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Alex James Presents Harvest, a four day long festival held on a farm belonging to Alex James of Blur, begins in Oxfordshire, UK. Artists appearing over the course of the event include KT Tunstall, The Feeling, Richard Corrigan, Mark Hix, Rachel Allen, Jay Rayner and Stevie Earle. Attended by British Prime Minister David Cameron and numerous celebrities, the event goes off well but is revealed later to have been a financial disaster because of financial problems relating to the organisers, Big Wheel Promotions.
UK-based music, film and videogames retailer HMV Group reports a 21.8% decline in its retail division for the 18 weeks to 3 September. This figure includes the impact of 29 store closures over the period. Like for like sales fell by 15.1%.Nick Lowe is interviewed on BBC tv show Breakfast in the UK, to promote his new album, The Old Magic.
Umphrey's McGee play the last night of a four show run at the Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
It is announced that the economy of the English town of Carlisle recieved a £1.7m boost from visitor spending when Lady Gaga headlined the Radio 1 Big Weekend five months earlier in the town.
Ed Sheeran releases his debut LP, + (pronounced 'plus'), on Asylum/Atlantic Records. It sells over 100,000 copies in its first week, and enters the UK albums chart at No1.