Download Festival News
Lamb Of God, Five Finger Death Punch, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Stone Sour and Billy Idol added to Download Festival 2010 Lineup!
5 more bands have been added to the Lineup for Download Festival 2010! the press release reads:
“The excitement doesn’t end there though, as we’ve also added Jared Leto’s phenomenal THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS, SlipKnot frontman Corey Taylor’s other band STONE SOUR and iconic punk rocker BILLY IDOL to the line-up.
Also on the bill are LAMB [...]
Rage Against The Machine, Aerosmith Confirmed for Download Festival 2010
Download Festival have just announced Rage Against The Machine And Aerosmith will be headlining their summer 2010 festival.
Also confirmed earlier on this month were AC/DC. AC/DC will be celebrating the birthday of two special events at download, The 30th anniversary of the first Donington Monsters Of Rock and the 30th anniversary of ‘Back In Black’. It’s [...]
Download Festival 2010 Headliners to be announced monday
Download festival is gearing up to announce 7 more bands, including 2 headliners on monday.
The word comes from andy coping’s twitter which states:
@Maverick_AC: Get ready for the next Download announcement on Monday night of next week…it’ll blow your socks off!
So who do you think is going to be announced? were hoping Rage Against The Machine finally [...]
Download Festival 2010 bans flags
Download Festival organisers have confirmed their decision to ban flags in the main arena this year following a number of complaints at last years event.
Last year, Reading and Leeds Festivals excluded flags, although Glastonbury refused to impose a similar move.
A post on Download’s official forum from yesterday evening reads: “Due to an overwhelming number of [...]
Motorhead, Wolfmother, Stone Temple Pilots, Bullet for my valentine, Them Crooked Vultures, Deftones, volbeat and megadeth also announced for download festival 2010
Download Festival have just announced that aswell as AC/DC headlining Motorhead, Wolfmother, Stone Temple Pilots, Bullet for my valentine, Them Crooked Vultures and Deftones will also play.
For many rocksins followers Them Crooked vultures are the main follow here, with many fans eager to see the super group play.
Deftones will also be back in the uk [...]
AC/DC Confirmed for Download Festival 2010
Download festival 2010 have confirmed AC/DC are the first headliner of 2010. We Previously reported on AC/Dc’s official site leaking the news back in december, but the word was made official today on the AC/DC website who again released early
AC/DC will be celebrating the birthday of two special events at download, The 30th anniversary of [...]
Download Festival 2010 hint at 6 of the 9 bands to be announced
Theres a lot of buzz ahead of the download festival 2010 announcement tonight, and to create even more, download festival booker Andy copping has revealed that a posting from user RockSmart has correctly identified 6 of the 9 bands that will be announced this evening.
The 9 bands posted by RockSmart are:
AC/DC
Wolfmother
Bullet For My Valentine
Motorhead
Them Crooked [...]
Download Festival 2010 Headliner Announcement This Monday
Its Offical, the Download Festival 2010 headliners will be announced on Monday 25 january 2010.
We think the announcement will be confirming our rumours – AC/DC, Metallica , with a third slot we cant just settle on.
Other big bands we hope to see this year are Deftones, Killswitch engage and download favourites Devil Driver.
SELF-CONFIRMED BANDS
AC/DC (Friday main stage [...]
Download Festival update
It’s offical, this years download festival will be the biggest yet, with the capacity increasing to 110,000 , up from 80,000 at last years event.
Currently rumoured to be headlining download festival are:
AC/DC – they self confirmed on their own website, before taking it down
Metallica – again, self confirmed before taking it down (also explains why sonisphere didn’t [...]
System Of A Down To Reform
System Of A Down Bassist Shavo Odadjian has sent recent rumours of a SOAD reunion flying. check out his twitter page below.
Although no official word from the band, recently system of a downs twitter page said “Stay tuned for 2010″ and “Tell your friends about @systemofadown twitter page”
System Of A Down are one of those [...]
AC/DC Website slip up adds Download Festival 2010 Date
On AC/DC’s official website, a Download Festival 2010 date was put up in their European 30th Anniversary of Back in Black tour, before taking it down shortly afterwards.
UK Festival rumours are hotting up as Sonisphere recently announced The Big Four will be playing European dates, and many believe Metallica and Megadeath will be added to [...]
Download Festival 2010 organizer “we’re going to blow people’s minds when we announce”
Download mainman Andy Copping isn’t intimidated by the lineups announced by other festivals for 2010. He tells Metal Hammer: “There’s no question we’re going to blow people’s minds when we announce. One in particular is a huge news story, and one or two other bands are going to shock people because they never thought it [...]
Andy Copping: “I’m working hard on locking in the Download headliners”
Andy Copping has recently added the following tweet:
Maveric_AC: Just so you all know, I’m working hard on locking in the Download headliners…hopefully news coming soon…sorry for the delay, I’m trying!
From the sounds of it we should be hearing about the headliners very soon! so who do you think will be headlining Download 2010? Rammstein are [...]
Rammstein to Headline Rock Am Ring, Possible download 2010 appearance?
Rammstein has been announced as the first headliner for the 25th anniversary of Rock am Ring. The festival will take place from June 4-6 2010. More bands and details will follow. Tickets are now available for 140 euros.
Festival organizers are telling fans that “we can look forward to an exclusive and explosive performance. There will [...]
Download 2010 Anouncement Soon – Possible headliner?
The word on twitter is that a possible headliner act announcement will be released in the next couple of days.
Traditionally, the festival’s headliners usually get announced around February for the Donington metal-fest but it seems as though there may be announcement coming VERY soon from the Download camp.
Yesterday, Download festival’s Andy Copping, who books all [...]