Isle of Wight festival

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Perfect pitch: the 2024 UK music festivals you can still book now
We may not be able to guarantee the sunshine, but British summer time always means great live music. Grab your spangly cowboy hat – these are the best fests to visit this year

Huw Baines, Michael Cragg, Ammar Kalia, Kate Solomon & Jenessa Williams

09, Mar, 2024 @11:55 AM

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‘All I wore was my camera strap’: David Hurn’s best photograph
‘This was the Isle of Wight music festival in 1969. We had started to smell and had gone down to the sea to get clean. To do that, you have to take your clothes off. It seemed perfectly natural’

Interview by Chris Broughton

11, Oct, 2023 @1:25 PM

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TV tonight: what happens when we radically simplify our lives?
Find out the answer to that question in The Simpler Life with Prof Barry Schwartz. Plus: celebrities get baking for charity. Here’s what to watch this evening

Hollie Richardson, Henry Wong and Alexi Duggins

22, Mar, 2022 @6:00 AM

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The big picture: sun’s out, bums out! Isle of Wight festival,1969
David Hurn’s photograph captures the last hurrah of a decade of freedom

Tim Adams

20, Jun, 2021 @6:00 AM

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Isle of Wight festival moves to September as Download and Primavera cancel
Events originally scheduled for June are postponed and cancelled, as sector continues to press UK government for insurance scheme

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

02, Mar, 2021 @2:21 PM

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Hippy dream or total nightmare? The untold story of Isle of Wight 1970
50 years ago this week, the Hendrix-headlined festival rocked a reported 600,000, but the fallout affected how music events would be run forever. Now a more positive story is emerging

Patrick Glen

25, Aug, 2020 @11:09 AM

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Joni Mitchell, Isle of Wight 1970: the day the music nearly died
A bad vibe and worse acid hung around the 600,000-strong festival, with Mitchell getting heckled – but she used a stretch of perfect songs to create a moment of harmony

Laura Barton

07, Jul, 2020 @10:00 AM

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Download and Isle of Wight festivals cancelled due to coronavirus
Metal and pop events called off, joining Glastonbury, the Great Escape and more on the cancellation list

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

26, Mar, 2020 @1:42 PM

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Isle of Wight festival bans Jess Glynne for life after last-minute cancellation
Singer says she pulled her performance because she felt ‘incredibly weak and full of anxiety’

Laura Snapes

18, Jun, 2019 @2:14 PM

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Writers on their worst festival moments
From stolen contact lenses to Friendly Fires-related injuries, it’s not always a camp classic

Eva Wiseman, Leonie Cooper, Issy Sampson and Hannah Verdier

04, May, 2019 @9:00 AM

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Lana Del Rey, George Ezra and Snow Patrol to headline Latitude
Ezra will also top the bill at Isle of Wight festival alongside Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Biffy Clyro

Laura Snapes

24, Jan, 2019 @11:54 AM

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Greg Lake obituary
Key figure in 1970s prog rock as bass guitarist for Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Adam Sweeting

08, Dec, 2016 @6:50 PM

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