Events : UK : Nottingham : Download Festival
Events : UK : Nottingham : Download Festival
When : June 14th-16th 2013
Where : DE74 2RP Castle Donnington, Nottingham, United
Kingdom (donington Park)
Time : 9:30am-2:00am
Phone : (512) 467-7979
Price : Weekend Ticket Arena Only With Disabeled Access :
$228.89 (Purchase Tickets)
| Weekend Ticket Arena Only : $228.89 (Purchase Tickets)
| Weekend Ticket +3 Night Disabled Access Camping : $262.55 (Purchase Tickets)
| Weekend Ticket +3 Night Family Camping : $262.55 (Purchase Tickets)
| Weekend Ticket +3 Nights Camping : $262.55 (Purchase Tickets)
| Weekend Ticket +5 Night Disabled Access Camping : $276.01 (Purchase Tickets)
| Weekend Ticket +5 Night Family Camping : $276.01 (Purchase Tickets)
| Weekend Ticket +5 Night Camping $276.01 (Purchase Tickets)
| Car Parking Permit : $26.93 (Purchase Tickets)
| Campsite Locker : $20.20 | 3-Day Guest Arena Passes : $133.29 (PurchaseTickets)
| Big Green Coach Travel | Big Green coach Travel : $32.31 (Purchase Tickets)
The Download Festival was conceived as a follow up to the
Monsters of Rock festivals which had been held in at the Donington Park circuit
between 1980 and 1996. Rather than run as a single day event Download was
initially a two-day event, expanding to three days in 2005.
The name Download was chosen for the festival for two
reasons. Downloading was a dirty word in the music industry at the time, due to
file sharing, and rock is seen as a rebellious genre of music. Also Download
was to be a Monsters Of Rock for the 21st century and the internet would
provide connectivity with its audience.
The 2003 festival tickets had a code on them, which would
allow festival goers to download tracks from bands which had played. Although
this idea has been dropped in subsequent years, the festival organizers have
nurtured an online community through the Download Festival Forums. Initially a
sounding board for the fans (and critics) of the festival, the boards have
become an integral part of the festival organization with regular contributions
from Festival Director John Probyn and Promoter Andy Copping. The forums also
provide face to face feedback through the Fan Forum meetings (started in 2006)
and organise the Boardie BBQ (2006 on) and the Boardie Takeover night (2009),
football tournaments and a pub quiz for the R.I.P. campers who arrive on a
Wednesday night.
When Download began, it took place on the Donington Park
circuit infield as had Monsters Of Rock. However in 2008 developments for
Formula One meant that the infield was no longer suitable as a festival site.
2008 saw a move to the "Sunday Markets" site to the west of the
circuit. Although adequate, numbers were limited and the location of the
campsite meant that getting from tents to the arena was quite a hike. 2009 saw
the festival move to a much more suitable location to the south of the circuit.
Security for the festival has constantly been undertaken by professional crowd
management specialists Showsec, although the campsite area has had various
contractors throughout.
Since 2009 there has been on-site radio broadcasting from
Rock Radio on 87.7FM. This RSL broadcast has aired music from festival bands,
interviews and news to the festival site and the surrounding area, with the
signal reaching as far as Nottingham.
Download festival By Ian Gittins : The Guardian
Now into its 10th year, attracting close to 100,000 fans and
sprouting more stages, Download is becoming the heavy metal Glastonbury. The
elements conspired in this process this year, with torrential rain on the
opening Friday delaying the start for two hours, turning the site into a
quagmire and – every cloud has a silver lining – trapping 80s poodle rockers
Europe in gridlocked traffic.
The downpour also put paid to sets by Cancer Bats and Rise
to Remain, but Slash fired through a set of LA sleaze-rock solo numbers
interspersed with Guns N' Roses hits such as Sweet Child O' Mine with his usual
blase elan. The Prodigy and Chase & Status's testosterone-fuelled techno
was thrillingly brutalist enough to distract fans from rival attractions with
names like Nightwish and Axe Wound.
Saturday saw copious US bands such as Trivium and Killswitch
Engage churn out guttural thrash by the yard, but also embraced comedy. Steel
Panther's expertly executed spoof on Sunset Strip hair metal had female fans
baring their breasts on the big screen, but after 18 years, Jack Black's
Tenacious D's joke of being the world's best acoustic metal duo may be wearing
a tad thin.
UK melodic rockers You Me at Six have two top 5 albums to
their name but drew the short straw of competing for a crowd with headliners
Metallica. The LA band played their taut, frill-free 1991 Black Album, a sacred
text of metal, in reverse track order: as ever, applauding it felt like
clapping a piece of high-tensile industrial machinery.
On Sunday, Megadeth's born-again-Christian vocalist Dave
Mustaine appeared content to fire out finger-shredding thrashes such as
She-Wolf to a sea of devil horns, before the re-formed Soundgarden's grinding
set emphasised they were always the most gothic of grunge's major players. Like
most of the weekend's bill, they also owe a huge debt to the final night's
headliners.
Black Sabbath's bleak, turgid and blisteringly loud take on
the blues set the template for heavy metal more than 40 years ago, when Ozzy Osbourne
was an angst-ridden, self-destructive rock god rather than a lovably befuddled
reality-TV star. Reunited except for original drummer Bill Ward , they turned
in a sharp and compelling set, with the shambling Osbourne dancing like a rag
doll but in strong voice and fully engaged with monolithic, dolorous slabs of
sound such as Iron Man and War Pigs. As the baleful Paranoid brought Download
to a close, it appeared that the original metal monsters are still the best.
2013 Line Up
HIM | Jimmy Eat World | A Day To Remeber | 3 Doors Down |
Volbeat | Airborn | Motionless In White | The Hives | Amon Amarth | Converge |
Waling Papers | Vision Disorder | HellYeah | Hardcore Superstar | In This
Moment |The Sword | Heaven's Basement | Earthtone 9 | I AM I | Hackvist | Last
Witness | Goldsboro | Buffalo Summer | Huntress | Black Dogs
Contact Download Festival
Address DE74 2RP Castle Donnington, Nottingham, United
Kingdom
Contact The Guardian
Sources : Download Festival Photo | Download 2013 Teaser Video | Download Festival Information | Download Festival Review | 2013 Line Up
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