D.H Lawrence Music Festival

09/12/2025

One month left for you to sign up to play next years D.H Lawrence Music Festival

We'll cut sign ups off on the first of January and start booking from there on, so get it done before now if youd like the chance to play 👍

Application form - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pzVOZGAKqC3tJBScIdLPThzvWkxIvwNnGAG0hHqMNuU/viewform?chromeless=1&edit_requested=true&fbclid=IwdGRzaAN6zmxjbGNrA3rOaGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHoTtbB2zQAlwukuqIXh9RTgTCL3GAWXRNXmNfdmnWunTwBS88sgJVTKy_-WG_aem_sMfIkY75Mzao3COhvARJGQ

The festival will take place on 5th September 2026. The festival promotes local musicians, the town of Eastwood and the work of it's greatest export D.H. Lawrence. Last years festival included 160 + artists on 15 stages across 14 venues in the town. Befoere completing the form, please consider the b...

07/11/2025

Just a reminder to all your artists out there ... the below link is how you apply to play this years D.H. Lawrence Music Festiva

Applications will close around December time.

Application form - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pzVOZGAKqC3tJBScIdLPThzvWkxIvwNnGAG0hHqMNuU/viewform?chromeless=1&edit_requested=true&fbclid=IwdGRzaAN6zmxjbGNrA3rOaGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHoTtbB2zQAlwukuqIXh9RTgTCL3GAWXRNXmNfdmnWunTwBS88sgJVTKy_-WG_aem_sMfIkY75Mzao3COhvARJGQ

21/10/2025

It took us a while to get here, getting a bit distracted by life, but we'd like to thank our final photographer for the D.H Lawrence Music Festival day ... the main man Alex Blades

He came to me at the start of the year at a gig I was playing and offered his services, explaining what they did at the fantastic Hockley Hustle. Bringing together a team to cover all the venues and show off what the whole festival is about.

I can't thank Alex enough for his work building up to and on the day of the festival.

Here's some of his pics, go follow his socials tagged above.

18/10/2025

If your looking for plans tomorrow, look no further!

Hockley Hustle is back with 100s of local musicians playing across dozens of venues in Nottingham all raising money for good causes

A few D.H Lawrence Music Festival favourites are playing, so here's who we would recommend:

Motormouf - Broadway Cinema @1:30pm
Ben Mark Smith - Six Barrels, Hockley @ 2pm
Paul Carbuncle - Emmanuel House
HARPA - Metronome @ 3pm
Kooey - Six Barrels, Hockley @ 4pm
Herds - Fox & Grapes @ 4:30pm
George Gadd + The Aftermath - Rough Trade @ 6pm
Lawrence County (duo) - The Bath Inn @ 6pm
JERUB - Bodega (downstairs)
Dusty 4 Track - Carousel @ 10pm

Grab your ticket - Hockley Hustle Tickets - Gigantic Tickets https://share.google/vSOaRZLrsupV0KAlT

10/10/2025

George Gadd + The Aftermath smashed their set at our festival this year! Why not go grab a ticket to their hometown show this weekend. Ticket in comments.

Gigging gives me great joy, would love to see folks far and wide at these dates. Most of these, I am actually putting on myself or are being promoted by DIY promoters who do it for love so please grab your tickets to avoid any stress on our end!

04/10 Commoner’s Fair, Bristol
09/10 Dark Horse, Birmingham
10/10 Telford’s, Chester
11/10 Bodega, Nottingham
18/10 One For the Road Fest, York
23/10 Tom’s Tap & Brewhouse, Crewe
25/10 33 Oldham Street, Manchester
12/11 The Pulpit, Swindon
13/11 Exchange, Bristol
14/11 East Street Tap, Brighton
15/11 The Cavendish Arms, London
06/12 Fulford Arms, York
19/12 The Pit, Newstead

10/10/2025

300 sign ups so far ... dont forget to fill in the form if you would like to play next year.

There's going to be a few changes to the festival next year, to streamline it a bit and hopefully focus on quality over quantity. But more to be revealed in the new year.

The festival will take place on 5th September 2026. The festival promotes local musicians, the town of Eastwood and the work of it's greatest export D.H. Lawrence. Last years festival included 160 + artists on 15 stages across 14 venues in the town. Befoere completing the form, please consider the b...

01/10/2025

CALLING ALL ARTISTS

Artist Application Form For D.H Lawrence Music Festival 2026 now open ... have at it. Link below.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pzVOZGAKqC3tJBScIdLPThzvWkxIvwNnGAG0hHqMNuU/viewform?chromeless=1&edit_requested=true

26/09/2025

Rock Band Merch are a fantasric local-ish company who create high quality T-shirts, Hoodies, Headwear and more

They've got this competition happening right now, so why don't all you musicians out there give it a shot and try win some free merch

They sent me a sample Tee and even a suprise one for our little one ... which was loevly .. and it was all very high quality and arrived super quick.

👹 COMPETITION TIME! 👹

WIN 10 FREE T-SHIRTS FOR YOUR BAND / VENUE / FESTIVAL

To celebrate the launch of Rock Band Merch we are giving away 10 free T-shirts!

To enter simply:
1. Follow our page 👹
2. Like this post 👍
3. Tag 2 friends in the comments 👫

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST TO RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL ENTRY! ✉️

Head to www.rockbandmerch.co.uk and enter your email address into either the pop up window or the mailing list box towards the bottom of the page. This will gain you an additional entry and double your chances of winning!

One winner will be chosen at random and drawn on the 30th September 2025. Good luck! 👹🤟

24/09/2025

Next up from the photography team we had at this years festival are these incredible pics from Space Face Films

I'm sure you can agree, they really capture the eclectic vibe of our event and the passionate performances these musicians bring.

Thank you again, Spacefacefilms

23/09/2025

FYI artist application form for D.H Lawrence Music Festival 2026 will go out on the 1st October.

(Just updating you all as weve had quite a few messages regarding performing next year)

22/09/2025

We had a wonderful photography team run around our venues this year, which was headed up by Alex Blades.

We thought we'd highlight some of the photos taken by the team over the next few days and shout them out.

First up we have the photos of ... we love these intimate indivual shots of each act

10/09/2025

We had some fantastic photographers out and about this year, specially Alex Blades and his team who worked tirelessly all day ... but hang on there a min as theyve got a lot to edit!

In the meantime here are some awesome pics taken by D.H Lawrence Music Festival legend Tim Eastgate ... he gets some awesome snaps every year for us.

Here's a few of our favourites and in the link below are the rest that he caught on the day.

If your an artist that wants to use them please credit Tim Eastgate.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aqROby3nbnAKMkZsizBVcWtT-41PyKiz