Armed with a tuxedo, a healthy dose of motivational speaking, and a star-studded lineup featuring Lil Jon, Kesha, and Tinie Tempah, Pitbull turned Hyde Park into the ultimate millennial throwback victory lap.
With special guests including Shania Twain and Hozier, Mumford & Sons put on a show-stopping set to a warm Hyde Park for British Summer Time.
The UK hardcore highlight of the year continues to bloom with every line-up that passes, and this 15-year anniversary special was no different, with bands from all walks of the underground alternative scenes, it once again became the centre of the universe for another rampant and chaos-fuelled weekend.
The Offspring lead a memorable ode to the spirit of punk rock at Crystal Palace Park that true to its word, remains incendiary and rebellious
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.
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.
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.