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By eight am, it’s too hot to stay in a tent. The stages are packed before lunchtime and we are raring to go for another day at Trees. Dashing between patches of shade, we’re hyped and hydrated for our ...

Punktastic's current Editor-In-Chief. Photographer, nerd, I watch far too many horror movies and get way too attached to fictional characters ...

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In the sunny hills of the Cotswolds is a little slice of punk rock heaven, all the things we hope for from the festival ...

The Dirty Nil’s last album – the delightful, light-hearted and colourful ‘Free Rein To Passions’ – is the audio equivalent of a pick-me-up. Striking a divine balance between fun and fragile, the ...

Calva Louise are everything. That’s not intended to be a Swiftie “OMG they’re everything to me” statement: the three of them encompass so much in both their sound and their ambition. The multi ...

Time. You’re thinking about time. Thinking about it running down, thinking about out it running out. Memento Mori; Remember you will die. It starts so simply. Feedback squeals through the speakers, ...

A Day To Remember hit the stage like they’ve been shot out of a cannon. No easing in, no slow burn, just bang, straight into the chaos with ‘The Downfall Of Us All’. Jeremy McKinnon’s voice sounds ...

Twenty two summers in, and Download shows no sign of ever slowing down. With a lineup to thrill everyone from hardcore slammers through to pop punk kids, the biggest weekend of the year channels the ...

Royale Lynn is a solo artist and the thing about art, real art, is that only the artist knows what they are aiming for, and what they want. The audience doesn’t know what to expect. Music is art, but ...