“I’ve been massively conscious that we’ve got to bring the newer acts through,” he says. The 2023 weekend will also feature Bring Me the Horizon’s first headline slot at the festival and, while Download has been criticized in the past for its reliance on vintage headliners, Copping says he’s determined to provide a platform for the next generation.

“There is a finite amount of bands that you could do it with, but I’d certainly look at it again in the future, probably when there is something special going on around the festival.” “The beauty of Metallica is they have such a huge catalog of songs,” says Copping. – which, in 2021, were headlined by Metallica on two nights of the weekend. Copping says the idea to get Metallica to double up was inspired by Danny Wimmer Presents’ festivals in the U.S. Sales surged again when a strong bill – including headline slots from Slipknot and Bring Me the Horizon, plus two different sets from Metallica – was unveiled. Normally, on a very good year, we’d do 4,000 early birds.” “We ended up doing 35,000 before we’d even announced a band – that’s unheard of. There one one, absolutely fantastic, vegan food seller but just the one, everything else is meat but there's a fantastic selection, and some pretty natty and not over priced clothes sellers.“We saw this huge uptake in early bird tickets –and when I say huge, I mean huge,” he says. If you're a vegan or vegetarian take your own food. Again, car park is awful, no lockers to store your stuff so pointless trying to ride there.

Again, nothing to tell you which car park or which part of the car park you're in so set your SatNav or you'll have a hell of a job inding your vehicle again.ĭon't take your bike. There were at least three places where they could have more toilets and I simply do not understand why they seem to skimp on this.Ĭar parks. However, be aware the tiolet facilities were dreadful, again. Wonderful people, stages brilliant, bands terrific, sound quality awesome, food good.

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