It’s the final countdown to the 2025 Download Festival! With the gates of Donington opening in just six days, and the arena fully open a couple of days after, excitement is building. Rock Sins caught up with Download Festival Senior Booker Kamran Haq recently to cover a huge range of topics about this years’ Download….
With 2000Trees creeping up on us faster and faster, we thought we might have been done with any new additions for 2025 from our friends at 2000trees. Well, we can think again. Just when we thought the line up was locked in and we had no more acts to look forward to, the organisers have…
With Download Festival set to kick off a weekend of world class live music in just a few weeks. Ticket holders have been speculating over the line-up and trying to guess who clashes with who for some time. Thankfully, all conjecture can now finally be put to rest. As yesterday, Download Festival published stage times…
As we get closer to one of our favorite festivals of the year, we can now get more excited with over 35 new acts added to the schedule. Each year 2000trees never fails to deliver on a weekend packed to the brim of the best established and upcoming acts and this year is no different….
Having just celebrated Record Store Day 2025 (see our recommended best release pick up’s for that on this post), the Download Festival team have another glut of announcements for everyone! This includes the full District X programme – but more on that later! The one that ties in most closely to RSD 2025 is the…
Spring has sprung, which means it won’t be long until the UK festival season kicks off! With a whole host of rock, metal and alternative music festivals taking place all over the country we’re spoilt for choice and so we’ve put together a list of some of our favourites, to help you plan a 2025…
Not content with providing heavy metal fans with a weekend stacked with some of the world’s finest extreme music every summer. Bloodstock announced their first ever ‘Winter Gathering’ event today, set to take place at KK’s Steel Mill in Wolverhampton on December 6th! Having long ago graduated from indoor stages into the open air behemoth…
2000trees Festival have now announced an additional 45 new bands and acts for the 2025 line-up for this summers highly anticipated edition of the much loved and officially the Best Medium Festival. Having snagged the accoalde for the 3rd year in the row at the UK Festival Awards! Bands now announced included Scottish two piece…
In a week already jam packed with festival and tour announcements. The UK’s biggest independent rock festival, Slam Dunk rounded out their line-up for 2025 with over 25 new bands this week! Following a huge initial announcement featuring the likes of A Day To Remember, Electric Callboy and Neck Deep. The festival has now added…
Three brand new headliners for Download 2025! For the first time since 2010 the Download Festival has an entirely fresh set of headliners for the Donington faithful to enjoy. With punk rock legends Green Day making their Download bow on Friday night, the mysterious phenomenon of Sleep Token on Saturday and nu metal icons KoRn…
As far as first festival line up announcements go, Bloodstock Open Air Festival have smashed it out of the park with their opening blast of bands for 2025. In their opening 19 band salvo, Bloodstock have revealed all three main stage headliners for next years festival and a viking boat load of other good stuff…
After starting the summer with a triumphant weekend featuring the likes of You Me At Six and Funeral for a Friend back in May. Slam Dunk rounded out the festival season in style today, announcing the first batch of bands for their 2025 line up. Including A Day To Remember, Electric Callboy, Neck Deep, New…
