Is it too soon to start a count down yet for Bloodstock? (136 days to go, in case you were wondering… yes, 19 weekends) – we’re more than halfway there!
With lots more bands and festival fun to reveal before then, here’s 12 more ing the bill to help round out the most fun you’ll have all summer.
Swedish rabble-ros Avatar jostle their way onto Friday’s Sophie Lancaster stage bill. ing them that day are US metalcore squad, Thrown into Exile. Saturday, the Sophie stage welcomes the hotly-tipped, viscerally-dubbed Pupil Splicer and hardcore/crossover thrash newcomers (feat. of Tesseract and Eths) Cage Fight. Sunday’s fun will be ably abetted by nu-metal stalwarts Ill Nino, Manchester hardcore noiseniks Guilt Trip, hard-hitting rockers Skarlett Riot, and progressive groove/sludge merchants Desert Storm.
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Over on the Ronnie James Dio main stage, the super-buzzy Des Moines, Iowa upstarts Vended are set to kick off proceedings and blow your Sunday morning wide open. Epic Swedish doomsters Sorcerer and industrial metalheads Red Method are also both added to Friday’s bill, and waking you all up first thing on Saturday, will be Danish death metallers, Baest.
Unfortunately, Phil Anselmo & the Illegals will no longer be gracing Bloodstock with their hotly received Pantera set, due to the cancellation of their entire European tour, but rest assured there are plenty of other headbanging riffs across the weekend to take your fancy.
For those of you who can’t for the whole weekend, or perhaps you’ve never been to Bloodstock before and just want a one day taster, mark your calendar with this important date! Day tickets will go on sale in the ticket store on Friday 4th February at 9am, priced £65 (+bkg fees) for adults and £20 (+bkg fees) for children (4-11 years). Kids under 4 go free!
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In other news, Bloodstock’s phenomenally popular weekend ticket Deposit Scheme is filling up fast. Grab yours quick if you want to take advantage as once the allocation is filled, it will no longer be available. This year, payments are spread across 6 months instead of 5, making it even more manageable to secure your place and pay for your ticket in instalments. An initial payment of £31.20 is due upon sign up, then five additional payments of £24.16 will debit your bank on 25 Mar, 29 Apr, 27 May, 24 Jun, with a final instalment on 29 Jul, which will include any applicable /booking fees. Sign up to the scheme here.
With tickets selling faster than ever, all VIP packages Early Bird tix and campervan es are already sold out. Weekend camping tix & child tix are available now at the ticket store.
Bloodstock will take place at Catton Park, Derbyshire on 11th-14th August 2022.
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