“People are so passionate about it. It’s almost more important to some of them than watching the bands”: Bin Jousting is the insane heavy metal festival sport that the Olympics needs right now

A Bloodstock-branded wheelie bin.

Since its launch in 2001, Bloodstock has grown from a one-day indoor metal festival held at Derby’s Assembly Rooms to the mammoth four-day extravaganza it is today. This field of screams has played host to such heavyweight headliners as Judas Priest, Slayer, Ghost, Lamb Of God, King Diamond and numerous others, right up to this year’s unholy trinity of bill-toppers Machine Head, Trivium and Gojira.

All that alone makes it the UK’s greatest metal festival. But there’s another reason why we love Bloodstock so much: Bin Jousting.