We all know that Download Festival starts as soon as the gates open on a Wednesday lunchtime. With many fantastic events like The Takeover and some of our friends doing awesome DJ sets, District X and The Doghouse are definitely the place to be for the early arrivals. For Download 2025, it felt like the…
We are very much into the final countdown before the gates of Donington open for the 2025 Download Festival! We’ve got features aplenty to keep eager attendees excited as they countdown the days, and up today is our preview of the festival’s first full day of entertainment. Recently we caught up with Download Senior Booker…
It’s the final countdown to the 2025 Download Festival! With the gates of Donington opening in just six days, and the arena fully open a couple of days after, excitement is building. Rock Sins caught up with Download Festival Senior Booker Kamran Haq recently to cover a huge range of topics about this years’ Download….
Three brand new headliners for Download 2025! For the first time since 2010 the Download Festival has an entirely fresh set of headliners for the Donington faithful to enjoy. With punk rock legends Green Day making their Download bow on Friday night, the mysterious phenomenon of Sleep Token on Saturday and nu metal icons KoRn…
Anyone announcing a tour in the last couple of years must have felt like Axl Rose talking about Chinese Democracy (2008). Announcements, delays, reworked lineups and serious disappointment have all been par for the course in recent times. One such tour affected by this was the Hella Mega Tour featuring rock heavyweights GREEN DAY, FALL…
Musical superstar Kelsy Karter, who was born in New Zealand, previously lived in LA and has now found home in the UK, has followed up from her angsty yet soulful Missing Person album release, with a special covers EP. Created during the pandemic Live From Nowhere, out now, was recorded with The Struts‘ guitarist Adam…
This month is a special episode. In honour of the new Green Day album, and the upcoming Hella Mega Tour, The Boys from the South have decided to go all in on Green Day. All the highs, lows and everything in between. No Features. No Swedish songwriters No Trap Beats 100% Pure Uncut Green Day…
Before we being let’s get one thing straight – Green Day are a very important band to me. If it wasn’t for them I never would have picked up a guitar, if I had never picked up a guitar I wouldn’t have discovered MetallicA and if I hadn’t discovered them I wouldn’t be the person…
Continuing with our ongoing coverage for Download 2018 and to commemorate the festival celebrating its 15th anniversary, we here at Rocksins have delved deep into the archives and looked back through all the lineups and all the rumours and have found 15 bands that have never played the festival. Download Festival has proudly carried the…
I’ll be the first to admit that I have not always had the best relationship with Green Day. As a teenager I loved the band’s ’90s output, but from the year 2000 onwards I’ve been somewhat cold to what they have been doing. Outside of ‘American Idiot’, nothing has really interested me. I infamously compared…
