THE HEAVY METAL TRUANTS RIDE AGAIN… VIRTUALLY! CHARITY CYCLING TROOP TO RECREATE LEGENDARY DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL RIDE ON A GLOBAL SCALE AND INVITE ALL TO JOIN REIMAGINED RIDE SET TO BE THEIR BIGGEST YET, WITH NO RESTRICTION ON NUMBERS OR LOCATION DOWNLOAD TV TO TAKE PLACE 12-14 JUNE The Heavy Metal …
Read More »Tax The Heat – Announce UK Dates In December 2018
Announce UK Tour Dates December 2018 Album “Change Your Position” Out Now Praise for latest album “Change Your Position” “You can’t put a price on self-belief, and Tax The Heat sound so utterly self-assured on this follow-up to their well-received debut Fed To The Lions, you get the feeling that, …
Read More »The Struts Release Video for New Single ‘Body Talks’
RELEASE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘BODY TALKS’ “…they’re the best opening band we’ve ever had.” – Dave Grohl “The Struts are on the cusp of something very big indeed” – Kerrang “You gotta love a band who know they have to pull off a big show then proceed to do so. Rock …
Read More »Download 2018 – Friday
After some overnight rain, the forecast for the day (and indeed the entire weekend) was for dry weather. Knowing I’d be at Download festival though I had my waterproofs with me – after all, a dry Download seems too good to hope for, but that’s exactly what we got – …
Read More »Andy Copping, Download festival interview
Planetmosh recently spoke to Andy Copping about this year’s Download festival. If you had to pick six bands you want to watch at Download this year, who would they be? Right….Lawnmower Deth, because I think they’re going to be a lot of fun. Definitely Guns’n’Roses, Definitely Ozzy, Avenged sevenfold, Greta …
Read More »IN THIS MOMENT Reveal New Video for ‘Black Wedding’ feat. Rob Halford
IN THIS MOMENT have unveiled a dark new video for ‘Black Wedding’, featuring Judas Priest frontman, Rob Halford. The track is taken from their current album, ‘Ritual’, out now via Atlantic Records. Check it out here – The five piece, fronted by Maria Brink, are set to bring their theatrical show …
Read More »Download festival announced improved disabled facilities and goes greener
Download Festival, the world’s premier rock event has announced major improvement plans for this year’s festival, pushing to make it the most accessible and greenest Download ever. Viewing platforms across all stages and British Sign Language interpreters lead the way for accessibility improvements to better meet the needs of Download …
Read More »Download festival announces 21 more bands plus WWE NXT
Download Festival, the champion of rock events, has today announced the grand return of WWE NXT LIVE! to the hallowed grounds of Donington Park. Fans will be electrified with incredible displays of skill and athleticism, as the hugest names in sports entertainment deliver the fully-fledged NXT show to a full-scale …
Read More »The Beast from The East (Midlands) spotted in London
During the height of a sub-zero blizzard today, a rare sighting of ‘The Beast from The East (Midlands)’ was caught on camera and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Download Festival dog. Download Festival takes place at Donington Park, Leicestershire on 8-10 June. Headlined by: Avenged Sevenfold, Guns N’ Roses …
Read More »Guns’n’Roses announced as final Download 2018 headliner
Download Festival has today announced its final headliner as the legendary Guns N’ Roses, alongside the previously announced Ozzy Osbourne, and Avenged Sevenfold. The three day festival takes place 8 – 10 June 2018 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Tickets are on sale now at …
Read More »Avenged Sevenfold announced as second Download 2018 headliner
Download Festival, the world’s premier rock event, has today announced the second of its three headliners as one of the world’s biggest rock bands Avenged Sevenfold. The three-day festival takes place 8 – 10 June 2018 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Tickets available now at …
Read More »Download 2017 – Sunday
Brutai had the job of opening the Dogtooth stage today. Playing Download for the first time, they showed no sign of nerves and put in an excellent performance to get the day off to a great start. They are always good live, but they’ve excelled themselves here at Download. It …
Read More »Download 2017 – Saturday
Irish band Dead Label kicked off proceedings on the Dogtooth stage. I last saw them at Bloodstock two years ago and was impressed by them then, and they’ve improved further in the last two years. They look to be having a great time on stage and they’ve drawn a good …
Read More »Download 2017 – Friday
After negotiating the queues and thorough security checks and finally making it into the arena, I headed straight over to stage 2, just in time to catch Blackwater Conspiracy. I reviewed their new album recently and was blown away by how good it was, so I had high expectations for …
Read More »Dead Label talk new single, new video and playing Download!
It’s been quite the 2017 already for Irish trio Dead Label. In February they were announced for Download Festival and the following month they dropped a new single, Pure Chaos, with a quite sinister video that can be viewed at the bottom of this interview. At the end of April, I …
Read More »Download Festival announces new draining, ‘Dog Squad’ and stage relocation!
They don’t just book bands, you know… Today, Download Festival announced that, following suggestions from fans, they have made a number of changes to the site at Donington Park that will, all well and good, provide a better all-round experience for the thousands of people who attend every single year. …
Read More »Download Festival adds another 20 bands across all stages!
Well, isn’t this lovely from Download Festival? They decided to round off the end of last month with a big, fat announcement of bands across all four stages! We’re a bit lucky aren’t we? The biggest names announced are metal’s mad hatter Devin Townsend, paying below Rob Zombie on the …
Read More »Download Festival gives us a batch of new bands!
It seems like forever since Download Festival last made an announcement of bands, but good things come to those who wait and the bigwigs have officially made their first announcement of 2017 – and what an announcement! 48 new bands have been added to the bill including several big names …
Read More »Download Festival adds over 20 names!
Tis the season to…announce festival bands? It’s certainly not as catchy, but Download Festival have confirmed over twenty names to play at Donington Park next summer and leave us all feeling a little more jolly. They’ve also started to build the day splits already AND announce the headliners for the …
Read More »“Release the Crowd” Book Set For Launch December 2016
Photobook Release date: 9th December 2016 Music festivals are a phenomenon across the globe. In the UK it was estimated that 14 million people were planning to attend festivals in 2015 – with three in ten of these saying they will look to attend more than one. A rough estimate …
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