Download 2026

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, FeverDream said:

They 100% get airtime on the 3 stations I mentioned. I flick between them regularly. It's not something I would lie about given, all things granted, I'm not even that huge a TOP fan 🤣

Ah no one suggested you were lieing, the comment was a tongue in cheek more than anything. Mentioning two channels though that play a lot of pop is quite telling. 

 

Kerrang played a lot of Foos as well and look at that. I'd generally be surprised at TOP getting booked at Download, there is so many more logical options for them. Also, Hurricane do have Download headliners but they also have regular years off of them, 1 headliner in 3 years I believe in Green Day.

[andyrhodes24]

23 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Yeah, for sure. I genuinely expected a Sleep Token situation. They’re firmly sub sized if they play next year, which I think they will to make up for cancelling in 2024 (along with the other Euro fests they dropped out of). They could even headline second like they were originally supposed to so they can have their full, quite impressive stage show with them. 

I’ve never seen a support band bring full production like they did on BMTH’s 2024 tour, felt like a headline set. I hope they do play Download, catching them in November in Nottingham.

[NorthernSoul52]

Sub-headliner at this juncture, but even then, I'm yet to fully tune in on them.

[foolee]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Sub-headliner at this juncture, but even then, I'm yet to fully tune in on them.

I did enjoy them live supporting BMTH but they’re pretty naff/meh on record. Only a couple that have really grabbed me. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, foolee said:

I did enjoy them live supporting BMTH but they’re pretty naff/meh on record. Only a couple that have really grabbed me. 

Need to give 'em a few shakes. Not quite done it for me yet, and don't really gauge them as being a big thing either as a draw, though I do appear to be wrong there.

[Andre91]

1 hour ago, andyrhodes24 said:

I’ve never seen a support band bring full production like they did on BMTH’s 2024 tour, felt like a headline set. I hope they do play Download, catching them in November in Nottingham.

Same. I was blown away by them on that tour. The reception they got was nuts. Never seen anything like it in my life. 

Edited September 5, 2025 by Andre91

[Andre91]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Sub-headliner at this juncture, but even then, I'm yet to fully tune in on them.

I quite like them. I would say I’m definitely a casual fan. There’s a good 10-12 songs of theirs I really, really like and listen to quite regularly. I can’t do a whole album, though. 

[OllieJ77]

2 hours ago, andyrhodes24 said:

I’ve never seen a support band bring full production like they did on BMTH’s 2024 tour, felt like a headline set. I hope they do play Download, catching them in November in Nottingham.

See you there my guy can’t wait for it!!

[OllieJ77]

2 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Sub-headliner at this juncture, but even then, I'm yet to fully tune in on them.

They 100% are main sub next time they play think if they did second stage it would be too rammed they need to be on main. 

[NorthernSoul52]

9 hours ago, Andre91 said:

I quite like them. I would say I’m definitely a casual fan. There’s a good 10-12 songs of theirs I really, really like and listen to quite regularly. I can’t do a whole album, though. 

Not sure I'd say that's being a casual fan. It's not being a die-hard, of course, either. 

[OllieJ77]

11 hours ago, northernangel said:

Ah no one suggested you were lieing, the comment was a tongue in cheek more than anything. Mentioning two channels though that play a lot of pop is quite telling. 

 

Kerrang played a lot of Foos as well and look at that. I'd generally be surprised at TOP getting booked at Download, there is so many more logical options for them. Also, Hurricane do have Download headliners but they also have regular years off of them, 1 headliner in 3 years I believe in Green Day.

It’s unlikely they get booked you arent wrong but if there’s no one else that’s free they will be one of the options is how I look at it. They’re always a headliner option on the survey they put out each year so they themselves consider them too.

[Andre91]

Talking about what Kerrang TV is pointless. Even by 2014/15 when 21P were blowing up (and getting played on there all the time), music channels were dead and a completely obsolete medium. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Foo Fighters surely must be knocking on the door at R+L. They'll play at least one festival here next year, I'd reckon. 

[Andre91]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Foo Fighters surely must be knocking on the door at R+L. They'll play at least one festival here next year, I'd reckon. 

They will absolutely choose R&L to be the first official festival they play over here after Taylor’s passing (Glasto’s ‘secret’ set doesn’t count).

[NorthernSoul52]

Weird they've already swapped drummers again in that interim too.

[northernangel]

4 hours ago, OllieJ77 said:

It’s unlikely they get booked you arent wrong but if there’s no one else that’s free they will be one of the options is how I look at it. They’re always a headliner option on the survey they put out each year so they themselves consider them too.

 

There will be a lot of options they can go to before TOP. They asked 21 bands to end up with QOTSA, FOB and A7X and they could literally if they had do book Ghost, BMTH and LP.

3 hours ago, Andre91 said:

Talking about what Kerrang TV is pointless. Even by 2014/15 when 21P were blowing up (and getting played on there all the time), music channels were dead and a completely obsolete medium. 

 

You are correct.

3 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Foo Fighters surely must be knocking on the door at R+L. They'll play at least one festival here next year, I'd reckon. 

Id be a lot of money on them at 26 but I've said that for a long time. The fact they live it, it's their favourite UK festival and they were due to play anyway before Daves antics. 

[losing43]

Worth noting that 21P have played DL before - 2014, 2nd stage Saturday - obviously them headlining would impact sales more so than a mid-afternoon 2nd stage slot that year, but yeah worth noting 

[losing43]

Also..

 

Ghost / Alice Cooper / Greta Van Fleet

 

pls, perfect two to have before Ghost imo

[OllieJ77]

3 hours ago, northernangel said:

 

There will be a lot of options they can go to before TOP. They asked 21 bands to end up with QOTSA, FOB and A7X and they could literally if they had do book Ghost, BMTH and LP.

Yeah I don’t disagree there will be other bands ahead of them in the queue. My point is we can’t rule them out as a headliner option. 

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

1 hour ago, losing43 said:

Also..

 

Ghost / Alice Cooper / Greta Van Fleet

 

pls, perfect two to have before Ghost imo

I think they’d be better going for something like: Ghost / Evanescence / Motionless in White 

 

I can’t see them booking Alice Cooper as a sub. Maybe as a second stage headliner again. 

[Andre91]

2 minutes ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

I think they’d be better going for something like: Ghost / Evanescence / Motionless in White 

 

I can’t see them booking Alice Cooper as a sub. Maybe as a second stage headliner again. 

I can’t see them booking Alice Cooper at all. I think this would be a good Ghost day: 

 

Ghost / Evanescence / Ice Nine Kills / Behemoth / The Warning / Unto Others / Bat Sabbath 

 

INK are pants but the Ghost crowd would appreciate the theatre of it all, I think (even if it is god awful).

[craigcharles420]

Warning are great live

[TWY2911]

This isn't a prediction and there's no chance this happens but this would be my dream for next year based off bands that could possibly be available 

 

[craigcharles420]

That would be a proper banging set of headliners 

[Audiorocker]

Top 3 each day = ✅️