Fri 29 Aug – LodeStar Festival 2014

Amazing as always! Would definitely reccomend LodeStar for discovering some brilliant new music! Great family friendly atmosphere too.

Fri 30 Aug – LodeStar Festival 2013

Review by Neal Robbins for Local Secrets

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Doug Durrant threw caution to the wind five years ago. With no more than a vision and determination, he set out to create a music festival on his family farm in Lode, 10 minutes outside of Cambridge. Now in 2013, at the successful conclusion of the fifth LodeStar Festival, the time has come to think about how people make dreams come true, and the parallels with another dreamer named Ken Wollard, who 50 years ago drove the creation of the Cambridge Folk Festival.

Ken, a…

Fri 31 Aug – Lodestar Festival 2012

Fun by the Lode - originally published by Local Secrets

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To those who didn’t attend this weekend’s Lodestar Festival, you missed a wonderful weekend. Only a few spots of rain fell on an outdoor field crammed full of distractions including music, circus, theatre, and comedy.

By late afternoon on the Friday, I’d managed to meet with some acquaintances, and joined them in a small community of about a dozen tents. We’d managed to secure good real estate, conveniently close to the amenities and entertainment. The camping grounds were in good condition, and…

Wed 12 Oct – The Travelling Band, bearmangun

By Luke Hawkins
Publication date: 14/10/2011

Via Local Secrets (Cambridge)

Travelling BandFor the third consecutive week, I found myself going to a gig at The Portland Arms. I've mentioned before the unusual nature of my relationship with this pub. Despite countless highly enjoyable nights spent at The Portland, there’s always the danger that our familiarity will breed contempt. Perhaps David Attenborough has a similar relationship with The Amazon Rainforest, but he soldiers on, and gets the job done without complaint. I prepared myself to watch bands, new to my eye but garnished…

LodeStar has linked up with the great people at LPM Bohemia to offer non-campers that hold a pioneering spirit to stay over in affordable luxury!
With in minutes you can be nodding off after the last entertainment for the night rather than leaving to return a few hours later.

Prices from £49 per person for a Bell Tent and £92 per person for a Yurt. Number of people sharing and choice of interior will alter pricing but fantastic if you wish to leave everything at home including your daily cares!

The pictures speak for themselves and compliment the Shangri-La beauty…

Fri 3 Sep – Lodestar Festival 2010

What a fantastic Festival! Great location and atmosphere with some amazing bands!

Managed to get a few vids..

Lover, Killer - The Foxes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crazoRsGDts

Trauma Town - The Foxes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-DCrNradRY

Secrets - Amoriste
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8tUROs5oQA

Echoes - Team Ghost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Hrte4GLxE

Artificial Clouds - Tigers That Talked (not great audio..you have been warned!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4l5cA1WIDA

Known Story One / 5 Cent Theatre songs in Alphabetical order (and where they appear)

A

Air Raid (Disposable)
AM 180 (The Shadow Line)
Anne -Marie (Live)

B

Beggars Belief (Disposable)

C

Clementine (Disposable)
Coming Up (Disposable)
Count To 3 (Disposable)
Curtain Call (5 Cent Theatre Myspace)

D

Delhi Funeral (Disposable)
Disposable (Disposable)
Done And Dusted (The Shadow Line)
Dont Give Up The Ghost (Story One Myspace)

E

F

Fatherland (Disposable)
Follow Up For Strangers (Disposable)

G

H

Harvest Sun (Story One Myspace)

I

Intro memento (on Les Inrockuptibles compilation CQFD 2004)

J

K

L

Lanes (Disposable)

O

Out Of…

Bands/Artists playing The Strawberry Fair, 2009
July 6th, Midsummer Common, Cambridge

Strawberry Fair is one of Europe's largest free festivals and is held annually on Midsummer Common, Cambridge, on the first Saturday in June. The fair is run by a voluntary committee of local people and accepts no commercial sponsorship.

This list of bands and artists is based on information on Myspace gig calendars and is in no way comprehensive. Please buy a programme on the day!

The Mono Effect - www.myspace.com/themonoeffect
The Winter Kings - www.myspace.com/thewinterkings
Opaque - www.myspace.com/bandopaque
Keltrix - www.myspace.com/keltrix
Brooke Sharkey - www.myspace.com/brookesharkiii
Ed Hope &…

Thought I'd compile a list of the various Last FM Mashups, widgets and applications that can be found on the net. Some of these are useful, some useless, and others just fun!

The official Last FM site can be found here…

http://build.last.fm/

All others here…

http://www.programmableweb.com/api/last.fm/mashups

Personal http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/badges/lastfm_black_small.gif Stats

This Journal Lists the personal listening statistics for me (thefentiger) on Last FM.

Statistics calculated using http://lastfm.heathaze.org/.

Updated: 8th March 2009

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