Download Festival

Dead Posey penned a tribute to their fans in lockdown, declaring them ‘Moonstruck Lunatics’ and at Download, frontwoman Danyell Souza reckons they found their lunatics in their thousands. Speaking to Bring the Noise UK, she, and multi instrumentalist husband Tony Fagenson, heaped praise on their ‘Moonstruck Lunatics’, while explaining the driving force and catalyst for their significant musical evolution.

Somewhere deep in the bowels of Download, beyond the prying eyes of their adoring fans, sit goth-rock-punk superstars Creeper. We caught up with keyboardist/vocalist Hannah Greenwood ahead of their performance on The Avalanche Stage earlier this month, to discuss pre-show routines, the return of live music and more.

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One exhibit took place at Welcome To Rockville in Florida last weekend, with the second set to take place at Download Festival next month. 

The three-day festival is set to return for the first time at full capacity since 2019, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. 

The festival will be taking place between 10th and 12th June 2022.

The recent ten thousand capacity Download Pilot event witnessed the welcomed live return of a full camping festival as part of the UK Government's pilot scheme to help open up live music. We were lucky enough to attend the memorable live event, find out what we thought about the artists we saw over the weekend!

Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Enter Shikari and Bullet For My Valentine will headline the test event.

The event forms part of the second phase of the Government's scientific events research programme and will be taking place at Donington Park next month.

Seventeen more artists have been announced for 2021's line-up, find out who they are here.