🌳 Introduction There are festivals for metalheads. There are festivals for indie fans. Then there was Ramblin’ Man Fair. For five unforgettable summers, the beautiful surroundings of Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent became home to one of Britain’s most loved rock festivals. Unlike many of its rivals, Ramblin’ Man Fair was not about the biggest […]
For a few glorious summers, one festival appeared ready to change the entire European rock and metal landscape. Its name was Sonisphere. Rather than existing as one fixed event in one country, Sonisphere was designed as a travelling festival series. Major bands would move between different European locations, joined by local artists and specially selected […]
There are festivals that include heavy metal. Then there is Bloodstock Open Air. Held every August at Catton Park in Derbyshire, Bloodstock has developed into one of the most important independent metal festivals in Europe. It is a gathering where thrash, death metal, black metal, doom, power metal, folk metal, metalcore and almost every other […]
Before Download Festival brought multiple stages, five-day camping and tens of thousands of black-clad maniacs to Donington Park, there was Monsters of Rock. One stage. One day. A handful of the biggest hard-rock and heavy-metal bands on the planet. No clashes. No gentle warm-up weekend. No wandering between distant arenas while desperately trying to follow […]
Every June, tens of thousands of rock and metal fans descend upon Donington Park for one of the loudest, muddiest and most gloriously chaotic weekends in the British festival calendar. For the Download faithful, it is far more than three days of bands. It is the walk from the car park carrying approximately twice your […]
There are festivals you attend once. Then there are festivals that become part of your yearly calendar, your friendship group, your summer routine and, eventually, your identity. For thousands of rock fans, Steelhouse Festival is firmly in that second category. Held at Hafod-y-Dafal Farm, near Aberbeeg and Ebbw Vale, Steelhouse has grown from an ambitious […]