DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2009

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.

releases, live reports and gossip from around the globe.
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

Download festival sells out

Festival organisers for the DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL AT DONINGTON PARK have today announced that all camping tickets have now officially SOLD OUT.

This includes all RIP Park Farm packages, including Tipis and Shacks. In addition, all combined coach travel & camping tickets have also now completely sold out. There are still a LIMITED number of the RIP “Platinum” hotel packages available.

Organisers are now urging anyone planning to attend this year’s Download who haven’t yet picked up their tickets to do so NOW – arena tickets for the full weekend and day tickets are still on sale but are likely to all be snapped up soon. For all tickets and packages please visit www.downloadfestival.co.uk/tickets .

For the first time in Download history, this year’s festival will be extended to FOUR STAGES, with over 100 bands playing across the weekend of 12-14 JUNE.

Courtesy of RED BULL BEDROOM JAM, the new stage will host performances from the previously announced WE ARE THE OCEAN, WHITE MAN KAMIKAZE AND AUGER BANE, plus MY PASSION, DISSOLVED IN, THIS CITY, TWIN ATLANTIC, LINCHPIN, FALL FROM GRACE, DON BROCO, NONE THE LESS, EXIT AVENUE, YOUNG GUNS and FIRST STRIKE.

In addition to these exciting new acts, For the first time ever an unknown band will get to play the main stage in a live broadcast from their Bedroom. This world first will see the virtual gig beamed to thousands of rockers ahead of the performance from Marilyn Manson on the Saturday.

Here’s how,

Upload your video to www.redbullbedroomjam.com . Don’t worry about the quality, a mobile phone video of you playing in your bedroom will do,it’s the talent that counts (a good tip would be to check out Don Broco’s video on the homepage!)
Get your fans to log on and watch and rate your video,
The most popular artists get selected for a live-streamed performance,on broadcast day, the Red Bull Bedroom Jam crew collect the musicians and selected mates and fans, and the winners rock out in front of the camera!

For this one off special, videos will have to be uploaded by Friday 5 June. The winners will then be informed on Monday 8 June.