The most glorious weekend in July has once again. 2000trees 2024 is finally here! What’s better than attending a stacked music festival? Getting to join the fun a day before anyone else. Boasting a tiny capacity of 3000 attendees on Wednesday, these tickets are like gold dust and so worth the fight to get them….
The final day of Download Festival 2024 is, judging by many comments online from attendees and those who wish they were going alike, “the most stacked” line up of any day on this years’ festival. Perhaps it is no coincidence that it was also the first part of the festival (RIP packages aside), to sell…
48 hours is a long time in the music industry. Since we published our preview of the first part of Download Festival 2024, we’ve had over half a dozen bands – Pest Control, Scowl, Speed, Zulu, Overpower and Negative Frame, and then slightly later Ithaca – decide to drop off various parts of the Download…
We’re just a few days away now from the gates of Donington being thrust wide open and then Download Festival 2024 will commence! To get you in the mood, or maybe to persuade you to part with your hard earned cash for some last minute tickets, here are ten of the bands Rock Sins thinks…
With Download Festival 2024 firmly on the horizon, at the end of last year Rock Sins had the opportunity to catch up with one of Download’s top team, promoter and booker Kamran Haq. We had the opportunity to catch up with Kam on recovering from Download’s epic 20th anniversary edition in 2023, aspects of the…
Punk Rock Factory may have been seen by some initially as a bit of a novelty act. Truth is, they probably are a novelty act – but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that! Whether you class them as one or not, what they are is incredibly good fun. Their punk rock covers of songs from…
On August 25th, Holding Absence celebrates the conclusion of their opening trilogy of albums with the release of The Noble Art Of Self Destruction. A record all about being a work in the making, a painting made up of 1000 mistakes to form something beautiful, the band find themselves in very different positions going into…
Over the 20 years of the Download Festival so far, Alter Bridge have been one of the mainstays. Making their first appearance in 2005, The US hard rock quartet have been regular visitors to Donington with slots growing each time, to the point where many, ourselves here at Rock Sins included, have been clamouring for…
Three days into Download Festival 2023. At this point in a standard weekend at Donington some people would be starting to wind down, pack up the tents ahead of going home but not at Download 2023! Anticipation was high ahead of Metallica’s second set of the weekend, while the day was full of other hugely…
Many a sore head can be found at Donington Park on Friday morning; The masses of the campsites of Download Festival 2023 recharging after a brilliant first day of the event (for those yet to do so, please check out our full review of the first day of Download 2023). With a huge variety of…
After months of waiting, the most eagerly awaited Download Festival in years was upon us. The twentieth anniversary of the modern trek to the hallowed Donington turf. For the twentieth edition of the festival, aka Download 2023, the 90,000ish in attendance are to be treated to not three, but four full days of music across…
Slam Dunk Festival truly means the start of the UK festival season. Yes, there are a few events before (such as the excellent Takedown Festival), but the May bank holiday weekend with thousands of pop punk, emo and metal fans descending on Hatfield and Leeds is truly when things kick off for the UK alternative…
