This summer sees two titans of the British rock and metal festival scene fight it out.
Download, the UK’s first ever metal festival, sees competition from new UK rock/metal fest Sonisphere. Download have just announced another 30 bands to their line-up to sit alongside headliners AC/DC, Rage Against The Machine and Aerosmith. Surely the most exciting addition, however, is Slash whose new eponymous album was released just two weeks ago to great acclaim. Download takes place over the second weekend in June (11th-13th) at Donnington Park.
Meanwhile, Sonisphere stake their claim to the rock crown at Knebworth on the last weekend on July (30th of July to August 1st). Headliners at this event include an exclusive performance from Rammstein and British rock stalwarts Iron Maiden.
Click here for the just released list of acts that will play Download.
What better way to mark Australia Day than with a short sharp blast of AC/DC? Since 1973 the Sydney based band have been putting the ‘rock’ firmly into rock and roll but always delivering it with their unique Ozzie humour. Despite picking up an English front man in 1980 in the shape of Geordie singer Brian Johnston, AC/DC remain the archetypal Australian band and undoubted national icons.
The announcement that AC/DC are to headline this year’s Download festival alongside Bullet For My Valentine and Wolfmother proves, as if it was needed, that AC/DC can still rock out harder than bands half their age. The eighth Download festival marks the 30th anniversary of rock festivals at Donington Park – the first of which were the infamous Monsters Of Rock festivals which AC/DC played all the way back in 1981.
For more info and tickets for Download Festival click here
Northern Irish boys The Answer are about to embark on a UK headlining tour after having spent the last year supporting AC/DC in the States. We caught up with singer Cormac Neeson, guitarist Paul Mahon and bass player Mickey Waters to ask a few questions about touring, bravado and just generally having a laugh. Read more…
