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on with the festivities...

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Hello.

It's festival time! Not that long ago, I went off to the Wychwood festival to write about the acts on offer there. Soon it'll be time to go to Latitude.

In honour of the season, why not take a look at some of the reviews I've done recently of some of this year's festival acts. There's plenty to go round: Tom Williams and the Boat, Lupen Crook, The Dirty Projectors, Everything Everything and Jonathan Jeremiah will be at Latitude.

Meanwhile, Gil Scott-Heron, Ellie Goulding, Swimming and Holy Fuck are doing the rounds elsewhere.

There's plenty of other stuff to look at here too: the excellent folk-ish singer-songwriter Joe Summers gets a good write up, as do the excellent Sam Holmes, Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun and Los Salvadores.

Right, I'm off to pack some tent pegs...

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