From one-day events to full week­enders, we’re delight­ed to see that there’s a grow­ing num­ber of spring fes­ti­vals hap­pen­ing in towns and cities around the UK. Check our guide to see if there’s some­thing hap­pen­ing at your local venues.

Dark Arts Saturday 15 March

Dark Arts is back again with a great line­up of punk at the Bel­grave Music Hall, Leeds. Court­ing, Home Coun­ties, No Win­dows, Hank, Glad­boy and more, with tick­ets only £17. From mid­day onwards. Dark Arts tickets 

Roundhouse Three Sixty 1–30 April

What has tra­di­tion­al­ly been In the Round Fes­ti­val at the Round­house, Cam­den, has now changed to Round­house Three Six­ty. For one epic month, there’s music, spo­ken word, the­atre, visu­al arts, pod­casts, and club night. Corinne Bai­ley Rae, Sherel­le­land, Sona Jobarteh and the Phil­har­mo­nia, Love to Love You Baby: Don­na Sum­mer Reimag­ined are just a few events hap­pen­ing over the month. Check out the full line­up on the site. Round­house Three Sixty

Takedown 4–5 April

It’s back! And this year, there will be Fero­cious Dog, Elvana, Urne, Sunk, Bad Touch, Desert Storm, Kite Thief, Lake Mal­ice, and a ton more bands and artists appear­ing. At Portsmouth Guild­hall – tick­ets and VIP tick­ets avail­able. Take­down Fes­ti­val tickets

Bad Friday 18 April

Bad Fri­day is a bbq all-day­er fea­tur­ing eight bands – from Belfast’s garage punk trio Jock, chan­nel­ing the ener­gy of riot grrrl icons, to the fem­i­nist garage-rock of The Baby Seals, and the math-rock-made-sexy sounds of Brighton’s SLAG. Also alt-rock ener­gy of alright (okay), Bristol’s alt-rock Dead­head­ing, goth­ic dark­wave of Bor­der Wid­ow, the sto­ry­telling of Dogvi­o­let, and the fuzzy indie rock of woon. Wind­mill Brix­ton. Doors 15.30. Tick­ets for Bad Fri­day

The Winter’s End 24–27 April

It’s prog heav­en. Win­ters End 2025 com­pletes line­up with Airbag, Haze, Cre­do and Lesoir at Chep­stow Drill Hall, Low­er Church St, Chep­stow. Yes trib­ute band Yes Please will be join­ing Sky­lines in a dou­ble head­er on the Thurs­day pre-fes­ti­val bash. Ear­ly bird tick­ets at just £120 for the week­end (Fri­day-Sun­day) or £135 for the com­plete fes­ti­val (Thurs­day-Sun­day) are still  avail­able on the Store page, as are Thurs­day night tick­ets at just £15.

Brick Lane Jazz 25–27 April

Over three days at the Tru­man Brew­ery, Vil­lage Under­ground, Rough Trade East, Rich Mix and oth­er venues, Brick Lane Jazz Fes­ti­val show­cas­es a selec­tion of artists mak­ing the biggest waves on London’s vibrant jazz scene today. There are hun­dreds of artists tak­ing part, among them Sans Soucis, Katie Tup­per, Rio Rainz Ragz Orig­i­nale, Move 78, KO Quar­tet, Allexa Nava… check out the web­site for the full list. Brick Lane Jazz Festival 

Sound City 2–4 May

Sound City is the des­ti­na­tion for dis­cov­er­ing the fresh­est tal­ent in music. Kick­ing off with the Sound City+ Con­fer­ence on Fri­day May 2nd, fol­lowed by the mul­ti-venue fes­ti­val across May 3rd-4th, this year’s line­up includes The Roys­ton Club, Nieve Ella, Rianne Downey, Over­pass, Pan­ic Shack, Siob­han Winifred, The Cheap Thrills, The Clause, Clif­fords, The Stingrays, Bet­ter Joy, TTSSFU. Sound City

Gigantic All Dayer 3 May

The one-day music bash is return­ing to the fes­ti­val cir­cuit. Ris­ing-up in Bristol’s Mar­ble Fac­to­ry, Gigan­tic will be back with a colos­sal line-up of clas­sic indie sounds, stacked across 12 hours. Inspi­ral Car­pets head­line, with Ned’s Atom­ic Dust­bin, Jim Bob, The Dar­ling Buds and par­ty with Bez. There’s all day real ale and cider, street food plus lots more … tick­ets for Gigan­tic here

Brixton Disco Festival 3 May

This event takes place at a vari­ety of venues around Brix­ton – Elec­tric Brix­ton, Brix­ton Jamm, Phonox (New Venue), Brix­ton Vil­lage, Ritzy and Black Cul­tur­al Archives for the sev­enth year. Get­ting you into seri­ous dance mode are Bar­bara Tuck­er, French music pro­duc­er and DJ Dim­itri From Paris, DJ Spin­na, Faith spe­cial guest Fran­cois K, Mel­vo Bap­tiste, MiN­NA, nation­al trea­sure Nor­man Jay MBE, Omar, and Amsterdam’s ris­ing star Ton­no Disko. Apart from live music, there will be DJs, screen­ings, talks, food and drink in the venues sur­round­ing Brix­ton’s icon­ic Win­drush Square. From 3pm to 3am. Brix­ton Dis­co Festival

Sounds From The Other City 4 May

It’s Sal­ford we’re talk­ing about, in case you won­dered, tak­ing cen­tre stage over Man­ches­ter. SFTOC, as it’s known, cham­pi­ons “new music, art and alter­na­tive under­ground cul­ture.” Line­up com­ing soon. Tick­ets avail­able from SFTOC

The Seventh Wave 10 May

Bring­ing you Ban­co de Gaia, Pye Cor­ner Audio and War­ring­ton-Run­corn Devel­op­ment Plan. Ok not strict­ly a fes­ti­val but we want­ed to bring to your atten­tion these great nights at The Cas­tle And Fal­con, Birm­ing­ham by The Sev­enth Wave as part of The Sev­enth Wave Fes­ti­val of Elec­tron­ic Music. Doors 6pm to 11pm. Tick­ets for Sev­enth Wave

Meltchester Saturday 17 May

Tick­ets are fly­ing out for this one so if you’re inter­est­ed, move fast. Meltch­ester is Man­ches­ter’s one-day psych and garage rock fes­ti­val, held at Pojek­ts Skatepark. Pre­sent­ed by Sour Grapes Records. Snapped Ankles, Keg, Earth Tongue, Gloin and more on the line­up! 2pm – 10pm. Meltch­ester tickets

Get Together Saturday 17 May

Sheffield­’s great all-day­er takes place with head­lin­ers Eng­lish Teacher, B C Camp­light, Moon­land­ingz, Divorce, Swim Deep plus loads more. At Kel­ham Island and Neepsend. Beer lovers should also get ready to embark on The Kel­ham Beer Mile, a unique ale trail offer­ing a taste of the city’s thriv­ing craft beer scene. Tick­ets for Get Together

Dub Pistols Boat Party Saturday 17 May

Not sure if this is a fes­ti­val but it looks fun. All aboard the Dub Boat (The Dutch Mas­ter) for the third Dub Pis­tols Boat Par­ty, 12.45pm till 5pm. It’s a cruise along the Thames, with two floors of music and great views of Lon­don. Pic­ture your­self sur­round­ed by the hap­pi­est par­ty peo­ple, all cel­e­brat­ing togeth­er. Tick­ets for Dub Pis­tols Boat Party

Baltic Weekender 30–31 May

Stacks of music tak­ing place over the week­end at the Baltic tri­an­gle in Liv­er­pool. Bakey, Ben UFO, Horse­meat Dis­co, Miggs, X Club and more. Tick­ets avail­able now, on first release. Baltic Week­ender

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