The best events to liftshare to this Bank Holiday Weekend
It’s not long until the final bank holiday of the summer, and we’ll all be skipping out of the office on the Friday for a glorious three-day weekend. There’s loads on across the country, so if you haven’t already, now’s the time to get planning for your final summer adventure. With drivers and passengers alike ready to share, get…
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Reading Festival fans might find their travel plans delayed, thanks to a strike planned by rail provider First Great Western.
The industrial action will take place for three days throughout the bank holiday weekend, from 12:01 am on Saturday August 29th to Monday August 31st.
Get Reading reports that Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) is holding its latest strike…
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From Geisha girls to Cosplay characters, Hyper Japan offered something for everyone at this year’s festival. Taking place in the O2, Japanophiles from all over the country gathered to celebrate the nation’s vibrant pop culture and immerse themselves in all things kawaii! The atmosphere was fantastic – all smiles, chats, and…
Festivals can be expensive thanks to all the camping gear, travel, food and other supplies needed to get through the weekend with your stuff (and sanity) intact. The problem is, you need all of that stuff to avoid the usual festival horrors of soggy socks, wellies stuck in mud and phone batteries dying on the first day.
Liftshare loves helping festival-goers enjoy a smooth…
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We’re now firmly in the UK festival season, and the next few months will bring plenty of sunshine, live music and fun times for all. As part of the new season, Liftshare is taking a closer look at The Wickerman Festival, which is one of Scotland’s largest live music events. To mark the occasion we thought we’d take a…
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As part of our ongoing festival coverage, we’ve interviewed the team behind music and food event Asparafest (30-31 May at Ashdown Farm in Worcestershire).
On the music side, Asparafest has a great line-up of acts playing music from over the world and countless genres, such as The Wurzels. Blackbeard’s Tea Party, Moulettes, Bayou Seco, Thrill Collins. Model Folk and Pistol…
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We’ve just teamed up with the UK’s best yoga-based festival Colourfest (June 5-8 at St. Giles House, Dorest), which also includes a great mix of live music, dance, story-telling and theatre events. It’s an event like no other, and we’re helping its fans get there together by sharing lifts. Not only will they save a great deal of…
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Happy Friday everyone! We’ve just teamed up with two new festivals: the action sports and music event NASS, and the weekend of beach, sun and surf that is Boardmasters.
Both festivals are now encouraging fans to car share together to save money, cut down their impact on the environment and of course, travel with…
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We’ve been speaking with some really interesting and inspiring music festivals over the last six months. It’s helped Liftshare and our community explore new events across the UK, including a wide range of musical styles, themes and offerings. Check out our look at Boomtown Fair for a great example of a truly unique festival experience.
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Liftshare has just started working with the wonderful festival Boomtown Fair, which takes place August 13-16 on the Matterly Estate in Winchester. This is one of the most different, wildly unique and intriguing festivals we’ve worked with in some time.
Allow us to explain; BoomTown “rose up from the underground” in 2009 and started a narrative that flows alongside each…
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Liftshare continues its look at the best UK festivals with a literary turn. We’re moving away from music fests at for a moment to bring you the Burns ‘an ‘a That, Festival, which is an entire weekend dedicated to Scotland’s poetic genius Robert Burns.
This 14th annual tribute will be held in Rozelle Park in Ayr (May 2-3), and…
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Liftshare recently started working with West Sussex music festival Big Church Day Out, and we thought we’d taken a closer look at why you need to check the event out, as well as its great charitable and green efforts.
The festival is running May 23-24 at Wiston House, and you can find tickets via the official…
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Liftshare continues its look at the UK festival scene with a glimpse of MugStock, a three-day crowd funded event in Mugdock Country Park, which is just north of Glasgow.
Running August 7-9, MugStock’s organisers have dubbed the inaugural event a ’boutique new festival of music, performance, food, drink and extraordinary occurrences.’ Better yet, it’s a not-for-profit event that is…
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If you’re a big festival-goer you need to check out the wonderful Cornbury Festival, which is coming to Great Tew Park in Oxfordshire this July.
Running from the 10th to the 12th, the event has pulled in a long list of headliners throughout the years, and while it’s sure to appease the die-hard festival veterans among us, there’s…
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Liftshare and global charity Oxfam’s festivals team have announced a partnership that will provide car share schemes to their volunteers throughout the 2015 festival season.
Oxfam Stewards provide a professional stewarding service at many of the UK’s largest and most popular music festivals. Stewards fulfil roles such as ticket-checking, wrist-banding, fire-towers, information points, arena and campsite patrols…
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The music festival format has been so ingrained that it can be hard to imaging a big open air event with tents, stages and camping without a dedicated musical component.
However, the wonderful Barefoot Festival jumped ahead of the curve with an alternative extravaganza focused on dancing, theatrics and naturally – a lot of fire. It takes…
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Following on from Liftshare’s coverage of Solid Entertainments’ blues festivals in Norwich, Doncaster, St. Ives, Yeovil and Lincoln, the organisers have just announced another all-day festival to their stellar 2015 line-up.
The Southampton Blues, Rhythm and Rock Festival will take place at the Engine Rooms on Saturday, June 27, and the line-up is already tantalising for fans of…
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Liftshare holds green matters close to its heart, so when we started looking at festivals to cover and interview on our blog, we simply couldn’t overlook Oxfordshire’s Wood Festival – running 15-17th May at Braziers Park.
So eco-conscious is this festival in fact, that editor of Festival Mag Kes name-dropped it in his interview with…
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Liftshare has been looking at a lot of festivals that bring something different to the table recently, and we thought we’d keep the ball rolling with a look at the celebration of Americana that is Maverick Festival.
The festival was founded by Paul Spencer who, after living in America for many years, grew fond…
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Liftshare ran a piece last week on the wonderful Wychwood Festival at Cheltenham racecourse in Gloucestershire, and we thought we’d get in touch with organisers to get the inside story of its decade-long history.
This year’s event takes place 28-31 May, and promises a great list of headliners and acts including UB40, Ladysmith Black…
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Our look at the UK festival scene continues with the wonderful Tenterden Folk Festival, a celebrated event in the heart of Kent. Managed by folk enthusiast and long-time event organiser Alan Castle, the festival enters its 23rd year in 2015 – proof that both the local and broader folk community have strongly supported it year in, year out.
Taking place October…
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Next stop on Liftshare’s festival interview slate is the award-winning Willowman Festival – a huge four-day event in North Yorkshire that was conceptualised by just one man, the great Steve Williams – although that’s not to dimish the effort all of the organisers and staff put in each year. Festivals are hard work, after all!
This year’s…
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Happy Monday Liftsharers and welcome to our final UK events line-up of 2014.
By now you surely have all of your Christmas shopping and gift-buying done – we might be getting a bit optimistic here – and you’re ready to kick back and have some fun, so here’s a list of neat events on this week and links to people…
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Happy Monday Liftsharers and welcome to the last week of November, where the Christmas markets have started popping up and everyone’s dashing around like mad to get their gift shopping done.
It’s not all stress and fighting through crazed shoppers hungry for Frozen merchandise, as there’s still a schedule of ace events happening up and down the country. At
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Good Monday to you Liftshare friends!
We hope you had a great weekend, and although most of you will be going back to work with heavy hearts this morning we’ve got a big week of events across the UK to look forward to.
So once again, we’ve had a look at some of the biggest events happening each day this week,…
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Happy Monday Liftsharers!
It’s the start of a new week and we’re sure that wherever you are in the UK, you’re already starting to notice the nights drawing in earlier and the weather taking a turn for the worse. Despite the naff weather, we hope all you lift-sharing lovelies out there are staying warm during your commute and keeping each…
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Happy Monday Liftsharers!
Well it’s official – the weather is getting colder out there and the rain is coming in thick and fast. But fear not, because there’s a bumper week of big events up and down the UK for you to look forward to in this week’s guide.
We also thought we’d give you a heads up on the fourth…
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