As we do every year, Rock Sins brings you our annual festival guide for as many alternative, rock and metal festivals as we can across the UK. We are getting an early start with the 2026 guide (start as you mean to go on and all that). April Takedown FestivalWhere: Portsmouth GuildhallWhen: 3rd and 4th…
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…
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…
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…
Nashville-based Charlotte Sands has made a big mark in the pop punk scene and it’s no surprise that she was nominated for Best International Breakthrough Artist and won Best Breakthrough Album at this year’s Heavy Music Awards for Love And Other Lies. Fresh from winning her award at the awards show the night before we got…
“The boys are back in town, we’re gonna party down, ‘cos here comes Bowling For Soup”. An intro song known well across the UK for many years, heard one more time as Texas’ favourite pop punk quartet Bowling For Soup hit the stage at Slam Dunk for their first appearance since 2017. With a set…
Enter Shikari brought more than just immense energy to their Slam Dunk South headline set – there were imaginative visuals, pyro and even fireworks. Reminding us of the importance of community vocalist Rou Reynolds gave us more than just music to enjoy and throwback memories from the band’s earlier records. To say they put on…
22-year old Jaden Hossler aka Jxdn might be known as a TikTok sensation to most, but he more than proved he belongs on a stage at this year’s Slam Dunk Festival. As he took to the Key Club stage at Hatfield Park, both his hat and keyboard went flying across the stage within seconds as…
As Slam Dunk 2023 grows closer, and festival season 2023 is due to kick off, the task of planning your day to fit all the bands in is here. Gates will open at 9am each day, with stages all opening at 11am. Across north and south, stage times and splits will remain the same. Taking…
With the UK festival scene stampeding towards us like a raging bull, the team here at Rock Sins have been collecting up the information of all the best rock, metal and alternative festivals taking place across the country over the next few months. Here’s a look at just SOME of the great events happening in…
Following on from their stonking first lineup announcement, the team at Slam Dunk Festival 2023 have added another eight bands, further cementing what is going to be one of the must attend events on the calendar next year. Already boasting the likes of headliners Enter Shikari and The Offspring, Bowling For Soup, Creeper, Holding Absence,…
2022’s festival season kicked off with the return of Slam Dunk Festival, bringing some of the best in pop punk, with the first of two dates at Leeds’ Temple Newsam. We sent photographer Abbi Draper-Scott to capture the day and you can check out the photo highlights from Slam Dunk North below, including Cancer Bats,…
