Rocksins hopes everyone enjoyed their weekend and the end to the football season! Whether you’re nursing a hangover, celebrating your teams’ success or facing a summer of football induced depression, we’ve got the ideal thing to kick start your week whatever your current disposition. Having last week previewed the first day of Download 2013 (read…
We’re now just a month away from the UK’s annual premier rock and metal shindig that takes place at Donington Park in Derbyshire, the one and only Download Festival. Having seen off Sonisphere to the point where their rivals at Knebworth have not staged the event for the last two years, Download has firmly re-established…
As if there wasn’t enough good bands and acts on the bill already, a certain Mr Andy Copping and his team have just pushed the boat out once again with a further twenty six additions to the Download Festival 2013 line up. The main part of this announcement is the unveiling of the lineup for…
One to please fans north of the border (especially one half of Rocksins’ Scottish team Sam), Nu metal legends Limp Bizkit have announced that they will warm up for their performance headlining the second stage on the Sunday of Download 2013 by playing a one off show in Glasgow, Scotland. Limp Bizkit’s Glasgow show will…
The gift that is Download 2013 just keeps on giving! Courtesy of Mr Andy Copping and the Download powers that be, another seventeen bands have been added to the UK’s annual rock, metal and alternative festival pilgrimage to Castle Donington. Heading up the latest batch as US southern rockers Black Stone Cherry. The band, who…
It seems that Andy Copping and The Powers That Be at Castle Donington & Live Nation HQ are just determined to continuously outdo themselves this year. Well, this most recent bit of news for Download 2013 is gonna go down in the history of Download as one of the most impressive announcements ever. Not content…
Continuing the build up nicely to this Summer’s forthcoming rock & metal festivities, the nice people from the Download Festival have put together a short video teaser to build the mood for this years’ event. Check it out below: [youtube id=”WxPFe0ikduk” width=”600″ height=”350″] Download 2013 recently added around thirty more bands to the already impressive…
We just can’t keep up with the festival announcements at the moment! Hot off the press, and courtesy of a Twitter campaign by Download supremo Andy Copping, the fans of Download last night retweeted a request from Mr Copping over 5,000 times and as a result we all got to find out one more band…
Continuing the drip feed of new bands for Download 2013, the latest band to join the party at Donington Park are the recently revived nu metal act Coal Chamber. Frontman Dez Fafara, nowadays more famous for his other band Devildriver, has gotten back together with his old bandmates for a reunion. After a fair amount…
Straight from the horses mouth, or in this case both official band website and Download Festival booker Andy Copping on Twitter, Bullet For My Valentine will be returning to Donington for their sixth appearance at the festival in 2013. Most recently seen at Download sub-headlining Linkin Park in 2011, the Welsh metal four piece are…