Music Festivals

Reading Festival is supposed to be about massive tunes, discovering your new favourite band, losing your mates somewhere between the arena and the campsite, and waking up wondering why there’s a traffic cone outside your tent. But for some festivalgoers, the camping experience has apparently been considerably less funny. Following another huge weekend at Reading Festival, stories and warnings about...

Winter’s End is heading back to Wales – and the 2027 edition is shaping up to be an absolute belter. 🤘🐉 Planet Rock’s winter rock ’n’ roll pilgrimage returns to Trecco Bay Holiday Park in Porthcawl, South Wales, from Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st January 2027, celebrating 10 years since the very first Winter’s End. And this isn’t some gentle...

Reading Festival is officially getting bigger — and, from 2027, Thursday night is about to become a whole lot louder. 🤘 Reading Festival has been given permission to expand live music on its Main Stage to a fourth day, despite objections from local residents concerned about noise, disruption and the impact of another late night of amplified music. The decision...

Good morning, ArcTanGent! If you’re currently loading the car, wrestling a tent into a bag that’s somehow half the size it was when you bought it, or staring suspiciously at the Welsh weather forecast wondering whether you need wellies, walking boots or a bloody canoe — we’ve got an early-morning update from the festival site. 😂🌧️ And considering the amount...

There are festivals that simply happen to take place in Wales. And then there are festivals that feel completely, unmistakably Welsh. Green Man Festival belongs firmly in the second camp. Set amongst the spectacular landscape of Bannau Brycheiniog – the Brecon Beacons – near Crickhowell, Green Man has grown from a tiny gathering of music lovers into one of the...

Good news, ArcTanGent campers — the morning brew is BACK ON! ☕🤘 With ArcTanGent 2026 preparing to unleash four days of riffs, noise, mathematical wizardry and glorious campsite chaos near Bristol from 19–22 August 2026, organisers have issued an important last-minute update regarding campsite cooking. Following some much-needed overnight rain, the festival has confirmed that gas camp stoves can now...

The Riff Report’s Ultimate Travel Guide to Trecco Bay, Porthcawl The riffs are calling, the caravan is waiting, and somewhere in South Wales there’s already a bloke packing enough black T-shirts for a six-month world tour. Yep — Winter’s End 2027 is coming! 🤘🔥 Planet Rock’s winter rock ‘n’ roll weekender returns to Trecco Bay Holiday Park in Porthcawl, South...

The Riff Report’s Full Budget Guide to Planet Rock’s Winter Weekender in Porthcawl January in South Wales is usually a cocktail of rain, wind, cold fingers and wondering why you ever left the house. But chuck in a load of massive riffs, a caravan full of mates and a weekend at Trecco Bay and suddenly January starts looking a lot...

Australia, prepare to BREAK STUFF. Good Things Festival is charging back into Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this December, and the 2026 edition has dropped an absolutely ridiculous lineup headed by none other than Limp Bizkit. 🤘🔥 Yep. Fred Durst and the nu-metal wrecking crew are heading Down Under again — and this time they’re sitting right at the top of...

Well then, that didn’t take long! After the dust, riffs, questionable campsite decisions and glorious festival chaos of 2026, Plumpton Revival has confirmed it’s doing the whole thing again in 2027 — and tickets are already on sale. Get the diary out, cancel whatever sensible plans you had and start checking whether the tent survived this summer, because Plumpton Revival...

For thousands of musicians, there are certain words guaranteed to make the heart beat a little faster: “Fancy playing Glastonbury?” Well, emerging bands and artists, you might want to put down the cuppa, stop arguing with your drummer and pay attention — because applications to secure a slot on the Pilton Stage in 2027 are now OPEN! 🎤🔥 Audio North...

Colne, Lancashire | August Bank Holiday 2026 Get the guitars tuned, polish the dancing shoes and prepare for enough bluesy goodness to make your pint start tapping its own foot. 🍺🎸 The Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival is heading back to Colne, Lancashire, for the August Bank Holiday 2026, bringing another absolutely stacked celebration of blues, rhythm & blues,...

The countdown is getting VERY bloody real now! 🔥🎸 In just over a week, members of the Stonedead Festival Production Team will begin rolling into Newark Showground to start transforming an empty patch of ground into one almighty rock ’n’ roll playground. Stages need building. Barriers need shifting. Signs need putting up. Infrastructure needs sorting. Thousands of little jobs need...

Metalheads have always known that the heavy music community has a bloody massive heart — and now fans in Hamburg are being invited to prove it quite literally. ❤️‍🔥 The Wacken Foundation, in collaboration with UKE Hamburg, is holding a special Blood Donation Day on Saturday, 22 August 2026, giving rock and metal fans the chance to do something genuinely...

Wacken Open Air is giving the next generation of metalheads a helping hand for 2027, with a limited number of discounted “Younger Tickets” available for fans aged 25 and under. And considering the price of festivals these days can make your bank account scream louder than a deathcore vocalist stepping on LEGO, this is a pretty tidy move. 🤘💀 The...