Retaining its title year after year as the only rock festival worth mentioning, Download Festival continues to hit all the right notes for true fans of rock music. Three days of heavy rock over five stages are what await the faithful who make the journey to the iconic location every year.
With each year’s improvement on the last, and the organizers staying true to the Donnington ‘Monsters of Rock’ ethos, rock music certainly has a spiritual home in the shape of Download Festival.
The bars stay open after the entertainment has finished, and running until 2am (Friday to Sunday) there'll be an after-hours Campsite Entertainment Zone, which has a cafe, beer stall, funfair rides, various shops, and a cinema.
At Download Festival 2021 there'll be a selection of markets which will include a variety of food from around the world, as well as clothes, jewellery, massages, piercing & tattoos, organic foods, souvenirs, merchandise, and loads more.
This is a festival purely for the rock enthusiasts, the loyal, and the dedicated.
Def Leppard 'Hysteria performed in its entirety & more'
Slipknot
Tool
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators
Die Antwoord
Smashing Pumpkins
Whitesnake
Trivium
Lamb of God
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Aaron Buchanan & The Cult Classics
Alcest
Alien Weaponry
Amon Amarth
Animals as Leaders
Anthrax
At The Gates
Bad Wolves
Badflower
Batushka
Beartooth
Behemoth
Black Futures
Black Peaks
Blackberry Smoke
Brothers Osborne
Cane Hill
Carcass
Clutch
Coldrain
Conjurer
Crystal Lake
Deadland Ritual
Delain
Die Antwoord
Dream Theater
Eagles of Death Metal
Enter Shikari
Fever 333
Godsmack
Groundculture
Halestorm
Heart of a Coward
I Prevail
Icon For Hire
Intervals
Jinjer
Lamb of God
Last In Line
Like A Storm
Lost In Stereo
Love Bites
Man With A Mission
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
Municipal Waste
Ne Obliviscaris
nothing, nowhere
Opeth
Our Last Night
Palaye Royale
Parting Gift
Power Trip
Redhook
Reel Big Fish
Riding The Low
Rob Zombie
Royal Republic
Skid Row
Skindred
Skynd
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators
Slayer
Starset
State Champs
Stone Temple Pilots
Sumo Cyco
Tesla
The Amity Affliction
The Interrupters
The Smashing Pumpkins
Those Damn Crows
Three Days Grace
Toska
Trash Boat
Trivium
Twelve Foot Ninja
Underoath
Underside
Vega
Whitechapel
Whitesnake
Wolf Jaw
Yours Truly
Zebrahead
Epica
Elvana
The Beaches
The Inspector Cluzo
Palisades
Blurred Vision
Allusinlove
Cloud
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Goodbye June
Graveyard
Hot Milk
Kim Jennett
Kvelertak
Lost Society
Nova Twins
Queen Zee
Roam
Simple Creatures
The Hu
The Picturebooks
The Wonder Years
Vambo
Download Festival information & FAQs
Ticket Information & FAQs
Skiddle guarantee that we have the lowest booking fees available for Download Festival tickets. We are an official primary ticket outlet and all tickets are processed and dispatched by Skiddle direct to you. All our tickets are sold at face value and originate directly from the event organiser.
3 or 5 nights camping and entry to all 3 days of the festival. You can choose to camp in the main camping areas, or if you prefer to take a breather come the witching hour, then the Quiet Camping area has a noise curfew at midnight. If you are an environmentally friendly rocker then the Eco camp is the place for you.
A Weekend Arena Only ticket gives you entry to the Download Festival Arena for the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: access to all of the stages, food stalls and an array of attractions.
For those with access requirements – they can purchase a standard ticket and then for any requirements, carer passes etc they should email access@downloadfestival.co.uk. Please make sure they do not purchase a ticket for carers as we cannot refund any sales at a later point. “The application process for Download 2021 will be open in January, please refer to the website” Please email access@downloadfestival.co.uk for more information.
All disabled customers are welcome at Download Festival 2019, but as it is a greenfield site there are steep stony hilly sections of the site, meaning that sometimes access across the site is not that easy especially in bad weather conditions. Please bare this in mind when booking for the event. Stewards however, will be around to assist.
Live Nation provides a number of facilities in the arena and campsite to accommodate disabled customer's needs, please see the other headings on the left. Not all disabled customer's need use of these facilities but we will provide access to whatever is needed and/or a free carer/PA ticket where required to ensure your stay is comfortable and most of all enjoyable.
Travelling to/from the festival
Download happens at the sacred site that is Donington Park, right next to East Midlands Airport. Donington Park lies where the three counties of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire meet. - The ley-lines of ROCK!!
Please note: There will be no Pedestrian access to the Festival from Melbourne Lane
In virtually the middle of the country, it has excellent connections being only 3 miles from the major trunk routes of the M1/M42 and A50.
The festival is linked around the country with Big Green Coaches travelling to the site from various towns all over the UK. Coach tickets to Download 2020 are available to book.
Download can also recommend Liftshare. A service that matches you with other Download goers in your area so you can save on petrol!
East Midlands International Airport is only two and a half miles away and has comprehensive domestic and European flight schedules.
The mainline railway stations are East Midlands Parkway, Derby, Nottingham and Loughborough, which are anything up to twenty minutes drive away. Donington Park is also well served by public transport and taxi services. Download Festival's official shuttle bus partner is Notts and Derby Bus Service, who provide a continuous bus services from East Midlands Parkway and Derby train stations ONLY, throughout the duration of the festival. More info and shuttle bus timetable coming soon.
For all you Sat Nav users, the postcode for Donington Park is DE74 2RP
Hotels near Download Festival
The history of Download Festival
The first Download Festival was held in 2003. The headliners were originally Iron Maiden and Limp Bizkit, although Limp Bizkit pulled out and were replaced by Audioslave. Metallica attempted to step in as headliners, but were unable due to already being headliners at that year's Reading and Leeds Festivals. Instead, they played an unannounced "secret slot" in the afternoon on the second stage!
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