It’s that time of year again; the birds are chirping, the sun has his hat on and the pretty little animals are humping merrily producing cute little baby furry things. But most importantly, free from the gloom and chill of the winter months we can finally start looking forward to this years festival season. For…
We’re finally home safe, clean and recovered from our time spent wide eyed wandering around the Boomtown Fair 2015. It was another fantastic year filled with madness and music and whether you were living it up uptown enjoying the glamour and glitz of the high life, or trekking down that unforgettable hill and slumming it…
Boomtown is a unique experience and can be fairly daunting to the uniniated, so we here at Yack with our years of experience have decided to slap together a guide to help you have the most insane trip you’ll ever likely depart upon. Leave your sanity at the gates and welcome to Boomtown 2015 folks.
For us and we’re sure many of the amassed crowd gathered in the murky attic space of The Haunt, this was a show not to miss. Amplifier are an elusive and enigmatic presence on the music scene and Black Moth kicked the doors down in 2012 with the release of ‘The Killing Jar’. Not bothering…
Heading to the Seabright Arms on a chilly December evening, tucked down an ally just off Hackney Road, the anticipation was building nicely along with my expectations of the evening ahead. For the headline act of the night, Joel Peter, it was their premier visit to the big smoke, and it was a great venue…
These are the remaining journal entries of an Ace Freely – Freelance Journalist, who was in attendance at the annual Boomtown Fair 2014, the other pages are either ripped out, water soaked or too obscured by cigarette burns and other miscellaneous muck. We present them to you in the hopes that they will enlighten you in regards to the encompassing madness…
First off, it’s worth bearing in mind that not only was I a Boomtown virgin until 6th August, I was a complete festival virgin until 16th June this year. As a 21-year-old who has also been an active musician for 11 straight years, I understand this is pretty criminal and deserves being hung by my…
We’ve finally recovered from the madness, sleep deprivation, heavy boozing, rain and frivolity that was Boomtown Fair. As we pull ourselves out of the week long recuperation coma today we will be releasing our coverage, we hope you enjoy it because frankly we’d rather still be asleep. If anyone else was at Boomtown Fair please…
Out of all the festivals in the calendar, Boomtown has established itself in a relatively short time as possibly the most outrageously enjoyable. If you know someone who has been, they have no doubt frantically been screaming in an almost drunken stupour about just how bloody great it is and how you simply have to come this year.…
On the 21st of April 2014 Listener played The Joiners in Southampton, Yack was privileged enough to be amongst the crowd for that humbling experience. The Joiners is a venue steeped in musical legacy and heritage, it is one of those venues that physically seems unimportant or dilapidated, but there is an energy and community that…
