Review Download Festival 2013
Friday 14th to Sunday 16th June 2013 – Download Festival @ Donington Park, Leicestershire
DOWNLOAD......... SCREAM FOR US........
Well didnt we have a lovely time...the weekend we went to DOWNLOAD 2013.........
THE biggest weekend in the rock calendar took place 14th to 16th July, as 90,000 people rocked out in Donington Park to headliners Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Rammstein plus a host of other bands across the weekend.
Slipknot had Donington in the palm of their hand as they opened their set with ‘Distasterpiece’ before launching into ‘Liberate’, ‘Wait and Bleed’, ‘Before I Forget’ and ‘Psychosocial’. A moment that will go down in Download history followed when 90,000 people knelt down on Donignton’s sacred ground before “jumping the fuck up” during a raging rendition of ‘Spit It Out’. .
Saturday’s epic lineup saw Queens of the Stone Age make their Download debut as the sun beamed down on the home of rock, while Motorhead, Alice In Chains, Mastodon, Enter Shikari, Jimmy Eat World, The Hives, Kvelertak & Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats all played blinding sets.
A Spitfire circled Donington Park before Iron Maiden burst onto stage with their headline set bringing the Maiden England tour to the festival marking 25 years since the band first headlined Donington Park. The set included ‘Run To The Hills’, ‘Fear of the Dark’, ‘The Number of the Beast’ and an encore of ‘Aces High’, ‘The Evil That Men Do’ and ‘Running Free’.
Crowds of rock fans packed out Donington Park as the opening day of Download saw Asking Alexandria, Papa Roach, Architects, Korn,
Bullet for My Valentine all perform mind blowing sets throughout the day, while bands like Fearless Vampire Killers, Fidlar and The Algorithm ripped up the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage.
The closing day of Download saw the crowds roaring with sets from Stone Sour, Coal Chamber, Five Finger Death Punch, Parkway Drive, Airbourne, Limp Bizkit, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Gaslight Anthem, A Day To Remember and many more. And of course everyone was gearing up for the stunning set from Sunday headliners Rammstein, who closed the festival with a set that for us was EPIC and one that’s a sure-fire contend for rock show of the year.
Photo > Andrew Whitton
All in all, did Me & Rock-Chic have a good time, I should co-co, but then again we always do on our roadtrips. Summarising based on our own observations and also chatting with others....
Festival atmosphere
There are certainly a number of others that have better.....
Toilets
Not Good
Festival go'ers/folk
Not the friendiest, some actually very ignorant/inconsiderate & an alarmingly increasing amount of 'THE CORPORATE WEEK-END ROCKER' & TOTALLY PISSED-UP ONESIE WEARING YOUNGSTERS...
Food & Drink
Pricing just FRECKIN RIDICULOUS
Not Rated
Headliners
SLIPKNOT...awesome stage-show
IRON-MAIDEN.... an institution and national treasure, but if we are honest we have seen you better.
RAMMSTEIN .....2 words WIRKLICH EPISCH.
Looking ahead to 2014, Download Festival will take place 13-15 June, and as a thank you to fans for a limited time Download is offering £10 off the current 2013 prices for 5-day camping tickets, 3-day camping and weekend arena tickets. All tickets went on sale at 9am on 21 June with the offer closing on 1 July.
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