Bloodstock Open Air

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

Thursday 21 August 2025

LIVE: Bloodstock Open Air 2025 – Friday

The morning breaks with gold‑dust sunshine and the restless buzz of a metal congregation rousing itself. As the gates part, Catton Park became a ritual gathering. After Thursday’s warm-up, BOA 2025 had officially started. Words: Kathryn Edwards Photos: Jez Pennington Konvent Over on the Ronnie James Dio Stage, Konvent prove

Tuesday 20 August 2019

LIVE: Bloodstock Open Air 2019 – Sunday

It’s Sunday. It’s a metal festival. It’s very muddy. You’d better believe tiredness is in the air by this point, but thankfully, there’s one more day of music to keep us going at Bloodstock 2019. Sunday is the day we typically see more of the legendary names appearing on

Sunday 18 August 2019

LIVE: Bloodstock Open Air 2019 – Saturday

Saturday, in festival land, is ‘the big one’. The day that sees weekend crowds nicely warmed up, but not quite so hungover they can no longer function (hi, Sunday), and day ticket crowds appear in droves; not unconnected, it’s also usually where you’ll find some of the most broadly

Saturday 17 August 2019

LIVE: Bloodstock Open Air 2019 – Friday

Taking over a few fields in the Midlands every year, Bloodstock is assuredly the metalhead’s metal festival. Bringing the heaviest of heavy music, including many bands you’d be very unlikely to find at any other UK weekend festivals, it’s a family-run and incredibly well organised affair, with it’s ‘medium

Wednesday 30 August 2017

LIVE: Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2017

Words: Rhian Wilkinson / Photos: Emma Stone Very few spaces in music feel as accepting, diverse, and special as the field at Bloodstock Open Air. Headlined by Amon Amarth, Ghost and Megadeth, Download’s slightly more extreme cousin was a joyous weekend of headbanging and horn raising. There is