Simon Reed

Bloodstock Festival – Sunday Catton Park, Walton On Trent 10th August 2025 It’s early August and that means Bloodstock time. In his third and final report from Catton Park, Simon Reed returns to the East Midlands festival that embraces only the purest and very heaviest of metals (the action from Friday is here and from Saturday, here). It’s Sunday! We’re in the home stretch.

Bloodstock Festival – Saturday Catton Park, Walton On Trent 9th August 2025 It’s early August and that means Bloodstock time. In the second of three reports from Catton Park, Simon Reed returns to the East Midlands festival that embraces only the purest and very heaviest of metals (check out all the action from Friday here). Saturday dawns. The forecast was hot, hot, hot, but there’s some cloud cover and a welcome, refreshing breeze.

Bloodstock Festival – Friday Catton Park, Walton On Trent 8th August 2025 It’s early August and that means Bloodstock time. In the first of three reports from Catton Park, Simon Reed returns to the East Midlands festival that embraces only the purest and very heaviest of metals (check out all the action from Saturday here). Ask Joe Public what the heaviest metal is and they’ll probably tell you it’s gold. Ask a metallurgist and you’ll be told it’s osmium.