With festival season well underway, All Points East Festival returns for its second year to London's Victoria Park. Spanning across two long weekends in May and June, the festival plays host to the most exciting names in music on its multiple stages. If you're heading down to All Points East on Friday 31st May you will be treated to the festival's outstanding alternative line-up, featuring some of the hottest names in rock, metal and everything in between. Need some help to plan your day? Check out our must see bands!

Have you heard the new Alexisonfire single?

Glasgow’s OHNOVA bring their mix of alternative meets big-riff rock on five track EP 'I Can't Sleep'. The neoteric desert rock trinity of Paul Morton, Matthew Sharp and Ciaran Whyte has started to reap rewards, after finding latest single Heavy Smile surface on the radio waves, and they’ll be hoping to continue that trend with this latest release.

Over the course of its fourteen year history, The Great Escape has set itself an extremely high standard to maintain, yet each year it somehow exceeds expectations. We leave Brighton with a fresh new list of unearthed talent and immediately hit the countdown timer in anticipation for doing it all again next year. Here's what we got up to on our third and final day...

Bitch Falcon have released a new video, check it out here!

After a successful first day at we’re welcomed on day two by glorious sunshine, so what better way to start than to head to The Great Escape's purpose built pop-up stage directly on the beach. Here's what we got up to on the Friday of the festival!