Donington download festival 2010 tickets

As a kid looking up at that stage with all these bands and all these people, to think that I'm now the guy who's booking this event, I have to pinch myself. I got involved in this business purely because I was a fan of music. Here I am, booking one of the biggest rock festivals in the world. I'm like a kid in a sweet shop. Having been to Monsters of Rock in the past, Andy was fully aware of the huge responsibility he had to set up a worthy replacement for such a prestigious event.

I called Download 'the son of Monsters of Rock' because that's effectively what it is. We wanted to come up with a new name. One of the girls in the office said: 'What about Download? There were no iPods in I think we get the best of both worlds. Have I taken a little bit from yesteryear? Of course. All these bands can sit very, very comfortably next to one another at the Download Festival because they are all part of this 'broad church of rock'.

Would a Def Leppard fan go and buy a ticket to see Limp Bizkit in concert? The answer is probably 'no', but in a festival environment, they'll go and have a look. Nine times out of ten, they are going to be suitably impressed. Pendulum and the Prodigy have been among the bookings that have caused some people to complain. So far, however, his choices have failed to disappoint. They were going: 'They're a dance band, not a rock band. They don't deserve to be here.

They ended up being one of the [best] bands of the whole festival weekend. Do you know why? Because the Prodigy play like a rock band. They have a rock band mentality. When I booked the Prodigy the second time, nobody moaned. This guy's got attitude. He's got a bit of a rock sensibility about him. He would see it as an absolute and total challenge.

He would come out and blow people away. He came out with people throwing things and hurling abuse at him. He stood his ground and won the crowd over. It was fantastic to watch. However, according to Andy, it seems that this change of interest has had little effect on live events like Download. The popularity of rock festivals has gone up. As long as people are still buying tickets to see bands at rock festivals like Download, then we know that the scene is still really strong, really healthy and really buoyant.

He suggests that it isn't always so straightforward to differentiate between pop music and rock music. They're pop and they're rock. The current state of the economy is having a huge impact on the nation as a whole. However, Andy explains that Download will continue to offer an important service to the fans. This is escapism. This is them being able to forget all their troubles and just go out there and do what they do. My Passion. Napalm Death. Never Means Maybe. No Americana. No Mean City.

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