It was 1972 when Munich hosted the summer Olympics. 50 years later, the city's Olympic Park forms the playground for Superbloom: a riotous weekend of pop, EDM and hip-hop.
Steampunk-clad actors and metalwork robots cycle and skulk around the walkways...
Arctic Monkeys – 'There’d Better Be A Mirrorball'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY5CAz6S9kE
Fresh off the back of their triumphant headline sets at Reading & Leeds, Arctic Monkeys return in stunning form. Their best Bond theme audition yet, ‘There’d Better Be A Mirrorball’ sees Turner...
Megan Thee Stallion – ‘Gift & A Curse’
Megan Thee Stallion might have only given us less than a day’s notice that her new album ‘Traumazine’ was dropping, but regardless of how long we had to prepare, it likely would have...
Listening to Pale Waves’ third album, ‘Unwanted’ feels like being back in 2002: like dancing around your childhood bedroom using a hairbrush as a microphone spending weekends buying CDs in shopping centres. It continues in the punchy pop-punk vein...
Lady Gaga is snogging a spiked bondage mask. She's crying. She's in a sarcophagus, done up like Ming The Merciless, rotating on a giant Lazy Susan. We are less than five minutes into her astonishing Chromatica Ball: the mother...
Listening to ‘Surrender’ feels like the blood rushing back into your legs as you start to run. Like your heart lifting in your ribcage. Like coming up for air after holding your breath. It feels like letting life back...
Friday
Strewn across the Hertfordshire countryside, in the grounds of private residence Standon Lordship, a string of yellow lights pepper the walkways leading to the heart of the festival, where you’re met with the whirl of fluorescent red, green and...
Bea Kristi – AKA Beabadoobee – began her career in her bedroom and via hallucinogens and close introspection, she’s ready to take it back there. Sparked by a memory of an imaginary kingdom that she invented as a kid,...
WEDNESDAY
Kicking things off on Wednesday evening, EFÉ brings her laidback blend of bedroom pop and lush R&B to the WTF Clubbing stage – and what better music to listen to as a week-long heatwave takes hold? Her music evokes...
NIKI – ‘Oceans & Engines’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ0pazUc3ZA
On ‘Oceans & Engines’, the second track from NIKI’s upcoming new album ‘Nicole’, the Indonesian singer-songwriter says goodbye. It’s not a casual farewell, but the kind that wrenches at your heart and threatens to overshadow your...