Mad About Rock

  Monday 23 March 2026: With less than three months to go, Download Festival has revealed the thrilling line-up for its ultimate playground, District X. Featuring the likes of Five, Electric Six, Dick & Dom, The All-American Rejects, Creeper, MODESTEP, Bat Sabbath, TokenGrass and all sorts of other wild and wonderful delights, District X promises to take Downloaders to another dimension once again. Taking place from 10-14 June 2026 at the legendary Donington Park, Download Festival continues to re-define the traditional festival experience. Weekend camping tickets have now sold out, but final remaining weekend arena and day tickets are available now at www.downloadfestival.co.uk . This year, iconic 90s boyband Five will live up to their lyric “Five bad boys with the power to rock you” by playing Download Festival for the very first time and bringing their high-energy hits like ‘Slam Dunk (Da Funk)’ and ‘Everybody Get Up’ to Donington Park. Five won’t be the only act bringing a...

  Today, Tuesday 28th February, the brilliant 2000trees Festival can announce a whole more bands, acts and artists for their 2023 event. This announcement comes at the end of the now annual 7 Days Of Trees week, with a new band being announced every day for 7 days on a different platform each day. Heading up this announcement are the stunning US emo rock band American Football who are taking time away from supporting The 1975 to play our wonderful festival. Also announced are Californian rock band Eagles Of Death Metal, Sacremento punk band Destroy Boys, the wonderful Belgians Brutus, Detroit 'high voltage' rock band par excellence Electric Six and one of the very best British bands around at the moment, with a string of incredible new singles recently released, Brighton band Black Honey. We also have, fresh from supporting the mighty Gojira, one of the UKs best heavy bands Employed To Serve, Welsh alternative band The Joy Formidable, Dutch rockers De Staat (whose 'Witch Do...

  The Kut’s forthcoming album “GRIT” is a story of independence, passion & purpose. From the contagious award winning “ANIMO” to the closing punk rock strides of “And 1 More…” the long-awaited sophomore oozes courage, resilience and punk rock spirit. It’s a knowing pep talk on following your instincts, from one of the UK’s most hotly tipped underground artists. Produced by James LeRock (Def Leppard / Skindred), The Kut leads on vocals/guitar on the album, moonlighting as drummer & bassist on two tracks, alongside her women in music collective. The Kut is a British rock solo-artist. A multi-instrumentalist, songwriter & PhD Graduate, she’s a Double Award Winner in the UK Songwriting Contest, winning UKSC Best Rock Song & UKSC Best Music Video with ‘ANIMO’ (meaning courage) & Winner of the International Songwriting Rock Award (Mar ’22). The Kut was awarded Arts Council funding to create her second studio album, featuring her touring line up. Recent tour dates i...