Download Festival

[Gazz]

http://andrewkendall.livejournal.com/124197.html

Find you tent bitches.

Found mine in gold section

Found Straightaway, Orange 1, right next to the telephone pole on the left side. Easy! (Y)

[Cactus Drags]

The latest Kerrang! magazine has a review of every band. I wouldn't bother though. It's written with a very NME-esque mentality i.e. If it's new/popular it's shit, old and underground = godlike. And they mark bands down for being on after a good band :/

[ravenjuice]

Kerrang said Trivium and Bullet were shit? Go away.

[Summers]

Trivium were a let down, I'm a huge fan, but that was a weak set.

[Guest KoRnCHiLD]

Reuben AND Billy Talent? I HAVE to get tickets.

Edited June 15, 2006 by KoRnCHiLD

[Cactus Drags]

Kerrang said Trivium and Bullet were shit? Go away.

[thatshortguy]

Not so much Trivium (and it wasn't a weak set, it was a festival set, the new song rocks), but Bulelt they said weren't very good because the band who were on before them (Cradle of Filth maybe? Can't quite remember) were so good. I didn't really get it.

The idea is that the band that follows needs to keep the energy up in order to show their live ability and entertain the fans. Personally, I think it's crap, as each band should be taken for what they are. Not to mention whoever schedules such a band as Death Cab For Cutie after such a band as Queens of the Stone Age (which happened at this year's Sasquatch Festival in Washington State, U.S.A.) should be backhanded out of their temporary retardation.

[Summers]

Kerrang said Trivium and Bullet were shit? Go away.

Not so much Trivium (and it wasn't a weak set, it was a festival set, the new song rocks), but Bulelt they said weren't very good because the band who were on before them (Cradle of Filth maybe? Can't quite remember) were so good. I didn't really get it.

It was a weak Trivium performance. That's my opinion. The new song is also way too Metallica like - in my opinion - awesome, though yeah.

[K]

It doesn't make any sense to compare the band to the previous one, because with three / four stages you don't know who the crowd were watching beforehand.

[ravenjuice]

I wasn't actually saying Trivium and Bullet were crap. Well, Bullet were, but I really enjoyed Trivium, and much prefer Heafy, you know, singing, as opposed to barking like a dog. It was just, Kerrang masterbate over those bands so much I'm surprised they didnt get the 5 K reviews and bands like Metallica and Soulfly getting shit ones for being old and past it.

[Cactus Drags]

It doesn't make any sense to compare the band to the previous one, because with three / four stages you don't know who the crowd were watching beforehand.

[Skummy]

The way of NME is wanking all over the popular new bands, though...

[fineintent]

Did anyone go see Enter Shikari on Day One on the Myspazz tent? How were they?

[Liam]

I wasn't actually saying Trivium and Bullet were crap. Well, Bullet were, but I really enjoyed Trivium, and much prefer Heafy, you know, singing, as opposed to barking like a dog. It was just, Kerrang masterbate over those bands so much I'm surprised they didnt get the 5 K reviews and bands like Metallica and Soulfly getting shit ones for being old and past it.

Hence my comment about them going the way of NME.

Well, seemingly from other comments in this thread, they've actually just pulled Trivium up on a weaker live show than they usually do...so "got it right", so to speak.

[Robsturgh]

For anyone who didnt go or wants to futily try and see themselves, the recap of download is in 40 minutes on channel 4.

[Cactus Drags]

I saw myself at the edge of the pit for Papa Roach last year, although I was aided by the fact that I was wearing a bright red hoody and my mate had bought a giant fake fur vest and was growing a bright blonde mullet.

[ravenjuice]

..the pits for Papa Roach last year scared me. They were full of middle aged skinheads that we're quite impressively built and looked like they could kick the shit out of anyone, and they were all pounding theyre chests and looked really emotionally involved with the lyrics :S

[Colly]

The way of NME is wanking all over the popular new bands, though...

[ravenjuice]

They didn't wank over the Darkness. That made me sad.

[Skummy]

They didn't wank over the Darkness. That made me sad.

NME? Yes they did. I've got an old copy where they hailed them as the future of music, long before the album came out, and a fair few from when they got big that have got them on the cover, and four or five pages dedicated to them.