Festivals may have been few and far between this year, but Slam Dunk has pulled through and will be going ahead in September. Slam Dunk being able to go ahead shows we’re rapidly moving forward to live music fully returning. With a varied line up there’s sure to be something for all music fans to…
To celebrate 20 years of Bloodstock Open Air festival, this year’s event will see fans gaining an extra day of live music for FREE! That’s right, four days of live music, Wednesday 11th – Sunday 15th August, to bring us the metal party of the year, and after the lack of music the last 18…
Ahead of the Download Pilot Festival this weekend, Jamie Giberti takes a look at just what it is that makes Download hold such a special place in so many people’s hearts. I first went to the Download Festival in 2004 as a very naive, 19 year old kid. Having been told the wonders of Donington…
Following on from last weeks’ thrilling announcement that the Download Festival team were getting to run Download Pilot as part of the UK Government’s programme to restart the live music and live events industries – we now have plenty more info for you all. The line up for the Download Pilot has now been confirmed!…
Last month, Download Festival head honcho Andy Copping hinted that he might be seeing a few of us sooner than we might think. Oh how right he was. Mr Copping and the team at Live Nation and Festival Republic have been given Government permission to stage the UK’s first camping festival since the COVID-19 outbreak….
*Update* – Following complaints by a number of the other artists about Die Antwoord’s appearance at Alt+LDN, Die Antwoord have been removed from the line up. *Update ends* The UK’s first alternative, rock and hip hop festival has been announced and will be opening its doors for the first time, this summer at London’s Clapham…
Rock Sins is very proud to announce that we will be the website hosts of the All Killer No Filler Festival. A live streamed festival, All Killer No Filler has been together by the UK Metal Merger team as part of their fundraising activities. UK Metal Merger are taking part in a number of activities,…
The sad news that we all expected has been confirmed; Download Festival 2021 has been cancelled. It was always inevitable given the state of the world with the COVID-19 pandemic, but with the festival’s dates falling before the Government’s intended target “full re-opening” date of the 21st of June, the Download team have now confirmed…
Over the last couple of weeks there’s been even more festival announcements than usual for this time of year. So, we thought we would try and round them all up in one handy place for our readers to get a full fix of festival updates and news. Firstly, there’s been a couple of recent updates…
From the final day of Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2017, Fran Dignon brings us some fantastic action shots of the day’s events. Carry on down for shots of Venom Prison, Broken Teeth, Possessed, Obituary, Puppy, Skindred, Hell, Arch Enemy and Megadeth – not necessarily in that order!
After days (and in some circles weeks) of speculation over the fate of the partially crowd-funded festival Alt Fest 2014, on Friday night the festival’s organisers Dom and Missy posted a very lengthy and detailed statement confirming that the festival IS cancelled as widely speculated. The statement goes into some detail about the efforts that…
