Here Lies Affliction Play Secret Download 2010 Car Park Gig

Anyone who thought Unearth on Friday afernoon (or any of the bands from the boardies tent on Thursday night) were the opening band of the 2010 Download Festival can think again. Harrow hardcore-metal five piece Here Lies Affliction got the jump on everyone (including the Download security for awhile) by playing a gig in the [...]

UNEARTH moved up to main stage at Download Festival

This Friday, June 11 at 3 pm UNEARTH will hit the Main Stage at the legendary Download Festival on the Castle Donington grounds alongside AC/DC and Them Crooked Vultures. “We get to share the same stage as one of our collective all time favourite bands AC/DC as well as rock giants John Paul Jones, Dave [...]

Download Festival 2010 Bands To Watch – Jamie

Continuing on from the choices Chris made, Jamie has also picked his top 5 bands to see at Download, along with a few honourable mentions and even a couple of small festival tips! Check it out below: 1)Megadeth If there’s one band you have to see at Download 2010, it’s Megadeth. Known the world over [...]

Download Festival 2010 Bands To Watch – Chris

In the run up to Download Festival 2010, which is now only a matter of days away – Some of us at Rocksins have decided to pick our top 5 bands which we think you should see if you have the chance at Download this year. First up with his choices is Chris: Ok, so [...]

Download Festival 2010 Stage Times Revealed

Download Festival have announced the stage times for this years lineup! Check it out at the link below and let us know what you think. http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/lineup/index.aspx Finally, If you haven’t already checked it out – Download have their webcam feed setup, so you can watch the arena take shape before you arrive! Use the link [...]

Wolfmother Pull Out Of Download 2010

Download have today announced that Wolfmother have had to pull out of this years Download Festival. They have however managed to book the awesome Killswitch Engage to replace them! Check out the press release below and let us know what you think: “We’ve just had a message from the team at the Wolfmother camp, who [...]

Download Festival 2010 Adds 12 more bands to the Lineup

This week’s announcement includes the additions of psychedelic blues-rockers The Virginmarys, hardcore punk band The Plight and edgy crossover kids Rolo Tomassi, as well as Kadawatha, Sonic Syndicate, rockabillies Jim Jones Revue and Switchfoot. Elsewhere, fans may have heard last week that due to unforeseen circumstances, The Used will no longer be able to play [...]

GODSIZED Announce DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL slot and UK shows

Southern UK based melodic hard rockers GODSIZED are delighted to announce they will be opening the PEPSI MAX STAGE on Saturday 12th June at this years DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL. The band will also play a string of UK shows in May and June with further touring TBA for the latter half of 2010. All currently confirmed [...]

15 more bands added to download festival lineup

Download Festival have today announced 15 more bands for this years lineup, including the band T-34, which apparently features The Pub Landlord himself…Al Murray on drums. Check out the 15 bands below and let us know what you think! SUICIDAL TENDENCIES GENITORTURERS KILLING FOR COMPANY GODSIZED MAX RAPTOR THE MORNING AFTER BEN POOLE FUNERAL PARTY [...]

30 new bands added to Download festival lineup!

Proving that Download is THE ultimate rock festival with an already phenomenal line-up, we can reveal that another 30 incredible, eclectic acts have been confirmed for the year’s most famous and anticipated weekend in rock. One of the supreme guitar legends of all time, Slash will step onto the Download stage for the first time [...]

Led Zeppelin Were Approached For Download Festival 2010

Download festival booker Andy Copping has said that Led Zeppelin were approached to headline this year’s festival. Copping admitted that having AC/DC and Zeppelin on the same bill would constitute his dream bill. “If I could get Led Zeppelin to play at Download, it would be phenomenal”, said the festival chief. “If that’s no going [...]

22 New bands added to download festival 2010

22 new bands have just been announced for Download festival 2010, along with the news of Day tickets and stage splits. Check out the press release below: Ladies and gentlemen, behold you’re next batch of bands confirmed on the Download line-up – a staggering 22 of them, crossing all sorts of genres and generations – [...]

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 [...]

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’. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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