Patrick Smith
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- Aug 19, 2026
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Ãya is a joyous festival with enough heart to bring even Robert Smith to tears (opens the original)
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The Independent Music channel is brought to you by Nordic Spirit. In recent years, Osloâs Ãya Festival has faced opprobrium. Since 2024, its parent company Superstruct Entertainment has been receiving investment from private equity firm KKR, which also holds some unrelated investments in Israeli companies. In a country that prides itself on humanitarianism â in which corruption and scandal are vanishingly rare â this was a fairly sustained controversy that peaked last summer, with calls t
Mad Cool festival revellers worship our rock saviours Nick Cave and Wolf Alice (opens the original)
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If Mad Coolâs name could be distilled to a single gesture, it would be the shaka: that thumb-and-pinkie surfer salute, deployed here without a hint of irony. But move past that and youâll be rewarded with a lineup this year that is second to none. The festival opens with Wolf Alice, prize-laden leading lights of a generation whose decade-long mastery of genre-fluid rock is unimpeachable. Fusing pristine melodies to snarling guitar work, the London quartet never disappoint. Here, âWhite Hor
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