YUNGBLUD: “The way rock survives, thrives, prospers and gets bigger is if we all stick together”
Fookin’ hell, it’s actually happening. Bludfest, the inaugural one-day music festival created by YUNGBLUD, has taken over the enormous Milton Keynes Bowl. The venue that has hosted the likes of Bon Jovi, David Bowie, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Muse and Green Day is once again the home of the historical. “Rock is different. It’s got a new energy to it, whether people like it or not,” the man behind it all, YUNGBLUD, tells Kerrang! backstage. “The way it survives, thrives, prospers and gets bigger is if we all stick together.” Dressed in all black and with smudged kohl pencil decorating his eyes, the 27-year-old is no different away from the stage than he is on it. His Doncaster accent drips from every vowel, and he takes as he finds. Buzzing about the private guest area, wher...
