Bloodstock Festival 2018: 10 Things We Learnt
6. Even Bloodstock Can Fall Victim To The Weather
For the past few years, Bloodstock has been immune to the throes of terrible weather, laughing loudly, proudly and slightly overconfidently while Download became Drownload and Boomtown Fair became Gloomtown Fair.
However, karma is a bitch, as festival-goers discovered this year when Bloodstock emerged from its chrysalis state and transformed into Mudstock.
While Catton Park was spared the wrath of nature on Thursday, the heavens began to open during Memoriam’s set on the Friday morning, before swiftly disappearing again out of fear of the might of Karl Willetts.
However, as the English already know, rain is cold, evil and calculating. So the clouds retreated and regrouped in time for Cannibal Corpse on Saturday. The downpour pummelled attendees throughout their entire show as well as Gojira’s straight after, hence proving that if there is a God, it really doesn’t like death metal.
By Sunday morning, the festival had fully evolved into the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan, but the weather began to steadily improve upon the arrival of Jasta, predominantly out of shame because it had just been upstaged by ex-Killswitch Engage singer Howard Jones’s guest appearance onstage.