Live music as well as festivals are coming back in full force and one big show is headed to Germany.
The first ever Download Germany is set to take place on June 24th 2022 at the Hockenheimring Racing Circuit.
Metallica are set to headline and joining them will be Sabaton and Five Finger Death Punch.
After confirming that the 2021 iteration of Download festival will not be taking place this year, the festival have revealed some more of the names who will be playing Donington Park in 2022.
Joining the already announced headliners KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro will be…
Deftones
Korn
The Pretty Reckless
Rise Against
Black Label Society
Theory
Monster Truck
Power Wolf
Wayward Sons
Those Damn Crows
The Raven Age
Megadeth
Steel Panther
The Distillers
The Darkness
Airbourne
Daughtry
Skillet
Lacuna Coil
Bush
Of Mice & Men
Wednesday 13
Ayron Jones
Massive Wagons
The Last Internationale
Control The Storm
The Ghost Inside
Funeral For A Friend
Descendents
Boston Manor
Sleep Token
The Faim
grandson
Trash Boat
Holding Absence
Marianas Trench
Wargasm
Loathe
Jamie Lenman
The Hara
Press Club
Salem
Cemetery Sun
Blackout Problems
Dead Posey
Static Dress
Electric Wizard
Sepultura
Blues Pills
Dying Fetus
British Lion
Bleed From Within
Twin Temple
Bokassa
Venom Prison
Spiritbox
Tempt
Fire From The Gods
A.A. Williams
Higher Power
Kill The Lights
Dead Poet Society
Joyous Wolf
Modern Error
Cellar Door Moon Crew
Lotus Eater
The Scratch
Dead Label
Phoxjaw
JJ Wilde
Anchor Lane
Temples On Mars
As Everything Unfolds
Injester
That’s a lot to get excited for.
Download Festival will take place at Donington Park on June 10-12 2022.
Tickets are available via the following link.
Download Festival organisers have announced that the 2021 event has been cancelled for a second consecutive year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The 2021 iteration was set to take place on June 4th – 6th but the news of the cancellation comes following the announcement last week from the UK government of their roadmap out of lockdown, in which they stated that they wouldn’t allow large scale events to go ahead any earlier than June 21st 2021.
The organisers have since been confirmed that though the 2021 event won’t go ahead, 2022 plans to go forward, with main stage headline performances from KISS, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro already locked in.
A full statement from the festival can be read below.
“We can now confirm that Download Festival will no longer be taking place this year. But we do have exciting news for 2022.
We never gave up hope of bringing the festival back to Donington this June and had been working so hard behind the scenes to make that happen, but we now know it’s not possible. We’re heartbroken for everyone in the Download family, from artists to suppliers and of course our passionate Download fans.
We’ll be back on 10th-12th June 2022, as strong as ever, with an amazing set of headliners – KISS, Iron Maiden, and Biffy Clyro.
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the NHS for their extraordinary efforts in rolling out the vaccine, as well as thanking all of you for your patience and for keeping the spirit of Download alive until we can be together again.
You are all very welcome to retain your ticket and carry it over to next year. Alternatively, you will be able to receive a refund from your ticket agent. Look out for an email from them very soon and please only contact them if you have not been contacted after 5 days as they are very busy at this time.
Horns up. We’ll see you in 2022.
Team Download”
Download 2022 will take place on June 10th – 12th 2022 at Donnington Park, Derbyshire. Tickets purchased for Download Festival 2020 or 2021 will remain valid for the 2022 dates.
Early bird tickets, instalment plans, and RIP accommodation will also go on general sale from Friday (March 5th 2021) and can be purchased online from the festival’s official website.
Following the sad and troublesome news that the 2021 iteration of Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled, Download have been responding via Twitter stating that they are “continuing to work behind the scenes to get ready” for the June event.
The massive weekend event is scheduled to take place on June 4th – 6th 2021, is currently still planned to go ahead though the festival’s social media team have been writing to followers that they “hope to have more news for you by March 1”.
Speaking to the BBC in early January, general secretary of the Association of Festival Organisers Steve Heap said that smaller gigs and festivals would have up until April to make the call on their events, while bigger happenings had to be decided this month. “If we get as far as Easter and we still don’t know that crowds can gather at festivals, however large or small, then we are in a catastrophic situation with this year’s season,” he said.
Announcing Glastonbury’s cancellation yesterday, organisers Michael and Emily Eavis wrote: “With great regret, we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury Festival will not take place, and that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.”
They added: “We are very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022!”
There’s some massive news from Download Festival today as the organisers have confirmed 17 more acts which will perform at the 2021 iteration of the festival.
The new bands confirmed to play are as follows:
Boston Manor, Ayron Jones, Dead Poet Society, Descendents, Fire From The Gods, The Injester,Massive Wagons, Megadeath, Monster Truck, Northlane, Renounced, Salem, The Skints, Static Dress, Uncured, Venom Prison.
Check out the full lineup as it stands below.
A.A. Williams
A Day To Remember
Airbourne
Alestorm
Anchor Lane
Ayron Jones
Baroness
Biffy Clyro
Blackout Problems
Black Veil Brides
Bleed From Within
Blues Pills
Bokassa
Boston Manor
Bush
Cellar Door Moon Crow
Cemetery Sun
Control The Storm
Creeper
The Darkness
Daughtry
Dead Label
Dead Poet Society
Dead Posey
Deftones
Descendents
Dirty Honey
The Distillers
Dying Fetus
Electric Wizard
Employed To Serve
The Faim
Fire From The Gods
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Funeral For A Friend
Gender Roles
Gojira
Haken
The Hara
Hatari
Higher Power
Holding Absence
Hot Milk
The Injester
Killswitch Engage
Kill The Lights
KISS
Korn
Jamie Lenman
JJ Wilde
Joyous Wolf
Lacuna Coil
Loathe
Lotus Eater
Marianas Trench
Massive Wagons
Mastodon
Megadeth
Modern Error
Monster Truck
Myles Kennedy & Company
Northlane
Obituary
Of Mice & Men
Phoxjaw
P.O.D.
Poppy
Powerwolf
Press Club
The Pretty Reckless
Renounced
Rise Against
Salem
The Scratch
Sepultura
Skillet
The Skints
Sleep Token
Spiritbox
Static Dress
Steel Panther
Stone Broken
System Of A Down
Temples On Mars
Tempt
Theory Of A Deadman
Those Damn Crows
Tiny Moving Parts
Twin Temple
Uncured
Venom Prison
Volbeat
Wage War
Wargasm
Wayward Sons
The Wildhearts
Will Haven
Download Festival 2021 will take place on June 4th – 6th 2021 at Donnington Park.
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online from the festival’s official website.
Remember when we had to say that Download Festival 2020 was cancelled due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic? Sad times were had for all there. It never went ahead but that meant the organisewrs were hard at work for the 2021 iteration of the festival.
The time has come for the first bands of the festival to be announced.
Aiming to maintain as much of the 2020 lineup as possible, Kiss and System Of A Down have been announced as headliners with Biffy Clyro taking Iron Maiden’s place who are sadly unable to be in attendance.
In addition to this, 70+ acts have been confirmed with the headliners including Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Black Veil Brides, Boltbeat, The Darkness , Steel Panther and more.
The full lineup can be found below.
A.A. Williams
A Day To Remember
Airbourne
Alestorm
Anchor Lane
Baroness
Biffy Clyro
Blackout Problems
Black Veil Brides
Bleed From Within
Blues Pills
Bokassa
Bush
Cellar Door Moon Crow
Cemetery Sun
Control The Storm
Creeper
The Darkness
Daughtry
Dead Label
Dead Posey
Deftones
Dirty Honey
The Distillers
Dying Fetus
Electric Wizard
Employed To Serve
The Faim
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Funeral For A Friend
Gender Roles
Gojira
Haken
The Hara
Hatari
Higher Power
Holding Absence
Hot Milk
Killswitch Engage
Kill The Lights
KISS
Korn
Jamie Lenman
JJ Wilde
Joyous Wolf
Lacuna Coil
Loathe
Lotus Eater
Marianas Trench
Mastodon
Modern Error
Myles Kennedy & Company
Obituary
Of Mice & Men
Phoxjaw
P.O.D.
Poppy
Powerwolf
Press Club
The Pretty Reckless
Rise Against
Sepultura
Skillet
Sleep Token
Spiritbox
Steel Panther
Stone Broken
System Of A Down
Temples On Mars
Tempt
Theory Of A Deadman
Those Damn Crows
Tiny Moving Parts
Twin Temple
Volbeat
Wage War
Wargasm
Wayward Sons
The Wildhearts
Will Haven
Download Festival 2021 is set to take place at Donington Park on June 4th -6th 2021.
Tickets are available to buy right now and can be purchased via the festival’s website.
Download Festival 2020 isn’t going to be taking place this year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic but the organisers of the event have announced the line-up for a virtual weekender that’s set to take place!
The Download TV Weekend will take place on the same days as the cancelled dates (Friday 12th – Sunday 14th June 2020) and will feature some artists who were scheduled to play this year.
It’s all taking place on Download Festival’s YouTube channel, where the three days will be divided into a day and evening schedule, with the evening boasting two to three hours featuring performances from your favourite artists.
It will feature special interviews, unseen performances, exclusive footage and loads more!
Keeping with the 2020 lineup, there will be Kiss’s 2015 Download Festival available to watch on the Friday night.
Iron Maiden have the top billing band on Saturday evening where they will have a special set of archive performances as well as snippets from the Legacy Of The Beast tour.
System Of A Down will bring the weekend to a close on the Sunday with footage from three of their previous performances in 2005, 2011 and 2017.
Other acts confirmed are Alter Bridge, Babymetal, Deftones, The Darkness, Steel Panther, Mastodon, Lacuna Coil, The Pretty Reckless, Black Veil Brides and Poppy.
There’s also going going to be cookalongs which will act as the daytime activities where MasterChef’s Simon Wood, Vegan stars BOSH, tutorials, mindfulness sessions and more.
People who will be watching are encouraged to erect tents in their homes, dress as your rock idols and send in photos and videos using the hashtag #DOWNLOADTV.
Below you will find a full list of the lineup.
The full list of bands on the Download TV line-up are:
KISS
Iron Maiden (Saturday headliner)
System of a Down (Sunday headliner)
Alestorm
Alter Bridge
Babymetal
Baroness
Black Futures
Black Veil Brides
Bowling For Soup
Bush
Creeper
Deftones
Disturbed
Employed To Serve
Fozzy
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Funeral For A Friend
Gojira
Holding Absence
Killswitch Engage
Korn
Lacuna Coil
Loathe
Mastodon
Motionless In White
NXT UK
Periphery
Poppy
Powerwolf
Skillet
Steel Panther
The Darkness
The Hara
The Offspring
The Pretty Reckless
The Wildhearts
Theory
Twin Temple
Volbeat
Wage War
Wayward Sons
Are you waiting to see the Mark Hoppus and Alex Gaskarth duo Simple Creatures? Well, if you’re going to Download Festival 2019 then you’re in luck! The duo are now set to headline the Avalanche Stage on the Saturday night, in a new announcement for the festival.
Also added to the lineup are as follows:
ROAM, The Wonder Years, Hot Milk, allusinlove, Cloud, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Goodbye June, Graveyard, Kim Jennett, Kvelertak, Lost Society, Nova Twins, Queen Zee, The Hu, The Picturebooks and Vambo.
Now, that is a festival to get yourself to!
For the Download Festival 2019 lineup, check out the poster below.
Another announcement for Download Festival 2019 sees Enter Shikari added to the lineup on top of the already announced 43 bands from earlier this week.
Download Festival will take place in Donnington Park between 14th – 16th June 2019
Download just got bigger!
A massive 43 additional bands were added yesterday to the already stellar lineup which includes Slipknot, Smashing Pumpkins and more.
Check out all the bands for this announcement below.
Aaron Buchanan
Alcest
Animals as Leaders
At The Gates
Bad Wolves
Batushka
Beartooth
Behemoth
Black Peaks
Brothers Osborne
Cane Hill
Clutch
coldrain
Conjurer
Crystal Lake
Deadland Ritual
FEVER 333
Godsmack
GroundCulture
Halestorm
Heart of a Coward
Icon For Hire
Intervals
Last In Line
Like A Storm
Lost In Stereo
Love Bites
Municipal Waste
Ne Obliviscaris
Palaye Royale
Parting Gift
Redhook
Skid Row
Skynd
Stone Temple Pilots
Sumo Cyco
Those Damn Crows
Three Days Grace
Toska
Trash Boat
Twelve Foot Ninja
Vega
Wolfjaw
Download Festival 2019 takes place at Donington Park on 14th – 16th June.
Check out the full lineup below.
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