The Music Festival Blog

Outdoor country concerts are a different challenge to almost any other event you will dress for. You are dealing with real weather, real terrain, and a temperature swing that can...

The costume that gets remembered at a Halloween party is almost never the one with the most obvious reference. I learned that the year I skipped the last-minute costume shop...

The first time I put on a competition dress that actually fit — not one borrowed from a taller girl at the rink two seasons before — I skated my...

The first time I really understood country concert fashion, I was standing in a field somewhere between the second and third acts watching a woman in a full pink rhinestone...

Mention Ibiza and most people immediately think of legendary clubs, world-famous DJs, and unforgettable nights that don't end until sunrise. Many visitors plan their trip around the island's famous Opening...

Lowlands has a Dutch directness about what it is: a city in a field. For three days in August, the Evenemententerrein Walibi Holland site in Biddinghuizen becomes one of the...

Parklife sits in a specific gap in the Manchester cultural calendar — it is neither a straightforward electronic music festival nor a traditional rock and indie event, and it has...

Lake Balaton is the largest lake in Central Europe, a 77-kilometre body of fresh water in western Hungary that has been the primary holiday destination for Hungarians and Central Europeans...

Zrce Beach is not a place you stumble upon. It takes a flight to Split or Zadar, a two-hour drive north along the Adriatic coast, a bridge crossing onto the...

Dreambeach exists at the extreme end of the Spanish electronic music festival spectrum. Everything about it is turned up: the location (a remote beach on the Almería coast, far enough...

FIB has been happening in Benicassim since 1995 and it remains the most cosmopolitan music festival on the Spanish coast — the one where the crowd mix of British, French,...

Arenal Sound exists at the intersection of two things that Spanish summer culture does better than anywhere else: music festivals and beach holidays. The Playa del Arenal in Burriana, Castellon,...