View Full Version : Download Festival, who's going then?
mudge32
05-06-06, 09:23 PM
With various peeps mentioning the Festival I was just wondering :D
i am!!
Going up on the thursday, and competing in the 5 a side footy competition!!
Coming home obviously after the fest finishes, you think 2 crates of beer will be enough? :lol: :lol:
suzsv650
05-06-06, 09:32 PM
IM GOIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! realy cant wait!!!
was goan drive up on weds btu i couldnt get the car so im goin up on thurs afternooon thire best be some space left for me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOOOOOoo exited!!!!!!
suzsv650
05-06-06, 09:33 PM
oh and im takin about 24 cans of beer + i think the Mrs is bringin some vodka recon thtl b enough ... i dont wona go for a wee during metallica tho lol!!!
mudge32
05-06-06, 09:38 PM
oh and im takin about 24 cans of beer + i think the Mrs is bringin some vodka recon thtl b enough ... i dont wona go for a wee during metallica tho lol!!!
You wont wanna go for a wee during anything after the 1st day. PEEYOO, them p1$$pots don't half stink after the first day!! :lol:
Download seems to have the best lineup for festivals this year but I can't afford it. :( :cry:
mudge32
05-06-06, 09:41 PM
Neither can I really :roll: I bought the ticket on tap from a friend :lol:
you think 2 crates of beer will be enough? :lol: :lol:
No.
for the thursday night i meant!
Im taking a camelpack thing full of beer into the gigs, no £3.50 pints for me!
Neither can I really :roll: I bought the ticket on tap from a friend :lol:
Cheers, that's made me feel a lot better. :(
northwind
05-06-06, 10:30 PM
Thought about it, but the bill's not up to scratch IMO. If they'd made it a 2 day festival I'd have been up for it, but it's spread a bit thin. Or got a bit more variety into the bill... Half the bands playing have either played before, or can only be distinguished from bands that have played before using DNA evidence.
Go and see Skindred! You'll have to miss Bullet for my Valentine, but I'm not entirely sure that's a downside, not on a bill with Metallica and Trivium doing exactly the same thing a thousand times better...
I'm off to Reading instead. And T In The Park, though it's rubbish this year if I'm honest with myself.
Download seems to have the best lineup for festivals this year but I can't afford it. :( :cry:
same as i realy wanted to see funeral for a friend AGAIN
mudge32
06-06-06, 09:33 AM
Thought about it, but the bill's not up to scratch IMO. If they'd made it a 2 day festival I'd have been up for it, but it's spread a bit thin. Or got a bit more variety into the bill... Half the bands playing have either played before, or can only be distinguished from bands that have played before using DNA evidence.
Go and see Skindred! You'll have to miss Bullet for my Valentine, but I'm not entirely sure that's a downside, not on a bill with Metallica and Trivium doing exactly the same thing a thousand times better...
I'm off to Reading instead. And T In The Park, though it's rubbish this year if I'm honest with myself.
I agree matey, the bill's a tad pants, but we'd bought the tickets before we knew the line-up :oops: (My g/f's mate pestered us to death, because she enjoyed last year's that much!!)
MidgetMoose
06-06-06, 11:36 AM
i am!!
Going up on the thursday, and competing in the 5 a side footy competition!!
Coming home obviously after the fest finishes, you think 2 crates of beer will be enough? :lol: :lol:
Theres a five a side tourney.. dammit i didn't know..
Does anyone know if there screening the england match somewhere on site? surly they must be.
mudge32
06-06-06, 12:15 PM
Does anyone know if there screening the england match somewhere on site? surly they must be.
I think they're showing it at "The Village", but as it clashes with Alice In Chains (and it's not rugby :wink: ) I won't be watching :lol:
http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/thevillage/index.asp
Wish I was going. :roll: :(
Got my tickets for Deftones though :twisted: :D
Im heading there in a few hours. Yey first festival of the year! Its now summer again :D
Alchol wise methinks ill be buying 2x Crates of beer and prob 2 bottles of whisky... should do me fine for the next 5 days.
mudge32
10-06-06, 09:14 PM
Buttocks!!
Had to miss Saturday, because her indoors is suffering quite badly with the heat :(
Hopefully, be able to go back tomorrow :wink:
Not taken many photies this year...the joys of being a short-ar$e and not getting a good view :wink:
Here's one of the only ones not obscured by someone's head :x Coheed & Cambria
http://upload4.postimage.org/370343/DSC00074.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/370343/photo_hosting.html)
MidgetMoose
12-06-06, 06:58 PM
Buttocks!!
Had to miss Saturday, because her indoors is suffering quite badly with the heat :(
Hopefully, be able to go back tomorrow :wink:
http://upload4.postimage.org/370343/DSC00074.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/370343/photo_hosting.html)
Gutted... My ears and legs hurt but im least im not a lobster like the rest of the poeple who came with me.
Saturday was great Metallica (when they eventuly got on) played master of puppets... the whole album all the way through was great.
I have some picks and short videos sitting about will post them up if i can.
suzsv650
12-06-06, 07:10 PM
tallica was amazing!!! the croud was so crushey i had to get lifted out into that midle thingi with my girl (shes tiney) but walking down right up to the stage i got sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo close then but the gards hused me off! loved it so much !!!!!! got a lil burnt not to bad prodigy were amazing too guns were a let down tho ... :roll:
mudge32
12-06-06, 08:19 PM
Saturday was great Metallica (when they eventuly got on) played master of puppets... the whole album all the way through was great.
Yes I heard about that :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :evil:
http://upload4.postimage.org/370343/DSC00074.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/370343/photo_hosting.html)
Somebody seems to have bottles of water for digits!! :lol:
Yes - my daughter gleefully informed me that 'talica did ALL of Master of Puppets!
Not envious - just busy living!!
mudge32
12-06-06, 08:41 PM
Somebody seems to have bottles of water for digits!! :lol:
:lol: :lol: I hadn't spotted that !!
As for MoP being played in full :evil: :evil:
Hey ho, it's better my Missus is living. She was in a very bad way with the heat..and to be honest I didn't feel much better. It was ruddy BOILING! :lol:
MidgetMoose
12-06-06, 09:51 PM
tallica was amazing!!! the croud was so crushey i had to get lifted out into that midle thingi with my girl
You must of been yards from me.. i was on the railings on the central bit for that.
As for the heat what made it worse was that there was no escape as the tent was like a greenhouse the only cool place i found was the pubs in donnington castle.. and lets not mention the toilets :lol:
lots of bikes in car park didn't spy any SV's though.
All in all was amazing.. apart from metallica, soulfly and trivium were also very good, the band before trivium played a cover of walk.
I missed the Prodigy though was really looking forward to that :cry:
Saint Matt
12-06-06, 09:55 PM
Glad I didnt go and have bottles of **** thrown around lol.
Was a good festival.
Fave bands of the weekend would be... Billy Talent and The Prodigy.
Hated the layout this year, with the snickers tent really far away (they should of shoved the camping further away and have the snickers closer) and the STUPID ONE WAY SYSTEM!
Another downer is that 4 of us (and about 20 people from camps around us) got robbed while sleeping. We figured it was about 4am (about an hour after i gave up and passed out that night) they opened peoples tents, grabbed trousers / wallets / handbags... took all the cash of them and then left everything else either in the middle of the campsite or front of tent.
Its amazing that NOONE even noticed, you would think someone would wake up with someone opening your tent (well i wouldnt i was in a state) but i suppose with Planes flying over every so often and the general background festival sounds.
First time this has happened to be in 8 festivals and end of the day it could of been alot worse. Lost about £40. Could of had to get driving licence / cards etc sorted if they had taken the whole wallet and I normally have alot more money on me at festivals.
Apart from that and the fact it was WAY to hot (with no availble shade anywhere) it was a good weekend.... I will be going again next year.
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