Download Festival 2019

Furious-Red

Toobz

They are massive headliners, Slipknot are always excellent at Download.

If Trivium are on the same day I will grab a Saturday ticket

RayCon

oooooooh , last time Tesla played download they squeezed in a headline show in Belfast - fingers crossed for a repeat

PTH2009

i wonder will we see any of these added to Slane as its only a week earlier than this

Zwillinge

It's been a few years since I've been genuinely impressed with a Download Lineup - but that one is noice!


Wonder will Tool be able to pop over here and hang around an Iveagh Garden or a Malahide Castle...


I'm just worried Brexit could ruin the fun somehow

Wrongway1985

RayCon wrote: »

oooooooh , last time Tesla played download they squeezed in a headline show in Belfast - fingers crossed for a repeat

Dunno how I missed that, never seen them and really want too thought the last time they played the isle was supporting Def Leppard.

RayCon

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

Dunno how I missed that, never seen them and really want too thought the last time they played the isle was supporting Def Leppard.

As far as I know they've played in Ireland 5 times ...

• Supporting Def Leppard in the SFX 1987 (I was at that - specifically went to see Tesla) :cool:
• Supporting Def Leppard in Belfast 1987 (2 nights)
• Supporting Def Leppard in the The O2 2009 (they were openers on a 3 band bill so no way was I paying €60 to see 4 or 5 songs)
• Download Warm Up Gig in Belfast 2014 - still pissed I couldn't go up for it:mad:

S.M.B.

Is that Tool headline set an exclusive?

S.M.B.

S.M.B. wrote: »

Is that Tool headline set an exclusive?

Nope. Playing dates in Europe.

S.M.B.

Deleted User wrote: »

Nope. Playing dates in Europe.

I see the dates now. Looks like no other UK date.

aj89

Slayer, Smashing Pumpkins, Lamb of God and Dream Theater just announced.

I may be giving it a miss this year.

Furious-Red

I know a few friends heading over but yea im not mad on the line up at all.

LoughNeagh2017

Slipknot are the only one I'm interested in, I don't know if it is worth the money going over, I would imagine trying to get a ticket for a Slipknot arena show would be a nightmare though

Wrongway1985

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

Slipknot are the only one I'm interested in, I don't know if it is worth the money going over, I would imagine trying to get a ticket for a Slipknot arena show would be a nightmare though

Not at all, they were in Dublin and Belfast a year apart on the last album tour and while the crowds were certainly healthy neither was next to near sold out and the Dublin show had Korn with them.

peter4918

In fairness Anthrax deserve to be a couple of rungs higher up on that bill ladder (if that makes sense). I think they are a lot better than some of those headlining bands.

RayCon

Personally I can't believe how low Opeth are on the bill ... :eek:

Wrongway1985

Outside of the logo bands poster is in Alphabetical order

RayCon

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

Outside of the logo bands poster is in Alphabetical order

D'oh

irishguitarlad

I'll probably go to the one in Madrid, as I love Tool and they hardly ever play on this side of pond.

LoughNeagh2017

I decided to go see the rapper from Linkin Park instead, what would Corey think? Maybe he would approve

Wrongway1985

Pity no word on a Irish Tesla date, odd they still have only 2 European dates scheduled and they are 6 days apart.

LoughNeagh2017

I decided to go to this for the first time just for the saturday, 20th anniversary Slipknot seems to good to miss, it seems I will have to stay in the airport until 9 in the morning though as that is when the Belfast flight is, hotels are over £100 last time I looked.

aj89

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

I decided to go to this for the first time just for the saturday, 20th anniversary Slipknot seems to good to miss, it seems I will have to stay in the airport until 9 in the morning though as that is when the Belfast flight is, hotels are over £100 last time I looked.

Doing similar myself. Just got Saturday day tickets there. The plan is to fly in the Saturday morning, go to the festival, walk back to the airport to kill some time, then just sleep in the departures hall until we are allow through security!

Zwillinge

Doing the Day Tripper on Saturday also!


Last time I was at Download they had wristbands for a cashless festival. Is this still a thing and for day?

Toobz

Saturday ticket has arrived! I'm flying in early has anyone any tips on killing the time till behemoth?

Wrongway1985

Toobz wrote: »

Saturday ticket has arrived! I'm flying in early has anyone any tips on killing the time till behemoth?

Personally if I was going I'd take in Alien Weaponry and Power Trip both thrash bands AW like a New Zealand Sepultura for all the world tossing in the Maori tongue here and there, PT are fused with Hardcore with a very energetic front man. Not fussed with either prob have brekkie in the village of Donington instead there's really not much about heading straight to the arena is your best bet imo.

Toobz

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

Personally if I was going I'd take in Alien Weaponry and Power Trip both thrash bands AW like a New Zealand Sepultura for all the world tossing in the Maori tongue here and there, PT are fused with Hardcore with a very energetic front man. Not fussed with either prob have brekkie in the village of Donington instead there's really not much about heading straight to the arena is your best bet imo.

Alien weaponry is a great shout! Such basic heavy riffs it has to sound great live. So the main arena has nothing going on for the first few hours? I’ll hit the village if so and have a long breakfast

LoughNeagh2017

I'm going for the first time, Saturday day ticket but am only watching 3 bands, I am very fussy with music and have no interest in 70% of the bands at festivals.

I wonder what time you would need to be at the main stage in order to get an ok view of Slipknot?

Thrashssacre

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

I'm going for the first time, Saturday day ticket but am only watching 3 bands, I am very fussy with music and have no interest in 70% of the bands at festivals.

I wonder what time you would need to be at the main stage in order to get an ok view of Slipknot?

The lineup on Saturday is shockingly weak to be fair outside of epica, carcass and batushka I’d struggle to drag myself to any of those acts. I Think the days of these big 3 day metal fests are numbered. Many will probably restructure to a bloodstock like size and more small niches ones will pop up which is fairness may be no bad thing.

Wrongway1985

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

I'm going for the first time, Saturday day ticket but am only watching 3 bands, I am very fussy with music and have no interest in 70% of the bands at festivals.

I wonder what time you would need to be at the main stage in order to get an ok view of Slipknot?

Not exactly the festival of a wealth of things to do if you're not watching bands tbh, they have wrestling the last few years if that's your bag.

Anyway to answer your question anytime before they start, Route to main stage is on a hill so that's handy to see the show, you'd make it close to front if you really desired anyhow. If you wanted close as you can get to barrier at stage type thing you'd likely have to go down earlier.

It's been a number of years since I've been but pretty certain I recall they'll have a higher portion of people at it than I've seen or seen since at any other festival who will stalk stage from gate opening time to make sure they are on the rail for the headliner.

Wrongway1985

Thrashssacre wrote: »

The lineup on Saturday is shockingly weak to be fair outside of epica, carcass and batushka I’d struggle to drag myself to any of those acts. I Think the days of these big 3 day metal fests are numbered. Many will probably restructure to a bloodstock like size and more small niches ones will pop up which is fairness may be no bad thing.

Shocking set time for Epica, they'll get about 5 songs in

Skindred are entertaining live.

LoughNeagh2017

Thrashssacre wrote: »

The lineup on Saturday is shockingly weak to be fair outside of epica, carcass and batushka I’d struggle to drag myself to any of those acts. I Think the days of these big 3 day metal fests are numbered. Many will probably restructure to a bloodstock like size and more small niches ones will pop up which is fairness may be no bad thing.

I think Saturday is the best day but even then there is only 4 bands I would listen to, I think people just go to these things for a holiday to camp and the music is a bonus or else they maybe are easy to please with music.

LoughNeagh2017

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

Not exactly the festival of a wealth of things to do if you're not watching bands tbh, they have wrestling the last few years if that's your bag.

Anyway to answer your question anytime before they start, Route to main stage is on a hill so that's handy to see the show, you'd make it close to front if you really desired anyhow. If you wanted close as you can get to barrier at stage type thing you'd likely have to go down earlier.

It's been a number of years since I've been but pretty certain I recall they'll have a higher portion of people at it than I've seen or seen since at any other festival who will stalk stage from gate opening time to make sure they are on the rail for the headliner.

I planned to go to the main stage halfway through Die Antwoord who are before Slipknot, do you think I could get at least up half way near the sound tower? It is my first time seeing Slipknot so wouldn't want to have to watch it on the screen the full time.

Wrongway1985

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

do you think I could get at least up half way near the sound tower? It is my first time seeing Slipknot so wouldn't want to have to watch it on the screen the full time.

That would be off no problem whatsoever.

Zwillinge

Looking proper wet over there.
Seems camping is a mud pool. Least the main venue won't be until tomorrow. So by Saturday are we thinking hardcore raingear?
Yay - Summer :pac:

D.Q

I'm delighted it's raining. The only downloads I've been to are 2012 and 2016. Both absolutely awful years for weather. Any year I don't go seems to be lovely.

Furious-Red

A friend of mine just booked a hotel for the weekend last minute after seeing the weather

Wrongway1985

D.Q wrote: »

I'm delighted it's raining. The only downloads I've been to are 2012 and 2016. Both absolutely awful years for weather. Any year I don't go seems to be lovely.

Went to 3 of them 12-15, the one I skipped 14 had the most beautiful weather, typical. :pac:

Always remember Black Stone Cherry in 15 opened up with Rain Wizard literally the moment the drums kicked the skies opened up for a major downpour that was to last the night. Many couldn't hack it and deserted, after they finished went down the hill Slipknot were headlining played Psychosocial about third song...and the rain will kill us all, the lols.

Nothing matched 2012 for me of course Brownload, hard to believe I heard 16 was worse. :eek:

D.Q

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

Went to 3 of them 12-15, the one I skipped 14 had the most beautiful weather, typical. :pac:

Always remember Black Stone Cherry in 15 opened up with Rain Wizard literally the moment the drums kicked the skies opened up for a major downpour that was to last the night. Many couldn't hack it and deserted, after they finished went down the hill Slipknot were headlining played Psychosocial about third song...and the rain will kill us all, the lols.

Nothing matched 2012 for me of course Brownload, hard to believe I heard 16 was worse. :eek:

The rain was at opposite times. In 2012 it was bad from wed afternoon til friday night. 2016 was scorching on wed and thurs, and then literally as the music started on friday, the rain started.

It was the heaviest rain I have ever experienced, and apparently it was so localised over the festival that it didn't even show up on the EMA weather forecasts.

That initial rain levelled the campsite. Gazebos, tents, everything just destroyed. There were literal rivers running through the campsite. The rain basically didn't stop all weekend. Impossible to go anywhere or do anything, mud everywhere. At least DL 2012 brightened up for Saturday and sunday. The ground in the arena was mostly back to normal by Sunday.

2016 there was no respite. Horrendous. Has put me off ever camping there again. Too many people all making the same journey each day. Its horrendously laid out. Smaller, better organised festivals allow the crowd to be more evenly spread out, which helps preserve the ground a bit.

grames_bond

Nothing will ever be worse than download 2016, i have never experienced nor SEEN rain like it before or since!

Looking at videos of this year...compared to 2016 it looks like a sun holiday! :pac:

D.Q

grames_bond wrote: »

Nothing will ever be worse than download 2016, i have never experienced nor SEEN rain like it before or since!

Looking at videos of this year...compared to 2016 it looks like a sun holiday! :pac:

Haha anyone that was there that weekend shares a bond.

A brown, muddy mark on our souls.

aj89

I didn't mind 2016! We stayed in the Ready to Rock campsite, so there was not too much foot traffic. The jacks and shower were kept quite clean too!

2012 though............ It was my first Download, my missus was struggling carrying bits through the village. I left her for a while, found a spot to set up the tent, then went back to her and carried everything else.... Remember seeing so many tents getting washed away!

Great times

Toobz

So got some wellies today, will bring the coat and chance my arm not paying baggage for the 8.05 flight tomorrow. Plenty of acts there for me.

Funnel cloud spotted at the Isle of wight festival so hopefully the weather moves before tomorrow because I can't cope with flying at the best of times and I'm heading alone.

anyone on the 8.05 flight tomorrow want to share a taxi?

Vudgie

Is there a live stream over the weekend?

LoughNeagh2017

Vudgie wrote: »

Is there a live stream over the weekend?

No they just do a 3 hour highlights show on Sky Arts in a few weeks time I think.

LoughNeagh2017

The Slipknot performance was very good, it was enjoyable to watch them during the sunset, I had to watch from a bit of a distance as I felt that the mud was a nightmare to walk in especially near the stage, there was no atmosphere where I watched at, just people eating hot dogs so I will have to go see them on their tour too.

Wrongway1985

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

The Slipknot performance was very good, it was enjoyable to watch them during the sunset, I had to watch from a bit of a distance as I felt that the mud was a nightmare to walk in especially near the stage, there was no atmosphere where I watched at, just people eating hot dogs so I will have to go see them on their tour too.

No boots or wellies?

Looked managable compared to other years the week leading up looked like could be more miserable.

frag420

They’re were terrible, the sound was awful too. 20 years since I first seen them live and they have gone downhill since!

Anyways at least we have Lamb if God, Tool, Anthrax, Slayer to look forward tontoday!

LoughNeagh2017

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

No boots or wellies?

Looked managable compared to other years the week leading up looked like could be more miserable.

I was wearing steel toe boots, towards the end of the evening i realised that it may have been because i was walking wrong, when i was lodged in the mud my first instinct was to pull up from the toe when i really should have been pulling up from the heel, my boots were starting to split. I was actually considering leaving as soon as i got there but i found the Avalanche stage which was easy to walk in. I hadn't that much of a problem walking out so it probably was due to me walking incorrectly.

LoughNeagh2017

frag420 wrote: »

They’re were terrible, the sound was awful too. 20 years since I first seen them live and they have gone downhill since!

Anyways at least we have Lamb if God, Tool, Anthrax, Slayer to look forward tontoday!

It was my first time but from where I was standing his voice was very clear and his screaming was strong, I was in line with the sound tower but way out at the side.

Zwillinge

That was a fun Saturday :D
Got to see every band I wanted and meet Mark Hoppus (one of my first crushes )


I enjoyed Slipknot, thought they were great considering Shawn's personal situations.

Will definitely try see them on their next tour.