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NME Festivals 2008 Guide featuring news, interviews, videos, photos, reviews, ticket information, line-ups, dates and more...

Latest Festival News

First act for Glastonbury 2009 announced

First act for Glastonbury 2009 announced

  • Nov 6, 2008
T In The Park offers limited number of 'gold dust' tickets for 2009 festival

T In The Park offers limited number of 'gold dust' tickets for 2009 festival

  • Nov 3, 2008
Glastonbury Festival 2008 only breaks even

Glastonbury Festival 2008 only breaks even

  • Oct 31, 2008
Download Festival 2009 dates confirmed

Download Festival 2009 dates confirmed

  • Oct 28, 2008
Underage Festival Christmas Special line-up announced

Underage Festival Christmas Special line-up announced

  • Oct 17, 2008
White Lies plan to 'lift Iceland's spirits' at Airwaves festival

White Lies plan to 'lift Iceland's spirits' at Airwaves festival

  • Oct 10, 2008
Glastonbury headliners finalised 'pretty soon'

Glastonbury headliners finalised 'pretty soon'

  • Sep 21, 2008
Franz Ferdinand play 'Glastonbury party' drummer-less

Franz Ferdinand play 'Glastonbury party' drummer-less

  • Sep 20, 2008

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Bestival 2008, photography by Danny North

Bestival 2008, photography by Danny North

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Featured Festivals

Reading & Leeds Festival

Reading & Leeds is the true music lover's festival.
Stick with NME.COM for up-to-the-minute news reports, backstage blogs, photos and video interviews.

Reading And Leeds Festivals Signing Tents

Reading And Leeds - NME Signing Tents
Dirty Pretty Things, Dizzee, Manics, Vampire Weekend, MGMT and more meet the fans. See every picture right here!

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Festival Blog

NME writers off the leash: reviews, rants and gossip direct from the festival front-line...

Amazing Baby Are – Yes! – Amazing At Swn

Lordy, how many hand-weaved headbands can one take? If MGMT’s free love psych-pop wasn’t enough to melt our brains with its melodic brilliance, it looks like Amazing Baby are here to make sure our grey matter can well and truly ooze out of our...

Guitar Smashing At Swn In Cardiff

Swn is brilliant. It’s great. If you don’t know what Swn is, you should. And you should be here. [...] Read more!

Iceland Airwaves - Radio Free Reykjavik

Saturday 18 October Not much could impress after a day spent gawping at huge, roiling waterfalls, erupting geysers and rugged rift valleys, but watching the usual festival suspects of the last summer go through the motions, (with honourable...

Iceland Airwaves - These New Puritans, The Mae Shi and more

Friday 17 October Watching These New Puritans in Nasa, one of the festival’s main venues, we feel slightly embarrassed and hope no one can tell from the outside that we come from the same country as them. Their by-the-book...

The Aftermath - Rob da Bank's Bestival Blog

Christ, that was a weekend and a half. And I’m glad and sad it's over in equal measure. First up, I would like to thank those who came and stuck it out in what was some of the worst weather in 100 years. And with people dying round the country...

Underpants, Wind Machines And Grace Jones - Rob da Bank's Bestival Blog

Day three, the final day of Bestival 2008. The weather is looking positive, the mud's drying up and the crowds are out for King Creosote and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. But I’m still recovering from a very hectic Saturday day and night. [...]...

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The NME.COM Signing Tent

Festivals - Signing Tent

View all of the photos from the NME Signing Tent at V Festival 2008.

Bands meeting and greeting fans this year included Ian Brown, The Kooks, The Hold Steady, The Charlatans and more.

Were you there? See all the pictures right here!

Message Boards

Festivals - Message Boards

NME Mobile: Festivals On Your Phone

Festivals - Mobile

For lightning-fast reports, ticket info, reviews, backstage gossip and last-minute line-up changes (in short, everything you need to know to survive the festival season) in the palm of your hand, access NME's new mobile service.

Simply text NME to 61718 or type m.nme.com into your phone browser. Happy fest-ing!

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