That was the best ever Endorse it in Dorset Festival. Easy. The comedown now is beginning to ease and real life seems okay again. My main focus for the weekend was with Oxjam at the Wig-On Casino Stage on Sunday, so I make no excuses for a slight bias in that direction, but from the ...

I was going to start writing words about this year’s Endorse it in Dorset Festival yesterday, but a mixture of fatigue and a very real comedown delayed it by twenty-four hours. It takes it out of you does Endorse it, in a lovely, messy, sleep deprivation kind of way. Somehow I managed an eight hour ...

Over the next six weeks we’ll be mentioning the Boscombe Community Fair more than once. If the weather is kind this year’s event looks like being something very special, featuring (with very few exceptions) the cream of our local talent as well as some carefully selected festival favourites. Most importantly, this is a community based ...

Last weekend the Larmer Tree Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary. In 1990 it was just a one day affair in front of 200 people, headlined by the late Dick Heckstall-Smith, this year the number of artists and performers was in well in excess of that or original audience, with around 4000 punters flocking to the ...

Okay so the sunshine helped, but last year’s Endorse it in Dorset Festival was a simply glorious weekend. Having suffered the previous year from persistent precipitation, it was as if everyone was simply making the most of it all. Obviously it’s far more than the sunshine that makes Endorse it what it is; quality bands, ...