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  1. Y'ello... Help me make a decision please.... I am done and DONE with Download. I've had some wild times there, and some meh times. This year was great for me, but I'm not getting any younger (52 by next season) and Donington is exhausting. I'm seriously considering 2000Trees as an alternative. This year's lineup looked alright, and the location is about an hour and a half better. I hear good things about Bloodstock all the time, but the lineups there are typically too relentlessly heavy for me. I prefer a bit more variety in rock genres. The biggest problem is going to be convincing the guys I usually go to DL with. Any words of wisdom?
  2. Yeah could've. But it's their communication. Didn't want to be the messenger that got shot.
  3. Sorry, this link is better... https://forums.downloadfestival.co.uk/topic/15923-event-info-faqs/
  4. A FAQ that includes the map status has been issued on the official forum a couple of days ago. https://forums.downloadfestival.co.uk/topic/15922-faqs-for-2023/
  5. A FAQ that includes the map status has been issued on the official forum a couple of days ago.
  6. If you go to the sponsors list at the bottom of the Download website, and click on Barclaycard, it says... "Barclaycard – Official Payment Partner of Download Festival. Your Barclaycard is your pass to hottest entertainment perks – save 10% on drinks* onsite when you show and pay with your Barclaycard. *T&Cs apply. Find out more at: Barclaycard Entertainment." Hopefully that's not a forgotten statement from last year.
  7. Devin then Ghost on second is a great evening!
  8. Certainly that one track they've released is completely derivative. Almost like they're working to a found and comfy formula. Which is exactly what you don't want from Slipknot. Every new thing I hear from them I want to push and defy boundaries, not safely set up camp within them. Hopefully the rest of the album will punch through better.
  9. Take all of my money. That's a great list
  10. I like three tracks on it, and the rest are anonymous fillers. Which is exactly how I've felt about every other Muse album. But tbh, I'm only ever going to be a Greatest Hits fan as far as they're concerned.
  11. Taken a while to come back on the forums after the massive disappointment from this year’s Download. Maybe it’s all been said before, but I’m too lazy to doomscroll through all the previous posts. Bloody hell it was quiet though, or was that just me? Getting near the front at the mainstage was not a challenge at any point. Loads of the “other stuff” that fills the border and spaces in the arena seemed absent. The village was just weird. I didn’t mind the container thing, but that would have been empty at the first sign of rain. Loads of emptiness around the outside of the containers. I had a few must-see’s at the Dogtooth Stage, but the way it was set on the hill made it really difficult to actually see the bands if you were more that 12feet away from the barrier. I can’t remember it being like that before (?), happy to be corrected on this point. Positives though… Didn’t queue once for a pint. Didn’t queue once for a piss. All the empty space in the campsite made staggering for a fence piss at 3am much easier. Worse thing is, I’m dumb enough to keep lining Download’s pockets next year. Mainly because I keep seeing the 2 x Tallica rumours everywhere. Dunno if they’re substantiated anywhere or way. Rant over.
  12. I'm going to dare-to-dream, and be damned for it. 40th anniversary of Kill 'Em All.
  13. Been hanging around the official DL forum a bit, because occasionally they’re more fun than y’all😂 There’s a good suggestion on there that there should be format of 1 classic headliner, 1 established big name headliner and 1 rising star headliner. I quite like that idea. Especially if the second stage headliner is a contrast, and if Avalanche and Dogtooth tents do they’re thing. I’m not sure where the demarcation is between “established” and “classic”, but if they could get it right, then I can see it working well.
  14. I guess it's all about the coin. If a band prefers to do arena's than Download, and they can pull a good audience, then I'd assume that it's a) financially more attractive, and b) much less fannying around. So what's the solution? LiveNation increase Download's budget? Or use their monopoly on touring bands to persuade them that the festival is good for them? Who knows? I certainly don't. As much as I dislike Copping's insistence on booking tired old dinosaurs, he can only work with what's available and/or willing.
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