UK Music Festivals

The amps are warming up, the festival pints are calling, and Maid of Stone Festival 2026 is ready to unleash three glorious days of rock ’n’ roll chaos at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent. 🍻🔥 Running from Friday 17 July to Sunday 19 July 2026, the Planet Rock-backed festival is kicking things off with a packed Friday schedule spread across...

Bloodstock VIP’ers, prepare your stomachs because the flavour overlords are coming back to Catton Park! 🍔🌭🍟 OMG Street Food is returning exclusively to The Serpent’s Lair, bringing a gloriously filthy menu packed with towering burgers, loaded fries, monster hot dogs and breakfasts capable of dragging even the most battered metalhead back from the dead. That’s right, mun — while the...

The countdown is well and truly on! With Steelhouse Festival 2026 just around the corner, organisers have released the official site layout, giving thousands of rock fans the chance to plan their weekend before making the climb to one of the UK’s most unique festival locations. Whether you’re camping for the full weekend, glamping in style, bringing a campervan or...

The countdown to Download Festival has officially begun, and the Download community has wasted absolutely no time! If you were hoping to grab an Early Bird ticket for the UK’s biggest rock and metal festival, we’ve got some news… They’re officially SOLD OUT! 🎉🔥 Once again, Download fans have shown exactly why this festival is one of the most loved...

Festival season is officially in full swing, the tents are being unpacked, the battle jackets are being dusted off, and thousands of rock fans are preparing to descend on Stonedead Festival for another weekend of riffs, beers and absolute chaos. 🎸🍻 But before you start loading the car with enough alcohol to sink a pirate ship, the Stonedead team have...

With just seven weeks to go until thousands of metalheads descend upon Catton Park for another glorious weekend of riffs, beers and beautiful chaos, The Riff Report feels it’s time to address the giant elephant in the festival field. Or more specifically… The giant Ferris wheel that isn’t there. Every year festival-goers arrive at Bloodstock Open Air expecting the usual...

When people talk about Download Festival, they usually talk about the bands. The legendary headliners. The giant mosh pits. The campsite chaos. The questionable sleeping arrangements. And the annual battle against whatever weather the British summer decides to throw at us. But let’s be honest for a minute, butt… None of us are surviving four days at Donington without some...

Every Downloader Thinks Their Camp Is The Best… But Who’s Actually Right? Let’s be honest, butt. Every single year at Download Festival, thousands of rock and metal fans descend upon Donington Park armed with tents, crates of beer, questionable life choices and enough fancy dress costumes to fill a Hollywood wardrobe department. And every year, without fail, every camp claims...

Donington Witnesses One Of The Biggest Rock Moments Of 2026 🤘🔥 There are headline sets. There are Download headline sets. And then there are the performances that become part of festival folklore. On Sunday night at Download Festival 2026, Linkin Park delivered exactly that. Standing before a packed Donington Park crowd stretching as far as the eye could see, the...

It’s happened, Downloaders. After days of mud, sunshine, questionable campsite decisions, overpriced coffee, unbelievable live music and enough walking to qualify for an Olympic event, we’ve reached the final day of Download Festival 2026. But don’t start packing up those tents just yet. Sunday is absolutely loaded with massive bands, surprise moments, singalongs, circle pits and enough riffs to shake...

The rock and metal community has been hit with some incredibly sad news following this year’s Download Festival. Reports from the BBC have confirmed that the driver of a lorry believed to have been transporting equipment to Download Festival has sadly died in hospital following a crash. While thousands of fans gathered at Donington Park to celebrate the music, the...

Not The Ride Everyone Else Was Expecting, Butt… Every year Download Festival gives us something unforgettable. Sometimes it’s a legendary headline set. Sometimes it’s a surprise guest appearance. Sometimes it’s a crowd surfer dressed as a giant banana launching themselves over the barrier. And sometimes… It’s a Ferris Wheel becoming the most talked-about attraction at the entire festival. 🤣 While...

A Landmark Moment at Donington Download Festival has seen some absolutely legendary headline performances over the years. Iron Maiden. Metallica. Slipknot. AC/DC. Rammstein. Guns N’ Roses. But on Sunday night at Download Festival 2026, history was made as Linkin Park became the first female-fronted band ever to headline the UK’s biggest rock and metal festival. And what a moment it...

Emotion, Evolution, Emily Armstrong And Donington Singing Every Word There are headline sets that close a festival. Then there are headline sets that feel like they close a chapter, open another one, and leave 95,000 people standing in a field wondering how on earth they are supposed to go back to normal life after that. Linkin Park headlining the Apex...

Pop-Punk Hooks, Metalcore Bounce, Massive Singalongs And Donington Emptying The Tank By Sunday night at Download Festival, everyone is running on fumes. The boots are battered.The voice is shredded.The campsite has become a lawless village of folding chairs, sun cream, warm cans and people pretending they are not emotionally attached to a portable phone charger. The body is saying, “Please,...