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11 Brilliant Hacks You Can Use To Get A Free Festival Ticket

February 19, 2016

For all our lovely freeloaders out there, this one is for you. Festivals are enormously fun, with a slew of art and entertainment in one place. But of course, you require a ticket to access all this awesomeness...

10 Phenomenal Apps That Will Make Your Festival Experience Much Smoother

Anupama Khedkar

February 17, 2016

FS Features, Music

Check out these rad festival apps that will definitely elevate your next festival experience. With the festival industry developing so rapidly, it's no surprise that the world of technology is catching up to...

How Music Festivals Are A Big ‘Fuck You’ To Social Inequality

Meher Manda

February 17, 2016

FS Features, Music

In times troubled with growing differences, music festivals aren't just a cultural force of nature, but they're fostering a social movement. Who would've predicted that in an era fueled with the internet and...

The Broke Student’s Guide To Saving Money For A Music Festival

Anupama Khedkar

February 16, 2016

FS Features, Music

Want to go for a music festival but lack the funds? Take a look at these handy tips that will help you save some cash for your next festival adventure. The Sherp has mused about this before, music festivals a...

8 Music Festivals Perfect To Discover New, Independent Music

Meher Manda

February 15, 2016

FS Features, Music

The music fan with a keen eye for new music will love the fresh, underground artists that are a part of these music festivals. Most times, music festivals in a year often boast of similar looking lineups. Lo...

5 Musicians Who Got Really Pissed Off On A Music Festival Stage

Meher Manda

February 15, 2016

FS Features, Music

At a music festival, emotions are rife with drama. And in some cases, musicians have retaliated by being really pissed off. Where there's music, there's bound to be some emotion. At a music festival though, ...

Throwback : Watch Oasis Behave Like Rockstars At Glastonbury 1994

Mohit Thakkar

February 12, 2016

FS News, International, Music

A video has surfaced online showing true "rockstar" behaviour from Oasis, a band that was almost completely unknown at the time. The video is a recording of Oasis' Glastonbury performance, a month before they ...

If Chinese Man Isn’t Your Favourite Electronic Collective Yet, It Will Be Now

Meher Manda

February 10, 2016

FS Features, Music

This weekend, The Lost Party and Gently Altered have brought down French trip-hop group Chinese Man to Mumbai, and here's why we deem the performance absolutely unmissable. The second edition of the eclectic...

10 Reasons Why You Should Volunteer For A Music Festival

Meher Manda

February 7, 2016

FS Features, Music

The Sherp looks at how rewarding an experience it is to volunteer for a music festival, and why every music lover should do it once in their lifetime. If there is one thing common to both, the largest, most...

8 Great Music Festivals That Are Disability Friendly

Anupama Khedkar

February 2, 2016

FS Features, Music

Every day, new music festivals emerge, bringing people together to celebrate something they all love. Branded and sold to us as all-inclusive, for the most part, these music festivals are. However, not every mu...

How Mismanagement Shut Down An Entire Music Festival

Meher Manda

February 1, 2016

FS Features, Music

The Sherp looks back at how the mismanagement at the festival of Love Parade in 2010, caused the deaths of about 21 people and injured over 500 attendees. A lot can go wrong at a music festival. Bad sound, e...

10 Indians Who Should Make It On Your Next Music Festival Totem

Meher Manda

February 1, 2016

FS Features, Music

The next time you're up for some smart visually-arresting totems at a music festival, these ten indian personalities would be a good fit, for different reasons. Totems are characteristic music festival acces...

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