Festival Review: Connecting The Dots At Nottingham's Dot To Dot 2019

Dot To Dot Festival (26 May 2019 @ various venues across Nottingham) // Words: Saam Das

"So nice to see so many people, so early", notes BLOXX's frontwoman Ophelia Booth as the band open the Rock City main stage proceedings at the Nottingham edition of the three-city-pronged Dot To Dot, taking place over the late May Bank Holiday weekend. BLOXX's early appearance is a surprise to some, as this is a last minute schedule change. But it's a welcome surprise as the quartet blast through their spiky guitar pop, including recent single 'Headspace', which inspires sustained pogo-ing both onstage and from the audience.

Playlist: Listen To Our Top Tracks From May 2016

Words: Saam Das

We rather incredibly have over 3 million plays on our Soundcloud page and a not insignificant number of followers on that platform, so we've launched a new monthly Soundcloud playlist capturing our favourite tracks each month. Listen to May's effort below, along with a little bit on each track:

Listen: Alice Jemima - No Diggity (Blackstreet Cover)

Words: Saam Das

If you read the work of our blog pals Breaking More Waves, Flying With Anna, and/or Just Music I Like, you'll almost certainly have encountered 19 year old Devon singer-songwriter Alice Jemima before. (And if you don't read any of those blogs then you really should.) Here, she delivers an excellent cover of the Blackstreet RnB classic 'No Diggity'.