Twenty more acts have been announced by the organisers of Download Festival, taking place at “rock’s spiritual home” Donington Park on 9 – 11 June. Canadian prog-metal professor Devin Townsend will bring his very own Devin Townsend Project to the event after a recent successful UK tour. He will be joined by highly-rated newcomers Code…
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,…
Last week we ran a contest with the lovely people at Zippo for two exclusive Zippo branded Download Festival lighters. The contest ended at Midnight on Friday and we’re very happy to announce the winners! Our two winners are Sam Dicocco and Sanu Corke. Both our winners have been contacted and arrangements are being made…
Regular readers of Rock Sins know that we’re huge long term supporters of the Download Festival, having covered the festival every year since Rock Sins’ first Download in 2010. We’ve just been given a very exciting opportunity to give away some very special Download-themed prizes to our readers, so let’s get down to business! Courtesy…
Back in 2010, Boston’s favourite rock and roll sons Aerosmith made their first trip to Donington since the Monsters of Rock days when they headlined the closing night of that years’ Download Festival. As with their previous UK appearance at Hyde Park three years earlier, the weather for much of the day was utterly miserable,…
Currently in the news for a bit of a controversy stateside involving their singer Ivan Moody trying to get a nine year old girl to sing the lyrics to “Burn MF” on stage, the second in our series of classic Download Festival video performances this year features Five Finger Death Punch. Their performance last year…
A couple of weeks ago, just after the most recent Download Festival line up announcement where another twenty three bands were added to the festival (read that here if you missed it), Rock Sins were very pleased to be able to catch up with the mastermind behind all the goings on at Donington, Live Nation’s…
As far as bits of festival news go, this is among the very best. It all started as a trolling comment about Avenged Sevenfold being picked to headline the 2014 Download Festival. The nice people over at Metal Hammer compiled a list of the most hilarious and idiotic responses to Avenged’s announcement as Download headliners…