Festivals is our long view of multi-day chaos, where scenes overlap, schedules blur, and the scale changes how music is felt. From muddy fields to city showcases, this section documents festivals as lived environments, not just line-ups on a poster.
Reports, interviews, galleries, and moments that only make sense when thousands of people are in the same place at the same time. If it’s here, it happened on site, somewhere between the first wristband scan and the last exhausted walk home.
Mystic Festival 2026, Day Three: A Worthy Finale By the time the third and final day of Mystic Festival 2026 arrived, the Gdańsk Shipyard felt almost like a small city of its own. The routines were familiar now. Festivalgoers moved confidently between stages, meeting friends, […]
The second day of Mystic Festival 2026 arrived under familiar conditions. Cold winds swept through the grounds, rain drifted across the site and dark clouds hung stubbornly overhead most of the day. It was not the weather anyone would have ordered, although thankfully it never […]
With the opening of the Main Stage, Mystic Festival 2026 shifted into full gear. Thousands of fans spread across the Gdańsk Shipyard, ready for a marathon through every corner of heavy music. My day began at the Park Stage with Bloodywood, one of the names […]
Finally, the day had arrived. Mystic Festival opened with the Warm Up Day. And even though it is a day only for VIP ticket holders and 4-Day Pass owners, I could already feel that it was busier than any edition I could remember. More people […]
Long before the first guitar note echoed across the grounds this year, there was already a feeling that this edition would be different. Everybody knew what was coming. After years of unforgettable performances in one of the most distinctive festival settings in Europe, Mystic Festival […]
Inside Seaside 2025 lit up Gdańsk with explosive sets from Franz Ferdinand, Fish Emade, Pink Freud, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and The Kills, a wild celebration of live music.
Legendary British rock band The Cure are heading back on the road for a massive European tour in the summer of 2026, and fans of the group’s famously gloomy, gothic sound are already bracing for an emotional rollercoaster. Frontman Robert Smith, and his long-running band […]
It was one of those weekends that tastes like sun, smells like cold summer beer, and sounds like every decade of rock exploding in your ears. Gdańsk’s Polsat Plus Arena stood there like a giant metal mothership, and we were all its willing passengers, strapped […]
