Download 2025

[LoadDown Podcast]

6 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Babymetal, as much as I love them, never play long enough to justify the price in my head. A shame, because there's some banging tunes.

Especially true if you bought a Download ticket to see them.

[NorthernSoul52]

As in specifically?

[Andre91]

Had a go at filling out an Opus Stage lineup with the acts posted earlier: 

 

 

FRIDAY: Within Temptation / Motionless In White* / Jerry Cantrell / The Ghost Inside / Dayseeker / Northlane / Kim Dracula / Currents 

 

SATURDAY: Sex Pistols / The Darkness / Eagles of Death Metal / Polaris / Filter / CKY / Turbonegro / ??? / ??? / ??? 

 

SUNDAY: Steel Panther / Til Lindemann* / Airbourne / Starset / Alien Ant Farm / Seven Hours After Violet / Sophie Lloyd / The Scratch / The Southern River Band / ??? 

 

[northernangel]

8 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Had a go at filling out an Opus Stage lineup with the acts posted earlier: 

 

 

FRIDAY: Within Temptation / Motionless In White* / Jerry Cantrell / The Ghost Inside / Dayseeker / Northlane / Kim Dracula / Currents 

 

SATURDAY: Sex Pistols / The Darkness / Eagles of Death Metal / Polaris / Filter / CKY / Turbonegro / ??? / ??? / ??? 

 

SUNDAY: Steel Panther / Til Lindemann* / Airbourne / Starset / Alien Ant Farm / Seven Hours After Violet / Sophie Lloyd / The Scratch / The Southern River Band / ??? 

 

I don't think Steel Panther are headlining now. That's a bad set of second stage bands though for me personally, I'd see 4 of them but only interested in three.

[NorthernSoul52]

I'd be fascinated to see how Within Temptation fare. They had a pretty ropey crowd in Leeds the other night, which was a shame - great show.

[Gejonimo]

Having seen Sleep Token last night in Manc, I am confident they will be the highlight of the weekend, and everyone will walk away impressed at the very least. They'll be a stadium band within 5 years. 

[foolee]

Any chance of having Turnstile at Sat or Sun of Download given they aren’t at the Manchester Outbreak but are in the UK the same weekend? I haven’t looked at their dates pre comment so this could be well out or not even possible but saw the recent outbreak announcements and it was my first thought. 

[Gingerfish79]

1 hour ago, foolee said:

Any chance of having Turnstile at Sat or Sun of Download given they aren’t at the Manchester Outbreak but are in the UK the same weekend? I haven’t looked at their dates pre comment so this could be well out or not even possible but saw the recent outbreak announcements and it was my first thought. 

Some places are reporting it as a UK exclusive. So probably not.

[NorthernSoul52]

Think it said it was a UK exclusive on the poster, though I could be wrong.

 

Genuinely didn't realise they were that big.

[Andre91]

17 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Think it said it was a UK exclusive on the poster, though I could be wrong.

 

Genuinely didn't realise they were that big.

Biggest hardcore band in the world. 

[NorthernSoul52]

You learn something new every day.

[Gejonimo]

Falling In Reverse tour cancelled (hahaha lol excellent) due to Ronnie's visa being denied. Was expecting them to be a logo band, possible sub, so hopefully this bins them off if they were ever planning and opens the door for someone else. 

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Suspect they were the missing sub and LiveNation held back from putting them in the first announcement because of the uncertainty around the visa issue. 
 

If Ronald Radish is out, I wonder how long it’ll be before Andy gets on the phone to Skindred. 

[NorthernSoul52]

As a logo band?

[foolee]

On 12/3/2024 at 5:31 PM, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

Suspect they were the missing sub and LiveNation held back from putting them in the first announcement because of the uncertainty around the visa issue. 
 

If Ronald Radish is out, I wonder how long it’ll be before Andy gets on the phone to Skindred. 

Hopefully they’ll get a fairly decent sub in place unless Ronnie gets his visa sorted in time but not sure if it’ll get waived or there’s an exception for this sort of thing but they didn’t sort it in time for the tour. Not sure who is about they could get that could slot in last minute but FIR seem to still be on a lot of the other European lineups so could still be announced next year. 

[foolee]

Maybe a last minute call to 30 Seconds to Mars as they’re in Europe and don’t currently have any UK dates. 

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

6 minutes ago, foolee said:

Hopefully they’ll get a fairly decent sub in place unless Ronnie gets his visa sorted in time but not sure if it’ll get waived or there’s an exception for this sort of thing but they didn’t sort it in time for the tour. Not sure who is about they could get that could slot in last minute but FIR seem to still be on a lot of the other European lineups so could still be announced next year. 

Unless the home office change the rules,  Ronnie isn’t getting a visa for the UK.  Other European countries have their own rules. 

[SweetJesus]

Story about Muse tour in 2025...

[BrutalLegend]

So looking at tours and other festivals Download lost out on Foo Fighters, Muse, Linkin Park, Bring Me The Horizon as potential bands that could have headlined.

[Spiral_Low]

10 hours ago, foolee said:

Hopefully they’ll get a fairly decent sub in place unless Ronnie gets his visa sorted in time but not sure if it’ll get waived or there’s an exception for this sort of thing but they didn’t sort it in time for the tour. Not sure who is about they could get that could slot in last minute but FIR seem to still be on a lot of the other European lineups so could still be announced next year. 

The media have been going ballistic at Labour for wanting to make rich people and companies pay a bit more tax. There's no way they are gonna relax visa rules and add even more fuel to the fire. 

[LoadDown Podcast]

Episode 11 of the podcast: Are @korn_official ready to step up? With Suuperfan @Andre91 is now live.

https://linktr.ee/loaddownpodcast

[Pjonze]

16 hours ago, SweetJesus said:

Story about Muse tour in 2025...

Where is this from?

[SweetJesus]

From interview with Hellfest director

 

https://archive.ph/pB2g4

[Kfogg2019]

19 hours ago, BrutalLegend said:

So looking at tours and other festivals Download lost out on Foo Fighters, Muse, Linkin Park, Bring Me The Horizon as potential bands that could have headlined.

This has been pretty much my exact feelings about it. It was pretty obvious and clear who to expect as main headliners for festivals like rock am ring/hellfest ect what has turned out spot on for the most part. 

We have shared alot of the bands from rock am ring because it makes a lot of sense and financially makes sense so we get impressive names for both eventdfs but for me personally I think the main stage headliners bar one feels underwhelming and subpart in a significant way again IMO.

 

I love Korn I've seen them live a few times and they are great however I don't buy for absolutely no reason at all them being elevated to main stage headliners at this stage again just my opinion.

 

My feelings with sleep token going straight to the top billing mainly comes from not understanding why they are soh not bad music at all but I didn't think it was game changing again my opinion. 

 

It's stunning that Andy and the download team have refused to elevate and give the push to every single band throughout the entirety of the festival but chose to do it with all three of the days and two of them being smaller names than normal.

[Andre91]

5 hours ago, LoadDown Podcast said:

Episode 11 of the podcast: Are @korn_official ready to step up? With Suuperfan @Andre91 is now live.

https://linktr.ee/loaddownpodcast

Thank you for having me on, mate! Was loads and loads of fun.