Think back to June 2021. The Download Pilot festival took place in front of 10,000 lucky and willing festival going test subjects, as part of the first Government Pilot aimed at getting the UK live music scene back on its feet after the various lockdowns. Those in attendance, and thousands more at home living the…
There’s lots of news from the Download Festival camp to report on about the 2022 edition of the festival at the moment. Firstly, for those of you who either can’t make the full weekend, or just have those one or two bands that you are desperate to see – day tickets for Download Festival 2022…
The line up for the 2022 Download Festival has taken further shape this morning with 14 more acts joining the party. A couple of bands who have had huge success over the last year have also been rewarded with new slots on bigger stages! Kicking things off in the biggest main stage slot of their…
The Download Festival 2022 team have added another twenty bands to their already huge line up for next year! What’s more, they’ve also given us plenty more info to get our heads round; They’ve announced the day splits for the bands currently booked. Lets’ take a look at the new additions and where we can…
A couple of days before the Download Pilot, I wrote a feature about the importance of the Download Festival family to so many of us. The response to the piece was far beyond anything I ever hoped for or expected; It was great to talk to loads of people who read it about their Download…
Ahead of the Download Pilot Festival this weekend, Jamie Giberti takes a look at just what it is that makes Download hold such a special place in so many people’s hearts. I first went to the Download Festival in 2004 as a very naive, 19 year old kid. Having been told the wonders of Donington…
For those 10,000 or so lucky fans (plus a couple of hundred artists and band members, crew members and staff), the countdown is firmly on to the Download Pilot Festival. Featuring some of the best up and coming heavy and alternative music talent the UK has to offer, plus a few Download Festival veterans like…
Following on from last weeks’ thrilling announcement that the Download Festival team were getting to run Download Pilot as part of the UK Government’s programme to restart the live music and live events industries – we now have plenty more info for you all. The line up for the Download Pilot has now been confirmed!…
Last month, Download Festival head honcho Andy Copping hinted that he might be seeing a few of us sooner than we might think. Oh how right he was. Mr Copping and the team at Live Nation and Festival Republic have been given Government permission to stage the UK’s first camping festival since the COVID-19 outbreak….
The Download Festival powers-that-be have granted us all another seventeen (17!) bands that have been added to next years’ return to Donington. Topping the new editions, and headlining at Download for the first time in their legendary career are big four thrashers Megadeth! Dave Mustaine and co will headline the Zippo Encore stage on the…
