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…
One of Download’s most wanted acts over the years was the one and only Rob Zombie, and two years ago at Download 2011 the people finally got their wish as Mr Zombie and his band headlined the second stage on the final night of the festival. Another entry in the catalogue of Download Festival’s that…
After yesterday’s excellent news that a new Dream Theater album is forthcoming in September 2013 (view the announcement here), that gave us ideal inspiration for our Download Festival video of the day. Going back in time to the awesome year that was 2009, one of the very best Download Festivals, the sunny Sunday afternoon saw…
Some bands are just tailor made to play to enormous audiences at festivals. Lamb of God are definitely one of those bands. Today’s classic Download Festival video takes us back in time to 2007, when Lamb of God made their first appearance on the main stage at Download. Without the troubles that have hung over…
One of the most popular choices of second stage festival headliner in Download’s eleven year (and counting) history, Slash, along with his good friend Myles Kennedy and their band The Conspirators kicked off the opening night in spectacular fashion last year on the Zippo Encore stage. Mixing Guns N’ Roses classics, a couple of Velvet…
We’re now only ONE WEEK away from the start of Download 2013, and that means it’s time for the final part of our annual Donington preview. If you’ve missed the first two parts, you can catch them on the links below: Download 2013 Preview (Friday) Download 2013 Preview (Saturday) This final part focuses (naturally) on…
On a sun soaked Sunday in 2009, British rock legends Def Leppard brought the Download Festival for that year to a close with a triumphant set packed with all their hits and a few hidden gems to boot. One of the most popular songs on the night was the rendition of their biggest hit from…
