Liquid Death Presents Download Festival, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, is now only 100 days away. With the countdown now truly on, celebrate this year’s festival with our round up of Download By Numbers.
This year’s festival will take place on 14-16 June 2024 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Tickets are available now at www.downloadfestival.co.uk.
Download by numbers:
- 21 years of Download Festival
- 7 stages across the site, offering an array of entertainment across the weekend
- 110+ bands from headliners Queens of the Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold on the Apex Stage, new talent on the Avalanche and Dogtooth Stages to DJs and secret sets in District X
- 90,000+ fans set to descend on Donington Park
- 200,000 cans of Liquid Death onsite
- 100,000 expected mosh and circle pit steps per person
- 30,000 Download t-shirts in production
- 5000 members of crew needed to build the site in 20 days
- 5000 new Download patches in production
- 2000 Download rubber ducks in production
- 1100 yurts and huts in RIP Metal Meadow
- 931.56 acres of land to host Download Festival
- 300 bottles of champagne on the band riders
- 200 horns thrown by the Download Dog across the weekend
- 170 food and drinks traders onsite
- 150 miles cycled by the Heavy Metal Truants to get to Download each year
- 91 Big Green Coach vehicles used to get fans to the festival in the greenest possible way
- 64 countries represented by fans
- 50 fans heading to the festival on their own to create a community in Camp Loner
- 37 golf buggies onsite to transport artists and crew
- 34 hours of live music
- 27 tattooists onsite
- 20 British Sign Language interpreters available for customers
- 12 countries represented on the line-up
- 12 years old – the age of Harper, Download’s youngest ever performer
- 8 vegan food outlets
- 3 secret sets in District X
- 3 exclusive plush Download Dog designs in production
- 2 Download Dog groomers onsite
- 1 and only time Busted have performed
- 1 unforgettable weekend of the best rock and metal music the world has to offer
- 0 Kilowatts of unrenewable energy used to power the Rock Retreat
DLXXI will see Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold headline the festival with the likes of Limp Bizkit, Royal Blood, The Offspring, Sum 41, Corey Taylor, Machine Head, Pantera, BABYMETAL, Busted, Bad Omens, Wheatus, Dying Fetus, The Black Dahlia Murder, Those Damn Crows, Holding Absence and many more joining them on the bill.
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