Download 2025

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

21 minutes ago, northernangel said:

The general reaction seems to suggest that although Sleep Token sold a lot of tickets, they aren't people going to Download lol.

 

The amount of Sleep Token merch at Download last year was second only to Electric Callboy. The facebook users moaning are crying into their Saxon shirts.

 

[northernangel]

2 minutes ago, Chavmeisterdeluxe said:

 

The amount of Sleep Token merch at Download last year was second only to Electric Callboy. The facebook users moaning are crying into their Saxon shirts.

 

To be honest the festival hasn't done a great deal over the vast years to sway away from the idea that's what they should be booking. Some of it is quite an extreme change like the reaction to anywhere like it would be.

[Aromaticmusic1]

Never been to download before but do they offer day tickets or do you have to get a whole weekend because the friday looks insane if this is right but the rest is very meh for me

 

3 hours ago, Andre91 said:

APEX: Green Day / Weezer / Jimmy Eat World / Poppy / Boston Manor / The Warning / Yours Truly

OPUS: Within Temptation / Lorna Shore / The Ghost Inside 

 

AVALANCHE: McFly / Me First and The Gimme Gimmes

 

DOGTOOTH: SkiTh / Fit For An Autopsy

 

 

 

 

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

12 minutes ago, Aromaticmusic1 said:

Never been to download before but do they offer day tickets or do you have to get a whole weekend because the friday looks insane if this is right but the rest is very meh for me

 

 

 

They will do eventually yeah. Those day splits are only a guess at this point though as no days have been confirmed yet.

[Rocketfrog1820]

Thanks to the guys who shared the headliners early (I think @RedJosh & @Judas Yeast?) - myself and my wife decided to get early bird and are both really happy with the announcement. Really pleased, thank you!

[Rusty Spoon]

I'd be surprised if this doesn't sell well. There'll be a lot of crossover between Green Day and Sleep Token fans I'd imagine. 

[Spiral_Low]

1 hour ago, Bixer said:

I for one am delighted that Download seems to have shifted to catering more towards the mid 2000's crowd and has essentially become what Reading/Leeds was 15 years ago. 

 

With that initial leak yesterday I was worried that the Sex Pistols were one of the main stage headliners, so I'm equally as delighted to see that they're not! 

Worth mentioning the whole reason Download started up in 1st place was to have a heavier festival than Reading/Leeds, so obviously by going in that direction they are loosing people like myself. But I accept that's just the way it goes and I need to look at alternatives....missed out on Bloodstock though. 

Edited November 13 by Spiral_Low

[belfast]

14 hours ago, Jrose said:

funny that, iron maiden, foo fighters, acdc metalicca slipknot all still hit number 1 in the UK. you know actual big bands 👍 it's ok you be a copping nuthugger and soon it'll be £500 to see skindred headline. 

You're very angry its as equally tragic as it is hilarious 

Edited November 13 by belfast

[Jrose]

1 minute ago, belfast said:

You're very angry its as equally tragic as it is hilarious 

I've been to download when it has been chocker block full to the rafters and unbelievable. you enjoy standing in a half empty field though for £300 👍 more power to ya copping cuck! 

[belfast]

Just now, Jrose said:

I've been to download when it has been chocker block full to the rafters and unbelievable. you enjoy standing in a half empty field though for £300 👍 more power to ya copping cuck! 

😂 download will miss you - keep crying though 

[Siddey1994]

55 minutes ago, Jrose said:

I've been to download when it has been chocker block full to the rafters and unbelievable. you enjoy standing in a half empty field though for £300 👍 more power to ya copping cuck! 

Oh my god you’re still going. We get it, you don’t like the lineup, now bore off to another festival forum you absolute manchild.

 

Speaking of manchildren, FIR being announced next month then?

[MrKrabs]

4 minutes ago, Siddey1994 said:

Speaking of manchildren, FIR being announced next month then?

FIR could be seen as a controversial booking, would they do a standalone announcement for them like they did with Limp Bizkit or would they be better off pooling them into a bigger announcement later on?

[northernangel]

2 hours ago, Spiral_Low said:

Worth mentioning the whole reason Download started up in 1st place was to have a heavier festival than Reading/Leeds, so obviously by going in that direction they are loosing people like myself. But I accept that's just the way it goes and I need to look at alternatives....missed out on Bloodstock though. 

 

It's basically become inevitable hasn't it that there is no where else to go now but the options they are having to get. I get the point that that it's started as Reading old headlines but with Download undercard still. That's wouldn't have happened though if they gradually made this move. I don't think Download will get anywhere close to selling out personally. 

 

2 hours ago, Jrose said:

I've been to download when it has been chocker block full to the rafters and unbelievable. you enjoy standing in a half empty field though for £300 👍 more power to ya copping cuck! 

I'll be honest pal, I'd probably rather a half empty field that the crowds of 2023 whereby as good a time as I had, the festival space couldn't cope. It is the layout allround for a festival here. I had a better time probably drinking round camp than in the arena. 

[LJR200]

Really excited about the headliners, Green Day have been wanted for years and cannot wait to see them at last. Sleep Token have a great opportunity to make a statement like BMTH and FOB did. As for Korn, absolutely loved them in 2022 and I think should have headlined over Biffy. In terms of other acts, Spiritbox, Alien Ant Farm and Sex Pistols I like. Personally don’t get McFly but that’s me personally.

[LazyDavid]

Well plenty there for me already! That McFly pit is gunna be insane, surely the biggest in the history of the fest

Edited November 13 by LazyDavid

[Siddey1994]

8/10 of the people who came with us this year, have booked next year based on the lineup. Download will be reet lads, festival’s not going under because the lineup isn’t for you.

Do people just lack the self-awareness to see this “it’ll sell miserably” shite is said year after year?

[northernangel]

It looks like I'm doing the Green Day  Rise Against in Feb, don't see added

Papa Roach in Feb, def not added

Godsmack, P.O.D, Drowning Pool in April, also don't see added.

The Darkness, Ash December.

 

That's my Download tour.

[shedrovemetodaytimetv]

Line up isn't for me this year, but fair play for getting three new headliners. Bit of a rock and a hard place for them. People moan they rehash the same dusty old rock and metal bands every other year and that they need to book new headliners. They do it, and everyone goes 'not like that'. 

 

In fairness, they have leaned into a little too hard, could have maybe tried two mew and rebook. 

 

I feel like they will lose a lot of people that might have gone to download, to Outbreak. 

[Marka23]

4 hours ago, Rusty Spoon said:

I'd be surprised if this doesn't sell well. There'll be a lot of crossover between Green Day and Sleep Token fans I'd imagine. 

I'm a big Green Day fan but have zero interest in Sleep Token 

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

5 hours ago, Spiral_Low said:

Worth mentioning the whole reason Download started up in 1st place was to have a heavier festival than Reading/Leeds, so obviously by going in that direction they are loosing people like myself. But I accept that's just the way it goes and I need to look at alternatives....missed out on Bloodstock though. 

It's still heavier than Reading and Leeds to be fair 

[49Lawson]

Having looked at the line up I think we might end up getting tickets closer to the time. It's obviously a bit weaker than 2023's line up when I last went in terms of the logo bands, but I think that whilst the logo bands this year are obviously smaller (some like academy size who will have good billings) I think there's more strength in the undercard for my tastes.

 

Also, a lot more on this line up that I haven't seen previously which is always a big selling point these days when you've been bobbing around the circuit for 10+ years.

[RedJosh]

5 hours ago, Spiral_Low said:

Worth mentioning the whole reason Download started up in 1st place was to have a heavier festival than Reading/Leeds, so obviously by going in that direction they are loosing people like myself. But I accept that's just the way it goes and I need to look at alternatives....missed out on Bloodstock though. 

R+L weren't booking extreme metal like Meshugga,Cradle of Filth, Lorna Shore, Apocalyptica, Orbit Culture, Anaal Nakarath, Svalbard, Sylosis, Alcest, Whitechapel or Sikth even in it's heaviest years or non mainstream metal like Within Temptation or Vola. All of which is there this year. It is 100% widening what it is booking, but they are adding just as much extreme stuff as they are softening the festival just the heavy is stuff is normally lower down and the other stuff at the top of the festival.

[DomDom1984]

I think this looks like a good varied rock festival tbh. I only ever properly judge a festival when the splits come out, but there's enough there that I'd consider it nearer the time.

[Andre91]

Download now is still heavier than Reading has ever been. 

[northernangel]

18 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Download now is still heavier than Reading has ever been. 

Download biggest issue now is that its like they are putting two different festivals together.