Four UNIQUE days of music, science and cosmic culture
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BLuedot’s best of 2021
We’re thrilled to announce our top 40 for 2021… a selection of the best twenty books and twenty albums from the past year which have entertained and soundtracked another weird year.
In selecting our top picks, we’ve dug deep into the crates and far across the shelves for some of the year’s most vital sound, insightful lyricism, poetic memoirs and groundbreaking journalism. Our best albums of 2021 features highlights from some bluedot favourites past (and future!), with our top spot given to an act that so far haven’t played a note live. Meanwhile our best books of 2021, selected with our friends at Blackwell’s, celebrates world-beating scientific research, the world of psychedelics, the future of our understanding of gender and much, much more. Our top book of 2021 is quite simply one of the finest memoirs we’ve ever read – a stunning story of one man’s journey into his family story and deep into his own identity.
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Plate Up! Episode 3 with Morgaine Gaye
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Plate Up! Episode 2 with Andrew Simms
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Plate Up! Episode 1 with Moby
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Series 1
The Theremin Story
It’s the soundtrack to countless sci-fi and horror movies. The otherworldly accompaniment to a vis…
Series 1
How To Cure Covid
Alice and Daniel discuss the steps towards curing a virus, from discovery through to it being eradic…
Series 1
Jill Tarter
Chair of SETI, one of Discover magazine’s most important women in science, and the inspiration beh…
VIDEO
Video
Watch highlights of John Grant from bluedot 2019
Enjoy ‘Pale Green Ghosts’ and ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’ from his set live from bluedot 2019, be…
2017
Alt-J’s classic bluedot headline set from 2017
We welcomed alt-J to close bluedot 2017 with a spellbinding performance and an insane, intergal…
Video
Unkle – Live at bluedot 2018
An extraordinary headline appearance from James Lavelle and co. Watch it back in full now.
Cosmic Culture
bluedoc: Iluminos
We celebrate 50 years to the day since the Moon Landing at bluedot 2019. We’ve invited telescope pro…
2019
Live Moonbounce
Watch back the spectacular moment when we bounced audio off the Moon at bluedot 2019.
2019
Jodrell and the Space Race
Discover Jodrell Bank’s role in the race to the Moon with Tim O’Brien and Bob Pritchard.
Video
Dallas Campbell: A7-L – How To Make A Spacesuit
Watch back Dallas Campbell’s stellar DotTalk exploring the story behind Neil Armstrong’s…
Music
Interview: New Order – Bernard Sumner
New order vocalist and found member of Joy Division Bernard Sumner joins us for a backstage intervie…
2019
808 State – Pacific State
808 State perform their iconic track ‘Pacific State’ at bluedot 2019.
Music
Jarvis Cocker: His n Hers / Running The World
Jarvis Cocker takes to the Lovell stage at bluedot 2019 for an incredible performance under the icon…
Science
Marco Gersabeck: The Big Bang ABC
Marco Gersabeck uncovers one of the biggest mysteries around the Big Bang. Watch the full DotTalk fr…
Science
Keith Grange: The Square Kilometre Array
Keith Grange explains his work from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be the wo…
Science
Jeff Forshaw: Our Quantum Universe
Professor of theoretical particle physics Jeff Forshaw provides an introduction to what quantum phys…
Science
‘MegaStructure’ by Marcus Lyall
Drawing inspiration from this hypothesized alien architecture, Marcus Lyall’s new work – MegaS…
Cosmic Culture
‘Hidden In Plain Sight’ by Addie Wagenknecht
Discover the process and inspiration behind Addie Wagenknecht’s ‘Hidden In Plain Sight’ telesco…
2017
bluedoc: Daito Manabe – COSMOS Residency [Part 1]
Renowned Japanese artist Daito Manabe delivered a unique projection-mapped artwork at bluedot 2017.…
2017
bluedoc: Daito Manabe – COSMOS Residency [Part 2]
In 2017, our intergalactic festival of discovery saw renowned Japanese artist Daito Manabe deliver a…
2016
bluedoc: Brian Eno Telescope Installation
The legendary British music pioneer developed a new piece of work, specifically for bluedot 2016, in…