After a wonderful but soggy first day on the hallowed Donington turf, we arrived at the excitement of Middle Saturday for Download Festival 2024. If you’ve not yet seen it, please catch up with our review of all the action from the Friday of Download 2024! Despite the organisers efforts, conditions hadn’t improved any, with…
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…
Legendary punk rock band The Offspring have announced a UK arena tour for November 2021. The tour will include shows in Cardiff, London and Glasgow. Tickets are on general sale now, and can be purchased on this link. Supporting The Offspring on all six of the confirmed dates are Swedish garage rock group The Hives. The announcement comes ahead of…
I think it’s important to state upfront, that The Offspring are the band that were the most responsible for getting me into rock music as a teenager. No other band soundtracked my teen years as much as they did; to say I was obsessed would be an understatement. You are probably wondering why this matters,…
The Download Festival powers that be have spoken for the first time on the line up for 2020. *Drumroll Please* Your headliners for Donington next year are KISS, Iron Maiden and System Of A Down! They will be joined on the Download Festival 2020 line up by another 9 bands in the first announcement. With their…
Things just got a whole lot more interesting for Download next year (not that it wasn’t looking good already). Andy Copping and the powers that be at Castle Donington have unleashed another dozen bands for our collective enjoyment for the Download Festival 2014! First up are former Download headliners and US pop punk band The…
