UK Music Festivals

By The Riff Report 🏴🤘 Stockport, brace yourselves — Firevolt Rock Festival just dropped the news we’ve all been waiting for: the Battle of the Bands 2026 is officially ON! 🎸⚡ Every year, Firevolt throws open its gates to the raw, the wild, and the wonderfully loud — giving up-and-coming acts a shot at glory on one of the UK’s...

Leeds… brace yourself. The infernal clock is ticking down, and there’s just 1 day, 19 hours, 27 minutes, and 52 seconds until all hell breaks loose at Damnation Festival’s 20th Anniversary! 😈 Two decades of blistering riffs, bone-rattling breakdowns, and mosh pits that could swallow a man whole — and this year promises to be the most unholy celebration yet....

If you’re heading to Damnation Festival in Manchester this Sunday, brace yourself — the city’s throwing more than just metal riffs into the mix. 😅 While thousands of black-clad fans will be descending on the city ready to unleash chaos in the name of riffs, breakdowns, and blast beats, the Manchester tram network has decided to join the party —...

Hold onto your bucket hats and battered Vans, butt — 2000trees Festival 2026 is shaping up to be one of the rowdiest, riff-heavy line-ups the Gloucestershire fields have ever seen! 🏕️🎸 🌲 WEDNESDAY WARM-UP – SMALL STAGE, MASSIVE ENERGY Things kick off early with PUP, Sprints, The Dirty Nil, and Lake Malice tearing through the opening night. Expect chaos, pits,...

Here we go again — another absolute banger of an announcement from the Firevolt crew! The Stockport rock weekender just dropped the news that A’Priori will be returning for Firevolt Rock Festival 2026, and fans are already buzzing. 🤘 If you were there in 2022, you’ll never forget it. The band won Battle of the Bands that year and opened...

Well, look who’s swaggerin’ back into Donington Park like nothing ever happened… Guns N’ freakin’ Roses, baby! 🤘 But hang on a second, butt — has the entire rock community developed collective amnesia? Because the last time Axl and co. played Download Festival, it was, erm… a proper shambles. 😅 Let’s take a little stroll down memory lane — or...

Holy riffs, Batman! Download Festival has just dropped its XXIII (23rd) edition lineup for Donington Park, June 10–14, 2026, and this one’s gonna melt faces faster than a solo from Slash himself! Headlining the madness are three colossal names – Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses, and the long-awaited return of Linkin Park (yes, really! 😱). All three are UK exclusives,...

Alright, prog nerds and post-rock dreamers — the time signatures are getting weird again, and that can only mean one thing… ArcTanGent Festival is back for 2026, baby! 🧠🎶 Taking over the lush fields of Fernhill Farm in Bristol next August, ArcTanGent once again proves why it’s the ultimate gathering for forward-thinking metalheads. If you’ve ever wept to a tremolo-picked...

Applications for the use of accessible facilities at Download Festival 2026 will open at midday on Tuesday 4th November. That’s your moment to get in early for accessible camping, viewing platforms, and all the facilities that make Donington Park the loudest, safest, and most inclusive metal weekend on Earth. 🏕️🎶 🔧 HOW TO APPLY You’ll need to head over to...

SAXON & THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT TO HEADLINE MAID OF STONE 2026! 🤘🎸🏕️ Hold onto your pints, butt — Maid of Stone Festival 2026 has just unleashed its first wave of bands, and it’s an absolute belter. This ain’t just another weekend in the park — it’s three days of full-throttle British rock ‘n’ roll mayhem at Mote Park, Maidstone. 🏴🔥...

🔥Including the first two headliners: SAXON and THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT! 🗓️ Dates: Friday 17th – Sunday 19th July 2026📍 Location: Mote Park, Maidstone Mote Park is about to erupt again, mun! 🏕️ Maid of Stone Festival has just unleashed the first 20 bands for its 2026 line-up, and if this first wave is anything to go by — next summer...

Joining Judas Priest, Saxon, and a growing army of metal mayhem Hold onto your leather jackets, metalheads — Bloodstock Open Air 2026 just dropped another monster announcement, and it’s heavier than a dragon’s breakfast. 🐉🎸 Leading the charge? None other than Zakk Wylde’s riff-lord army, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, who are set to storm Catton Park next August! Expect thunderous grooves,...

Bloodstock Festival isn’t messing about for its 25th anniversary extravaganza. Catton Park is going nuclear in August 2026, and the latest announcement just proved it. The mighty Saxon are back, and they’re not just back anywhere – they’re headlining the first-ever Thursday main stage slot in Bloodstock history. And as if that wasn’t enough to send ale flying in the...

Pack your hoodies, your air guitars, and maybe even a pair of wellies, butt – Winter’s End 2026 is back at Trecco Bay Holiday Park, South Wales from Thursday 29th January to Sunday 1st February 2026. 🏖️ Here’s your no-nonsense, riff-heavy FAQ & survival guide so you don’t end up sleeping in the arcade machines or queueing three hours for...

Well, butt, if you thought Winter’s End 2026 was already stacked, grab your thermals and your pint mugs because the FINAL 12 acts have just dropped – and they’ve only gone and added a Thursday night headliner! 👀❄️ Yep, the shred queen herself Sophie Lloyd is stepping up to headline Thursday night. That’s right – the guitar wizard who’s been...