down & out from Download

Limp Bizkit - one of the headline acts - have pulled out of the Download Festival, which takes place at Donington Park on 31st May/1st June.

The reason given is that they are held up finishing their album. Singer Fred Durst - who seems unable to string a sentence together without it being full of expletives (trying to sound hard Fred?) - doesn't offer any apology for the withdrawal. They'd pulled out of a show at Milton Keynes Bowl in 2001, supposedly due to poor old Fred's bad back.

Nevermind ... Download's second day still has a cracking line-up that includes Audioslave, Zwan, Less Than Jake, Disturbed, along with the whole Deconstruction Tour package with skateboarding, BMXing, Wrestling and all headlined by legendary punk rockers NOFX.

For the full line-ups, click here.

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