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Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 2019 (Richard Bowes for Live4ever) During the course of 2019, Live4ever’s News Round-Up has each week been bringing seven days of top news stories to our readers – in the second part of our year retrospective, we look back at some of the biggest headlines in…

Vampire Weekend playing the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester (Gary Mather for LIve4ever) During the course of 2019, Live4ever’s News Round-Up has each week been bringing seven days of top news stories to our readers – here we look back at some of the biggest headlines we featured between January…

Photo: Paul Bachmann Logistics, finances, locations. Hurdles which, often by eventually being completely ignored, played a big part in the legend of the earliest major festivals of which Woodstock perhaps stands unsurpassed. For a 50th anniversary event being planned by the original co-founder Michael Lang however, they finally proved to…

Photo: Paul Bachmann Organisers of the increasingly beleaguered looking Woodstock 50 have said they will look to secure a new location for the event after owners of the Watkins Glen International racetrack said they had ‘terminated the site license’ due to ‘provisions of the contract’. Related news:…

Photo: Paul Bachmann The Black Keys didn’t spend much time on the line-up for Woodstock 50. Related news:…

Photo: Paul Bachmann It was back in January when Michael Lang, co-founder of Woodstock, announced he would be staging his own tribute concert on its 50th anniversary to rival one planned to take place at the 15,000-seat venue which currently resides on the site of the original event, claiming…

Photo: Paul Bachmann Michael Lang, co-founder of Woodstock, has announced that he will stage his own tribute concert on the 50th anniversary of the legendary festival. Related news:…

The organiser of Woodstock is hoping to bring the festival back for its 50th anniversary which will fall in 2019. Related news:…

Simian Mobile Disco Here’s our highlights in the world of UK music this week: Albums Simian Mobile Disco, who have recently been working with the Arctic Monkeys on their album ‘Humbug‘, release their own record ‘Temporary Pleasure’. For those of you with 50 quid burning a hole in your pocket,…

Woodstock The ‘Woodstock Music & Art Fair’ was opened in Bethel, New York by American folk singer Richie Havens. Woodstock was originally the brainchild of four men: Michael Lang, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, and Artie Kornfeld. They first came together after Roberts and Rosenman placed an ad in the New…