The United States Gets The Shaft On American Download Festival
The popular U.K.'s Download Festival is coming to the U.S. for the second year, this time to the Tweeter Center outside Boston on August 20 and to Shoreline Amphitheatre near San Francisco on September 30. However, it appears where the U.K. fest, which kicked off Friday at Donington Park in England, attracts bands like Tool, Guns N' Roses, Deftones, Metallica, Korn and Alice In Chains, the U.S. instead gets bands like 311, Jurassic 5, the Wailers, Dropkick Murphys, Glove & Special Sauce, and Pepper, who have been confirmed thus far for the Boston show.
Tickets for Boston will be available Saturday (June 10) and go on sale July 16 for the San Francisco show. But who'd want to go just knowing what a great show it could be if you lived in the U.K.?
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3. writes:
Over here in the U.K Download is becomming seen as an overpriced commercial festival. more and more people are going to the Bloodstock festivals, or to Europe for Wacken, Graspop etc.
Plus last years Damnation festival was a massive success, and looks set to do so again in october.
But the U.S cant complain about crappy line ups, the line up that tours america for ozzfest is huge compared to the one stage one day the uk gets at download..
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1. DrunkIrishMetal writes:
HA. I don't know how they can give us that lineup with a straight face.