Download festival stage times excel

Despite Lars Ulrich being rushed to hospital minutes beforehand, Metallica ploughed on with their set with Slayer's Dave Lombardo, Slipknot's Joey Jordison and their drum technician, Flemming Larsen, filling in for Lars. So overjoyed was he at Feeder's reception from the crowd, the band's singer-guitarist Grant Nicholls smashed his Fender Jazzmaster.

We hate to think what he'd have done if it had gone badly. The origin of the species, Black Sabbath pretty much invented heavy metal with their eponymous debut album before refining it throughout the 70s. You can call this one a homecoming. As one of the most important metal bands of the 90s and beyond, System Of A Down are genuine gamechangers and worthy headliners of this celebrated event. Promoting their fourth album, '10, Days', Tool displayed an effortless ability to take the main stage and own it.

Returning to Download for their second headline slot and third appearance overall, Metallica celebrated the 20th anniversary of 'Master Of Puppets' by the playing the album in full. Fortunately Lars was in good health this time around. After threatening to walk off after bottles were thrown onstage, both band and audience settled in for some hard rocking, with Axl Rose declaring, "I'm actually having quite a good time now!

I couldn't have said that an hour ago! Playing an epic song set, Kiss brought their spectacular live show to this side of the Atlantic. Though perhaps the less said about Gene Simmons' bass solo, the better. The only punk band to have headlined the Download festival, The Offspring brought the pogo the headbangers. There's probably a song title there…. Returning for their first live shows in 11 years, Faith No More served to confirm just how much they'd been missed.

Slipknot's first headline appearance at Download would also be their last UK performance with bassist Paul Gray before his death in Their performance was later released as the live DVD, ' sic nesses'. Worthy headliners, indeed…. Headlining a day of torrential rain, classic rock overlords Aerosmith brought a touch of glamour to the otherwise sodden environs of Download. Slotted in between the release of 's 'A Thousand Suns' and 's 'Living Things' album, Linkin Park made their third headlining appearance at Download.

Fusing heavy metal with techno, The Prodigy lit up the Download festival after a wet start forced the cancellation of some acts. For their third Download headliner, the metal titans that are Metallica elected to play the whole of their eponymous album — in reverse order. Despite being treated for cancer, Tony Iommi played as strongly as ever as Black Sabbath went through some of their biggest career highlights including 'War Pigs', 'Children Of The Grave' and 'Paranoid'.

As the scene of Slipknot's last UK appearance with him, calling in at Download was only right and fitting.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of their first Donington headline slot at Monsters of Rock as part of their 'Seventh Tour Of A Seventh Tour', the metal institution that is Iron Maiden returned to this hallowed ground. Does it get any more explosive than Teutonic titans Rammstein? Jake Houp. Jamie James. Janine Fazzolari Punales.

Jarin Wadiwalla. Jason Gwin. Jason Tremblay. Jen Caruso. Jeremy Denton. Jessica Dudley. Jaclyn Huff. James Lavis. Josh Levin. John Lewis. Joel Pryor. Joey Vaughan. John Ferguson. Josh Ball. Josh Hatton. Justin Hayes.

Kara Oppermann. Kara Casteel. Katy Vandiver. Kelly Erickson. Kelly Khun. Kristin Mohn. Kyle Nelson. Lauren Gicas. Lyla Lagner. Michael Allegretto. Matty Reininger. Meagan Hofstetter. There are also campsites for RIP ticket holders and camper vans and caravans. These are located quite close to the main arena. If you plan to do some cooking, you will unlikely be allowed stoves with flames and gas canisters. Use a Solid Fuel Stove instead.

The Car Park is a long walk from the camping sites so a Festival Trolley could turn out to be a good investment for transporting all your heavy gear and drink. Travelling to Download by Car: Castle Donington is accessible from all parts of the country by road.

Junction 23a off the M1 is the closest motorway exit. Once you start getting close to the festival site there will be plenty signs directing traffic. Click Here to Purchase a Parking Pass , either with your festival ticket or separate.

The Car Park is half a mile away from the camping site so be prepared for the walk and consider how you are going to transport all your camping equipment. A Festival Trolley could turn out to be a very good investment and many people use these. Travelling to Download by Bus: Castle Donington is on many local bus routes so you will need to look up the timetables and routes depending on where you are travelling from.

On the journey to the festival, there are bus stops on the roads near to the festival entrance. When leaving the festival, busses can be boarded at the Transport Hub.

The queues for the busses get quite long as soon as the headliner act has finished. So it is advisable to start making your way to the Transport Hub just prior to them finishing if you want to be sure of getting near the front of the queue, and not have a long time to wait.

Coaches can be booked in advance from their website. They sell weekend return tickets and day return tickets. From both you can easily catch the direct festival busses to and from the festival site. No stopping is allowed on the roads in the vicinity of the festival site for drop-off or pick-ups. At the Transport Hub there is a designated area to queue for taxis. In the evenings the queue gets long so if you want to catch a taxi you are advised to get to the taxi area outside peak times.

It is sign-posted once you are close to the festival site.