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

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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

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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