Yes, the festival offer accessible tickets and there is access ticket information for various ticket types. Find out more about access tickets for Download here. You can also read more about accessible tickets and how to book on our help page. You should receive your tickets five days before the event. If the tickets have yet to arrive five days before, please contact us. You can check ticket dispatch information here. Yes, if you can no longer go to the festival, you can head to our verified fan to fan ticket exchange site to sell your tickets safely and securely so another fan gets to enjoy the festival.
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Find Tickets. Busses run times per hour and do run late at night after the headliners have finished. A day return ticket is just a few pounds. Food: There are plenty of outlets to buy food at Download.
These range from Full English Breakfasts to burgers, noodles, paella and many more options including vegan and vegetarian. Beer: There are bars situated at different locations around the arena where you can be lager, beers and soft drinks. Beer prices vary at Download depending on what you have. Download operate a drinking cup scheme whereby you purchase a cup initially and keep the cup with you during the day. Water: Free drinking water is available from designated water points in the arena.
To stay hydrated, use your empty beer cup and have a cup of water from the free water taps occasionally. Fill up on snack bars at the campsite before going to the arena in the morning. The site officially opens for campers at Noon on the Wednesday. If you turn up slightly earlier, there is a fair chance you will be allowed in. Wristbands are handed out upon arrival and will differ in colour depending on the camping package or ticket type purchased. Download has merchandise stalls for official merchandise and also a Metal Market full of stalls belonging to various traders.
When it rains at Download, the grounds get muddy very quickly and soon turn into sludge. This is the case in the arena, at the entrances and exits and around the campsite.
Make sure that if the forecast is for rain, you take waterproofs and have boots that go above the ankle. It was placed in front of the front of the main stage.
Jonathan Davis of Korn said the reason the group was returning this year was because of his illness absence last year. I was heartbroken to retire the last time. So this time I'm very happy to be back and we promise to rock the place! I will definitely make up for it for missing the last one. You can expect an amazing Korn show! The hardcore superstar pulled out of her place on the Tuborg stage on Sunday because her tour bus broke down in Germany.
The Download Festival featured an Indian group Parikrama. They became the first Indian group to travel to Donington. Download also featured the first group to officially perform on the Thursday of the festival. Scumface performed on the Tuborg stage during the boardie barbecue. When makeup enthusiasts, Kiss , were heralded as the Friday night headliner, bassist Gene Simmons said:. An aerial acrobatic performance with threads galore and a gargantuan glam-rock setlist proved the skeptics wrong, and that the Old Guard still has juice.
After the success of Kiss , the Download Festival hosted a Sunday lineup with a classic rock presence. Yet it was the first appearance of Slipknot the day before that demonstrated they had the tools to send a crowd of nearly a hundred thousand into pure chaos, exuding theatricality, menace and riffs galore. No wonder they were asked to return for a fourth appearance in , raging the mosh-pit ten years later.
The Download Festival is now a heavy metal institution spreading its wings in Paris, invited the group to which the heavy metal owed it all: Black Sabbath. For what was to be their last tour, Ozzy Osbourne and co.
The masses who braved the mud and the floods that followed were treated to a setlist paying homage to the Sabbath classics, at the festival created for the music they themselves created. A fitting conclusion to the legacy of Black Sabbath, blessing Download Festival with their last appearance at the UK festival. Download Festival Avenged Sevenfold, Ozzy Osbourne the man obviously can't tear himself away from his Donington followers and an almost fully reformed Guns 'N' Roses headlined the Download; one of the sunniest occasions in the festival's illustrious history thanks to the blissful heat wave that hit the country.
Slash in skin-tight leather pants and Axl Rose was surprisingly punctual, arriving on stage on time - rumors he had ordered offsite traffic shut down at p. Rock'n'roll excesses persist The bar is high for the future. Following the cancellation of the Download Festival , the Download Festival is announced.
Discover the program below. Also in , facial scanning technology was used by security at Download Festival. Apparently this was the first time it had been used at a music festival in the UK. It was criticised by the campaign group Big Brother , and in recent years facial scanning technology has been widely criticised for being invasive and not as effective as once thought. In a massive 40 US music festival stated that they would not be using Facial Scanning technology in So Download definitely made a whoopsie with that one, but I do applaud them for trying new stuff at the festivals.
I cannot find mention of them using the technology again, so I assume they also took the feedback to heart, which is very good news. Download TV was held on the Download social media channels, and included interactive events RockFit and DOOMyoga , interviews with bands and fans, as well as previous performances from the bands scheduled to play in Also, for a three-day event that was organised in a matter of weeks, and delivered across several social media channels for free , I think the festival did a great job.
Download Festival has been cancelled in because of the coronavirus. The history of Download Festival has been winding and with a few bumps in the road, and maybe the Coronavirus will cause a few more. But Download Festival will be back, and will only be bigger and better than ever, that I am sure of. Robert Palmer is a music festival addict. He love camping, loud music and day drinking. Now, why is this such a big deal? Coming out in , The Festival may be a few years old now, and so a review of it may not make much sense.
But with no music festivals on this year, watching music-festival-themed films Read more…. The wait is finally over! The three headliners for Leeds and Reading festival have finally been announced. Well, one announced himself months ago… …And one leaked yesterday.. But one headliner has been announced today! Read more…. Looking at it today, Download Festival is an institution.
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