hree bands, three wildly different journeys: The Twilight Sad’s bruised poetry, Lakum’s folk magic (with a hurdy-gurdy and electric bagpipes, no less), and Mogwai’s earth-shaking wall of sound. South Facing was anything but ordinary.

Simon finds that All Points East Festival exceeded his expectations. He reviews Jockstrap, the Pixies and LCD Soundsystem

Neverworld is a small festival, just 5000 maximum capacity, and one of our favourites. It started as Lee Denny’s idea to hold a mini...