Blog: Dots & Dashes

Crowds of 50,000-plus; Hackney ubication; a Radio 1 affiliation: endless elements to this year's Big Weekend equivalent, the Hackney Weekend 2012 rendered the very prospect somewhat daunting. Factor in reports of Hackney Marsh gradually transmogrifying into just that – an almighty, almightily viscous bog – and the whole thing becomes ever less appealing. Saturday's Main Stage line up is a similarly groggy affair: like a treacherous overflowing of our fetid, sewer-like mainstream in which, par Example, Rizzle Kicks splurge out after Leona Lewis , the In New Music We Trust Stage would represent a safe haven of [...]