Download Festival
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Donington Park, Castle Donington, Derby, UK
8th - 11th June 2023
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About Download Festival

The Download Festival was conceived as a follow up to the Monsters of Rock festivals which had been held at the Donington Park circuit between 1980 and 1996. The first Download Festival was created by Stuart Galbraith and co-booked by Andy Copping in 2003 in the same location.

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.

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. The festival moved 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 arena move to a much more suitable location to the south of the circuit and has remained there every year since. In 2019 the capacity was 111,000.

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Download Festival Schedule

METALLICA


Alter Bridge
Skindred

Halestorm

Jinjer
Puscifer
State Champs

Perturbator
A.A. Williams

The Bronx
Cancer Bats

Caskets

Cherry Bombs
Fearless Vampire Killers

Haken
Hundred Reasons

Mammoth WVH

Mimi Barks

Mom Jeans.
Punk Rock Factory
Snayx

Tigress

Artists:

BRING ME THE HORIZON

Architects
Evanescence
Within Temptation
Pendulum
Neck Deep
VV
Carpenter Brut
As December Falls
Asking Alexandria
Aviva
The Blackout
Brutus
Crawlers
Elvana
Empire State Bastard
Epica
Fixation
GWAR
Hot Milk
Ingested
Nova Twins
Pup
Pupil Slicer
Redhook
Smash Into Pieces
Stand Atlantic
Taipei Houston
Undeath
The Warning
Witch Fever

METALLICA

Disturbed
Placebo
Alexisonfire
Simple Plan
Clutch
Coheed And Cambria
Ice Nine Kills
Antisaint
Bambie Thug
Beauty School Dropout
Blackgold
Bob Vylan
Carcass
Casey
Deaf Havana
Enola Gay
Fever 333
Greg Puciato
Kid Bookie
Kid Kapichi
Lake Malice
Monuments
Motionless In White
Municipal Waste
Nothing,Nowhere.
Polaris
Rituals
Spirit Adrift
Static Dress
Stray From The Path
Three Days Grace

Artists:

SLIPKNOT

Parkway Drive
Ghost
The Distillers
I Prevail
Electric Callboy
Behemoth
Hatebreed
The Amity Affliction
Avatar
Beauty School
Blind Channel
Bloodywood
Cleopatrick
Crashface
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Graphic Nature
Green Lung
Hawxx
The Hu
Jazmin Bean
Joey Valence And Brae
Lorna Shore
The Meffs
Mod Sun
Palaye Royale
Set It Off
Sim
Soen
Soul Glo
Taylor Acorn
Terror
Touche Amore

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