Forwards Festival announces first wave of acts for 2025
Doechii is among the headliners for this year’s edition, which will take place over August bank holiday weekend in Bristol.
Forwards Festival 2024 through five key performances
As a long, damp summer shuffled into the rearview mirror, Bristol’s Forwards Festival offered one last hoorah.
LCD Soundsystem and Loyle Carner to headline Forwards Festival 2024
The Bristol event has shared its first wave announcement for this year, which will take place on Clifton Downs on 31 August and 1 September
Forwards Festival 2023: Highlights from an impressive second edition
Five key shows that made Forwards 2023 one to remember, featuring SCALER, Aphex Twin, Erykah Badu, Obongjayar and Confidence Man
Forwards Festival announces line-up for The Information
Forwards Festival – which returns to Clifton Downs, Bristol for its second edition on 1 and 2 September – has announced the line-up for The Information
Erykah Badu and Aphex Twin announced for Forwards Festival 2023
The Bristol event returns to Clifton Downs for its second edition this year, taking place on 1 and 2 September
Forwards Festival 2022: An impressive debut from the new Bristol event
The debut edition of Forwards Festival, staged at Bristol’s Clifton Downs, remained true to the independent spirit present in the city it calls home
All under one reality raving: the future technologies of music festivals
The field of immersive audience experience begs the question: do transactional exchanges (you-perform-I-clap) belong in festival models of the future? The way Sam Wiehl sees it, it’s a dynamic that begs revision
Weekends to last a lifetime: the worldbuilding potential of music festivals
Can the environmental impact created by attending a music festival, especially when its virtue is purely hedonistic, really be justified?
Thinking outside the box: how female urinals will pave the way to Peequality
Peequal co-founder, Amber Probyn, discusses the future of safe spaces at festivals and how urinals designed for women may be the solution