From 12 Jun 2009 – 14 Jun 2009 The UK’s biggest, loudest, distortion-fuelled rock and metal festival returns to Donington Park for three more days of hard and heavy axe-wielding action.  With a taste for the biggest and most influential names in the heavy rock scene, Download Festival has attracted sets from KISS, Metallica, Guns ‘N Roses, Iron Maiden and The Prodigy in recent years and fans can expect more big names this time around.  The site underwent a revamp last year and it now houses two outdoor stages and a tent as well as an extreme sports bar, five-a-side football pitch, market, merchandise stands and chill-out area Kidney Woods.  Download 2009 will offer bespoke camping over the weekend.  AGreenerFestival say this about the festival: Download won the ‘most improved’ festival in the 2007 Greener Festival Awards and organisers Live Nation built on this in 2008 with travel planning and carbon offsetting offered to the audience. A new artist briefing booklet that explained the festival’s environmental work was given to performers who were encouraged to improve their own carbon footprint with handy hints and tips. The deposit system for recycling introduced in 2007 was continued and audience recycling in the campsite was encouraged and further promoted.

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Friday, June 12, 2009 
2nd Stage
Motley Crue, Opeth,  Lacuna Coil, Dir En Grey, Parkway Drive

Main Stage – Download
Faith No More, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Killswitch Engage, Billy Talent,  Staind,  The Blackout,

 Tuborg Stage
Meshuggah,  Duff McKagen’s Loaded,  Backyard Babies, Middle Class Rut, Sleepercurve,

Saturday, June 13, 2009
2nd Stage
The Prodigy, Chris Cornell,  You Me At Six, The Answer,  Static-X,  Fightstar,  In Case Of Fire, Superstar

Main Stage – Download
Slipknot,  Marilyn Manson,  Pendulum,  Dragonforce, Down,  Devildriver,  Five Finger Death Punch

Tuborg Stage
Anvil,  Architects,  Lawnmower Deth, Poison

Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
None The Less

Sunday, June 14, 2009
2nd Stage
Trivium,  Papa Roach, Buckcherry, Clutch, Shinedown, Karma To Burn, Sevendust

Main Stage – Download
Def Leppard,  Whitesnake,  ZZ Top, Dream Theater, Journey, Black Stone Cherry

Tuborg Stage
Go Audio,  Therapy, Pulled Apart By Horses

 Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage
Twin Atlantic