As you might expect, having recently returned from the yearly soiree to Donington for the 2014 Download Festival, Rock Sins will have loads of coverage in the coming days and weeks. But before all of that takes over our lives for the next god knows how long, we had a few things we wanted to…
Something great for your Friday lunch time! The nice people at Red Bull have just sent this through to us. It’s an animated video covering the creation and history of The Download Festival and some of Red Bull’s involvement with the festival over the years. It doesn’t really need any further introduction from us, so…
With the 2014 Download Festival now less than two weeks away, it’s about that time of year again where Rock Sins picks out our acts that we really think you should see across the weekend. In part one of our preview, we’ve got ten bands we think you should see on the first day of…
In a very fitting tribute to an inspirational young man and a member of the Download Festival family, it has been announced by Andy Copping and the Download Festival HQ team that this years’ event will have the main stage named after Stephen Sutton. The Stephen Sutton Stage will serve as a reminder of Stephen’s…
Pantera. No one with the slightest bit of metal knowledge needs telling once again how important they are in the history of metal, or that hundreds upon hundreds of metal bands of all kinds who’ve come to being in the quarter century since Pantera’s Cowboys From Hell made people sit up and take notice cite…
The festival announcement pendulum has swung back in the direction of the Download Festival 2014 as Andy Copping and his team have confirmed another dozen and a half (that’s eighteen in layman’s terms) bands to appear across the weekend this coming June. Top of the pile this time around are UK rock favourites The Wildhearts,…
The powers that be at Live Nation and Download Festival HQ have spoken once again and another fifteen bands of all shapes, sizes and genres have been added to the rock and metal cavalcade that is the Download Festival 2014! Heading the announcement is the returning to Donington of everyone’s favourite Texan pop punk band…
Wanting to give us all an early Christmas Present, Andy Copping and the powers that be at Castle Donington have decided that Christmas has indeed come early where the 2014 edition of the Download Festival is concerned by adding another fourteen bands to the line up for next year’s event. The BIG news in this…
The final day of any Download Festival is often a bittersweet experience, armed with the knowledge that there isn’t much of the festival left to go but still plenty of music to ones teeth into (and for many, the fact that they will soon return to a warm bed and functional toilet). Download 2013 was…
Saturday at Download tends to roll round faster than you think it will and 2013 was no exception. No sooner had we all enjoyed Slipknot’s excellent set the previous evening (and some partying afterwards) then it was time for round two with Iron Maiden and the many other excellent bands appearing on the middle day…