Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026
Documenting the madness
Festival
Kobetamendi, Bilbao, Spain
Coverage
Festivals
Happy Birthday to Jamie Cook, the world's happiest guitar player for one day only. What’s usually a picture of serious strumming is now some toothy smile chord thrashing. The Monkeys are back in the mountains. Day three of Bilbao BBK Live. Happy Arctic Monkeys Day, even for every
Festivals
In my last article, I said we’d say yes to everything and see where we end up. Well, it turns out I don’t speak Spanish/Basque so we ended up nowhere. Good idea, Sam. Anyway, depending on which sign you stood next to in the city, on day two you were either being obliterated by 37
Festivals
It made you feel warm and full of promise, like that first holiday abroad with your family as a kid, walking into the grounds of BBK Live for the first night of headline acts. Every corner you took, the lights glistened on the mountains opposite like a wall of old synths. I was w
