Download 2025

[Oibble]

Korn are headlining Sonic Temple alongside Linkin Park and Metallica this year.

[RedJosh]

4 hours ago, northernangel said:

Yes as said before you can get it for £277 each with parking if you book early enough. You go each year probably so it doesn't really matter but there is no chance these days especially I'd be putting down £250/60 to something that hasn't announced acts yet. You might get to know headliners really early but for the average casual punter they don't. 2023 is probably still good for you if with the lineup released but that's whereby it's different for people. I got a ticket to the 23 edition about a week to go on twickets as it was just too much for me personally. When it comes to Bloodstock for example I know I can write it off as to amount of money being worth it for me. Download for me is a festival I attend as unfortunately some of the bands I like play it enough for me to need to go and it's close enough to where I live....that's the biggest angle of them.

To be fair mate. When I bought tickets for 2023 and 2024 I didn't know any of the line-up. This year I had heard Sleep Token were in talks, but that was it. I know there is going to be enough for me at Download so get them early bird before I know what is going on.

[MetalMarker]

19 hours ago, Sorcha17 said:

so is this a legit announcement? Or is it fan made?

[Spiral_Low]

6 minutes ago, MetalMarker said:

so is this a legit announcement? Or is it fan made?

Fan made, though going by recent years keep an eye out tonight and tommorow for the actual poster for be leaked. 

[northernangel]

12 minutes ago, RedJosh said:

To be fair mate. When I bought tickets for 2023 and 2024 I didn't know any of the line-up. This year I had heard Sleep Token were in talks, but that was it. I know there is going to be enough for me at Download so get them early bird before I know what is going on.

Point being though we can all say how cheap we got things at in early bird etc. 

 

The only event worth buying like that for me is Glastonbury and if I knew I could wait until it was out and still buy I likely would

 

[TWY2911]

If it is Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn that's worth the money for me on its own as GD and Korn are two of my favourite bands

 

Adding the camping experience which is the main part for me it's well worth the money but that's just me everyone's different 

[Oibble]

4 minutes ago, TWY2911 said:

If it is Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn that's worth the money for me on its own as GD and Korn are two of my favourite bands

 

Adding the camping experience which is the main part for me it's well worth the money but that's just me everyone's different 

Green Day's own gig cost about £100 alone

 

1 hour ago, Spiral_Low said:

Fan made, though going by recent years keep an eye out tonight and tommorow for the actual poster for be leaked. 

 

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[Audiorocker]

What's the likelihood of Papa Roach playing this year?

[chilltheory]

8 minutes ago, Audiorocker said:

What's the likelihood of Papa Roach playing this year?

Id say unlikely due to their feb dates and the fact theyre doing a few ML europe fests in August, i cant see the band wanting to go out to europe 3 times in the span of 7ish months

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, Oibble said:

Green Day's own gig cost about £100 alone

 

 

My camping Downlaod experience last year was my best. 2011 when I was went and 2012 to be honest we're terrible. Arriving, waiting for them to open campsites etc due to basically being unprepared with conditions. Nothings changed in that way since then.

 

56 minutes ago, Oibble said:

Green Day's own gig cost about £100 alone

 

 

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I paid £85, it's not every gig you get a show link those two albums either but the lineup is going to suffer in places ny booking them that's a guarantee. They will not have accepted to do Download exclusive on the lower end of their fee. ST and certainly Korn won't cost anywhere even in the same region. For context, Deftones Crystal Palace gig cost comfortably more than both LB and Korns Gunnersbury Park gigs and they wouldn't play any higher than either of them normally would. 

 

27 minutes ago, Audiorocker said:

What's the likelihood of Papa Roach playing this year?

More likely for Reading in my opinion. They've appeared at Reading twice since they've done Download and by all accounts the 2014 was very good and 2018 was epically good when I was there.

[RedJosh]

2 hours ago, northernangel said:

Point being though we can all say how cheap we got things at in early bird etc. 

 

The only event worth buying like that for me is Glastonbury and if I knew I could wait until it was out and still buy I likely would

 

If you have such a downer on the festival and the cost of it as value for money why spend so much time posting about the festival? How you have made any point about the festival being value of money compared to Slam Dunk into a negative response about the festival is really quite something.

[Oibble]

3 minutes ago, northernangel said:

I paid £85, it's not every gig you get a show link those two albums either but the lineup is going to suffer in places ny booking them that's a guarantee. They will not have accepted to do Download exclusive on the lower end of their fee. ST and certainly Korn won't cost anywhere even in the same region. For context, Deftones Crystal Palace gig cost comfortably more than both LB and Korns Gunnersbury Park gigs and they wouldn't play any higher than either of them normally would. 

 

 

I just meant compared to what you'd pay for Download weekend, it makes Download's price much more reasonable.

[northernangel]

Just now, Oibble said:

 

I just meant compared to what you'd pay for Download weekend, it makes Download's price much more reasonable.

That all depends really what else you get over the weekend. For how often I find a weekend worthwhile to go to download I'd just rather they were elsewhere. The difference in download booking a band like green day is though is they need to make more effort to cater that day whereas a normal download headliner booking would kinda just follow their usual policy and rotated booking repeats etc. The other days will more so do this given they are more usual bookings. 

 

7 minutes ago, RedJosh said:

If you have such a downer on the festival and the cost of it as value for money why spend so much time posting about the festival? How you have made any point about the festival being value of money compared to Slam Dunk into a negative response about the festival is really quite something.

 

I have an interest in how the green day day turns out, that's quite obvious. I'm fully entitled to be someone who waits like many buyers until they see a lineup and base it on that. I think the whole gigs scene personally bar the odd few acts is an overpriced mess. Luckily not every other bands I like had jumped on the wagon. 

 

Because slam dunk cost me £110 for a day will bands that I wouldn't hesitate to see vs the usual Download. All round it's a better site and festival. What is the point in me saying £300/350 quid for a weekend at Download with a load of bands that overall wouldn't interest me as much is better value? I've found it worth going to 3 weekends before, 2011, 12 and 23 but I've been to a couple of separate days....that tells you that it's rarely worth the weekend cost for me. There has been a couple of times when maybe I'd have got a cheaper ticket of twickets was around or I knew of it but never a weekend. I'm sure there are plenty of other things I could pay for and likewise yourself you wouldn't consider worth it.

 

We have much different interests in music but I'm not saying you're wrong for spending money on a festival you actually like, I'm saying anyone can buy a ticket cheaper before a lineup comes out. 

[Oibble]

17 minutes ago, northernangel said:

That all depends really what else you get over the weekend. For how often I find a weekend worthwhile to go to download I'd just rather they were elsewhere. The difference in download booking a band like green day is though is they need to make more effort to cater that day whereas a normal download headliner booking would kinda just follow their usual policy and rotated booking repeats etc. The other days will more so do this given they are more usual bookings. 

 

 

This was based on the assumption that an individual found that £100 was reasonable for the Green Day

[andyrhodes24]

40 minutes ago, Oibble said:

 

This was based on the assumption that an individual found that £100 was reasonable for the Green Day

Hella Mega was very reasonably priced at £82.50 for Green Day, FoB, Weezer and Amyl. Think FoB arena your tickets last year were £70 odd alone.

[RedJosh]

34 minutes ago, northernangel said:

I have an interest in how the green day day turns out, that's quite obvious. I'm fully entitled to be someone who waits like many buyers until they see a lineup and base it on that. I think the whole gigs scene personally bar the odd few acts is an overpriced mess. Luckily not every other bands I like had jumped on the wagon. 

 

Because slam dunk cost me £110 for a day will bands that I wouldn't hesitate to see vs the usual Download. All round it's a better site and festival. What is the point in me saying £300/350 quid for a weekend at Download with a load of bands that overall wouldn't interest me as much is better value? I've found it worth going to 3 weekends before, 2011, 12 and 23 but I've been to a couple of separate days....that tells you that it's rarely worth the weekend cost for me. There has been a couple of times when maybe I'd have got a cheaper ticket of twickets was around or I knew of it but never a weekend. I'm sure there are plenty of other things I could pay for and likewise yourself you wouldn't consider worth it.

 

We have much different interests in music but I'm not saying you're wrong for spending money on a festival you actually like, I'm saying anyone can buy a ticket cheaper before a lineup comes out. 

Where have I ever said you aren't entitled to wait to buy?

 

The £110 including fees at Slam Dunk was also the super early bird - so you must have bought that before the line-up was announced as tickets went up to £135 including fees after they went back on sale after the line-up was announced...

[northernangel]

44 minutes ago, Oibble said:

 

This was based on the assumption that an individual found that £100 was reasonable for the Green Day

I don't personally find £100 reasonable for any gig.

 

6 minutes ago, andyrhodes24 said:

Hella Mega was very reasonably priced at £82.50 for Green Day, FoB, Weezer and Amyl. Think FoB arena your tickets last year were £70 odd alone.

 

This was a tour I needed to happen like 10 years before it did for me. I should have actually gone but at that time £82.50 was pretty high. Green Day hadn't bought out a decent album for 17 years and I thought FOB were just producing rubbish then except for the odd song. It was a gig to make an exception for though.

[northernangel]

4 minutes ago, RedJosh said:

Where have I ever said you aren't entitled to wait to buy?

 

The £110 including fees at Slam Dunk was also the super early bird - so you must have bought that before the line-up was announced as tickets went up to £135 including fees after they went back on sale after the line-up was announced...

 

I'm saying I'm entitled because my comparison was based on that. Really though comparison all comes down to what each thinks something is worth. I would never say someone is wrong for spending such and such even if I might question heavily why lol as I've obviously got my own acts that would be worth that bit extra a lot of them are bands I've seen where they cost so much are now.

 

Nope, I got super early bird when tbe lineup was announced. There was a very few super early and early bird that went on sale. I got super lucky refreshing to get that. Not a chance I'd have departed with any money until I saw it and I wouldn't have paid the £135 as it's certainly not worth it. I wouldn't expect to get that again so it's likely to be my last one.

[RedJosh]

1 hour ago, northernangel said:

Not a chance I'd have departed with any money until I saw it and I wouldn't have paid the £135 as it's certainly not worth it. I wouldn't expect to get that again so it's likely to be my last one.

You were very lucky then haha

 

I think £110 could have just about accepted, but it would be right at the top of its worth, but £135 which it basically became was silly and £150 is insane.

[charlierc]

2 hours ago, northernangel said:

This was a tour I needed to happen like 10 years before it did for me. I should have actually gone but at that time £82.50 was pretty high. Green Day hadn't bought out a decent album for 17 years and I thought FOB were just producing rubbish then except for the odd song. It was a gig to make an exception for though.

I think I was just happy it went ahead tbf given I brought my ticket on a whim in 2020 when we were still in lockdown in the hope it might happen.

 

London Stadium's sound did it's best to compromise the fun, mind. Sound system throughout was pretty weak, something I didn't experience seeing Green Day in Manchester in June (at least for the first hour - it was muddier during AI than Dookie, oddly)

 

Also, off-topic but it's something that Green Day's own UK tour played more shows and bigger venues than Hella Mega did.

[northernangel]

31 minutes ago, RedJosh said:

You were very lucky then haha

 

I think £110 could have just about accepted, but it would be right at the top of its worth, but £135 which it basically became was silly and £150 is insane.

 

Very lucky! I was fuming how quickly it went. This was about 35 minutes in too as my confirmation email didn't come until 10:55.

 

I bought my ticket very much on the basis of who I felt likely to be able to see. Should they clash too much it would become a ticket probably worth selling. If for example random ADTR, NFG and Less Than Jake clashed there is no way I would still attend. I don't think I'd attend if those three weren't available. Sometimes as well I find a ticket not just based on the cost of bands but how good a day you could have watching a collection of bands you like because you aren't getting the same set lengths as tours for me so costs relativeness isn't always the big thing for me. These days mostly I'm looking for bands to tattle off their hits to a couple of ciders.

 

Even given the above though £120 or more would have been too much.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

20 hours ago, Spiral_Low said:

 

Well for one they pulled a bigger crowd than the headliner in 2022. 

 

They've released another well received album and done a very successful 30 year celebration tour that sold out well before the gigs. 

Plenty of bands pull bigger crowds than headliners, doesn’t mean they sell more tickets. Do you want Skindred to headline by that metric? 
 

Their last album was released Feb 2022, they last played Download in June 2022, so no they haven’t. 
 

I’m not knocking them, they were brilliant on this last tour. But, size wise they are absolutely a weak headliner by any standard for Download. 

[northernangel]

11 minutes ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

Plenty of bands pull bigger crowds than headliners, doesn’t mean they sell more tickets. Do you want Skindred to headline by that metric? 
 

Their last album was released Feb 2022, they last played Download in June 2022, so no they haven’t. 
 

I’m not knocking them, they were brilliant on this last tour. But, size wise they are absolutely a weak headliner by any standard for Download. 

It really is time for people to stop trying to justify Korns headliner slot just because they like them. Having a huge catalogue doesn’t make a headliner worthy catalogue either. No-one is denying they are popular and would get a big crowd but they've absolutely been chosen rather than going through a lot again.

Skindred a massive example of should they be headlining.

In reality Korn should have done it if they were going to in 2017 with SOAD and Aerosmith off the back of the co-headline tour in 2016 I feel. 

[Andre91]

Hopefully someone jumps the gun at 9pm tonight… 

[Marka23]

51 minutes ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

Plenty of bands pull bigger crowds than headliners, doesn’t mean they sell more tickets. Do you want Skindred to headline by that metric? 
 

Their last album was released Feb 2022, they last played Download in June 2022, so no they haven’t. 
 

I’m not knocking them, they were brilliant on this last tour. But, size wise they are absolutely a weak headliner by any standard for Download. 

You've had bands like Feeder headline in the past and Copping has said Limp Bizkit have to headline when they next play, Korn are hardly a weak headliner.