Is Download Festival right to move with the times or are they alienating older fans? Let us know your thoughts and help support the channel by subscribing here: tinyurl.com/primordialradio-youtube 👈
I think Download did wait a bit too long on replacing the roatating door of headliners tbh. They didn't wait until bands could do it which I think has changed, but more waited until older bands couldn't anymore. BMTH were doing arenas from 2016, and still managed to headline R+L before Download. Also, I think the switch of R+L has something to do with it. There's a lot of bands who previously would've made up an entire R+L lineup that'll now only take up a fraction, so Download has clearly taken some of those bands and that audience with them. I don't think it's such a bad thing personally
Great observation on R&L it has markedly shifted more commercial in recent years, certainly leaves a good crop of bands needing a home at a rock festival in the UK, DL deffo seeming to fill that gap.
Is Download Festival right to move with the times or are they alienating older fans?
Let us know your thoughts and help support the channel by subscribing here: tinyurl.com/primordialradio-youtube 👈
For me, the festival died when it was no longer called monsters of rock 🎸
Im 60 and seriously not in the cold, Ive seen so many of 2025 download bands and will be there again.
When I'm not watching the screen I swear to god its the Joe Elliot podcast!! 😂😂
Haaaa! I'm from approx 20 miles up the road from him, near Wakefield /Dews
I think Download did wait a bit too long on replacing the roatating door of headliners tbh. They didn't wait until bands could do it which I think has changed, but more waited until older bands couldn't anymore. BMTH were doing arenas from 2016, and still managed to headline R+L before Download. Also, I think the switch of R+L has something to do with it. There's a lot of bands who previously would've made up an entire R+L lineup that'll now only take up a fraction, so Download has clearly taken some of those bands and that audience with them. I don't think it's such a bad thing personally
Great observation on R&L it has markedly shifted more commercial in recent years, certainly leaves a good crop of bands needing a home at a rock festival in the UK, DL deffo seeming to fill that gap.