European Fan Cultures

A music festival curated by fans:

Firefly Becomes First Completely Fan-Curated Music Festival Fans can help choose the lineup, food, merchandise, and more

The 'Friends' festival is back, and bigger. Is this a new trend? http://www.avclub.com/article/friends-festival-returns-more-smelly-cat-karaoke-a-238905

The Friends festival returns for more “Smelly Cat” karaoke and fountain dancing Things have been a little unsettled in the United Kingdom lately, what with the results of the Brexit vote threatening to send the economy into disarray and the recent Game Of Thrones finale inciting a fear of meat pies. But the people of England don’t need to worry. Even if they always feel like th

Rumor has it, that Take That will return as a five-piece:

Robbie Williams confirmed for Take That’s 25th anniversary tour It looks like the singer will join his ex-bandmates as they celebrate the milestone

Are these the nicest fans of the EC this year?

WATCH: Irish and Swedish fans enjoy a sing-song together in France After violent clashes between groups of fans and the police in the first few days of the tournament, it was welcome relief to see plenty of good spirit between groups of fans on Monday. Ahead of...

"But they aren't all just interchangeable synonyms. Each carries connotations that you may or may not want to identify with."

Are You a Fan or a Freak? 8 Terms for Enjoying Something (And the Subtle Differences Between Them) English conveniently offers a long list of nouns you can use to describe what kind of enjoyer you are: aficionado, enthusiast, buff, connoisseur, fanatic, fan, freak, nut. But they aren't all just interchangeable synonyms. Each carries connotations that you may or may not want to identify with.

A provocative title, but... http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/05/30/fandom-is-broken

Fandom Is Broken Controversies and entitlement shine a light on a deeply troubling side of fandom.

On the non-existing off switch for celebs:

I Feel Like A Zoo Animal: The Ballad Of Justin Bieber Trapped in the panopticon of modern fame, when all he really wants is to walk barefoot in the park

Is this the success of Nordic noir? "They do not have to justify their starring roles by being rocket scientists, flawless s*x bombs or designer-suited glamazons with exemplary parenting skills."

Follow the women - FT.com Living in London, there are countless places I could go on a Saturday night. Instead, for the past month, I’ve sat at home watching people from a country smaller than Tasmania speak in a language I don’t understand about a corrupt wind farm company.

GoT is back, caught up already? How many European film locations have you spotted so far?

Ireland on Screen: A travel guide to movie locations in Ireland With series six of 'Game of Thrones' set to begin, Yvonne Gordon lists the hottest Irish film & TV locations to visit.

Are there more celeb-deaths or are we paying more attention to celeb-deaths?

Why so many celebrities have died in 2016 - BBC News The deaths of Prince and Victoria Wood this week come off the back of a number of other celebrity deaths this year: so are more celebrities dying?

Trailerception:

Rogue One ILM Chain Reaction At ILM we know how awesome Star Wars fans are but when John Knoll saw all of the incredible fan reaction videos to the Rogue One trailer he felt he had to sh...

Experimenting with identity in games:

Why my videogame chooses your character’s race and gender for you | Garry Newman Russian and transgender players of Rust are unhappy, but the decision to randomise race and gender is all about better gameplay, not imposing ideology