DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2009

The UK's biggest, loudest, distortion-fuelled rock and metal festival returns to Donington Park for three more days of hard and heavy axe-wielding action.

With a taste for the biggest and most influential names in the heavy rock scene, the festival has attracted sets from KISS, Metallica, Guns 'N Roses, Iron Maiden and The Prodigy in recent years and fans can expect more big names this time around.

The site underwent a revamp last year and it now house two outdoor stages and a ten... read more

The UK's biggest, loudest, distortion-fuelled rock and metal festival returns to Donington Park for three more days of hard and heavy axe-wielding action.

With a taste for the biggest and most influential names in the heavy rock scene, the festival has attracted sets from KISS, Metallica, Guns 'N Roses, Iron Maiden and The Prodigy in recent years and fans can expect more big names this time around.

The site underwent a revamp last year and it now house two outdoor stages and a tent as well as an extreme sports bar, five-a-side football pitch, market, merchandise stands and chill-out area Kidney Woods.

Bespoke camping is now available for the weekend.less

OK, I have been in recent years, but this is because the lineup sucked so badly. Now I could chose a much better line up, now there is so much talk...
from: 2009 Line Up by Chunc17

It is broken though - metal is a dying genre with the same bands on rotation at especially at Download. The genre needs to inject a little bit of e...
from: KISS?? by wavevader