Yeah. Download crowd are quite narrowed in what they like. You could book Maiden every 3 years, book Metallica the same and they'll lap it up because that's what they like. The thing with hard rock and metal is it's a such a genre in some ways cut off from the rest of music that liking one isn't likely to like another.
For example...I'll listen to Adele, Papa Roach, Avril Lavigne and Lewis Capaldi and Biffy say. But I'm not listening to devil driver, machine head, mastodon, Slayer etc etc after. It's too removed. How many bands that Download book would regularly get booked onto a different festival in England for example? If there was ever a bigger crossover it needed to be done long back. I don't think you'll ever see a set like this year again not being able to sell out 75k.
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