| FESTIVALS |

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. 

Another stellar weekend of the All Points East Festival was kicked off on Friday with the likes of The Blessed Madonna, Shygirl, and Confidence Man warming up the crowd before headliner of the evening, Barry Can’t Swim, lit up the East Stage. 

Beats, heat, and happy feet: All Points East 2025 turned Victoria Park into a dancefloor under the sun.

South Facing Festival plays host to Mogwai, Lankum and more in a tightly packed lineup that makes the most of a hot day for a masterclass in post rock and folk. 

Oxfordshire’s Truck Festival proved, yet again, why it’s one of the UK’s best loved weekends of the year.

Mad Cool Festival returned to Madrid from July 10th to 13th, bringing together one of its most diverse but messy editions yet.

Festival of the year just got a new contender, with 2000trees delivering another standout scorcher of a weekend.