Bluedot Festival

20/12/2023

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17/10/2023

Voting is open until this weekend! https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/57CZDT5

We’re thrilled to be nominated as Best Medium and Best Family festivals at the UK Festival Awards. Let’s celebrate the amazing bluedot team! 💙

03/10/2023

bluedot will be taking a fallow year for 2024.

Read the full transmission – discoverthebluedot.com

22/09/2023

EPIC… Friday night in a brand new Orbit arena with Leftfield ✨

19/09/2023

Wishing a very happy 60th birthday to our beloved Jarv Is 💙

Thinking back to an epic afternoon at bluedot 2019…

17/09/2023

The incredible history of Jodrell Bank and Bernard Lovell revealed...

Watch Tim O'Brien's full talk from bluedot 2023 on YouTube now!

https://youtu.be/yjuOVYBPcDU?si=LX6eCi0ZRO6xufnD

16/09/2023

Saturdays = Pavement 💙

15/09/2023

Elizabeth Alker and BBC Radio 3 presents Max Richter’s Voices live from bluedot, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and special guest narrator Tilda Swinton.

Listen Again for the next 30 days on BBC Sounds –

Max Richter’s Voices at Bluedot Festival, with Tilda Swinton in the role of narrator.

13/09/2023

We're excited to share that bluedot 2023's Opening Concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 this week.

Tune in this Thursday for Unclassified Live with Elizabeth Alker, to hear Max Richter’s VOICES recorded live from bluedot 2023 featuring violinist Mari Samuelsen and BBC Concert Orchestra, plus very special guest Tilda Swinton.

Enjoy this extraordinary concert experience and relive an awe-inspiring night beneath the Lovell Telescope, this Thursday from 11.30pm on BBC Radio 3, and shortly after broadcast on BBC Sounds.

08/09/2023

Thinking back to an epic Friday night in God’s Waiting Room with one of our all-timers, legendary crate-digger and Orbit headliner David Holmes…

06/09/2023

Let’s Dance… 🪩 ✨

What was your Deep Space Disco highlight of bluedot 23?

03/09/2023

Sunday at bluedot 23 saw us again join forces with our friends at Creative Manchester, for a session with the foremost writers, educators and broadcasters. With a double-header of talks hosting Jeffrey Boakye, Ellah Wakatama, David Olusoga and Gary Younge, Creative Manchester brought insightful and eye-opening discussion on empire, race, gender and identity to a capacity Mission Control!

01/09/2023

The centrepiece of Jodrell Bank, the Lovell Telescope is transformed during bluedot into a miraculous, living art installation. Curated by artists including Max Cooper, Greenaway & Greenaway and our main stage headliners Grace Jones, Max Richter, Pavement and Roisin Murphy, this 76-metre icon comes to life over the bluedot weekend…

31/08/2023

Today we celebrate the birthday of Bernard Lovell, the genius creator of our home of Jodrell Bank and the inspiration behind bluedot’s Lovell Stage…

28/08/2023

Told through sublime, kaleidoscopic, never-before-seen footage, performances and music, Brett Morgen’s feature length experiential cinematic odyssey Moonage Daydream explores David Bowie’s creative, musical and spiritual journey. BBC 6 Music’s Chris Hawkins welcomed Brett to bluedot for a special In Conversation about the making of this extraordinary film.

You can now watch the full In Conversation with Brett Morgen and BBC Radio 6 Music’s Chris Hawkins on bluedot’s YouTube channel…

https://youtu.be/tihvAUFhnyQ?si=XOSMDE71YpX6VxGm

24/08/2023

As part of a unique collaboration, Collision: The Stories of CERN pairs a team of award-winning authors with the physicists of the world-leading CERN research laboratory to explore some of the consequences of what CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is learning, through fiction; from the possibilities of interstellar travel using quantum tunnelling to first contact with antimatter aliens. We welcomed poet and essayist Lisa Minerva Luxx, editor and screenwriter Courttia Newland and CEO and Founder of Comma Press Ra Page to bluedot 2023, to unpick the science of fiction with physics professor Dr Rob Appleby…

22/08/2023

From roaming R2D2s to breakdancing aliens, walkabout characters are around every corner at bluedot… Did you get a selfie with one of our interactive performers?

19/08/2023

Saturday nights taking us back to an epic Late Night session in Orbit, with Erol, Elkka and 2manydjs…

18/08/2023

Don’t forget – limited bluedot 2023 merch is now available online, including 20% off all 2023 line-up tees and hoodies! Plus our limited edition commemorative poster, designed by New Analog.

Explore now – store.discoverthebluedot.com

13/08/2023

The unofficial king of music videos, Adam Buxton brought Bug! back to bluedot for a David Bowie special, looking back at some of the icon’s most memorable, extraordinary and brilliant music videos and film appearances.

What’s your favourite Bowie video moment?

10/08/2023

The home of climate-conscious cocktails and late night fun, the Sapling bar returned to bluedot with a weekend of amazingly curated dance party fun and guilt-free, planet-friendly cocktails featuring their Sapling Raspberry and Hibiscus Vodka, and their climate-positive classic vodka and gin!

Did you check out Sapling? Let’s see your best selfies from one of our favourite late-night hangouts!

📸 Tom Martin

09/08/2023

Fresh off the release of their new four-part album Off Planet – featuring bluedot favourites Stealing Sheep and Self Esteem – we caught up with Django Django backstage at bluedot 23 to explore the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos and what inspired them to play bluedot.

08/08/2023

We’re so happy to have partnered with CanO Water at this summer’s bluedot, helping us reduce our reliance on single-use plastic with recyclable canned water available at all bars, in addition our water refill points across the site. Did you grab a CanO Water? If you did, thanks for doing your bit to reduce plastic waste!

📸 Tom Martin

06/08/2023

From headline speakers exploring the wonders of the universe and our planet, to packed-out Mission Control and Star Pavilion auditoriums and over thirty exhibitors showcasing their ground-breaking research, bluedot 2023's science programme was an eye-opening and awe-inspiring celebration of the wonderful world of science!

05/08/2023

We welcomed our friends Lush back to Meteor Showers at bluedot, bringing sustainable and ethical fragrances, body lotions, toner waters and more to our pamper station, and kick-starting every day with joyful and energising shower scents!

📸 Tom Martin