Festival GENRE ARCHIVES
ArcTanGent Festival reveals first 2020 line-up announcement
ArcTanGent Festival is here with one hell of a first line-up announcement for 2020!
Download 2020 headliners announced
*FESTIVAL KLAXON* We have literally just recovered from 2019 festival season and already we are planning 2020 after the first round of announcements from Download Festival for June 12-14.
Slam Dunk 2020 first headliner and wave of acts
*FESTIVAL KLAXON* The second festival announcement of the day is the first headliner for Slam Dunk Festival 2020!
Download Festival 2019
Download 2019 was a complete mudfest, but an absolutely incredible weekend.
Download Festival 2019 – Ones To Watch
As the campsite opens for five day campers, we asked one of our senior writers and festival attendee Tom Butterworth to give us his low-down of the ones to watch.
Download Festival and WWE NXT
Wrestling has been a focal non-musical point at Download Festival for the past couple of years. With the evolution of the professional UK scene and the live tapings at the festival, we give a quick round-up of Download's history with NXT.
Slam Dunk Festival Awards 2019 – South
We're bringing our festival awards back! This is where we round up our favourites of a festival into a few categories. First up, deputy editor Lizi gives her opinions on the best parts of Slam Dunk South 2019.
Slam Dunk North 2019 Review!
Temple Newsam, Leeds, 25th May 2019: Never will you find a more wretched hive of snapbacks and Vans. As the fans begin entering the festival grounds, the day is bright and warm... sadly it won’t last, but rain, thunder or snow wouldn’t have kept the legions away from Leeds today.
Cancer Bats announce August tour
Cancer Bats will be hitting the road across the UK in August!
Broadening Horizons – How Slam Dunk is appealing to more fans than ever.
Slam Dunk has long been seen as a predominantly pop-punk festival. Although they have often featured a smattering of heavier or more abrasive bands, much of the higher reaches of the festival bills have been dominated by relatively inoffensive bands. In the last two years we have seen a rise in truly interesting aggressive music with the likes of Employed To Serve winning Kerrang!’s album of the year award last year and groups such as Code Orange making a splash on the global stage with a Grammy nomination. As Slam Dunk has manoeuvred to keep pace with this scene change, so has it looked to widen it's vision to further encompass a generation of fans who gazed longingly over The Pond at Vans Warped Tour in the late 1990s.
Download Festival 2019 ones to watch part 1
It's now less than a month until Download Festival 2019! We scour through the bands in a two part series of our ones to watch! First up, I (deputy editor Lizi) take you through 10 of the artists I'm most looking forward to seeing
Slam Dunk 2019 ones to watch part two
The first of our two-part Slam Dunk ‘Ones to Watch’ features went live as Tom Butterworth previewed the most exciting of the heavier aspect of the festival. In today’s piece, I give my own ones to watch for who I cannot wait to see this year.
Drug Church announce 2019 UK and European tour
Punk rockers Drug Church have announced a raft of UK and European dates for the Summer.
Let’s Talk About…. Lights (Slam Dunk Edition)
In this Slam Dunk special edition of our Let’s Talk About series, we discuss alternative pop starlet Lights who is gearing up for her debut appearance at the festival.