Refused, Kids in Glass Houses, Gallows, & more for Download

By Neil Greenway | Published: Wed 4th Apr 2012

Download Festival 2012 - Kids In Glass Houses
Photo credit: Karen Williams

Download Festival 2012

Friday 8th to Sunday 10th June 2012
Donington Park, Leics, England MAP
weekend and camping options sold out, £75 a day ticket for Friday or Sunday only
Daily capacity: 111,000

More acts have been confirmed for Download, which takes place from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th June 2012 at Donington Park, Leicestershire, and is headlined this year by The Prodigy, Metallica, and Black Sabbath.

Newly added are Refused, Kids in Glass Houses, Lower Than Atlantis, Four Year Strong, Gallows, Don Broco, Porter Robinson, T. Mills, Fearless Vampire Killers, Kobra And The Lotus, Edguy, Rival Sons, and Black Spiders.

Download which takes place at Donington Park over the weekend of Friday 8th to Sunday 10th June 2012 with The Prodigy headline the Friday, Metallica Saturday playing their untitled 'black album' in it's entirety, and Black Sabbath will headline Sunday.

Also confirmed are Dropkick Murphys, Rise To Remain, While She Sleeps, Killswitch Engage, Shinedown, Black Veil Brides, NoFX, Opeth, Nightwish, Soundgarden, Chase & Status, Biffy Clyro, Slash, Rise Against, Megadeth, Steel Panther, Black Label Society, Billy Talent, Five Finger Death Punch, Kyuss Lives, Terrorvision, As I Lay Dying, Fear Factory, Periphery, Ginger (The Wildhearts), and more. For the line-up details as available please click here.

Travel to Download Festival with National Express.

A weekend arena ticket with 3 nights camping is priced at £180, a five nights camping weekend ticket are priced at £190 and offers access to the Download camp site from midday Wednesday, and a weekend only ticket without camping is priced at £145. Lockers are priced at £12.50, car parking £15 in advance (motorbikes are free), campervan supplements were priced at £60 and have sold out, and VIP packages are also available (VIP camping has already sold out). Day tickets will be available at a later date.

To buy tickets from Seetickets, click here.

To buy tickets from Ticketline, click here.

To buy tickets from Gigantic, click here.

To buy tickets from Ticketmaster, click here.



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