Slam Dunk Festival truly means the start of the UK festival season. Yes, there are a few events before (such as the excellent Takedown Festival), but the May bank holiday weekend with thousands of pop punk, emo and metal fans descending on Hatfield and Leeds is truly when things kick off for the UK alternative…
Nashville-based Charlotte Sands has made a big mark in the pop punk scene and it’s no surprise that she was nominated for Best International Breakthrough Artist and won Best Breakthrough Album at this year’s Heavy Music Awards for Love And Other Lies. Fresh from winning her award at the awards show the night before we got…
“The boys are back in town, we’re gonna party down, ‘cos here comes Bowling For Soup”. An intro song known well across the UK for many years, heard one more time as Texas’ favourite pop punk quartet Bowling For Soup hit the stage at Slam Dunk for their first appearance since 2017. With a set…
Enter Shikari brought more than just immense energy to their Slam Dunk South headline set – there were imaginative visuals, pyro and even fireworks. Reminding us of the importance of community vocalist Rou Reynolds gave us more than just music to enjoy and throwback memories from the band’s earlier records. To say they put on…
22-year old Jaden Hossler aka Jxdn might be known as a TikTok sensation to most, but he more than proved he belongs on a stage at this year’s Slam Dunk Festival. As he took to the Key Club stage at Hatfield Park, both his hat and keyboard went flying across the stage within seconds as…
As Slam Dunk 2023 grows closer, and festival season 2023 is due to kick off, the task of planning your day to fit all the bands in is here. Gates will open at 9am each day, with stages all opening at 11am. Across north and south, stage times and splits will remain the same. Taking…
With the UK festival scene stampeding towards us like a raging bull, the team here at Rock Sins have been collecting up the information of all the best rock, metal and alternative festivals taking place across the country over the next few months. Here’s a look at just SOME of the great events happening in…
Following on from their stonking first lineup announcement, the team at Slam Dunk Festival 2023 have added another eight bands, further cementing what is going to be one of the must attend events on the calendar next year. Already boasting the likes of headliners Enter Shikari and The Offspring, Bowling For Soup, Creeper, Holding Absence,…
2022’s festival season kicked off with the return of Slam Dunk Festival, bringing some of the best in pop punk, with the first of two dates at Leeds’ Temple Newsam. We sent photographer Abbi Draper-Scott to capture the day and you can check out the photo highlights from Slam Dunk North below, including Cancer Bats,…
Given that her most recent show on UK shores a few weeks ago was supporting the reformed My Chemical Romance in a packed stadium, an early slot for Cassy Brooking, aka Cassyette (6) feels like somewhat of a change of pace. “Guys I’m still waking up, you’re gonna help me right?”, comes the jovial quip…
After last year’s event being pushed back to September due to Covid, this year Slam Dunk Festival was back where it belongs in our calendars, kicking off the festival season of 2022 with a much needed dose of some of the best in rock and pop punk! Check out some of our photo highlights, captured…
The sunshine (eventually after a bit of rain), shone down on Slam Dunk Festival (South) festival-goers, both in the literal sense and in the form of Mod Sun’s (our very own sunshine) Slam Dunk debut. Playing on the Rock Sound stage Mod brought an energetic performance to the crowd, performing hits from his latest album,…
