LIVE REVIEW: GARBAGE & SKUNK ANANSIE AT DREAMLAND, MARGATE 19/06/2026 (+ DU BLONDE)
There are some bands that don't just soundtrack your youth, they help define it. For women who came of age in the 1990s, Garbage and Skunk Anansie were never simply alternative rock bands. They were permission slips. Permission to be loud, complicated, political, vulnerable, angry, glamorous and unapologetically ourselves. Standing beneath the open skies at Dreamland on a warm June evening, surrounded by thousands of women who looked suspiciously like they'd once raided Camden Market in the late '90s, it felt less like a nostalgia trip and more like a reunion with old friends who'd never stopped fighting.
LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: MCFLY AT DREAMLAND, MARGATE SUMMER SERIES 01/08/25
For many remembering their teenage years there will be a nostalgia attached to the feeling of the fair coming to town. The smell of burgers, the glittering of the lights on the rides, sticky fingers from candyfloss and the excited, bustling crowds. Dreamland in Margate facilitates a trip down memory lane with all of the above whilst hosting pivotal artists that were a big part of the soundtrack of those heady days for many. As a part of the Margate Summer Series line up, McFly brought their party vibes to the Kent coast.
LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS: PENDULUM AT DREAMLAND, MARGATE SUMMER SERIES 31/05/25
Pendulum have a mystic that is quite hard to define. They seen timeless, illusive and monumental whilst also utterly modern, tangible, and at Dreamland in Margate, within arm's reach. With them, Pendulum brought a trio of varied and exciting supports for a sunny day adjacent to the beach.