Latitude Festival 2026: Dust, Discovery And A Weekend Of Family Festival Magic
There is something wonderfully reassuring about arriving at Latitude Festival. The familiar walk beneath the towering trees of Henham Park, the pink sheep dotted across the landscape, families already hauling wagons overflowing with camping gear, and the unmistakable...
Download Festival Is More Than Just the Metal
I’ve been attending Download Festival since 2005. Every year, as I walk through those gates, I feel something that can be difficult to explain to people who have never experienced it. For a few days each June, I stop feeling like I’m standing on the outside looking in. I belong.
Albums Of The Year 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, it’s impossible not to marvel at just how rich, varied and boundary-pushing this year has been for music. From bold reinventions by established heavyweights to fearless debuts and long-awaited returns, artists across genres have stretched...
Latitude Festival 2025: A Family Festival Full Of Discovery, Delight And Just A Bit of Madness
Now we "do Glastonbury" most years, but having missed out on a ticket this year we decided to try something new, so off to the wonderful Suffolk countryside to Latitude Festival we went. I'd never been to an alternative UK festival, so was super excited to make a...
Albums Of The Year 2024
2024 has been yet another year of fabulous new music and reimaginings of music of bygone eras brought afresh for a new audience. Here is a curated list of records the Rockshot Magazine have been playing over and over throughout the year, a feast for the senses even if...
The Hillbilly Moon Explosion Have Our Love For Evermore in London
The Hillbilly Moon Explosion are one of those genre-crossing bands that magnetically attract attention wherever they go, the kind of cult band beloved by those in the know who notch up millions of streams while retaining an underground reputation. With one foot in the...
A Child’s Experience At Glastonbury 2024
Only 7 years old, but already our son considers himself a Glastonbury Festival veteran! It’s his 5th visit to the wonderful festival, 5 and a half if you count when I was 6 months pregnant. He’s missed only the fallow and covid years in his lifetime and is in ours and...
Toby Lee’s Got The Blues At The Gibson Guitar Garage
Cliches like ‘the future of The Blues’ or ‘guitar prodigy’ are thrown around frequently when Toby Lee is discussed. The nineteen year old has amassed hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, starred in the stage production of School Of Rock, appeared on the Ellen...
Charlie Worsham Learns To Pray At C2C
It’s the opening night of C2C, the weekend where country music takes over the O2 in London. The CMA Songwriters Series is the traditional kick off for the festival, with some of the crowd heading to the show straight from the airports, their stetsons tied to their...
Rockshot Magazine’s Photographer Favourites 2023
2023 has been an immense year for live music and the Rockshot Magazine team have had a tonne of fun getting down to headline shows and festivals throughout the year to capture the raw energy of today's finest live music acts giving it their all on stages large and...
Albums Of The Year 2023
2023 has been an incredible year for new music, both from artists putting our their debut LPs and new, innovative and gorgeously textured records from established acts. The Rockshot Magazine team ourselves are a music-loving troupe with diverse and eclectic tastes,...
Sophie B. Hawkins Lays It Down In London
The Forge is an intimate venue, newly refitted in steel and glass. Only three hundred people can get through the doors, just off the well-trodden Camden High Street, and tickets sold out long before tonight. It’s Sophie B. Hawkins’ first London show in fifteen years...
Wuzy Bambussy Are Just Shy Of Why
Bristol-based Wuzy Bambussy recently unveiled their catchy single, Just Shy Of Why. Wuzy Bambussy is a musical trio based in the beating heart of England’s West Country, featuring...
Taking Children To Glastonbury Festival – Looking Back At 2023
With tickets to the 2024 edition of Glastonbury Festival now sold out across the two primary sales, those with little ones may be scratching around for child care to cover the festival dates. If you haven’t already considered taking them along, I’d urge you to think...
Albums Of The Year 2022
While not in any particular order and by no means an exhaustive list of our favourite records of 2022, here are a handful of those that stuck out in what has been a massive year of music. From earworm-filled LPs and thought-provoking records to the banger-laden...
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