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  1. 6 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

    I just got a direct message from Tinder to say I've won their ticket comp from last Friday! Anyone else? I think it's tickets for all days so if there is a way to share them with people here I will. I only want to go on the Cave day but may go to one more... Will peruse the lineups!

    Nick Cave, Anna Calvi, Kae Tempest and The Smile for free! What a day.

    Lucky sod! I ain’t won shit yet on these competitions.

  2. 14 hours ago, thewayiam said:

    Pulp playing Truck Fest is not going to happen and I'd be surprised with Victorious. They are icons! They are no less relevant than The Strokes at this point and a whole lot better live.

    Who are saying The Strokes are relevant though?

  3. 26 minutes ago, Alex Winstone said:

    Thursday 

    MS: Slipknot, Machine Head, Lamb Of God, Jinjer, Spiritbox, Malevolence, Vended Opus: Idles, Coheed & Cambria

    Friday

    MS: BMTH, Enter Shikari, Limp Bizkit, Turnstile, Neck Deep, New Found Glory, Nova Twins, Static Dress. Opus: Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree Avalanche: Angels And Airwaves, Four Year Strong Dogtooth: Converge Bloodmoon, Wolves In The Throne Room 

    Saturday 

    MS: RATM, Run The Jewels, Frank Carter, Alexisonfire, While She Sleeps, Dinosaur Pile Up, Hacktivist, Bob Vylan Opus: Royal Blood, Cancer Bats Avalanche: Ghostemane, Knocked Loose Dogtooth: Godflesh, Health

    Sunday

    MS: Metallica, Gojira, Trivium, Pantera, Code Orange Royal Republic, Cleopatrick, Taipei Houston Opus: Don Broco, PVRIS Avalanche: Simple Plan, PUP Dogtooth: Carpenter Brut, Greg Pucaito 

    Needs more Saxon!

  4. 26 minutes ago, eddie_corrigan said:

    Give James Gunn the keys. he's made two of the best films of the series and can more than handle "team" casts. (we'll forget about the 2 scooby doo movies he directed) plus they'd have killer soundtracks

    He didn't direct the Scooby Doos, he just wrote them.

  5. 10 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

    Yeah but in what universe is that going to happen again? Metal is slowly slipping out of the public conscious. There is no succession in the industry to carry the torch. The issue is without the stadium headliners download doesn’t get the crowd.

    I think what metal needs is a smaller festival which isn’t reliant on the stadium circuit bands to sell it out (but obviously picking a few of them whenever they can), but giving newer bands the chance to get an audience.

    The reason why Download is in the position it’s in is because it’s done 0 preparation for the future. It feels like they take every single year one year at a time. Glastonbury has continued to grow because they clearly think very long term about the future of the festival.

    Metal was never a mainstream public consciousness type of music yet there are metal acts that start playing arenas for the first time every year. 

     You're thinking Download needs stadium headliners because it's the same bollocks that's always been said even though Download rarely ever gets stadium acts. There are acts like Iron Maiden, System Of A Down, Slipknot who aren't big enough to do stadium tours in this country but yet bring in whopping crowds still. If Download treats someone like Ghost, Bring Me or whoever then they will be seen as a headliner the same way they did with System and Slipknot. If anything having more metal acts who are stadium headliners in general would probably fuck over the festival as those acts would skip the festival and create more competition for ticket sales with their own mega shows.

    I agree with Download doesn't think about it's own future but not the same way you do, instead of downsizing they need to make the line ups stronger. Download is booked without it's finger on the pulse of the hard rock scene for example Bring Me the biggest UK metal band who have been playing arenas for ages now have only ever played the mainstage once and Download is meant to be the biggest UK metal festival so it's mental they haven't booked them as a mainstage act more. The bottom half of the main stage line up gets filled up with shit like Alestorm or pub rock bands who will never get bigger than that slot rather than those shit hot bands like Code Orange, Bob Vylan etc and when they do play the fest it's for 25mins on the smallest stages against the big bands. It doesn't help that Download is booked liked a budget festival either, Skindred third down and The Distillers headlining the second stage is weak.

     

    I find the headliner borings but that can be forgiven if the undercard is shit hot which it rarely ever is.

  6. 7 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

    Really interesting chat, very hard to see where this festival goes as big metal is on its way out as a genre.

    What I mean by that is metal is gradually downsizing. We’ve not had any bands emerge that can play to the level of the bigs (Metallica, GNR, Iron Maiden etc). Eventually those bands will retire and who will be left?

    There is no succession. I won’t be surprised if the metal fans know this. They will run the festival until it’s physically impossible to book viable lineups anymore.

    Smaller metal festivals is probably where the money is at right now. Would probably help some smaller emerging acts gain a decent following too. They aren’t going to cut their teeth at places like DL because their chances of ever headlining it are slim.

    Nah, if you look at Monsters Of Rock in the 80s it was getting huge crowds and except for AC/DC they didn't really have stadium headliners in those days, just shit like Whitesnake, Status Quo and Rainbow. 

    A festival is more than just it's headliners and it can be a big festival without big stadium headliners which is what makes this thread so boring as that's all what everyone wants to talk about even though it's a symptom of Download's shit booking throughtout the line up due to everyone needing to prove themselves or they are a R&L type acts. The funny thing is the same thing happened to Monsters Of Rock in the 90s, they didn't embrace the new acts of the day like Rage Against The Machine, Marilyn Manson, Green Day, NIN, Ash, Pearl Jam etc so they were made obsolete and Download was meant to be the solution to the Monsters Of Rock problem but after the last 10 years they have gone backwards or manage fuck up easy wins for themselves.

  7. 16 hours ago, SweepingTheNation said:

    Looks like there was a stage invasion (which Bobby says was approved by the festival) and it either collapsed fully or the middle struts went, and now it looks like it's out of commission for the whole weekend. I say "looks like" as there's not only nothing about it on any of the festival's social media, there's barely been any tweets referencing it bar a few acts for today and tomorrow announcing they're not playing.

    That sucks for the other others acts but at the same time if the stage was that weak maybe they shouldn't be playing on it.

  8. 19 hours ago, mpdow2 said:

    Thanks can you let me know support start time and Prodigy start time  - I am going Friday. 

    Prodigy were on at 9.30, I'm not sure about the support act as I got in late around 8ish and the support act was already on.

    You are in for a treat, it's still a Prodigy gig and what they did for Firestarter was a really lovely tribute to Flint. It's fucking hot though, I felt cooler at a Rammstein gig with their 100s of flamethrowers.

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  9. 12 minutes ago, sacred shape said:

    I was barrier for them and held them up when they came into the crowd! And I won a signed test-pressing of their album! I didn't include them as we're almost certain they've split up (should have had an EP out last year but had radio silence). I messaged Space asking if they were still a thing and he didn't respond.

    That sucks if true. It does explain why Nova Twins ended up supporting Skunk Anaise earlier this year after Never Not Nothing were originally announced as the support act. It felt like they were one support slot away from blowing up.

    I saw them 4ish times in 2019, I fell in love with them when they supported Frank Carter on his small club tour that year and then every festival I went that summer I made sure to drag everyone with me to check them out as they were so good live. They were one of the bands at the top of my list to see after lockdown was lifted.

  10. 4 minutes ago, sacred shape said:

    BMTH's All Points East line-up was insane. Still can't believe I went.

    BMTH, Architects, Run The Jewels, WSS, Sleeping With Sirens, Nothing But Thieves, IDLES, Employed To Serve, Vukovi, Squid, Pengshui, Yonaka, SCARLXRD and Health

    Yeah it was a great day. You missed my favourite band of the day though Black Futures (now called Never Not Nothing) as soon as they were on I went straight into the pit and my mate who hates moshing and despite not knowing them was won over enough to join in.

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  11. 7 hours ago, gabrielomachado said:

    if While She Sleeps are really playing would they be 3rd down Main below BMTH and Architects?

    4th seems the most likely spot on the line up for them but a run of While She Sleeps - Architects - Bring Me is just so perfect that they should just do it!

  12. 27 minutes ago, a6l6e6x said:

    Anyone know if there's support on this prodigy tour? Can't see anything online

    Jagur Skills is the support at the show I'm going to but they have a different DJs supporting depending on the date and I can't remember who the others are.

  13. 16 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

    I am trying to tell the dog it is too hot to go for a walk. I was saying "No Walk", and then pretending to pant and look hot (not sexy hot, that would be weird and wrong).

    Not sure he understands.

    If the dog does understands walk and you keep saying walk then you're just hyping up the poor pup.

  14. It won't happen but since Trent can't be arsed to play shows he's not excited about and NIN would sadly have the usual not big enough complaints to outright headline I'd love to see NIN headline the second stage with them curating their own day. Throwing in their contemporaries like Jane's Addiction or Filter, their influences like Ministry or Skinny Puppy and some newer arty alt rock he seems to like Yves Tumor or HMLTD would make a fucking awesome day.

  15. 34 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

    Yup his refusal to bump acts up to headliners is quickly gonna bite him on the arse in the next few years it seems. Avenged Sevenfold, BMTH and Biffy to headline every year starting from 2024.

    Ah, I thought you meant punching the air in excitement as he can flog a few more tixs when they play in the usual short term thinking from him.

    4 minutes ago, BenG92 said:

    Perfect time to step down and let someone else takes the blame reigns 😄

    Yeah, even Michael Eavis and Melvin Benn clocked onto they don't get the yoof anymore so they let someone else start booking with them since they are so out of touch. Copping isn't the humblest of guys so it will take Download crashing for him to realise that imo.

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