It's just 28 weeks, and a day until Donington Park's Download Festival 2015, with the first set of acts announced a few days ago. And if you all you can picture is a muddy field, full of beer-bellied bikers, let me change that view by giving 5 reasons to rock at the DL.
- KISS - Gene Simmons and co will Don (see what I did there!) their famous costumes and paint, and bang out 'God gave Rock n Roll to you' and more legendary hits.
- Muse and Marilyn Manson in one day, surely not! - Yep, you read that right, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson whose famous for some rather lewd on-stage acts, and theatrical performances will be playing early on the Saturday evening. Muse meanwhile didn't play any major dates in Summer 2014, and are marking a return to the festival circuit with a new album. Gonna be one hell of a Saturday night Download.
- Unlike Reading/Leeds and other rock originated festivals, it hasn't been overtaken with swathes of irritating 16 and 17 year olds. Now don't get me wrong any music festival should be a place of acceptance and happiness, but when it's comprised solely of 16-19 year olds that only results in fake moshpits, high-pitched screaming, and very few interesting people at all!
- If you're a Rock/Metal fan, which to be honest you probably are if you've read this far, DL remains one of the few festivals to be untouched by other genres. Since Dagenham MC Devlin played Reading & Leeds, it all changed for then on in.
- Download is quite simply, 5 nights of boozing, fun and great people. Having attended in 2012, with little interest in metal at all, I was completely turned by a fantastic atmosphere, and some amazingly friendly, fun characters in the crowd.
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