Party Cannon’s full Bloodstock 2026 set is now on the festival’s official YouTube channel, all 41 minutes of the chaos from the Ronnie James Dio stage. The Dunfermline party slammers played Catton Park on Friday 7th August, and Bloodstock has put the pro-shot, pro-audio film online for anyone who wants to relive it, or anyone who missed it.
The set took songs from this year’s Subjected To A Partying, including “Improper Use Of A Speculum”, “Thirst Trap” and “High Tariff Behaviour”, plus “Weird, But Not Illegal” and “Human Slime” from the 2024 release Injuries Are Inevitable. Older party slam fans also got “Soft, White, Gelatinous Body” and “Duct Taped To A Flag Pole”.
On the day, that meant banana costumes in the pit, an inflatable whale going over the crowd, and a failed attempt to chant louder than 420 decibels. A Guinness World Records adjudicator was on hand. The record did not fall. Mr Guinness World Record Man did, into the band’s homemade Human Squelcher 5000. Bloodstock called it anti-intellectual. The band called it an honour.
“Bloodstock reached new levels of debauchery, 1000% organic dumbassery,” Party Cannon said. “We may not have officially broken any records but we definitely had the last laugh against that adjudicator. It was an honour to play the main stage of Bloodstock 2026; the festival has a unique crowd and a vibe that makes it one of the best metal festivals in the world.”
They are not done with the Bloodstock crowd. Party Cannon play the second Winter Gathering on Saturday 5th December at KK’s Steel Mill in Wolverhampton, with what the band are billing as a special Christmas set.
“You can now relive the madness of our set in full over on Bloodstock’s YouTube channel,” they added. “We will not be giving your IQs time to recover, we’re coming back with a special Christmas set at the Winter Gathering this December. See you in that slow moving circle pit.”
The first Winter Gathering landed at the same venue on 6th December 2025, with Candlemass headlining. This year’s indoor day runs across two stages, with doors at 2pm and bands from 3pm to 11pm. Rotting Christ headline, with 1914, Pest Control, Red Rum, Witchsorrow and Square Wild also on the main stage, and Shrapnel, The Crawling, Moon Reaper and Head Dent on the second.
If the Party Cannon film is not enough, Bleed From Within’s full Bloodstock set premieres on the same channel this Friday, 13th November, at 7pm UK time. A trailer is already up. Bloodstock is calling it what might be the Glaswegians’ most iconic appearance at the festival yet, and floating it as future headliner material.
The metalcore band were special guests to Slaughter To Prevail on the Ronnie James Dio stage on Saturday 8th August, off the back of 2025 album Zenith. The set opened with the title track and closed on “In Place Of Your Halo”, with “Violent Nature”, “God Complex”, “A Hope In Hell” and “Dying Sun” from the new record. Older songs in the set included “The End Of All We Know”, “Sovereign”, “Stand Down”, “Levitate”, “Path Finder” and “I Am Damnation”. Expect flames, bagpipes, tartan and a lot of riffs.
More 2026 sets are lined up through the winter, including Fit For An Autopsy, Black Spiders and Battlesnake. Bloodstock wants fans to treat the uploads as an alternative to a chocolate advent calendar, and to subscribe so the premieres do not get missed.
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