Festivals

Notting Hill Carnival is back for another year of food, parades and parties. Download our map and follow our guide to the festival's diverse Soundsystems

Time Out has teamed up with Get Loaded in the Park to bring you the biggest and best bank holiday bash

Whet your appetite for 2009's Get Loaded in the Park with the lowdown from the acts, including headliners Orbital

We're sure it's going to be a scorching summer in the heart of London - perfect festival weather! Make your way to Clapham Common for two days of eclectic adventures at South West Four and Get Loaded in the Park on Sat 29 and Sun 30 August, both in partnership with Time Out

Time Out is teaming up with London's biggest open-air dance festival once more to bring the most popular DJs on the planet to your backyard. Here's our essential South West Four guide

We'd like to suggest that festivals outside the UK might be, well, better since you get to go to a foreign country with nice food and weather, see some bands and swank about beforehand and afterwards as the epitome of modish sophistication

Get Your dancing shoes on as Orbital return to headline Get Loaded In The Park. Time Out talks to the veteran ravers as they prepare to top the bill at Clapham Common on August 30

Norman Jay is one of the biggest dance DJs in the world. His new compilation album, ‘Good Times: London’, is out now on Azuli Records and he will be DJing at Plan B on August 23 and at Notting Hill Carnival August 23-25