Concert tickets

Wilderness

• Critics choice

Empire Of The Sun, King Krule, Noah And The Whale, Ghostpoet, The Bees, Rodriguez, Martha Wainwright, Tribes, Michael Kiwanuka, Matt Corby, Tom Odell., Eliza and the Bear. A

V Festival

Beyoncé, Kings of Leon, Stereophonics, The Script, Emeli Sandé, Calvin Harris, Beady Eye, Jessie J, Two Door Cinema Club, The Vaccines, Basement Jaxx, Olly Murs, Paloma

South West Four

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Carl Craig, Example, Afrojack, Loco Dice, Knife Party, Armin van Buuren, Carl Cox, Boys Noize, Baauer, Groove Armada (DJ), Paul Oakenfold, Tensnake (live), The 2 Bears,

Reading Festival

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Eminem, Deftones, Alt-J, Sub Focus, Boy Better Know. + more Even after 42 years in the game, this long-lived festival fave – which takes place in both Reading and Leeds over

Fenech-Soler

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Rug-destroying electro-dance pop foursome Fenech-Soler return with brand new material at their third London show this year. By the time November rolls around they'll have

Avenged Sevenfold

Headbangers of the UK, rejoice! A7X are back for the first time since 2011. The reason: a new album, as yet untitled, that apparently injects classic blues rock grooves into

Harry the Sixth

The Globe's ambitious 2013 touring programme includes all of Shakespeare's 'Henry VI' trilogy, here redubbed 'Harry the Sixth', 'The Houses of York and Lancaster' and 'The

Leeds Festival

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Eminem, Deftones, Alt-J, Sub Focus, Boy Better Know. + more Even after 42 years in the game, this long-lived festival fave – which takes place in both Reading and Leeds over

In The Woods

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Acts being kept secret until the festival. The small but perfectly formed In The Woods festival – organised by the perky and freewheeling leftfield London pop quintet Laurel

Disclosure

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Raised in Reigate and now based in south London, Disclosure are the scarily young Lawrence brothers, Guy and Howard. They've been making forward-thinking dance music since

James Blake

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The Deptford-based post-dubstep producer – who was nominated for a Mercury Prize in 2011 after a year of collecting plaudits – returns. Blake is finally in possession of new

Creamfields

The Prodigy, Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Groove Armada, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, Above & Beyond, Paul Van Dyk, Eric Prydz, Knife Party, Nicky Romero, Afrojack,

Bestival

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Elton John, Snoop Dogg, MIA, Flaming Lips, The Knife, Jessie Ware, Sinead O'Connor, Disclosure, Chic Featuring Nile Rodgers, Johnny Marr, Squarepusher, Rudimental, Angel

Cayucas

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Surf’s up! Cayucas are the new California boys making sunny, breezy surfer-dude pop that recalls The Shins and The Beach Boys. Their album ‘Bigfoot’ is just over half an hour

Rokia Traoré

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Effortlessly striking Malian singer and guitarist Traoré recruited PJ Harvey producer John Parish and drummer Seb Rochford for her typically extraordinary fifth album