Download Festival Tickets

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Download Festival
The Download Festival is a three day music festival held annually at Downingtown Park, England. It takes place at the end of spring, and is owned and managed by Live Nation.

Download 2003
The first Download Festival was held in 2003. The headliners were originally Iron Maiden, Limp Bizkit and Audioslave
Download 2004
Another stage was added to the festival in this year, bringing the total to three. 72 Bands played over the two days. The 2004 event was also noticeable for several last minute problems. Firstly Soil got lost on the way to Downingtown and missed their main stage appearance on Saturday.

Static-X missed their slot due to a bus breakdown. Slayer arrived on time, but their equipment did not, leading to a slot change. Slayer was replaced on the main stage by Damageplan. Their set list ended with a performance of Damageplan founders.

The biggest news came from the headliners Metallica, however, when Lars Ulrich was rushed to hospital. Taking to the stage an hour and a half late, James Hetfield explained the situation with Lars and the show began with Slayer drummer. The set featured no post-Black Album songs and was about an hour and ten minutes long. The set is considered one of the band's most memorable performances. In June 2004, a two day Download festival was held on Glasgow Green, Scotland. This had a limited line up. However, the bands which did play were similar to those appearing at Downingtown. Download Scotland also saw an appearance from Welsh rock act Lost Prophets.

Download 2005
Download 2005 was held again at Downingtown Park, on 10-12 June 2005. This festival was unlike prior years. Billy Idol performed on the Snickers stage on the Friday night; his first UK performance. Feeder's front man was so relieved the band won the crowd over; he decided to smash his green Fender Jazzmaster guitar.

Download 2006
The 2006 Download Festival was held at Downingtown Park, England on the 9th, 10th, and 11th of June. Download 2006 boasted the largest selling acts out of all the UK music festivals that year. The three days comprising the headlining acts have sales of approximately 200-250 million albums between them, more than the entire line up of 2006's Festival. 2006 was the first time the festival was mirrored in the Republic of Ireland, as Download Festival Ireland.

Controversy
On the Saturday, Main Stage act Korn lost lead singer Jonathan Davis. It was discovered that Davis had contracted a rare blood disease and could not perform at the event. Several different acts contributed singers to fill in for Davis Throughout most of the festival, bottles were thrown around the crowd, mostly in a harmless manner. However, during the Sunday headline set of Guns N' Roses, one or more bottles landed on the stage. This caused problems after the band's lead singer, Axl Rose, slipped on the wet surface and a bottle filled with urine apparently hit bassist Tommy Stinson. There were some disturbances but they eventually died down.

Download 2007
The 2007 Download Festival took place on June 8-10 2007. The three bands that headlined the 2007 festival were My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park and Iron Maiden. On 17 April this lineup was arranged into days and stages on the official website. A further announcement of fifteen bands on 24 April added to this lineup.

Download 2008
The 2008 Download Festival is planned for June 13-15. Organizers noted the slightly later date is to fit in with other European festivals. A limited number of tickets are available at the 2007 prices although the main ticket sale will likely not start until early 2008.