The sad news that we all expected has been confirmed; Download Festival 2021 has been cancelled. It was always inevitable given the state of the world with the COVID-19 pandemic, but with the festival’s dates falling before the Government’s intended target “full re-opening” date of the 21st of June, the Download team have now confirmed…
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…
They say two heads are better than one. But then again they also say too many cooks spoil the broth. It’s hard to know what to believe and whether more than one person at the helm of a project is a good thing. For the sake of this list however, more is most certainly more…
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…
Let’s face it, about two weeks prior to the annual rock and metal pilgramage to Donington for the Download Festival, weather watch becomes a favourite pasttime for a large amount of the festival going community. Having ranged from looking horrendous (ala many of the recent previous years) to not too bad at all, the worst…
Words by Jamie Giberti, Ali Cooper and Simon Crampton. So, with Download 2017 virtually upon us, we come to the final part of our stage-by-stage Download Festival 2017 preview. If you’ve missed the other parts of our preview and would like to catch up, you can read the previews of The Dogtooth Stage, The Avalanche…
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…
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,…
Tonight was always going to be a bit special. Eleven years since they last headlined here, and with a, frankly mammoth three hour show to make their return with it’s a cynical man indeed that would anticipate a failure on the part of System of a Down (8). Of course, it also helps that as…
Enormous news to kick off everyone’s Monday mornings. The US / Armenian alt-metal superstars that are System Of A Down have announced a VERY special European Tour is going to take place next April. Entitled the “Wake Up The Souls” tour, System Of A Down are getting back on the road in Europe in April…
Reading. A world full with the smell of weed and the faint stink of piss against boards lining the stages; boards full with posters for bands we’ve never heard of and will never be bothered to look up. A place where kids bound for university cram themselves into small places, namely the Radio 1xtra stage…
After pulling off quite a surprise with their choice of Eminem as first headliner for the 2013 installment, the organisers at Reading & Leeds have returned to slightly more familiar territory for their second choice of headliner. Having headlined at Sonisphere Knebworth in 2011 in their festival headlining breakthrough and after sub-headlining Metallica at the…
