With only four weeks between now and the deluge known as Download Festival, it’s about time we had a glance at who’s gracing the third and largest tent stage this year, entitled The Avalanche Stage and hosted by none other than Kerrang! Packed with acts that are seeing in their second Download and beyond, Donington…
Words by Jamie Giberti and Ali Cooper. We’re just over six weeks away from the annual mudfest that is the Download Festival at Donington Park (we must SURELY be due a dry year this time, surely, please?). As is always the case, “the little tent”, currently known as The Dogtooth Stage, has a wide and…
It’s not just band news we bring our readers when it comes to the big festivals such as Download. Anyone who was in attendance at Donington last year will know that it was the soggiest Download to date, which caused A LOT of problems in and out of the arena. Add to that a major…
Well, well, well. Download is going to be getting another dose of WWE NXT action! Following the overwhelmingly positive response and reaction to superstars such as Finn Balor, Shinsuke Nakamura and Asuka appearing on the hallowed Donington turf last Summer, the Download Festival team have brought NXT back for a second appearance for 2017. Whilst…
As far as festival announcements go, you don’t get much bigger than this. The 2017 Download Festival have only gone and added a whopping FORTY EIGHT bands to the line up for this years’ event. There are some huge bands in this announcement so it’s tough to know where to start, but a good place…
Merry Christmas to us all from the powers that be at Download Festival HQ. Andy Copping and the team have just unveiled an amazing selection of bands for the 2017 Download Festival that will go a long way towards winning over some of the fans who weren’t already convinced by the first announcement, and make…
At Rock Sins, we absolutely love Aerosmith, so this latest revelation has left us a bit sad, but on the other hand, it’s not altogether unexpected. It’s slightly old news – but we wanted to catch our readers up with it nonetheless. The Bostonian rock legends have been long rumoured to start winding down on…
It’s Download Festival announcement time of year once again and the first announcement has served up not one, or two, but all three of 2017’s headliners! Kicking things off this year on Friday night are System Of A Down. With things much improved in the S.O.A.D camp since their ill-fated reunion performance in 2011, Daron,…
