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Download Festival
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The Download Festival is a three day music festival that plays rock/metal/punk music. This festival is held annually at the spiritual home of rock music in England- Donington Park. The same place hosted the Monster Of Rock Festival from year 1980 to 1996 and also 2002's Ozzfest. Live Nation, a company owned by Clear Channel Communications owns and manages this festival. It takes place in early summer.
The first Download Festival was held in the year 2003. The headliners of that year were Iron Maiden and Limp Bizkit. But the Limp Bizkit pulled out and were replaced by Audioslave. Metallica made an attempt to step in as headliners, but were unable to do so as they were already the headliners at that years Reading and Leeds Festival. They played an unannounced "secret slot" in the afternoon on the second stage.
In Download Festival held in 2004, another stage was added, bringing the total to three. This year 72 bands played for over two days. This years festival was noticeable for several last minute hitches. Firstly Soil got lost on their way to Donington and missed their main stage performance on Saturday. Static-X missed their slot due to a bus breakdown. Sunday had another disaster waiting to happen, Slayer arrived on time but their equipment did not. Due to this the slot was altered from the middle of the afternoon on the main stage to a later slot on the second stage. The biggest news was still to break to through when the headliners Metallica announced that Lars Ulrich was hospitalized. Taking to the stage an hour and half late, James Hetfield explained the situation with Lars. The show began with Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo. The set featured no -Black Album songs and carried out long for an hour and ten minutes. The set was recorded as the biggest and mist memorable Metallica performances.
The Download Festival was also held for two days in Scotland. It was in the June of 2004, it was held on Glasgow Green, several day before the Donington event. It had constraint of only 9 bands performing over 2 day period. Bands which played were the similar one's to play at Donongton, it included the headliners Metallica and Linkin Park. What made Download Scotland unique was the performance by Welsh rock act Lostprophets who did not perform at Donington.
Donington Park was again the platform for Download Festival 2005. This two festival this year was different from the previous two as the Saturday was dubbed Ozzfest 2005.
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Artist Biography - Download Festival
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 Donington Park remains to be the favorite avenue for Dowmload Festival in 2006 also. This time the festival was for three days and boasted the largest selling acts than any other of the UK music festivals.
The tree days, incluing the headliners acts ( Tool, Metallica and Gun N Roses) have sales of approximately 200-250 million albums. The memorable moments of the festival includes the announcement that Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis had been rushed to hospital also that Metallica was playing the album Master of Puppets in its entirety honour of its 20th Anniversary.
Main Stage: The main stage was situated in the center of the arena with crowd control moving around it. It was the largest of three stages. It was an open-air stage and was sponsored by the media partners of the festival, Kerrang.
Snicker Stage: It was situated in a tent, behind the main stage and was the second largest stage of the festival. It had a one way access which was an attempt to spread people around the site.
Gibson/Myspace Stage: This was the smallest stage and was under a smaller tent. It was positioned across the front of the main stage.
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