Living on Much More Than a Prayer: Saving for Festival Season

Festivals can be deceptively expensive. Where you may think that once you’ve paid for your ticket the rest of the weekend will be cheap, after all sleeping in a tent and enjoying all the music in the great outdoors shouldn’t cost you a bundle. You even had the best of intentions, bringing all your own food and booze with you, but beware. When you wake up hungover, that smell wafting over from the bacon sandwich…

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Five of the best at this year’s Live At Leeds

Five of the bands I am most looking forward to at Live At Leeds, the city music festival taking place over May Bank Holiday…for the price of what, 4 pints in London? 1975 Huw Stevens, Zane Lowe and Fearne Cotton all love The City by 1975, and I am inclined to agree that as upbeat summer struts go, it’s not at all bad. Now let’s find some summer. Little Comets Thundering slaps, wailing and whirring, jangling guitars and pots…

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