Download 2026

[firehazard]

3 hours ago, Marka23 said:

Quite a few on reddit are adamant GnR are headlining all saying they have apparent insiders 

 

Quite a few = One person who claims their friend works for Live Nation and would have broken their NDA by mentioning it to them and someone else who said their friend who is a techie for a band. Oh and someone else who says they saw it on here. 

 

It has been mentioned on there before but it's just people parroting what they've seen posted elsewhere. 

[firehazard]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Missed a few days out, but back. Ghost having nothing lined up for next year at all, particularly with this first wave of festivals... makes me wonder where exactly they're going to edge up.

 

US dates have been hinted at being announced on Monday

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghostbc/s/ljUE3Gshh2

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

1 hour ago, Larosterna said:

Adam Gontier is back and they have a new album. Just checked on Spotify as well, 17.6 million monthly listeners is more than I thought. I think they could sub, definitely will bring a crowd for nostalgia as well since One-X is twenty next year.

Sub the main stage? 😅

[Larosterna]

1 hour ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

Sub the main stage? 😅

Streaming wise at least, they have the numbers. No idea how they are tickets wise to their own gigs though.

[TWY2911]

As much as I have a lot of nostalgia for Three Days Grace they would be at best 3rd down on main and I think even that is a push 

 

They definitely have a lot of hits and will be bumped up from where they were last time they played because of Adam coming back 

Edited September 27, 2025 by TWY2911

[northernangel]

7 minutes ago, TWY2911 said:

As much as I have a lot of nostalgia for Three Days Grace they would be at best 3rd down on main and I think even that is a push 

 

They definitely have a lot of hits and will be bumped up from where they were last time they played because of Adam coming back 

I think 4th main would be best which would be subbing second. They might just squeeze fhe 3rd main depending on the cost of Guns and LP but JEW played 3rd this year and they did Ally Pally. Generally Brixton will and likewise venues elsewhere will get you 4th, likewise and Ally Pally 3rd, Wembley Arena and a collection of some arenas sub and then big arena tours/own dates the top of the pile but there is a big gap between sub and that.

[Audiorocker]

Does ANYONE have a dead cert band for this year? 🤣

[TWY2911]

Looking at the bands announced for festivals in Europe these are who i'd like to see (not including potential headliners) 

 

Papa Roach 

A Perfect Circle

Kublai Khan TX 

Cavalera Chaos A.D 

Thrown 

Trivium 

Anthrax 

Electric Callboy

Volbeat 

Three Days Grace 

Breaking Benjamin 

Pennywise

Twisted Sister

Architects 

 

Makes up a decent undercard that 

[Audiorocker]

3 minutes ago, TWY2911 said:

Looking at the bands announced for festivals in Europe these are who i'd like to see (not including potential headliners) 

 

Papa Roach 

A Perfect Circle

Kublai Khan TX 

Cavalera Chaos A.D 

Thrown 

Trivium 

Anthrax 

Electric Callboy

Volbeat 

Three Days Grace 

Breaking Benjamin 

Pennywise

Twisted Sister

Architects 

 

Makes up a decent undercard that 

Many on that list I am all for ✅️

[LazyDavid]

28 minutes ago, Audiorocker said:

Does ANYONE have a dead cert band for this year? 🤣

Elvana

[gabrielomachado]

1 hour ago, Audiorocker said:

Does ANYONE have a dead cert band for this year? 🤣

Hot Milk apparently self confirmed, and the Linkin Park gap on their schedule screams Download to a point that we can call they a cert band.

[OllieJ77]

1 hour ago, Audiorocker said:

Does ANYONE have a dead cert band for this year? 🤣

Linkin Park

[Marka23]

1 hour ago, TWY2911 said:

Looking at the bands announced for festivals in Europe these are who i'd like to see (not including potential headliners) 

 

Papa Roach 

A Perfect Circle

Kublai Khan TX 

Cavalera Chaos A.D 

Thrown 

Trivium 

Anthrax 

Electric Callboy

Volbeat 

Three Days Grace 

Breaking Benjamin 

Pennywise

Twisted Sister

Architects 

 

Makes up a decent undercard that 

Can add Megadeth and Alice Cooper to that as well

[northernangel]

11 hours ago, TWY2911 said:

Looking at the bands announced for festivals in Europe these are who i'd like to see (not including potential headliners) 

 

Papa Roach 

A Perfect Circle

Kublai Khan TX 

Cavalera Chaos A.D 

Thrown 

Trivium 

Anthrax 

Electric Callboy

Volbeat 

Three Days Grace 

Breaking Benjamin 

Pennywise

Twisted Sister

Architects 

 

Makes up a decent undercard that 

I'd see 4 of them with 3 of actual major interest which are all appearing at my likely festival so far so not bad.

[Jrose]

On 27/09/2025 at 10:05, OllieJ77 said:

just playing devils advocate but…

 

Are they still a massive ticket pull in 2025? Most of the older crowd are now older and less likely to want to go aside maybe a day ticket. Most of the younger generation likely (and I include myself) have no interest in seeing them. Axl can’t sing. The older fans have seen them recently and unless they are die hards are they going to be bothered about seeing them again given their awful? 

they still did about 45k at villa park and 70-75k at wembley. considering they did 2 shows at spurs in 2022, Glastonbury, glasgow and hyde park in 2023 too, those are decent numbers for a band on a 3rd tour in 4 years. and as bad as axl sounds on some songs, it is exaggerated how bad he is overall. plus they last played download in 2018. 8 year gap feels about right. personally ive heard rumours they are on a US tour in 2026 so im not sure they are actually being considered for download, but if we're comparing them to tool, nine inch nails etc GnR massively outsell both. even if axl started miming. 

[Jrose]

23 hours ago, northernangel said:

 

I think Emily sounds good enough with LP overall to be a better draw than GNR with an way off key Axl. She isn't perfect, obviously better with the newer stuff as it was made for her but there are way worse efforts over the years for replacements I expect.

 

she does sound better, but she's still doing karaoke. linkin park without chester? i'm shocked they've managed to do stadiums. brilliant marketing tbf to them all. new music seems to be well received too, so fair play. 

[northernangel]

43 minutes ago, Jrose said:

they still did about 45k at villa park and 70-75k at wembley. considering they did 2 shows at spurs in 2022, Glastonbury, glasgow and hyde park in 2023 too, those are decent numbers for a band on a 3rd tour in 4 years. and as bad as axl sounds on some songs, it is exaggerated how bad he is overall. plus they last played download in 2018. 8 year gap feels about right. personally ive heard rumours they are on a US tour in 2026 so im not sure they are actually being considered for download, but if we're comparing them to tool, nine inch nails etc GnR massively outsell both. even if axl started miming. 

 

He is pretty bad though, Glastonbury was pretty bad tune wise and there is a lot of content of him around sounding very bad. I like GNR music a lot and I went London Stadium for their first reunion back when he sounded really good, was on time and the band were tight so I'll remember it that way. Glastonbury just is what it was and I got pulled in by who it was rather than watching Fatboy or Lana.

40 minutes ago, Jrose said:

she does sound better, but she's still doing karaoke. linkin park without chester? i'm shocked they've managed to do stadiums. brilliant marketing tbf to them all. new music seems to be well received too, so fair play. 

I'm a huge fan of LP and wasn't for a fresh singer and not sure I wanted to see it's but a couple of days before Wembley I was like got to bite the bullet. Even when they were announced for Werchter I wanted to be more interested in making the trip than I was and had Green Day not been playing Download then I'd have gone. But once is started I was just belting out every word, loving life and thinking this it was it used to be like. I had great seats but not many bands have got me in a way they have and I left thinking to myself I'll be at Download next year for them....that was before RIP went and got Maiden thinking Download would be as well. If Download got both I probably wouldn't make the trip over as it's just not affordable one week after.

[OllieJ77]

4 hours ago, Jrose said:

they still did about 45k at villa park and 70-75k at wembley. considering they did 2 shows at spurs in 2022, Glastonbury, glasgow and hyde park in 2023 too, those are decent numbers for a band on a 3rd tour in 4 years. and as bad as axl sounds on some songs, it is exaggerated how bad he is overall. plus they last played download in 2018. 8 year gap feels about right. personally ive heard rumours they are on a US tour in 2026 so im not sure they are actually being considered for download, but if we're comparing them to tool, nine inch nails etc GnR massively outsell both. even if axl started miming. 

The point is though if they’ve played that often Will the same fans want to turn up given the view on his vocals. The fans have seen them.

[northernangel]

18 minutes ago, OllieJ77 said:

The point is though if they’ve played that often Will the same fans want to turn up given the view on his vocals. The fans have seen them.

The way I see it is as well, the only chance GNR have of doing well crowd number wise now 3 years out of 4 is if you were someone away already for 1 or both of their dates as anyone who plans for a festival will keep that time free anyway. Im planning a holiday June next year for example and im not even considering heading out on the RAR dates, leaving it a good 4 days getting home.

[TWY2911]

Saw Feeder live for the first time the other day and they are excellent 

 

I pre-assumed beforehand that it would be more of an indie crowd but it was mostly made up of old rockers and I saw a few download shirts 

 

With their history at download I think they'd be a fantastic avalanche headliner 

[Marka23]

Definitely seems a lot more are now saying they've apparently heard Guns n Roses are playing and that Ghost apparently aren't. 

 

Will be odd for Kam to be calling Limp Bizkit/GnR/Linkin Park incredible headliners when it's only Linkin Park most will be bothered about 

[BingusBongus]

11 minutes ago, Marka23 said:

Definitely seems a lot more are now saying they've apparently heard Guns n Roses are playing and that Ghost apparently aren't. 

 

Will be odd for Kam to be calling Limp Bizkit/GnR/Linkin Park incredible headliners when it's only Linkin Park most will be bothered about 

It's his job to sell people on whoever the headliners are. He could have booked Chas And Dave, Black Lace and Jason Donovan to headline and he's still be vocal about them all being amazing.

 

That being said, Kam and his team are dumb and they'll be aware of the chatter online about certain acts. If the three are who people think they are, there's gonna be any awful lot of discussions taking place as Live Nation about managing the PR of it all.

 

[northernangel]

26 minutes ago, Marka23 said:

Definitely seems a lot more are now saying they've apparently heard Guns n Roses are playing and that Ghost apparently aren't. 

 

Will be odd for Kam to be calling Limp Bizkit/GnR/Linkin Park incredible headliners when it's only Linkin Park most will be bothered about 

 

Indeed. Although I'd put money LP  sign the first band to sell out a day since Metallica in 2023.

[chatty]

Of course Guns and Roses would do exceptionally well as a headliner. They are probably the biggest band of the rumoured lot and even if they have fell of a cliff since their prime, still attract a hell of a lot of fans. 

 

I think any three of GNR, LP, Ghost, Limp Bizkit would sell well enough for headliners tbh There's been far worse festival headliners in recent years. 

[DomDom1984]

I've mentioned Feeder as a fun Avalanche band before. I was thinking they could be thrown kinda low on 2nd as well. 

 

Definitely think there's still a place for them in there.