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Athlete and Nitin Sawhney added to Hop Farm line up

Music Gossip

16 May 2012

Athlete and Nitin Sawhney have been added to the bill for the Hop Farm music festival. The artists have joined the line-up alongside headliners Bob Dylan, Suede and Peter Gabriel at the three day festival held in Kent from June 29 to July…

Richard Ashcroft to play Hop Farm Festival

Music Gossip

17 Apr 2012

Richard Ashcroft will play his only UK show at Hop Farm Festival in Kent. The 'Break the Night with Colour' hitmaker - formerly lead singer of The Verve - is among a large number of acts to be confirmed for the three-day event, with Kool and the…

Bruce Forsyth to play Hop Farm

TV Gossip

13 Apr 2012

Sir Bruce Forsyth will perform at this year's Hop Farm Music Festival. The 'Strictly Come Dancing' host is set to play his first festival at the annual event in Kent over the weekend of June 29 - July 1. The 84-year-old music and TV legend will be…

Bob Dylan to return to Hop Farm music festival

Peter Gabriel, Suede, Damien Rice and Primal Scream also announced

27 Mar 2012

This year's Hop Farm festival has again attracted huge acts to the fifth annual no branding, no sponsorship festival running from June 29th to July 1st.

Peter Gabriel thinks talent is 'overrated'

Music Gossip

4 Oct 2011

Peter Gabriel believes talent is "overrated". The former Genesis frontman does not think it is important for a person to be talented in order to be a success, and believes England to be a "natural breeding-ground" for negative energy and…

Afro Celt Sound System - Capture 1995-2010

15 Sep 2010

(Real World Records) Cherry picked from the collective’s five acclaimed studio albums, these twenty-five songs divide into instrumentals (on a disc titled Chorus) and songs (Verse). Emerging from cross-cultural collaborations at WOMAD involving…

Totó la Momposina - La Bodega

29 Oct 2009

(Astar Arts) La Momposina is swinging towards her 70s in style, creating some of the most irresistible dance music to come out of Colombia in years. For La Bodega she uses the port warehouse as metaphor for the constant mixing of Colombian with…

Storm Thorgerson

30 Apr 2009

Born in 1944, Storm Thorgerson’s childhood would not have been thought unusual were it not that he went to school with Roger Waters and Syd Barrett. ‘Roger and I had two connections, one of which was through our mothers, who happened to be pals, and…