Download Festival 2007

[Knoxville]

Righty ho then....tickets have been released and the first few bands confirmed....

who's going? who wants to go? and who wants to know why that cupboard door in the kitchen never closes right?

For those that don't keep up with things -

Confirmed bands -

Iron Maiden
Linkin Park
My Chemical Romance
Slayer
Wolfmother
Killswitch Engage
Marylin Manson
Bring Me The Horizon

Big Rumors -

Velvet Revolver
Lamb of God (Self Confirmed)
Machine Head
36 Crazyfists
Bowling for Soup (Self Confirmed)
Evanesence
Motley Crue
The Cult
Stone Sour (Self confirmed)
Children of Bodom
Megadeth
Enemy Lines (Self Confirmed)
Art of Dying (Self Confirmed)
Korn
As I Lay Dying (Self Confirmed)
Society 1
I Am Ghost (Self Confirmed)
Dimmu Borgir (Self Confirmed)

[Spud1]

I'll be there, despite the sodding rubbish headliners (maiden excluded ofc).

Still it should be a good year, worth it to see maiden, lamb of god and machine head (who are touring with LOG atm, so i rekon will play) alone tbh

Can't help wishing that Linkin park and MCR were not headlining though, neither of them should be headliners really..second billed maybe..but there are bigger bands likely to play this year more suited to headlining a metal festival than two nu-pop bands

[HoldenBurn1000]

If I can get the time off I will be there with big shiney brass bells on. Killswitch ftw. And going to see clutch around then as well

And I hope machinehead confim, their new album rocks my world

[Kezzer]

I actually like BMTH. Shoot me now.

[HoldenBurn1000]

I actually like BMTH. Shoot me now.

*Click Click Aim*

[Kezzer]

*Click Click Aim*

Your participation is greatly appreciated.

[HoldenBurn1000]

Your participation is greatly appreciated.

Always glad to do my bit!

Missed the last one due to working to much Shame as all my mates tend to get the tickets that invole the hotel Nothin like a nice warm shower after many hours in a sweaty pit!

Edit : My god that sounds wrong :S

[Kezzer]

I'm not into festivals, I like single night gigs and seeing big bands there. I met Dallas Green when I went to see Alexisonfire because we just hung around after the gig and there were about 10 people there then Dallas just came out to hang.

I don't see why we idolise these music people, they're just regular people mainly hyped up by media.

[Spud1]

festivals are great fun - and are about MUCH MUCH more than just the music

Sure the music is good fun, and thats why lots of people go..but the whole experience of camping with your mates, being totally pissed/wasted for 5 days straight..waking up in your own personal sauna (like last year), 'experiencing' the holes in the ground that are supposed to be toilets..the festival food (c'mon who DOESN'T love the pork and stuffing baguettes?). The music is only half of why I go to festivals

[DerbyJon]

Any chance Korn might play Reading/Leeds this year?

[Knoxville]

Can't help wishing that Linkin park and MCR were not headlining though, neither of them should be headliners really..second billed maybe..but there are bigger bands likely to play this year more suited to headlining a metal festival than two nu-pop bands

Linkin Park headlined in '04 though so I imagine they wouldn't accept anything less than a headlining slot, personally having them headline the friday wouldn't have been a kick in the balls but MCR? they should be headlining the tent at best, regardless of my opinion of the band they ain't mainstage headline material.

Missed the last one due to working to much Shame as all my mates tend to get the tickets that invole the hotel Nothin like a nice warm shower after many hours in a sweaty pit!

Edit : My god that sounds wrong :S

Nah, theres nothing better than staggering back to your campsite and cracking a can of warm strongbow on a rickety camping chair followed shortly by the end of day blunt....

gimme that over a cheap hotel room any day.

festivals are great fun - and are about MUCH MUCH more than just the music

Sure the music is good fun, and thats why lots of people go..but the whole experience of camping with your mates, being totally pissed/wasted for 5 days straight..waking up in your own personal sauna (like last year), 'experiencing' the holes in the ground that are supposed to be toilets..the festival food (c'mon who DOESN'T love the pork and stuffing baguettes?). The music is only half of why I go to festivals

Yes

[Knoxville]

Any chance Korn might play Reading/Leeds this year?

Until they confirm for download theres every possibility.

[Byatt]

They're going to need to throw considerably more respectable metal bones in my direction before I even consider pushing £145 their way...

I'd only definitely pay to see one of those bands live outside of a festival (Maiden) and whilst I'd like to see C.O.B/Slayer/Lamb of God and (if they only play Burn My Eyes era stuff, and don't open their mouths between songs) Machine Head, they aren't good enough to make the dross that's going to surround them permissible.

[Gumby]

£145 quid? I remember ages ago I went to the Big Day Out in Milton Keynes and wasn't even a patch on that!

Still, I'll probably end up there I bet... Not the worst line up in the world!

[Duncan_Mon]

Ill be going with a freind for the first time, well both be 17 so its our first big festival so should be a great time.

We bought the tickets 3 days after they went up for sale, so far weve spent £210 each. £154 per ticket after the processing and delivery i think, £6 for a locker each, and £50 for a bus each down from Scotland - Fife.
Now to save for the living requirements...food and beer

[Slick]

I'm off to Download! I've been to Leeds fest for the past 6 years but unfortunately I'm starting a new graduate job in August which will require me to work that weekend, so I'm off to Download instead. My Girlfriend has been to download before, and I gather its a bit more hardcore than Leeds, should I be scared?