Best Music Festivals in the UK

Location: Liverpool Sound City returns to the city centre in May 2025 for another weekend of rock, indie and more across various venues. Liverpool Sound City isn’t just about the live music, as the festival also runs a conference programme alongside, inviting an esteemed list of labels, promoters, artists and managers to impart their knowledge and discuss trending issues in the music scene.

Lineup (2024): Antony Szmierek / Balancing Act / Bandit / Bleach Lab / Brooke Combe / Caity Baser / Cameron Hayes / Casino / Corella / Fiona Lennon / and many more

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Location: Derby, UK

Download Festival is the UK’s number one rock and metal festival, consistently showcasing the scene’s very best artists at its iconic Donington Park site each June. Recent lineups have featured sets from the likes of Def Leppard, Slipknot and Tool, showing off exactly why Download has become a festival pilgrimage for many.

Lineup (2024): Bring Me The Horizon / Metallica / SlipknotAlexisonfire / Architects / The Distillers / Disturbed / Evanescence / and many more

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Location: Manchester, UK

Parklife Festival has grown into one of the most anticipated festivals in the UK, annually showcasing a diverse lineup of underground dance and alternative music inside Manchester’s Heaton Park.

Lineup (2024): The 1975 / Aitch / Fred Again.. / The Prodigy / Little Simz / Wu-Tang Clan / Skrillex / and many more

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Location: Newport, UK

Isle of Wight Festival is one of the UK’s longest-running music festivals, each year bringing over 90,000 music fans to the island for a weekend of rock, pop and dance. Since its establishment in 1968, the now iconic Isle of Wight Festival has seen headline sets from legends such as Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and The Who.

Lineup (2024): Pulp / Courteeners / OneRebublic / Sugababes / George Ezra / The Chemical Brothers / and many more

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Location: Pilton, UK

Glastonbury Festival is one of the world’s most famous music and performing arts festivals. Embracing each and every genre across the spectrum, from rock and pop to minimal house, techno and full-throttle drum ‘n’ bass, music-lovers flock to its spiritual fields down in Somerset.

Lineup (2024): Arctic Monkeys / Lizzo / Aitch / Alison Goldfrapp / Alt-J / Amadou & Mariam / and many more

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Location: Glasgow, UK

TRNSMT Festival brings together a vibrant mix of international artists and homegrown talent. As Scotland’s premier music festival, TRNSMT offers an electrifying weekend filled with live performances, state-of-the-art stages, and an unbeatable atmosphere.

Lineup (2024): Bella Mae / Ben Walker / Cammy Barnes / Dan South / Declan Mckenna / Disco Tits / Example / Fiona-Lee / Garbage / and many more

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Location: London, UK

Junction 2 is a London techno festival, showcasing some of the genre’s finest names inside west London’s Boston Manor Park each June. So popular has Junction 2 Festival become, it was expanded to two days for its last edition and will continue as so, for its 2020 edition. Junction 2 is one of the best dance music festivals in the UK.

Lineup (2023): ADAM BEYER / UNDERWORLD (Live) / BEN UFO B2B HELENA HAUFF / DAPHNI B2B HUNEE / DIXON / and many more

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Location: Newquay, UK

Boardmasters is the UK’s biggest surf and music festival. The festival brings together 50,000 like-minded souls with a love of music, surfing, wellbeing and the outdoors for five days on the Cornish coast. The festival takes place across two stunning sites in Newquay.

Lineup (2024): George Ezra / Disclosure / Kings of Leon / Bastille / Tom Grennan / IDLES / Damian Marley / Freya Ridings / and many more

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Location: Daresbury, UK

Creamfields Festival is the UK’s most famous dance music festival, showcasing a lineup that brings together the biggest artists from the worlds of EDM, house, techno, drum and bass, trance and more.

Lineup (2024): Adam Beyer / Amelie Lens / Arielle Free / Armin van Buuren / Becky Hill / Ben Hemsley / Calvin Harris / and many more

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Location: Reading & Leeds, UK

Reading Festival is one of the most famous rock festivals in the UK, taking place in Reading, near London. It is the world’s oldest music festival still in existence, founded in 1955. Leeds Festival is Reading’s sister event, taking place simultaneously in Leeds over the same weekend.

Lineup (2024): Andy C / Baby Queen / Becky Hill / Central Cee / Chase Atlantic / Declan Mckenna / Don Broco / and many more

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