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BBC News
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Bristol's Love Saves the Day: Everything you need to know
One of the biggest music festivals in Bristol is fast approaching, so we've put together a helpful guide for ticket holders. Love Saves the Day will kick off the city's busy summer season at Ashton Court on 24 to 25 May, welcoming more than 30,000 festival-goers per day to the estate on the edge of the city. Across eight stages, the diverse line-up will host household names including Groove Armada, Shy FX and Wilkinson, alongside plenty of up-and-coming local director Tom Paine said the bank holiday event was "shaping up to be pretty spectacular". What's the line-up? The annual festival aims to reflect the evolving UK music scene, featuring both established artists and emerging year's headline acts include Overmono on Saturday, followed by Nia Archives on with full weekend tickets can also expect to see Andy C, Ghetts, Sully, and Girls Don't Sync dominate the stage, among many more. When do the gates open? Gates will open at midday each day and last entry to the event will be at 20:00 is no general re-entry to the festival, except in the case of medical requirement. Love Saves The Day is an 18+ event so valid ID will need to be provided upon entry and at the bars. Can I still get tickets? Yes, it's not too and weekend tickets are still available for purchase on the event's you missed out on the final release, additional tickets are also up for grabs through official resale partner Tixel, with prices ranging from £71-£136. How do I get there? The Love Bus will run from 11:00 BST till 19:00 shuttle service, which will pick people up at Temple Meads station and Queen Square, will drop attendees off at the Long Ashton Park and Ride, approximately 1km (0.6miles) from the festival gate. People should then follow signposts and stewards to reach the entrance. Alternatively, pedestrian access is available via Kennel Lodge you fancy riding an electric scooter or bike to the event, organisers have advised to be aware there are geofenced road closures and speed restrictions in roads around the festival site will be closed from 21:00 BST. What's the weather looking like? Bristol has enjoyed sunny, dry weather for several days now, but the city will see spells of rain and low cloud as we head into the bank holiday weekend. Temperatures will range between 11C and 18C. The forecast looks humid but it will feel fairly cool in the strong winds, which could reach up to 30mph on Sunday. While there will be some sheltered areas at the festival, it is predominantly an open-air event and most stages and viewing platforms will be uncovered, so it would be wise to pack layers, a waterproof and consider wellies. What else do I need to know? There will be dedicated teams on site to ensure the emotional wellbeing and safety of the public. Safer Spaces Now aims to confront and prevent sexual violence, harassment and domestic abuse at festivals and events. Their support tents will be open as a refuge to anyone looking to report an incident or escape for a moment, organisers have is also a list of prohibited items to ensure the safety and security of everyone on items include - but are not limited to - fireworks, chairs, disposable vapes, drones, selfie sticks, hi-vis vests and confiscated items will not be returned, ticket holders have been warned.
The Independent
08-02-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Book of a lifetime: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Tom Paine reminds you that some arguments matter, it is important to win them, and that the written word may help. He answered Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) with his Rights of Man (1791). Mary Wollstonecraft pitched in too. What times those were! Paine believed that good government – representative democracy – was a matter of common sense – and that monarchy, aristocracy, or any system based on precedent and heredity, was an odious nonsense. He writes accordingly: a lucid, forthright language, the language of common sense. Paine can teach us how to write to win the arguments that matter. Paine writes about Britain from the perspectives of America and France; the first after, the second in the midst of, its revolution. He estranges the familiar. In light of the achievements in America and the progress in France, Britain shows up badly. Those revolutions are history. But if we read Paine and understand what he makes of them, we have a measure of where we are now, how well or badly we are governed. He can help us assess the health of our civic life, our res publica. Is it fit to be looked at from any angle? Answer: No. Paine is a writer who obeys William Blake's injunction to 'Labour well the Minute Particulars'. For example, he advances the idea of a welfare state (he believed in 'reciprocal aid') and a system of progressive taxation to fund it. He has the idea – and, minutely, he costs it. He describes in detail the taking of the Bastille – and comments: 'The downfall of it included the idea of the downfall of despotism, and this compounded image was become as figuratively united as Bunyan's Doubting Castle and Giant Despair.' So in minute particulars he sees incarnated a figurative sense. Because Paine reveals the figurative in the details of real events, his insights are applicable again and again, beyond those particulars. His writing is transferable to other circumstances, including our own. Here he is on certain politicians 'who went no farther with any principle than as it suited their purpose as a party'. And here on rioting: 'It shows that something is wrong in the system of government, that injures the felicity by which society is to be preserved.' This fits us too: 'Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honour. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labour and poverty.' Rights of Man is the citizen's book of a lifetime now, as it was back then.
