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With this year’s festival playing host to The 1975, Mumford and Sons, Fleet Foxes, Public Service Broadcasting and Goldfrapp, Latitude Festival looks to be the biggest Henham Park has ever seen.
And of course, you want to get there, get settled and jump straight in: so why wait in car park queues and walk from one end of the site…
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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…
Car sharing is all about friendly people helping others by sharing what they have, so when we heard that a new music festival had been crowd-funded through the generosity and goodwill of others, we simply had to get in touch with them to find out more.
Meet MugStock, the new boutique festival that takes place in MugDock country…
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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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Glastonbury is arguably the UK’s biggest music festival, and it’s all taking place 24-28 June at Worthy Farm in Pilton. Many Liftshare staff have been going to the festival for years, so it’s hands-down the office favourite. In fact, Liftshare members have registered over 1,000 journeys to Glastonbury every year since 2008, so it’s a community favourite too.
Because we have so…
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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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June is almost upon us, which means the next round of Blues, Rhythm & Rock Festivals are incoming from the wonderful team at Solid Entertainments. We’ve covered a few of their great line-ups here on the Liftshare blog, and the next events in Durham and Cleethorpes (20th and 21st of June respectively) are sure to give genre…
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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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On Monday we took a quick look at BoomTown Fair (August 13-16 on the Matterly Estate in Winchester), which is arguably one of the UK’s most unique music festivals. Formed in 2009, the first year kicked off the opening ‘chapter’ of a long narrative focussed on the fictional village of BoomTown and its weird and wonderful inhabitants like Nicholas Boom himself.
Each…
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(Hint: It’s not the bus picture above)
One of the UK’s hottest bands right now is arguably Catfish & the Bottlemen, If you haven’t heard of them before, chances are they’ll be inescapable in months to come. Check out their album ‘The Balcony’ if you want to give them a try.
The Liftshare team are keen festival-goers and much of…
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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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You might have seen a particularly inspired video explode on YouTube recently, in which Australian comedy group SketchShe lip-sync along to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody in their car. It’s more proof that travelling together is fun.
Here’s the video – dubbed “Bohemian Carsody” if you haven’t seen it yet:
Anyone who has ever crooned along with friends…
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Late Late Show host James Corden has recorded another car share clip for his US show, following his brilliant clip with passenger Mariah Carey.
The pair set off in Corden’s car singing along to Hudson’s tunes, before stopping at a fast food drive-thru and singing their order to the server, then visiting her star on the Hollywood Walk…
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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Starting a band and getting signed is a colossal amount of work these days. It was never easy to begin with, of course, but more than ever before today’s new musicians need to be entrepreneurs, promoters and highly talented artists all at once.
Anyone who has started a band and started gigging will tell you that – at times -…
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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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Between 28-31 August the Shrewsbury Folk Festival will bring a world of musical diversity and fun to the West Midlands Showground.
The organisers recently started recommending Liftshare as a cheaper, social and greener way to travel together, so we decided to take a closer look at the event and what you can expect…
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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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As part of Liftshare’s continuous festival coverage, we decided to look at an event in England that has roots as far back as the early ’70s. It all starts back in 1974 at the Lamb Inn pub in Trowbridge.
This was the venue of a popular folk music club called Village Pump. The event grew in popularity and…
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Wychwood Festival 2015 kicks off at Cheltenham Racecourse on May 29-31, and it’s going to be a megaton year! The festival is now recommending Liftshare as a replacement travel option as a way of helping revellers save money on petrol, get a lift if they haven’t got a car, and to reduce carbon…
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We’ve just got word that Sheffield’s brilliant Tramlines festival has added rap legends the Wu-Tang Clan, indie rockers The Charlatans and dance troupe Basement Jaxx as headliners. It’s all going down July 24-26.
They’re followed by Mike Skinner, Jimmy Edgar and RnB duo Ekkah, along with another appearance by mathcore outfit Rolo Tomassi.
Tramlines festival director Sarah Nulty said of…
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Liftshare is always keen to see festivals reduce the amount of waste they produce each year, which is why we encourage revellers to share cars together as a way of cutting down on emissions.
But what about the material waste left behind after a big open-air festival? We recently spoke with Kes, editor at the Festival…
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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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When many people think about music festivals there’s every chance they see sunny fields, massive stages beneath blue skies, and acres of countryside being battered by thousands of wellied feet. Is it possible to hold such a grand festival in an inner city setting? Absolutely.
Enter Tramlines: a booming city festival that takes place across Sheffield every…
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Willowman Festival 2015 has started recommending Liftshare to its fans as an alternative mode of transport, so we thought we’d post an introduction to this wonderful four-day event in the heart of North Yorkshire.
This year’s festival takes place 18th-21st June at Hillside Rural Activities Park in…
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Happy Friday Liftsharers and welcome to a special edition of our weekly Spotify playlist. We recently introduced the Norwich and Doncaster Blues, Rhythm and Rock Festivals, which are taking place February 28 and March 1 respectively.
Both festivals boast a stunning line up of hazy guitar licks, silky smooth vocals and toe-tapping…
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Happy Friday Liftsharers and welcome to a new edition of our ultimate driving playlist.
We’ve updated our playlist on Spotify with some brand-new breaking acts and some tried and tested road classics to fuel your weekend.
This week our track-list has been updated with new music in the form of ‘Hold Back the River’ by James…
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Hello Liftsharers and welcome to another Friday full of song and cheer. It’s almost the weekend, and for many of us that means either kicking back for a chilled one or cutting loose with friends.
Either way, we’ve compiled another great driving playlist to fuel your weekend, complete with the cream of new chart hits, alogn with some tried classics.
This…
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Happy Friday everyone, we at Liftshare hope you’ve got a mega weekend of fun planned, and if you are planning on driving anywhere, we sure to whack on our latest driving playlist.
Every week, we’ll be creating a killer playlist of the best new songs, breaking artists and road classics to take with you wherever you go. You…
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Happy Friday Liftsharers! We’ve got yet another new blog feature for you, in the form of our driving playlist.
Each Friday we will post a new Spotify playlist of the hottest new tracks, breaking artists and true road classics to kick off your weekend. We will also create playlists for each of the major festivals coming up in 2015, such…
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