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From Wednesday 15 October 2025

LIVE: Parkway Drive @ OVO Wembley Arena

The last time we saw Parkway Drive in the UK, they were squashed into a corner of Download 2024 as the secret band that sparked a stampede up the slippery hill. Eighteen months later and they’re back in their natural habitat, filling the vastness that is Wembley Arena. While

Friday 10 October 2025

Live: Murder By Death @ Islington Assembly Hall

It’s a bittersweet night at Islington Assembly Hall. After all, it’s always a joyous occasion to see your favourite band play live, right?  Unfortunately, everyone in the room knows that, unless they plan to travel to the US to catch any other shows on this tour, it’s going

Thursday 25 September 2025

LIVE: TURNOVER @ THE ROUNDHOUSE

Anyone who wasn’t a teenager when ‘Peripheral Vision’ dropped in 2015 probably wouldn’t get what all the fuss is about. But for those who spent countless hours lying on bedroom floors letting Austin Getz’s dreamy vocals wash over them like some kind of musical hypnotherapy, Saturday night at the

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 16 September 2025

LIVE: Scene Queen @ O2 Forum Kentish Town

It’s practically an online cliché to mock “safe spaces” by now, but when you’re in one, especially at a metal show, it feels like a hug. Scene Queen has attracted a crowd who are overwhelmingly female, mostly channeling neon pink, and all of whom are absolutely comfortable being themselves.

Wednesday 10 September 2025

LIVE: Reading Festival 2025 – Sunday

The breakfast queues are grim. People stand around like extras from a zombie flick, clinging to their coffees as if they’re the only thing keeping them upright. But there’s a strange camaraderie to it too; we all know we look rough, we’re all exhausted, and we’re all pretending this

Tuesday 09 September 2025

LIVE: Reading Festival 2025 – Saturday

Saturday morning arrives with all the grace of a brick through a window. The campsite looks like a bomb’s gone off – there are at least three gazebos in trees that definitely weren’t there yesterday, someone’s managed to lose both shoes AND their dignity, and everyone’s moving like they’re

Monday 08 September 2025

LIVE: Reading Festival 2025 – Friday

Friday at Reading feels like potential energy about to explode. The sun beats down on freshly pitched tents, and there’s that familiar mixture of excitement and mild panic as people realise they’ve forgotten tent pegs again. The BBC iPlayer stage is already buzzing by mid-afternoon, and you can sense

Saturday 23 August 2025

LIVE: Bloodstock Open Air 2025 – Sunday

Sunday at Bloodstock feels like the last big push, the point where tired bodies somehow find new reserves of energy. The arena is buzzing from the off, breakfast beers in hand and pits already forming, and there’s a sense that everyone wants to squeeze out every last

Friday 22 August 2025

LIVE: Bloodstock Open Air 2025 – Saturday

Saturday at Bloodstock hums with mid-festival energy; campsites buzzing, bars busy, and fans shaking off hangovers or diving straight back into the pit. With Machine Head topping the bill, there’s a restless anticipation in the air from the very first riff. Words: Kathryn Edwards  //  Photos: Jez Pennington Cage Fight Kicking