The journal
Notes from the yard
How this thing is built, what it costs, and the music that made us want to build it. Written by the people doing it, published whether or not it flatters us.
Six pieces
Updated monthly
The festival · 14 July 2026
How the harbour wall became a stage
Two hundred metres of colonial sea defence, a generator borrowed from a fish freezer, and eleven people who thought it would work once.
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Everything else
The rest of the archive
Five more pieces on how the weekend is built, what it costs and who it is for.
Culture
2 July 2026
A short history of the talking drums
Atumpan were how a town was called together, and how it was told what had happened. The tonal language they speak is still taught two streets from the gate.
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Transparency
18 June 2026
What a ₵420 weekend pass actually pays for
Artist fees, the rig, the licences, the medics, the wristbands and the two skips. Line by line, because we would rather you knew.
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For artists
30 May 2026
The open call, and what we listen for
Eight acts come off it every year. Here is who reads the submissions, what they play them on, and the three things that get a demo skipped.
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Practical
11 May 2026
Three days in Jamestown, packed properly
It is hot until seven and cold on the wall after ten. Everything we wish somebody had told us before the first edition.
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Production
24 April 2026
Sound on water: speccing the main rig
The sea takes the top end and gives back a slap from the far wall. What our engineers do about it, in more detail than is probably reasonable.
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27–29 November 2026 · Jamestown
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