Iron Maiden Headlining Download Festival

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Following the official announcement this evening on BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe show, IRON MAIDEN has confirmed it will be once again headlining this year's Download festival on Sunday, June 10, making this a record-breaking fourth headline appearance at the world-famous Donington Park.
The first time MAIDEN ever played at Donington was when they topped the bill in 1988, with KISS and GUNS N' ROSES among the supports, playing to over 100,000 people — the biggest Donington crowd by far and still the biggest metal show ever in the U.K. — returning again in 1992 and 2003.
Commented MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson: "Our fans know that Donington is a special place for MAIDEN and we are all looking forward to getting back there for a fourth time. The 'A Matter of Life and Death U.K. Tour' last December was very special for us and we very much appreciated the fans giving us such great support in us playing the whole album which, let's face it, was not necessarily the easiest thing to do for us or them! It was definitely the right challenge for us at that time but outdoors in the summer is different and as a 'thank-you' to our fans we will be including quite a few more 'classic' favorites balanced with some of the tracks from the new album. We will naturally bring Eddie and his toys along, so all in all it should be a great day for everybody!!"
Headline acts for the other two days are MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE on Friday, June 8 and LINKIN PARK on Saturday, June 9.
Source: Metal Hammer
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33 Comments on "Iron Maiden Headlining Download Festival"

3. writes:
hw in the HELL can you put linkin puke and mcr in the same region with iron maiden, much less the same stage? it's an insult to metal, and an even bigger insult to legends like maiden. what dumb f*** promoter came up with this brain fart? if i was bruce i'd walk on stage and sh** right in the middle of lp"s set....HIMMM!!!!

5. writes:
Yeah you can but really, you wanna go for the whole three days so you can wasted FUBAR (f***ed Up Beyond All Recognition) and see a sh** load of bands and meet new people and sh**. I was lucky to go in 2005 as I reckon that was the best line up they've had so far. After announcing these headliners, they gotta give me something REAL special for me to go like a Sepultura reunion and Down doing a set while a monkey in a fez rides on a unicycle if they want me buying a ticket
6. writes:
Not even the monkey on a unicycle would get me buying a weekend ticket for such a poorly headlined weekend.. Maiden yes.. the rest firebomb.
Download 2004, i am walking past the main stage to see pennywise in the snikers tent. Lp have just come on stage, and in the middle of a field in the midlands they shout out the immortal words "HELLO LONDON"...spacktards...





12. writes:
Nope, Linkin Park is not dead. UNFORTUNATELY. Wow. I can't believe it. Iron Maiden is headlining with two p***y-ass bands as support. My god. This is worse than having Trivium support Maiden. What the f*** is wrong with people who decide the supporting acts? Hmm...Let's showcase Linkin Park. Yes, a band that is hardly NOT metal and are f***ing horrible. Refunds anyone?


15. writes:
Maiden Great!!!!Yeah!!!! Mcr and Lp Oh nooooo!!!!Damn...I think that the metalheads will only enjoy the last day of the festival with Maiden..I don't know what happened but if this goes on we should be seeing a lineup like TenaciousD,Falloutboy and Panic at the disco soon : )
16. writes:
you guys are all stupid, ripping on LP like that, Just cuz some of u think LP and MCR suck doesnt mean everybody does, as a matter of fact, its good to see kisk a$$ new music (Linkin Park) performing on the same stage as Legends like Iron maiden, someday New bands will support Linkin Park when they are headlining





24. writes:
what are you guys all complainig about? they have only announced 3 bands, if the whole thing was filled with emo crap then i could understand but its not, you got maiden for the more serious metallers and you have linkin park and mcr to draw in the kiddies who spend all the money and allow download to book proper bands such as metallica, trivium, killswitch engage, avenge 7fold, machine head, sepultura etc, so stop complaining and just try and find the good reasons to go, which, believe me, will be plentiful!!



28. writes:
JESUS CHRIST save us from the headliners. F**K mcr and linkin park headlining at freakin donnington (IRON MAIDEN, thank god or perhaps satan), face it the organisers are pandering to a bunch of emo lovin little kids, man its gonna suck the first two days i'd love to see slayer but putting then BELOW mcr in the bill is sick. any metal fans would bottle mcr off stage. well I'm off to wacken this year maybe try to catch maiden last day. And mettalliwasp how come we had tool, metallica and GNR's last year and yet they still were able to afford to book em with out putting gay metal into the headliners your kiddies statement is retarded. it will be a school emo disco for the first two days besides the obvious exceptions, anyway f**kin p***ed off at download promotors bunch of non metal scum. METAL out


32. writes:
Hey, If LP is gonna be there...Its gotta be good, they are the highest selling band this century so far, and If you've heard QWERTY, then you should know by now that they arent nu metal, but just plain metal...er...metalish, but they still kick so much @$$, even with Mike in the band. and all you losers who post nothing but crap about LP(best band ever, by the way) probably have nothing better to do than masturbate, ya f***ing jack offs!

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1. metal2death writes:
wow that f***in blows to know that one kick a$$ band such as maiden has to be on first stage with mcr and f***in linkin park. thats f***in gay dude.