Festival Reviews

There are festivals. There are rock festivals. And then there’s Steelhouse. Perched high above the South Wales valleys at Hafod-y-Dafal Farm, Steelhouse has spent fifteen editions doing things its own wonderfully stubborn way. One stage. No clashes. A mountain. A field full of rock fans. A bar. Some guitars. And absolutely no guarantee whatsoever that the Welsh weather won’t attempt to...

Donington Park | 12–14 June 2026 There are festivals, there are rock festivals, and then there’s Download. That glorious annual pilgrimage where tens of thousands of black T-shirts migrate towards a field in the Midlands to worship at the altar of distorted guitars, overpriced food and the sacred ritual of waking up in a tent wondering why everything hurts. In...

There are certain things you can rely on every summer. Festival beer will somehow cost more than your first car. Somebody will forget the tent pegs. Someone will confidently announce that their phone still has “loads of battery” approximately seventeen minutes before it dies. And thousands of rock fans will make the pilgrimage up one particularly unforgiving Welsh mountain for...