Recently I made a blog post about how to survive the hot weather at music festivals. I thought that it made sense to follow this up with a ‘how to survive the wet weather at festivals’ blog post too. Since this is the UK and we have a lot of Read more…
Music Festivals are starting to happen again in the UK – Hooray! With the Download Festival Pilot in June and Bloodstock taking place in August, people are starting to head back outside to enjoy live music. However, the UK has just experienced a heatwave and another is expected in August. Read more…
The great news is that Download Festival has come back for 2021! While the ‘official’ festival was announced as cancelled back in March, that doesn’t mean there won’t be any events at the histonic Donington site this year. The Download Festival Pilot 2021 is a small festival that is part Read more…
Devil Horns. It is a gesture that is intrinsically linked with heavy metal music. Let’s do a test: try imagining a metalhead at a gig. We’re they a long-haired white guy in a Slayer T-shirt? Probably. Did you automatically imagine them throwing horns? Almost definitely. Done by making a fist Read more…
Recently I made a blog post answering the question ‘Is Slipknot Satanic’. As a fan of the band, I think that it is clear what the band does and doesn’t stand for. However, I totally understand that for someone outside of the scene, Slipknot may indeed seem like the Devil-worshipping Read more…
The idea of music festivals didn’t really exist before the mid 20th century. Outdoor concerts took place but they aren’t exactly the same, usually being either classical or military music. Not much crowd-surfing going at an orchestral performance of Mozart. The Glastonbury Festival in 1970 was not the first music Read more…
The phrase ‘Heavy Metal’ being used to describe a genre of music is now such a well-known term that it’s hard to imagine a time before it. How were the first bands described without that ubiquitous wording? The origins of the phrase ‘Heavy Metal’ are a little bit lost to Read more…
2020 was a dumpster fire of a year, on that I think we can all agree. The Covid 19 Pandemic obviously ruined most of the year, but don’t forget everything else that happened: Australia fires, Brexit happened, George Floyd died and white supremacy was on the rise. 2020 was BAD. Read more…
Festivals are a time to cut loose and have some fun! So this blog post is going to be full of things you could take to a festival that are just for fun: from silly items, to drinking games to useful stuff that is a little quirky. They also can Read more…
Do you have a festival addict in your family? Are your kids getting hyped for their first festival, or maybe your partner has already bought tickets to every festival available next year (if they happen at all that is…) Well, with Christmas just around the corner, I thought I’d come Read more…