Looking at it today, Download Festival is an institution. It stands as a beacon of awesomeness to all fans of metal music. Attended by rockers and metalheads from all over the globe, Download Festival is the biggest annual gathering of fans of the genre in England. Located at the historic Read more…
In the run up to a festival, I tend to get a little bit excited. I imagine how great the festival is going to be, reminisce about the good times I’ve had at past festivals and what I’m going to do this time. It’s funny. When you think back to Read more…
If you haven’t heard, the Coronavirus is sweeping across the globe at the moment, causing literally worldwide disruption to all of society. And obviously the biggest and worst part of this is that live gigs and festivals have been cancelled! What’s worse, there is a theory that there will be Read more…
If you haven’t been to a gig before, then your first mosh pit is likely going to be quite the experience People running into each other and jumping over the place; from an outsiders perspective, mosh pits can seem very violent and unpleasant. And honestly, they can be. When the Read more…
Download Festival 2020 was supposed to take place this weekend. However, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it’s been cancelled. There is a virtual festival taking place in its stead though; Download Festival TV. Dozens of the artists booked to play in 2020 will have some of their content or previous Read more…
It doesn’t matter if you are heading off to your first, or one hundredth music festival. You may still find yourself wondering if you should take a pop up tent. At first glance, they’re the perfect festival tent, right? So… should you take one? If you don’t want to read Read more…
Music concerts have been around forever. Well, okay, concerts have existed since the mid-17th Century. And if you want to get technical, ancient Greeks did open-air performances to crowds, which isn’t a million miles away from a gig. But whatever. The modern ‘gig’ has been around for less than a century. Read more…
In 1986 the Monsters of Rock music festival took place at Donington park in England. Some of the classic bands performing that day included Ozzy Osbourne, Motörhead and Def Leppard. The festival is remembered now as a day full of world-famous and genre-defining bands. However, in the early afternoon, a Read more…
Recently I have seen a lot of articles online with the very alarming statement that ‘all gigs will be banned until August 2021’. And I don’t think it’s crazy to assume some people have shared these articles without actually reading past the headline. So, I did some basic research and Read more…
You know those little bits of string that come attached to tents? Brightly coloured lengths of nylon rope that look so neat and tidy on a new tent. And then you unravel them and can never get them to look that way again. We’ve all seen them, but who actually Read more…