Download Festival 2019

aj89

Headliners and other acts just announced:

Headliners
Def Leppard
Tool
Slipknot

Other acts
Slash ft Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators
Rob Zombie
Whitesnake
Trivium
Die Antwoord
Amon Amarth
Carcass
Delain
Me first and the gimme gimmes
Opeth
Power Trip
Reel Big Fish
Skindred
Starset
Tesla
The Amity Affliction
Underoath

D.Q

Hope Die Antwoord pop over here

aj89

Saw them back in 2013.... Great gig!

scudzilla

D.Q wrote: »

Hope Die Antwoord pop over here

I'd be all over it if they did, wifey loves 'em too

Tar.Aldarion

Tool, YES!

LoughNeagh2017

I've never been before, I wonder if it would be too much hassle going on a day ticket, with buses, etc.

grimm2005

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

I've never been before, I wonder if it would be too much hassle going on a day ticket, with buses, etc.

You'd need to stay overnight but it would be a very easy one to do. The airport is about 5 - 10 minutes away in a taxi from the festival site (you can walk it in about 25 minutes, probably less without camping gear) and there's morning and evening flights to/from Dublin. Fly in early Sunday, have the whole day at the fest, head back to an airport hotel and get up the next morning for the early flight home.

Edit: Just looking at airport hotel rates during the festival and they are all over €200 for 1 night! As the flight is at 6:30am Monday morning you'd probably be better off just hanging about the airport after the gig!

aj89

I went just for the Sat in 2015. After Muse, slowly made our way out of the arena and walked to the airport. The airport closes so we sat around in departures for about 4hrs (plenty of others had done the same), long enough wait but saved spending €80 for hotel for a few hours!

D.Q

Download is a strange one for me.

Always has great bands/people etc have had some really great weekends there.

But I think the layout is very frustrating. Always seems to be a trek to the main arena, hard to navigate once in there. The foot traffic is always going the same direction or something, so the ground cuts up really bad.

Take EP as a comparison, because of the site layout, you very rarely have all of the festival crowd trudging the same way. There's different entrances and routes around the site. At Download, the campsites empty through the village and down the hill in the main arena.

If it rains, the site is absolutely ruined. 

The options for after the bands finish are fairly disgraceful as well. The same rock radio DJs playing cheesy tunes isn't good enough for what you're paying.

LoughNeagh2017

grimm2005 wrote: »

You'd need to stay overnight but it would be a very easy one to do. The airport is about 5 - 10 minutes away in a taxi from the festival site (you can walk it in about 25 minutes, probably less without camping gear) and there's morning and evening flights to/from Dublin. Fly in early Sunday, have the whole day at the fest, head back to an airport hotel and get up the next morning for the early flight home.

Edit: Just looking at airport hotel rates during the festival and they are all over €200 for 1 night! As the flight is at 6:30am Monday morning you'd probably be better off just hanging about the airport after the gig!

I will have to look into it, it is saturday I am interested in, I would definitely need some sleep as from past experiences going through the whole airport business with no sleep is a nightmare, I think it is because of my anxiety problems, I get freezing cold and start to shiver with no sleep.

Wrongway1985

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

I will have to look into it, it is saturday I am interested in, I would definitely need some sleep as from past experiences going through the whole airport business with no sleep is a nightmare, I think it is because of my anxiety problems, I get freezing cold and start to shiver with no sleep.

Camping an option for day ticket holders at Graspop if that tickled yer fancy.

rumble_rabbi

unbelievable festival.. best i was ever at .. way more layed back than ireland .. TOOL were the band of the weekend for me