The Download Festival team have pulled out all the stops for a mega first announcement of Download 2021! As promised by festival booker Andy Copping, the bulk of the 2020 lineup has re-joined the party for 2021, but with some interesting new additions and replacements for those who couldn’t rejoin from 2020. Headliners KISS (on…
Tickets for Download 2021 are on sale now! As we should have all been enjoying our first days’ action in the fields of Donington, those who want to want to get their hands on tickets for next years’ festival can now do so. A variety of ticket bundles, including 3 and 5 night camping of…
2020 is very much going to have a Download Festival weekend with a difference. With no trips to the hallowed Donington Park turf possible due to COVID-19 – the organisers and Download Festival powers that be are determined to give us the next best thing – an online event christened Download TV. The streams taking…
If you’re like us, you may well still be fairly bummed out that the Download Festival team had to do the inevitable and cancel the 2020 edition of the festival last week. But this has put a smile on all of our Download loving faces. The team at Download HQ have launched the “Wash Your…
Sadly, and inevitably, in the last few minutes the organisers of Download Festival have issued a statement confirming the 2020 festival will not be able to go ahead owing to the Coronavirus / COVID-19 outbreak. You can read their full statement below: As sad as this is, it is undoubtedly the right decision, and we…
Things have been a little quiet from Download Festival HQ recently. We’ve had new line up announcements from the likes of Slam Dunk Festival and Bloodstock Open Air for 2020. Oh, not forgetting the stunning first announcement from ArcTanGent too! So an announcement from the Download Festival 2020 team was due. Lo and behold, they’ve…
Those cheeky Nu Metal Warriors Greg & Simon are back once again. This month the lads have been discussing Korn, Blink 182, Volbeat, Download Festival and Legacy bands and what their place is in today’s musical landscape.
The Download Festival powers that be have spoken for the first time on the line up for 2020. *Drumroll Please* Your headliners for Donington next year are KISS, Iron Maiden and System Of A Down! They will be joined on the Download Festival 2020 line up by another 9 bands in the first announcement. With their…
The world of Halestorm is a pretty great place right now. Having witnessed their rather triumphant Zippo Stage headline set on the Saturday of Download 2019, we were very pleased to be able to catch up with Halestorm guitarist Joe Hottinger the next day to discuss their Download performance, forthcoming tours, the ten year anniversary…
Heads are sore, feet are weary but that matters not because there is one full day of Download 2019 left to go. The Donington masses collectively dust themselves down as they head towards Tool, Enter Shikari, Slayer’s last ever UK show and much more, so let’s get straight to it. I Prevail (7), through no…
The partnership between the Download Festival and Zippo has been very well established for many years now. The very successful relationship continues for another year in 2019, and as they have done for the past several years, Download and Zippo have teamed up on a set of limited edition Download Festival branded Zippo lighters. Just…
Halestorm’s star has never shone as brightly in the UK as it does right now. With their impending Zippo Encore Stage headlining slot at this year’s Download Festival looming ever closer on the horizon, we caught up with Halestorm bassist Josh Smith to talk about the band’s history with Download both in the UK and…
