stockholm’s turn for the charming Popaganda to lift my post-festival...
View ArticleNo Years Festival – Brisbane – 31 December 2010
New Years Eve’s are traditionally unplanned, last minute events, involving clubs or house parties especially in laissez-faire Brisbane. This year was different. An independent music festival at the...
View ArticleSunset Sounds Festival – Brisbane – 5-6 January 2011
H20 is essential for most life on the planet. Humans are comprised of around 60% water while the Earth’s surface consists of 71%. For the third Sunset Sounds festival in Brisbane that seemed to edge...
View ArticleLaneway Festival – Brisbane – 4 February 2011
In complete contrast to a month ago when it was “precipitation nation” at Sunset Sounds, Brisbane’s fourth St. Jerome’s Laneway festival could’ve been subtitled “Boiling Brisvegas”. We predict that in...
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