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From Thursday 18 September 2025

LIVE: Burn it Down Festival 2025, Torquay

Down on the English Riviera, festival season is about to come to an abrupt end under a curtain of constant, swirling rain. However, inside Burn it Down’s intimate collection of harbourside venues, the only moisture to be found is blood, sweat and beers. Back for its seventh instalment, the festival

Tuesday 17 September 2024

LIVE: Burn it Down Festival 2024, Torquay

On the face of it, Burn it Down should never have worked. Little old Torquay just doesn’t host award-winning festivals – or at least, it never used to. Six iterations in, however, and the Best Micro Festival in the country (officially) is only going from strength to strength. Burn

Wednesday 10 April 2024

LIVE: Hot Water Music @ SWX, Bristol

Rolling into Bristol on a poetically warm, rain-soaked Friday night, Hot Water Music arrive ready to kick off a celebratory UK run that culminates at Manchester Punk Festival. Armed with 30 years of genre-defining material (certainly a solid decade of which remains hugely influential), this is something like their

Tuesday 26 September 2023

LIVE: Burn it Down Festival, Torquay

Now in its fifth year, Burn it Down Festival has evolved from its tentative beginnings into a well-organised two-day event, boasting a diverse line-up of up-and-coming rock and metal acts across its multi-venue harbourside setting. Bringing a host of moderate-sized touring acts to Torquay and plonking them smack bang in the