Bloodstock : 30 Bands Not To Miss - Ugly Kid Joe

11. Ugly Kid Joe – Ronnie James Dio stage -  Sunday, August 13th – mid-afternoon

Do you know what the sing-along moment of Bloodstock 2023 will be? It won’t be ‘My Last Serenade’, nor will it be ‘Symphony Of Destruction’, ‘Eagle Fly Free’ or ‘Roots Bloody Roots’. It will be, by a country mile, the point where twenty thousand voices merge as one to scream along with ‘Everything About You’. 

A timeless classic that launched a thousand playground taunts, it just screams communal bonding moments. Even if you have buried the memory of Ugly Kid Joe in some deep dark recess of your mind, you will know every damn word.

And to be honest you will know more Ugly Kid Joe than you realise. There is ‘Neighbour’, ‘Everything about You’’s equally snarky follow-up and then there is ‘Cats In the Cradle’, their rather faithful re-imagining of the Harry Chaplin classic. 

There is also the small matter of their rather spiffing new album, “Rad Wings of Destiny” (do you see what they did there?) which is much much better than it deserves to be. So get your vocal chords toned, you have a lot of crooning to do.