For their 15-year anniversary, Outbreak Festival isn’t pulling any punches. Started in 2011 by 14-year-olds Jordan Coupland and Lee Fellows, Outbreak has blossomed into one of the biggest hardcore festivals in the UK, bringing fans from all over the world to the North of England for a weekend of barrier-free chaos. Since 2022, the festival has taken place in Manchester, and this year will see hardcore’s biggest and brightest talents return to Manchester’s Bowlers Exhibition

Two decades on from their formation in Pennsylvania, TIGERS JAW return with Lost on You , a record that feels both comfortingly familiar and quietly transformative. It arrives after a five year gap, a stretch that has allowed the band to reflect not only on their musical identity but on the strange, often contradictory nature of adulthood itself. Reuniting with producer Will Yip , the band capture a moment suspended between past and present, where the ghosts of youth linger