10 Iconic Music Festivals You Must Attend In 2020
Campsites, music and hangovers await.
Summer has come and passed, Green Day have awoken from their annual 30 day hibernation and the cold, dark times are upon us.
With that said, what better way is there to relieve the winter blues than to make a pre-emptive strike at the summer of 2020?
There are literally hundreds of music festivals hosted worldwide every year and there’s no better relief from life’s stresses than spending 3-5 days camping and making poor decisions with your friends.
Oh, and there’s bands too.
Music fans are spoiled for choice when it comes to festivals these days. So whether you’re a raver, rocker, hip-hopper, punk, mosher, indie-kid, goth or chart music scrub, there’ll be plenty of these events to satisfy your appetite for debauchery over the summer months.
A list five times the size of this one would fail to scratch the surface of just how many unique and euphoric festivals there are around the world, but here we’ll aim to cover ten of the most iconic. The following festivals have made their mark in history and are sure to deliver superb returns on the investment for their tickets.
Crack a can, sit under a gazebo, it’s party time.
10. MetalDays
MetalDays has earned its spot on this list, not so much for the bands it books as for the camping experience provided. Located in Tolmin, Slovenia, MetalDays’ campsite is situated amidst a forest with a massive river which runs through the middle and surrounds one of the most scenic festival arenas in the world.
Hosting bands such as Judas Priest, Behemoth and Amon Amarth, attendees can float down the river on a variety of inflatable vessels to enjoy a mosh pit and a horn of ale on the beach, with one stage located there, as well as others dotted across a grassy arena.
MetalDays is committed to keeping their festival more small-scale and intimate than others in this article. As such, they have capped their ticket allocation to 12,000 since 2010. With this being the case, demand far outweighs the supply, so you’ll need to be quick off your mark to grab a ticket when they’re on sale.
What an experience MetalDays would be, though. Steve Hughes famously once referenced Bloodstock by saying there was nothing funnier than a goth in a dodgem. Clearly he hadn’t been to Slovenia to see one bobbing around drunk in a rubber ring, being sunburned.