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Camp Bestival is a 3-day weekend event especially catering for families since 2008, offering great music, live acts, authors, comedy and more!

The campsite opens on the Thursday giving you plenty of time to get settled and organized before the Friday starts. This is perfect for those travelling here from far away and who just want to relax the day before. Although the main event isn’t open on the Thursday, there are food stalls; toilets and the Cosy Camper shop available to ensure you have a stress-free start to your festi-holiday.

The Site:
There is a huge amount of space to camp in so you can get as close to the entrance as you wish or further away if you like quieter evenings and this year they had the option of using a Festaxi! They will drive you and your gear to whichever part of ...

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Feel the hungarian soul of rock- Hegyalja Festival, Hungary

Festival guy goes to Hungary in the end of july, checking the middle-European festival feeling, with real rockmusic, and to taste the best white-wines ever. The city of Tokaj-Hegyalja, -one of the most famous hungarian wine-territories crossed by a river- gives home for the four days party almost from 13 years, since summer of 1999.
In the festival the lead is around the harder styles, as rock and metal bugs, but following the growing interest of trends, and the world-famous hungarian Sziget Festival, they also invite alternative, and well-known legendic non-rock artists from years...

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The Marés Vivas TMN fest was celebrating this year its 10º edition so the organization decided to have 4 days of “party” instead of the usual 3. For those of you who don’t know this Portuguese festival and are too lazy to see my other poor reviews here’s what you need to know: this summer fest happens in the north of Portugal, in the other side of the Douro River, in a city called Gaia. It’s one of the biggest and cheapest festivals in Portugal if not the Cheaper (4 day ticket costing between 50€ and 60€).This festival always hosts a great variety of musical styles: Indie rock, Punk, Goth rock, pop, garage rock, funk, soul and Portuguese music as well. They’re also known for bringing top bands from the 80’s and 90’s which ultimately joins groups of all ages.

Day 1
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Det blev av till slut efter mycket osäkerhet, Masters Of Rock Festivalen 2012. Anledningen till att det var så osäkert om det skulle bli av var pga att jag drog på mig hög feber sista dagen på Roskilde och låg sjuk några dagar efter det. Så att ta tåg som jag hade tänkt var bara att glömma. Då skule jag inte
hinna dit förrän festivalen nästan var slut. Det fick bli Ryan Air från Malmö till Wroclaw i Polen istället och sedan tåg därifrån till Tjeckien där festivalen var. Missade tyvärr hela första dagen eftersom det tog sin tid från flygplatsen i Wroclaw...

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There are loads of festivals happening in Romania right now – OST Fest, Rock the City, Peninsula, Summer Well, Artmania – but B’estfest has had the best possible evolution over the years. When it started, in 2007, it was one of the largest events of this sort – not only in Romania, but also in Eastern Europe. But during its first editions it took place in the middle of Bucharest, among the buildings and concrete of a busy, hot, industrialized city. As incredible as the line-up was, nobody really saw it as a real festival, because every night people went to their homes, or to hotel or hostel rooms, not to a nice camping ground.

Last year, thought, B’estfest became something totally different...

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Being organised quite close to the city center and populated areas in Helsinki, Tuska festival has a different curfew than any other I’ve seen. Friday and Saturday the ’noise’ has to end at ten PM and Sunday at nine, making it possible for everyone to get their rest and have the chance to go home at decent times for the next working week. Thus, Sunday only leaves room for three bands on the main stage. The first of them was a Finnish act I’ve known for a long time now and I always wished I’d see live- Apocalyptica. Everyone was telling me how cool they are live, but nobody actually managed to explain how cool they really are. There’s one drummer on stage surrounded by three guys playing cellos… Way atypical for any metal concert...

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Not the easiest of mornings in the Finnish capital, yet I managed to make it by 13:30 to the festival grounds to watch the performance of the Finnish hard/heavy rock (former death metal) band Amoral, as I was going to have an interview later on that day and it would have made my life easier if I got to ’know’ them a bit by watching them perform. I liked the show. You could see that the band had just returned from touring on other continents as they had a good energy and would always make the scene look crowded. They warmed us even more by the intensive use of pyro effects and all in all made a good impression for such a young band...

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My second year at the Finnish Tuska metal festival and it strongly reinforced the fact that I should join this festival rather often as it simply is an awesome experience. From the moment you go to pick up your wristbands until you say the final goodbye to the festival grounds, it all happens with so much politeness and friendliness that it feels out of this world. It was quite surreal that most of the guards around the area would smile at you. And even more, they would stand close to the moshpits area and help people stand up in case of small accidents. I only saw one dude being a bit forcefully carried away from the crowd, given some intense instructions and then all ended with laughter. No wonder that makes the crowd relaxed as well.

Some other positive aspects include the size of the f...

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Regnet hinner precis avta innan Graveyard kliver på scenen och inleder med Blue Soul. Det är en blandad skara som har samlats, allt från medelåders män med borttynade hårfästen till svartsminkande ungdomar med Bring me the horizon-tishor har kommit till Munken för att se Göteborgsbandet. Det som tilltalar mig är enkelheten, de behöver ingen överdådig ljusshow och ingen pyroteknik. Det är musiken som står i centrum, mer än så behövs inte.

Graveyard fyller speltiden på strax över en timme med material jämt fördelat från de två skivorna de har hunnit släppa. En uppföljare till Hisingen Blues är på gång och ett smakprov hade inte varit dumt. Annars finns det inte mycket att klaga på, efter att ha sett bandet fyra gånger verkar det som att de inte kan ha en dålig dag...

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För alla som hört Witch Mountain kan jag ju meddela att Acid King påminner mycket om bandet, kanske för att båda har kvinnliga front(män) eller för att båda lirar lika dov doom. Bra är det iaf. Jag gillar Acid King, inte bara för soundet utan även för att de har en kvinna som vokalist – det ger en annan känsla till musiken, vilket är något jag varmt välkomnar till genren. Det behövs mer moder jord och mindre tjuriga krigare i tatueringar inom stoner scenen, enligt mitt tycke.
Känner mig nästan inspirerad till att dra femme snacket över kanten, och föreslå att döpa om bandet till Acid Queen. Lori är absolut min acid queen och egentligen hela bandet på både gitarr och sång, så varför inte?

Nåväl, spelningen är tung som fan och snubblar titt som tätt över mot do...