| FESTIVALS |

Kneecap returned to the Belly of the Beast for their biggest ever festival headlining slot as part of Crystal Palace Park Series; creating a memorable (nearly) all-Irish Glastonbury featuring the likes of Madra Salach, Gurriers and The Mary Wallopers. 

Dance, sun, and euphoria: Parklife 2026 gad it all!

The beloved hitmaker delights a buzzing Guildhall Square with a joyous evening of vibrant soul-pop. 

Download has welcomed some colossal headliners over the years, but few arrivals have carried quite the same weight as Linkin Park’s return.

Kamasi Washington brings his uniquely fearless movement to the Royal Festival Hall as part of Harry Styles’s Meltdown Festival.

Primavera Sound 2026 was not a perfect festival, but it never is and there lays its magic.

Slam Dunk’s 20th anniversary delivered pretty much everything you could want from the festival (besides maybe a reappearance from Fall Out Boy!), as blistering heat, relentless nostalgia, chaotic pits, emotional singalongs, and enough pyro to probably concern local authorities combined into one hell of a day. 

Neighbourhood Weekender returned to Warrington once again over Bank Holiday weekend, with thousands of music fans descending on the town for two days that turned Victoria Park into a three-stage celebration of indie, pop and everything in between.

It's May, it's a bank holiday weekend, it's time for the scene's biggest day of the year. For the twentieth year, the greatest gathering of punks, emos, metalheads and thrashers have returned to Yorkshire for the greatest and most sentimental event of the calendar.

Desertfest provides a heaven for any stoner rock fans with some of the best curated music in the entire scene; featuring mammoth headline sets from newly tipped metal icons Green Lung and old guard Clutch; you’ll rarely see the Roundhouse bouncier.

Twenty years ago, the very first edition of The Great Escape festival was held in Brighton, kickstarting two decades of unrivalled musical discovery. We returned to catch the next wave of artists in ascension. 

2026’s Brick Lane Jazz Festival, we found joyously rich cultural expression living and breathing in a defiant act of community, a conversation that’s still being written.  

The Twang Return to Manchester’s O2 Ritz to top off a fantastic Year’s End Festival.

Brighton’s Mutations festival returns with a riot and rising stars everywhere you look – this is the place to be discovering new talent in the industry right on the cusp of explosion. 

There is only one place to go for the end of summer, and that’s to the End Of The Road. 

Everyone’s favourite band, The Maccabees, came back together to play at what felt like the end of the world, headlining the final day of All Points East on Sunday. 

Three days of chaos, unity & unforgettable moments.

With spectacular headline shows from Hozier, Chappell Roan, Travis Scott and Bring Me the Horizon, the 2025 edition of Reading Festival was an unruly baptism of dust, fire and confetti.