Download Festival

Download Festival

Location(s)	Donington Park, Leicestershire, England
Years active	Since 2003
Date(s)	Usually second weekend in June
Genre	Rock, heavy metal, punk

The Download Festival is a three day rock music festival held annually at Donington Park, England (which hosted Monsters of Rock between 1980 and 1996, and 2002's Ozzfest). It usually takes place in June (although in 2003, the first day of the festival took place on the last day of May). The festival is owned and managed by Live Nation.

History

The Download Festival was conceived as a follow up to the Monsters of Rock festivals which had been held in at the Donington Park circuit between 1980 and 1996. Rather than run as a single day event Download was initially a 2 day event (expanding to 3 days in 2005).

The name Download was chosen for the festival for two reasons. Downloading was a dirty word in the music industry at the time, due to file sharing, and rock is seen as a rebellious genre of music. The organizers faced pressure from the rest of the industry, with some even claiming that the Download Festival would "destroy the music industry".^{[citation needed]} Also Download was to be a Monsters Of Rock for the 21st century and the internet would provide connectivity with its audience.

The 2003 festival tickets had a code on them, which would allow festival goers to download tracks from bands which had played. Although this idea has been dropped in subsequent years, the festival organizers have nurtured an online community through the Download Festival Forums. Initially a sounding board for the fans (and critics) of the festival, the boards have become an integral part of the festival organization with regular contributions from Festival Director John Probyn and Promoter Andy Copping. The forums also provide face to face feedback through the Fan Forum meetings (started in 2006) and organise the Boardie BBQ (2006 on) and the Boardie Takeover night (2009), football tournaments and a pub quiz for the R.I.P. campers who arrive on a Wednesday night.

When Download began, it took place on the Donington Park circuit infield as had Monsters Of Rock. However in 2008 developments for Formula One meant that the infield was no longer suitable as a festival site. 2008 saw a move to the "Sunday Markets" site to the west of the circuit. Although adequate, numbers were limited and the location of the campsite meant that getting from tents to the arena was quite a hike. 2009 saw the festival move to a much more suitable location to the south of the circuit. Security for the festival has constantly been undertaken by professional crowd management specialists Showsec, although the campsite area has had various contractors throughout.

Since 2009 there has been on-site radio broadcasting from Rock Radio on 87.7FM. This RSL broadcast has aired music from festival bands, interviews and news to the festival site and the surrounding area, with the signal reaching as far as Nottingham.

The Download Dog

The Download Dog is the official mascot of the Download Festival,^[1] and appears on a wide range of material related to the festival, such as tickets, stage banners and merchandise.

Each year, the dog is changed to a different colour:

• 2005: Pink^[2]
• 2006: Red^[3]
• 2007: Green ^[4]
• 2008: Pink/Yellow^[5]
• 2009: Blue/Green^[6]
• 2010: Pink/White^[7]
• 2011: Pink/Black^[8]

Download 2003

The first Download Festival was held on the 31st of May and 1 June 2003. The headliners were originally Iron Maiden and Limp Bizkit, although Limp Bizkit pulled out and were replaced by Audioslave. Metallica attempted to step in as headliners, but were unable due to already being headliners at that year's Reading and Leeds Festivals. Instead, they played an unannounced "secret slot" in the afternoon on the second stage, with no sound check and after playing an exclusive club show in London the night before. Chevelle were scheduled to play the Scuzz stage on Sunday, but pulled out at the last minute. Instruction, playing their second set of the festival, stepped in as replacements.

Main Stage
Saturday	Sunday
Iron Maiden Marilyn Manson Deftones Ministry InMe Murderdolls Amen Funeral for a Friend Stampin' Ground Shadows Fall Murder One	Audioslave Zwan Flint Apocalyptica Less Than Jake Disturbed Stone Sour Evanescence Mudvayne Spineshank The Darkness One Minute Silence Raging Speedhorn Instruction

Scuzz Stage
Saturday	Sunday
A Reel Big Fish Taproot Sepultura Reef HIM Soil The Hellacopters SikTh 3 Colours Red From Autumn to Ashes QueenAdreena Violent Delight Stiff Cookie Arch Enemy Chimaira	NOFX Boysetsfire The Bouncing Souls Strung Out Thrice [Spunge] TSOL Real McKenzies Metallica The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster Brand New Instruction Beatsteaks Randy Fabulous Disaster

Download 2004

The 2004 edition of the festival was held on the 5th and 6 June. Another stage was added to the festival, bringing the total to three. Seventy-two bands played over the two days. The 2004 event was also noticeable for several last minute hitches. First, Soil got lost on the way to Donington and missed their main stage appearance on Saturday (they later joined Drowning Pool on stage to perform Drowning Pool's "Bodies" and their own song "Halo"). Static-X missed their slot due to a bus breakdown. On Sunday, Slayer arrived on time, but their equipment did not, leading to a slot change from the middle of the afternoon on the main stage to a later slot (and longer set) on the second stage. Slayer were replaced on the main stage by Damageplan, who were scheduled to play the second stage. Their setlist ended with a rendition of Damageplan founders Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell's most recognisable song from Pantera, "Walk."

The biggest news came from the headliners Metallica, when Lars Ulrich was rushed to hospital.^[9] Taking to the stage an hour and a half late, James Hetfield explained the situation with Ulrich and the show then began with Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo playing on "Battery" and "The Four Horsemen." Slipknot's Joey Jordison played the rest of the set apart from Fade to Black which was played by Metallica's drum technician, Flemming Larsen.

The full line-up included:

Main Stage
Saturday	Sunday
Linkin Park Sum 41 The Stooges The Hives The Distillers Cradle of Filth Monster Magnet Opeth The Dillinger Escape Plan	Metallica Korn Slipknot Machine Head Damageplan Soulfly Ill Niño Turbonegro Breed 77

Snickers "Game On" Stage
Saturday	Sunday
Pennywise Electric Six Wildboyz Arch Enemy Biffy Clyro Idiot Pilot Million Dead Instruction 36 Crazyfists Akercocke Viking Skull Powder The Bled	HIM Bowling for Soup Taking Back Sunday Slayer Life of Agony Brides of Destruction Drowning Pool Hatebreed Hoobastank Trapt Silvertide Ricky Warwick Terra Diablo

Barfly Stage
Saturday	Sunday
Peaches International Noise Conspiracy Ikara Colt thisGirl Roxy Saint The Glitterati Surferosa Burst Lowfive Yourcodenameis:Milo Bullet for My Valentine The Holiday Plan Hiding Place Fireapple Red	Suicide Girls Young Heart Attack Span The Sounds Dirty Americans Recover Amplifier Do Me Bad Things Danko Jones The Black Dahlia Murder Mooney Suzuki Gonga Despised Icon Hurricane Party Planet of Women

Scotland In June 2004 a two day Download Festival was held on Glasgow Green, several days before the Donington event. This had a limited line up with only nine bands performing over a two day period. The bands which did play included the headliners, Metallica and Linkin Park. Download Scotland also saw an appearance from the Welsh rock band Lostprophets who did not perform at Donington.

Acts which also appeared over the two days at Download Scotland were Korn, Slipknot, Iggy and The Stooges, Machine Head, The Distillers and HIM.

The running order went as follows:

Day 1	Day 2
Metallica Slipknot Korn HIM	Linkin Park Lostprophets The Stooges The Distillers Machine Head

Download 2005

A view of the Main stage at Download Festival 2005

Download 2005 was held again at Donington Park, on 10–12 June 2005. This festival was different from previous years as the Saturday was officially dubbed Ozzfest 2005, as well as an "Indie day" on the first day of the festival.

Billy Idol performed on the Snickers stage on the Friday night, his first UK gig after a lengthy hiatus, performing songs such as White Wedding, Rebel Yell and a cover version of Van Halen's anthem, Jump.

Feeder's frontman Grant Nicholas was so relieved the band won the crowd over (there were concerns that they would be received badly by the traditional attendee to the festival), he decided to smash his green Fender Jazzmaster guitar after "Descend" was performed. He later said that he regretted it, but also said he kept the neck and the tremeloes, and might use what was left to make a new guitar. In a July 2010 interview with Kerrang!, it was suggested to Nicholas that destroyed the guitar as he was frustrated at trying to win the crowd over, as their music was different to the Download demographic, but claimed himself in reply to this that he "Wanted to do the most rock and roll thing after eventually winning over the crowd". In the same interview, Nicholas said that they were "Guineapigs" at the festival as part of the organisers experiment to make it an alternative festival, but said it was a moment of the band's career he is still proud of.^{[citation needed]} Five years later after they played fifth on the main stage at Download 2005.

Lemmy also took to the stage, with former MC5 members, and Gilby Clarke, to perform Back in the USA.

Initially, Bert McCracken of The Used and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance were asked to perform their cover of Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie, but the former friends refused the offer to perform the cover as they had recently fallen out.^{[citation needed]}

The official line-up included:

Main Stage[10]
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Feeder Garbage Dinosaur Jr Megadeth Biffy Clyro The Others JJ72 Idiot Pilot Wednesday 13 Queen Adreena	Black Sabbath Velvet Revolver HIM Anthrax Alter Bridge Bowling for Soup A The Mad Capsule Markets The Dwarves Trivium	System of a Down Slipknot Slayer Nightwish Killswitch Engage Papa Roach Mudvayne Society 1 DV8

Snickers Stage[10]
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Billy Idol The Used My Chemical Romance InMe The Bled Apocalyptica Underøath Lordi Fozzy Flogging Molly	In Flames Chimaira Lamb of God Bullet for my Valentine Meshuggah Unearth Every Time I Die Open Hand American Head Charge The Hurt Process	Motörhead DKT/MC5 Funeral for a Friend[11] Lacuna Coil Mastodon Shadows Fall Helmet Caliban As I Lay Dying Gizmachi Send More Paramedics The Mascara Story

Napster Stage[10]
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Napalm Death Raging Speedhorn Paradise Lost A Change of Pace Hurricane Party Tokyo Dragons Colour of Fire Slunt Just a Word Crashdiet Planet of Women	Helmet The Lucky Nine Breed 77 The Explosion Towers of London Johnny Truant The Ga Ga's The Answer Panic Cell Crucified Barbara Diamond Nights Don't Quit Your Day Job City on Fire S.A. Sanctaury	Therapy? Team Sleep Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster The Dresden Dolls The Glitterati The Saints Engerica 3 Inches of Blood Still Remains No Hope in New Jersey Acidtone Henry Rollins (Spoken word "sermon")

Download 2006

Alice in Chains at Download Festival 2006

The 2006 Download Festival was held at Donington Park, England on 9–11 June. The three days comprising the headlining acts (Tool, Metallica and Guns N' Roses) have sales of approximately 200-250 million albums between them, more than the entire line up of 2006's V Festival.

2006 was the first time the festival was mirrored in the Republic of Ireland, as Download Festival Ireland. 2006 was also by far the warmest year download has ever had.

During the festival Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis was rushed to hospital.^[12] Similar to 2004's Metallica set, Munky, Fieldy and David Silveria arrived and explained to the fans why Davis could not make it and played with guest vocalists Corey Taylor from Slipknot, Dez Fafara from DevilDriver, Jesse Hasek from 10 Years, Benji Webbe from Skindred, M. Shadows from Avenged Sevenfold, and Matt Heafy from Trivium. Lyrics from the song "Blind" were displayed on the screen for Matt Heafy. Metallica played the album Master of Puppets in its entirety in honour of its twentieth anniversary. Guns N' Roses also performed material from the long forthcoming Chinese Democracy album.

Main Stage The main stage was situated in the centre of the arena with crowd control moving around it, and was the largest of all three stages, the safety barriers used at this stage were in a T shape so as to avoid crowd crush in the middle. The stage was open-air and named in honour of the 25th anniversary of Kerrang! magazine. Down played an unannounced set on Saturday (With the laminates showing ??? in their time slot); opening up the Main Stage.^[13]

Main Stage[14]
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Tool Deftones Coheed and Cambria Soulfly Strapping Young Lad Soil Wicked Wisdom Amplifier	Metallica Korn Trivium Avenged Sevenfold Stone Sour Alice in Chains Arch Enemy Bloodsimple Satyricon Down	Guns N' Roses Funeral for a Friend Bullet for My Valentine Cradle of Filth Lacuna Coil In Flames 36 Crazyfists DragonForce Hatebreed Breed 77

Snickers Stage The Snickers Stage was situated in a tent, behind the main stage and was the second largest stage at the festival. Access to the stage was via a one-way system which attempted to spread people around the site, rather than all attempting to push through a rather small space.

Soilwork were scheduled to play on Sunday, but were replaced by DevilDriver (playing their second set of the festival).^[15])

Snickers Stage[14]
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
The All-American Rejects Atreyu InMe Clutch Fishbone Dredg Bleeding Through Gojira Throwdown Suns of the Tundra	Alter Bridge Opeth Within Temptation Secret Machines Billy Talent Henry Rollins DevilDriver SikTh Johnny Truant Khoma	The Prodigy Alexisonfire Eighteen Visions Hundred Reasons Aiden Fightstar From First to Last DevilDriver Zebrahead God Forbid

Gibson/Myspace Stage The Myspace stage was the smallest of the three and under a smaller tent. It was positioned across from the front of the main stage.

Gibson/Myspace Stage[14]
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Ginger & The Sonic Circus Backyard Babies Cathedral Engerica Bullets & Octane My Awesome Compilation Animal Alpha The Audition Art of Dying Enter Shikari Kitty Hudson	Killing Joke Reuben Mondo Generator Louie This Is Menace 10 Years Flyleaf Manic It Dies Today Living Things Exit Ten Colon Open Bracket Stonegard My Alamo	Sick of it All Lordi Skindred Moneen Darkest Hour Blindside Mendeed Bring Me the Horizon The Zico Chain Voodoo Six Lauren Harris Winterville Streetlight Youth I-Def-I

Snickers Bowl Stage[14]
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Gay for Johnny Depp Keiko SinTuition	Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly getAmped The Hedrons	Viking Skull Betty curse Evergrey

Controversy

During the Sunday headline set of Guns N' Roses, one or more bottles landed on the stage. This caused problems after the band's lead singer, Axl Rose, slipped on the wet surface and a bottle hit bassist Tommy Stinson. Stinson threw his bass, accidentally hitting one of the cameramen, and left the stage. He returned after the song and apologized, but warned the crowd that if this activity continued, he would leave for good. There were some disturbances but they eventually died down, and later in the set Rose commented "I'm actually having quite a good time now! I couldn't have said that an hour ago!"^[16]

On the final night, fires were started by some festival goers and police were called, arresting twelve people.^[17] At around 4am, the fire brigade arrived to put out a large fire at the gold campsite. A number of people had taken the railings that had been used to separate the campsite area from the path and used them to barricade the road to prevent the fire engines from reaching the main fire. At this point a number of police assembled in riot gear, and proceeded to stop the troublemakers. The festival director, Stuart Galbraith, posted a message on the official website stating that "About 150 people spoiled the end of what had been a great weekend for over 75,000 of us." ^[18]

Download 2007

Stone Sour playing the main stage at Download Festival 2007

The 2007 Download Festival took place on 8–10 June 2007.^[19]

The three bands that headlined the 2007 festival were My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park and Iron Maiden.

Through February, March and the beginning of April, more bands were announced in small groups of five or six,^[20] and on 17 April this lineup was arranged into days and stages on the official website.^[21] A further announcement of fifteen bands on 24 April added to this lineup, and announced the names of the second and third stages - The Dimebag Darrell Stage, and The Tuborg Stage.^[22]

Korn's Jonathan Davis stated that the reason for the band returning this year was because of his absence due to illness last year. He stated on the official Download Festival website, "I am so looking forward to coming to the Download Festival this year. I was heartbroken to pull out last time. So this time I am very happy to be coming back and we promise to rock the place! I will definitely make-up for missing the last one. You can expect an amazing Korn show!"^[23]

Download 2007 was Dimmu Borgir's first ever festival appearance in England. Hardcore Superstar pulled out of their slot on the Tuborg stage on the Sunday because their tour bus broke down in Germany.

Download 2007 also featured the first band to officially perform on the Thursday of the festival. Scumface played on the Tuborg Stage during the boardie barbecue.^[24]

Lamb Of God's DVD Walk With Me In Hell features the band's full performance at the festival.^[25]

Main Stage[21]
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
My Chemical Romance Velvet Revolver Megadeth DragonForce Wolfmother Hinder Buckcherry Zico Chain	Linkin Park Marilyn Manson Slayer Machine Head Bowling for Soup 30 Seconds to Mars Aiden Shadows Fall Hellyeah Turisas	Iron Maiden Evanescence Killswitch Engage Stone Sour Lamb of God Mastodon Papa Roach Chimaira Reuben Parikrama

Dimebag Darrell Stage[21]
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Korn Enter Shikari Paramore Porcupine Tree Saosin From Autumn to Ashes Turbonegro Ill Niño ANJ	Mötley Crüe Satellite Party Biffy Clyro My Vitriol My Dying Bride Gallows Anathema As I Lay Dying Bring Me the Horizon Bloodsimple Elliot Minor Cat the Dog S.A. Sanctuary	Billy Talent Dream Theater Dimmu Borgir Within Temptation Napalm Death Paradise Lost Orange Goblin DevilDriver Unearth Cancer Bats After Forever Eyelash

Tuborg Stage[21]
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Suicidal Tendencies Hayseed Dixie yourcodenameis:milo Job for a Cowboy The Hedrons Sanctity I Was a Cub Scout The Scare This Et Al Fortune Drive Drive-by Argument	Head Automatica Necro The Answer Silverstein Lez Zeppelin Architects Priestess Panic Cell Beyond All Reason My Alamo Damone Army of Freshmen Malpractice	Reel Big Fish Fastway Cult of Luna Lauren Harris Fair to Midland Kids in Glass Houses Between the Trees Flood of Red Hardcore Superstar Lights. Action! Still Remains In This Moment The Ghost of a Thousand LostAlone

Download 2008

The 2008 Download festival took place on 13–15 June. The 2008 festival had a significantly different layout to that of the previous years in that the festival arena area was situated in land to the west of the race track instead of the traditional venue of the race track infield area. Notable amongst numerous changes is that the Tuborg stage became larger and moved from a marquee to an open-air format, located on a tarmac car park.^[26] Chris Cornell was originally scheduled to play the festival, but he cancelled his European tour so he could focus on a new album. Twin Method, and Finger Eleven were announced to play but were removed from the official websites lineup. On the Friday of the festival, Kid Rock was meant to appear between Seether and Disturbed on the Main Stage but pulled out at the last minute. At first it was announced that this was due to illness.^[27] Rock later claimed he left the festival grounds after becoming dissatisfied with the amenities.^[28] But, the following year, Download's booker theorized that it had been due to a broken heart.^[29] Rock's no-show allowed the two bands following him on the bill, Disturbed and Judas Priest, to have longer sets.

The 2008 Boardie BBQ took place on the Gibson stage on Thursday 12 June and included a performance by Forever Never.^[30]

Main Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Kiss Judas Priest Motörhead Disturbed Seether Finger Eleven Black Tide	The Offspring Incubus Bullet for My Valentine Biffy Clyro Alter Bridge Madina Lake 36 Crazyfists Job for a Cowboy Skindred Sign	Lostprophets Jimmy Eat World Coheed and Cambria In Flames Within Temptation Apocalyptica Black Stone Cherry Fightstar From First to Last Glamour of the Kill

Tuborg Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Simple Plan Rise Against Rival Schools The Subways The Fall of Troy Comeback Kid The Black Dahlia Murder Stone Gods Zebrahead	HIM Ash Pendulum One Night Only Ace Frehley Amon Amarth Bleeding Through Throwdown A Day to Remember The Devil Wears Prada Alesana Annotations of an Autopsy Malefice	Cavalera Conspiracy Children of Bodom The Wildhearts Elliot Minor Kids in Glass Houses Chiodos Airbourne Rose Tattoo Lethal Bizzle Municipal Waste Animal Alpha Cry for Silence

Gibson Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
The Dillinger Escape Plan Kill Hannah Slaves to Gravity High on Fire In Case of Fire Blackhole Hostile Firewind Caimbo Rolo Tomassi Lovvers	Testament Saxon Johnny Truant Fighting With Wire Brigade Army of Freshmen The Haze Big Linda The Last Supper Trigger the Bloodshed Mexicolas Go:Audio Rise to Remain Verra Cruz	Jonathan Davis Valient Thorr Haunts August Burns Red Voodoo Six Between the Buried and Me Ted Maul Canterbury Exit Ten The Galvatrons Sons of Albion Devil Sold His Soul Invasion

^[31]

Download 2009

The 2009 Download Festival took place on 12–14 June at Donington Park with an estimated attendance of 120,000 over 3 days. The arena had once again changed location, this time to an open field area south of the race track which was more suitable and less of a walk than last year.

The headliners were Faith No More (Friday), Slipknot (Saturday) and Def Leppard (Sunday).^[32] A notable feature was that Sunday had a strong classic rock theme on the main stage which attracted many Monsters of Rock festival goers. Other notable performers included Limp Bizkit, who were playing in the UK with their original line-up for the first time since 2001, Trivium returning for their third appearance and first head lining spot, Anvil, the band featured in the 2008 film Anvil! The Story of Anvil, and Steel Panther, who were making their first appearance in the UK on the Tuborg Stage. A fourth stage, the "Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage", also made an appearance at this year's festival. This stage was also present at other UK festivals, such as T in the Park in Balado, Scotland, and the Underage Festival in Victoria Park, London.

The 2009 Boardie BBQ took place in the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage on Thursday 11 June. This year the band was Attica Rage.

The Thursday night of the 2009 festival also saw the Boardie Takeover night. Four bands, three DJ's: Cyst, Dave KC and Gabber Fox, two singers, a stand-up and a burlesque dancer - all members of the Festival Forums - performed to a full house in the End Tent. These bands were Scumface (returning after a successful appearance at the Boardie BBQ in 2007), Orestea, Echovirus and headliners, Silent Descent.^[33]

On Monday 18 May the festival confirmed on its official website that Camping tickets had completely sold out.^[34]

On 19 May, it was revealed in an interview with Andy Copping on Music Channel Scuzz that there would be secret sets. It was later revealed the bands would be Enter Shikari and Thunder.^[35]

On Wednesday 3 June, one week before the campsite opened, Download released a further 2,500 camping tickets. These limited tickets sold out within 24 hours of being released.

The winners of the "Red Bull Bedroom Jam Competition" was Gravesend-based band After the Ordeal. This set was a 'virtual gig', with the band playing live from their bedroom and this footage being streamed live onto the Main Stage at Download Festival, between Pendulum and Marilyn Manson.

The winners of the "Tuborg Battle of the bands" was Leeds punk band Acid Drop and they opened the Tuborg stage on Saturday 13 June.

The Ghost of a Thousand were scheduled to headline the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage on Saturday but the band cancelled. The Blackout stepped in to play their slot, thus giving them two slots on the festival's bill.

Slipknot's performance is available in their new DVD (sic)nesses. It was released on September 28, 2010 and served as a tribute to their late bassist Paul Gray. It was also Slipknot's last performance in the UK before his death.

Main Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Faith No More Korn Limp Bizkit Killswitch Engage Billy Talent Staind The Blackout Hollywood Undead	Slipknot Marilyn Manson Pendulum Dragonforce Down Hatebreed DevilDriver Five Finger Death Punch Ripper Owens	Def Leppard Whitesnake ZZ Top Dream Theater Journey Black Stone Cherry Skin Tesla Stone Gods

Second Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Mötley Crüe Opeth Lacuna Coil Bring Me the Horizon Dir En Grey Parkway Drive A Day to Remember In This Moment Steadlür	The Prodigy Chris Cornell You Me At Six The Answer Static-X Fightstar In Case of Fire Hardcore Superstar Symphony Cult The Crave	Trivium Papa Roach Buckcherry Clutch Shinedown Volbeat Karma to Burn Sevendust God Forbid Suicide Silence Trigger the Bloodshed Sacred Mother Tongue

Tuborg Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Meshuggah Duff McKagan's Loaded Backyard Babies Voivod Enter Shikari Middle Class Rut Lauren Harris Sylosis Bleed from Within Hunting the Minotaur Sleepercurve	Anvil Architects Thunder Lawnmower Deth Man Raze General Fiasco Billy Boy On Poison Loverman S.A. Sanctuary Facecage Black Spiders No Americana Acid Drop	Go:Audio Therapy? The 69 Eyes Sabbat Steel Panther Dear Superstar Hexes Hostile esOterica Pulled Apart by Horses Turbowolf Violent Soho Brides

Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Blackhole New Device DissolvedIn Linchpin Don Broco The Outcry Collective White Man Kamikaze Young Guns Tripswitch The Instigators	The Blackout This City People In Planes My Passion The Auteur None the Less 13 Riots Forever Never Serpico The Computers Japanese Voyeurs Auger Bane	We Are the Ocean Flood of Red Exit Avenue First Strike Twin Atlantic Attack! Attack! Logan Fei Comodo Jett Black Million $ Reload Raucous Jays Fall from Grace

Download 2010

The Download Festival was confirmed to return to Donington on the weekend 11–13 June 2010, the campsites opening on 9 June. On 25 January, nine bands were announced at the official Download website, including AC/DC as one of the main stage headliners. [4] On 15 February Rage Against the Machine and Aerosmith were confirmed as the other two main stage headliners, as well as 5 more bands confirmed a few hours later.^[36]

22 bands were added on 22 March.^[37] This announcement confirmed that Bullet for My Valentine, 30 Seconds to Mars and Stone Sour would be the second stage headliners. Stage splits were also confirmed. [5]

It was later announced that The Used had cancelled their appearance due to unforeseen problems with their management, and would be replaced by Napalm Death.

Saxon performed their 'Wheels of Steel' album in its entirety to commemorate its 30th anniversary.^[38] Download 2010 was also the 30th anniversary of rock festivals at Donington Park, since the first one - which Saxon performed at - in 1980.

It was announced on 16 May that the second stage would be renamed "The Ronnie James Dio Stage" in tribute to the singer and bassist who died of stomach cancer on the same day.^[39] It was also announced that the main stage would be called The Maurice Jones Stage after the co-founder of Monsters of Rock who also died the previous year.

28 May saw 15 more bands added, as well as the official announcement of the Jägermeister-sponsored fifth stage, which would host acoustic acts including bands already performing usual sets at the festival.^[40] Sum 41, who were initially announced, then cancelled their appearance due to drummer Steve Jocz being involved in an accident.^[41] On 30 May 2010 it was announced that Wolfmother had to cancel their set due to illness and they were replaced by Killswitch Engage.^[42]

Ratt were scheduled to play on Sunday, but cancelled due to illness of lead vocalist Stephen Pearcy. On 9 June, FM were announced as Ratt's replacement.

The Boardie Takeover ran for the second year in a row on Thursday June 10. It featured the bands Silent Descent, Fallen Fate, Jacknife Holiday and Cyster Scalpel, as well as singers, DJs and a burlesque dancer.

AC/DC played their set on an exclusive stage positioned next to the Maurice Jones stage, allowing the band to bring their full stadium show to the festival. As announced on May 28. This marked the first time a headlining band had brought their own stage to Donington. All of the other headlining bands on the other stages had finished their sets before AC/DC began their performance. The AC/DC stage was used only for the actual band, the runway at the front was taken down the next day and the stage remained empty and unused for the rest of the festival once their headlining set was over.

Main Stage(s)
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
AC/DC Them Crooked Vultures Killswitch Engage 36 Crazyfists Unearth	Rage Against the Machine Deftones Megadeth Lamb of God Five Finger Death Punch Flyleaf Atreyu Hellyeah Taking Dawn	Aerosmith Stone Temple Pilots Motörhead Billy Idol Slash Cinderella Saxon FM Dommin

Ronnie James Dio Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Bullet For My Valentine Coheed and Cambria A Day to Remember Anathema Trigger the Bloodshed	30 Seconds to Mars HIM The Blackout Volbeat We Are the Fallen Cancer Bats My Passion Rolo Tomassi Sonic Syndicate Rise to Remain	Stone Sour Airbourne Steel Panther Porcupine Tree The Dillinger Escape Plan The Damned Things Napalm Death Switchfoot August Burns Red Nonpoint 3 Inches of Blood White Wizzard

Pepsi Max Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Job for a Cowboy As I Lay Dying Tyketto Lawnmower Deth Sweethead Year Long Disaster	Michael Monroe Skin Y&T Senser Enuff Z'nuff Halestorm Rock Sugar Genitorturers Reckless Love Sybreed Holy Grail Killing for Company Godsized	Suicidal Tendencies Zebrahead Young Guns Die Apokalyptischen Reiter Whitechapel Jim Jones Revue Esoterica Your Demise Crime in Stereo TAB the Band The Morning After S.A. Sanctuary No Americana Ben Poole

Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Devil Sold His Soul Funeral Party Heights Never Means Maybe Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders Imicus The Humour	Breed 77 Glamour of the Kill Kadawatha This Is Divine Stand Up Guy No Mean City The Dead Lay Waiting The Plight Urban Voodoo Machine Revoker	Panic Cell Max Raptor T-34 Hearts Under Fire You And What Army Sacred Betrayal Enemo-J The Virgin Marys Straightlines Tiger Please

Jägermeister Acoustic Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Skin Jettblack Sondura Starseed Danny Vaughn	Reckless Love Panic Cell The Humour The More I See Dommin Everything Burns The Blackout	Ginger Nonpoint Enuff Z'Nuff DJ Clash (Scott Rowley and Alexander Milas) The Dirty Feel Ricky Warwick Taking Dawn

Download 2011

Just before Escape the Fate's set on the main stage at Download Festival 2011

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The Download Festival was confirmed to return to Donington on the 10, 11, and 12 June 2011. Linkin Park and System Of A Down were the two main stage headliners officially announced, with Saturday subheadliners Avenged Sevenfold and Sunday second stage headliner Rob Zombie announced a short while later. On 24 January, Korn, Pendulum, Bullet for My Valentine, Alice Cooper, Alter Bridge, Danzig, The Cult, The Gaslight Anthem, Hollywood Undead, Thin Lizzy, Buckcherry, Black Veil Brides, The Damned Things, Escape the Fate, Clutch, Mr. Big, Gwar, FM, Masters of Reality and Rise to Remain were also announced to be performing at the festival.

On 22 February, Def Leppard were announced as Friday's main stage headliner,^[43] with Twisted Sister, Down, Duff McKagan's Loaded and Trash Talk also added to the line-up. The following day more bands were added to the line-up: Turisas, All That Remains, Sacred Mother Tongue, Bowling for Soup, The Devil Wears Prada, Bring Me the Horizon, Frank Turner, Cheap Trick, Asking Alexandria, Straight Line Stitch, Disturbed, Black Stone Cherry, The King Blues, Madina Lake, Jameson Raid and Ghost. The Pretty Reckless, Puddle of Mudd, VersaEmerge, Evile, Your Demise, Times of Grace and Suicide Silence were announced on March 2.

15 March saw The Darkness unveiled as the widely-speculated Friday subheadliner, with Funeral for a Friend, Plain White T's, Framing Hanley and Hyro Da Hero also added. In April, the Red Bull Bedroom Jam stage and Jägermeister Acoustic stage's acts were revealed.

Wayne Static was scheduled to open up the main stage on the Sunday, but he pulled out a month prior. Karma to Burn were to play the second stage on Sunday but were replaced by Hyro Da Hero, thus giving him three sets over the course of the festival; the most in Download history.

Steward 836 was manning the main stage at the festival, when he caught the attention of fans waiting for Sunday's bands to appear. Some friendly interaction led to cheers from the audience, then one of the giant stage-screens showed him making the "devil horns" gesture, which was applauded by tens of thousands of rock fans. The official Download Festival website even featured him as an artist on their site. ^{[44] [45] [46]}

Main Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Def Leppard The Darkness Alter Bridge Thin Lizzy Black Stone Cherry Duff McKagan's Loaded Puddle of Mudd CKY	System of a Down Avenged Sevenfold Skunk Anansie Down Hollywood Undead Skindred Escape the Fate All That Remains The Devil Wears Prada	Linkin Park Bullet for My Valentine Disturbed The Gaslight Anthem The Pretty Reckless Bowling for Soup Madina Lake Biohazard Suicide Silence

Second Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Pendulum Korn Bring Me the Horizon Children of Bodom The Damned Things Anti-Flag Young Guns Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows Evaline	Alice Cooper Twisted Sister Cheap Trick Mr. Big Dio Disciples Clutch Dan Reed Rock Sugar The BossHoss Rise to Remain Chthonic Sacred Mother Tongue	Rob Zombie The Cult Black Veil Brides Buckcherry Turisas Gwar Kvelertak Hyro Da Hero Malefice Yashin Collapse

Pepsi Max Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Danzig Times of Grace FM Hyro Da Hero Asking Alexandria Lower Than Atlantis Japanese Voyeurs Royal Republic Betraeus Sweet Savage	Funeral for a Friend The King Blues Sevendust Evile Trash Talk Your Demise Letlive VersaEmerge Ghost Straight Line Stitch TRC Houston The Rods	Frank Turner Plain White T's Silverstein Framing Hanley Deaf Havana T-34 Starseed My Darkest Days Sworn Amongst Hell Trucker Diablo Knock Out Kaine Jameson Raid

Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Modestep Envy of the State OAF Don Broco Page 44 Hill Valley High MakethisRelate Kellermensch	Dangerous! Kill 21 The Dangerous Summer Dear Superstar Heights Blitz Kids Welcome Wednesday The Morning After Dripback Fighting Wolves	H.E.A.T. Baptized in Blood The Dead Lay Waiting Illuminatus You and What Army October File Belligerance Skeletal Damage

Jägermeister Acoustic Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Skindred The Last Republic The Dirty Youth Million $ Reload Obsessive Compulsive Verses	Bowling for Soup Dan Reed Sons of Icarus Royal Republic Maiden uniteD Never Means Maybe Skin Intraverse	Dave McPherson Red, White and Blues Hyro Da Hero The Morning After Slaves to Gravity Heaven's Basement Voodoo Johnson Raven Vandelle

Download 2012

On the 12th of July 2011 it was confirmed via Twitter, Facebook and the Download Website that the festival will return in 2012 between the dates of 8th-10 June. Limited Early Bird tickets were put on sale on the 15th of July. It will mark the festival's 10th anniversary. It was announced on November 10th via BBC Radio 1 that Metallica would headline the main stage on the Saturday and also that they would be playing their self titled album in its entirety.^[47] The next day Black Sabbath were announced to headline the main stage on the 10th of June, closing the festival.^[48] On 18 November, The Prodigy were announced as the headliners for Friday 8 June 2012.^[49]

Main Stage
Friday	Saturday	Sunday
The Prodigy	Metallica	Black Sabbath

References

1. ^ Download Festival Homepage
2. ^ External Image
3. ^ External Image from Download Festival Gallery
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External links

• Official website
• Virtual Festivals' Download Festival page