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Download Festival 2005

Friday 10th to Sunday 12th June 2005
Donington Park, Leics, England MAP
£105 for 3 days, camping £22.50 extra, days £45 or £50

HIM are one of the few bands that can claim they have played at every Download festival since it started in 2003. They even played the Glasgow Download last year as well.

Last year HIM had to be dragged off stage due to the fact they were supposed to be headlining but due to over running times they were only given 30 mins.

Being the true professionals that they are they didn’t complain to their fans or make a deal of it, and Download kindly decided to offer them a main stage slot to compensate for last years fiasco.

As soon as HIM arrived on stage the fans at the front of the corwd started throwing bottles and shouting ‘Ozzy’ in an attempt to intimidate frontman Ville. However he stood there and carried on singing acting as cool as ever- he then decided to address the crowd by saying ‘you do realise that throwing bottles of piss up here is sac-religious because Ozzy will be standing up here very shortly and he will have to stand in the piss’. This put a halt to the bottles being thrown.

Majority of the set list was from the album Love Metal, and apart from the pillocks who try to ruin it by throwing bottles, on the whole HIM won over the ferocious Donington crowd.