Muddiest festival ever? - Download 2024 Review
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- The rain did its best to ruin everyone's fun at Download Festival 2024 in the UK, but there was some great live music to be enjoyed despite it. Here's my story of surviving possibly the muddiest festival I've ever been to and my live review of all the artists I was able to witness.
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0:00 Context
0:32 Overall experience
2:32 Hanabie
3:29 Frozemode
4:07 Aviva
4:52 Scene Queen
5:52 Defects
6:19 Polyphia
7:45 Make Them Suffer
8:41 Wheatus
9:29 Heilung
10:59 Busted
11:35 Queens Of The Stoneage
12:28 Bambie Thug
14:22 Bleed From Within
15:34 Charlotte Sands
16:06 Karnivool
16:42 Babymetal
17:41 Slaughter To Prevail
19:42 Alpha Wolf
20:26 While She Sleeps
20:48 The Offspring
21:25 Billy Talent
21:42 Pantera
21:57 Fall Out Boy
24:17 Code Orange
25:48 311
26:27 Noisy
27:14 Parkway Drive
27:37 Bowling For Soup
28:38 Sum 41
29:54 Limp Bizkit
30:37 Summary of live music
31:24 Notable problems this year
31:45 Food poisoning?
34:05 Vendors overcharging?
34:27 Can the mud be solved?
35:20 Toilet queues
35:38 Final thoughts on my experience
Last year we were praying for some rain, this year we were praying for it to stop lol
Sounds exactly like Graspop this year in comparison with last 2 years :), tbf Last 2 days was quite good weather and barely rain but the mud never went in most areas
I haven't been to a festival in... over a decade now. I'm heading for one next week. Autistic, petite female travels alone to another country to attend a festival... when I haven't gone anywhere outside of my own *county* since the panini started. What could possibly go wrong??? 🤣 To say the nerves are high is an understatement. So the "boring" part of this video is highly, highly appreciated! And *thankfully* Google Street View shows that the festival area is mainly asphalt and gravel. Phew! Will be packing my good rain jacket just in case. Thanks for sharing your decades of festival experience and wisdom with those of us who are less fortunate.
I don’t know whether it’s an autocorrect or intentional that you referred to the pandemic as the “panini” but I am absolutely going to start calling it that myself 😂 Magnificent.
I’m excited for you and your adventure next week! Calm and breathe. It will be worth the courage. You got this 💪🏻
@@SteveOGRock It was intentional -- something people online was calling the pandemic in the start to like not be targeted by algorithms or something, but it just stuck in my head 😂
And thank you very much! The nerves are high, but the excitement is higher.
❤Panini
So good to hear Heilung get a mention. We intended to turn up for a bit then leave early for QOTSA however ended up staying the whole set. Its so hard to describe just how good Heilung sounded so happy we were there to see it.
I really love how chill you approached this festival. Always go easy on yourself or else you have no fun :) great Review Steve!
100%! Took many years to learn that one 😅
I had such a good time. Saw loads of bands. Ate great food. Yeah, the mud and rain made everything 10x more difficult, but I'd do it again right now given the chance!! Great video!
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Was my first year attending and I'll definitely be there again next year. Will remember to bring my own food though as I lost the Friday to food poisoning same as many others
Ah damn, sorry to hear that. Onwards and upwards next year!
Heilung are my favourite group, I know Kai quite well too, as they describe it, it's amplified history, some of those songs are from runinc and slavic passages dating back thousands of years, and yes, there is the opening ritual, as kai for one, is a shaman, but it's the traditional blessings given before a ritual in asatru/ heathenry, and a closing blessing, it's much more than music, its history.
Won’t be able to see them in London since Live Nation decided to fuck us over with £77 for the ticket.
Heilung seeing live is a memory i'll cherish forever. These people are just geniuses. One of the best gigs i've ever been to.
as a wheelchair user i went sunday and all i got to see was most of main stage code orange was code orange normal for them other stages were a waste of time even trying my wheels became hay collectors lol
This was my first festival (bit late to the party at 36..), I loved Brownload!! Limp Biz, Bowling, Sum 41 and Offspring were my faves.. danced like a nutter to L.B. Definitely going back
Oh wow! That’s quite a first festival! Usually the weather isn’t so horrendous and it’s an even more enjoyable experience 🤘🏻
What really pissed me off was the fact that the dogtooth stage decided that at the point when the main headliners started around 9pm,they turned up the sound to full whack so that everybody who were farther up couldnt hear nothing from the main act!
I mean I was happy when fear factory came on to drown out the sound of fall out boy (no hate to fall out boy)
My daughter went this year. Its not festival without the mud.
I branded this year as brownload
Heilung made my Friday absolutely brilliant
I was there for Drownload, it was definitely more muddy that year in the sense that it was deeper, thicker mud based on the footage I've seen. That year was exhausting because I had to unstick my foot at every step, it looked like it was more soupy, wet mud this year. I'm sure it was just as intense to be surrounded by but not as physically demanding to navigate.
I'm off to bloodstock and arctangent this year, pray for minimal rain because I'm too old and tired for those conditions!
I hope you had an awesome download this year.
It was the same slip slide stick this year Sunday was utterly exhausting, though you can do it I'm in my 50s and disabled and I managed
second year going in a row, the contrast in my energy is insane with being able to sit down last year compared to 2024 😭
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Oh man, I appreciate that Download is missions regardless of the weather, in the slurry, it was treacherous, I was so proud of my partner and myself getting to see 38 acts over the 5 days! Highlights for me were: Limp Bizkit, Pantera, Fit for a King, RORY, Vukovi, Bambie Thug, Wargasm, Parkway Drive, Machine Head... too many to name! We had a blast!
we had to sleep in the carpark on Saturday night. so many cars got stuck in the mud and no one was letting anybody out so we ended up just camping there for the night.
Holy hell! 🤯
Great review I look forward to this yearly. An your thoughts of the festival and bands.
I have been to Woodstock 94 and 99 for festivals. An always wanted to go to Wacken. But dont know if I will ever do. So I live vicariously through your stories. Thank you
Oh wow, the legendary Woodstock! That’s so cool!
And thanks!
Hahaha would’ve been sick to meet you, I was on stage for slaughter to prevail and Alex is the nicest guy, he is so innocent he was like trying to stay out of the way of our crew.
Great review! RIP was the only respite from the mudload! Only problem now is it looks like I got Glasto toe and both my big toe nails are about to fall off… still was a killer weekend! MUDLOAD
Oh shiiiiit dude. Sorry to hear that. Well earned! 😅
Yes I would have gone there just for Heilung. Have seen them before and they were absolutely amazing. So glad more people are discovering them and a metal festival seems like a good match for their style strangely.
Agree with a lot you said here.
My top 5 this year: Pantera, limp bizkit, sum41, busted, while she sleeps. So gutted with what happened to babymetal. Was so looking forward to seeing them
8:57 that reminds me of Korn playing the second stage in 2007 lol. There was enough people to fill main stage 😂
38:15 DL has been going on for 20 years at this point, they had more then time to improve the blind spots. Still one of the best Rock Fests in the world imo. Weather allowing of course.
was my first ever festival experience, im glad it was so muddy because now it can only get better next year :D
Great review of the festival - haven't been for a few years so it was interesting to see
Cheers! Glad you found it valuable 💙
Great video man!
The mud did my fu**ing head in 😂 but I still had great fun!! Gutted Electric Callboy pulled out due to sickness - people felt very flat after they cancelled.
My mate caught Hanabie!
But the Apex stage sadly the sound all weekend was having some problems, the sound wasn’t great at all tbh! ✨
Awesome video as always dude 🤘🏼🖤
Cheers!
You were stood a few rows behind me for FOB lol
Did RIP for first time. It saved the day, that mud was tough. Bands of the weekend were imminence (great sound for that 4th stage), pantera and while she sleeps. Checked out defects because of your download Friday video too :). No squits here, so that’s a win (although I was 90% Imodium the whole festival just in case of any of that craziness)
Imodium ftw! 😅 That’s so cool you checked out Defects from my preview vid. Quality band.
Got there like 3 hours early for Parkway after I saw their instagram post that morning. I was right at the front and Winston climbed onto the barrier right in front of me. Absolutely killer show
Well done you for seeing it through. I know alot of folk who bailed and didn't make to Sunday.
We arrived when it was pissing it down on the Friday, took ages to find a camping spot.
Agree with you on Make Them Suffer, we randomly popped in the Dogtooth, they were best band we saw on Friday by far
Geez! Sounded exhausting 😅 Honestly, not too sure I would've had the patience to go through all that, haha! This recap was so entertaining to watch. As much as the whole experience seemed a bit disappointing, I get the feeling this will not be the last straw. Thanks for sharing this glimpse into your weekend. ❤
Utterly exhausting. But also a privilege to be able to see so many great bands in such quick succession.
Thanks for such a great reflection on Download 2024 👍
Cheers!
It's a wheelie bin 😀
I had a great time. Bizarrely my fave set on Friday was Busted, which I was not expecting!
Great review dude. I went to the first 8 Downloads but haven't been back since 2010. Was seriously considering a day ticket this year but decided against it. Already booked a hotel for next year though.... out of curiosity, which camping option do you choose? The thought of doing a tent tent especially in that weather just... fuck that!
Gosh that’s 14 years! Yeah well worth dipping your toe back in 🤘🏻
I go for RIP camping in Park Farm. It’s the least expensive VIP option (I believe). I do have to pitch my own tent but I can drive my car right in to where I wanna set up camp and put my tent up right next to my car so no need to carry a damn thing. Means you can bring all kinds of luxury setups with you. Thankfully there was no rain on the Wednesday or the Sunday so setup/pack-down of tent was dry. But yeah rain for those parts of camping would be the worst.
Hey Steve! just come across your channel.
do you remember a band called "back in the day" that were around 2002?
No way! A.W.?!
We were in accessible camping which was a blessing. Struggled massively but still saw 18 bands - Creeper and Machine Head were our top bands. Still getting over it 😂
Thank you for the review. So which year was the absolutely muddest if this was the second one? I was working there 2016 (Rammstein, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Korn, Deftones...) and it was exactly how this video portrayed this year, so im just curious. Thank you.
Haha yep, 2016 was the one! Once the rain started that weekend it didn’t really stop. I swear when BABYMETAL are on the main stage it’s a curse. That’s when the worst rain always hits 😂
@@SteveOGRock haha i knew it! I believe im quite experienced camper, but download 2016 was the only time in my life there was water in my tent! Terrible? I was like:”oh, this is probably how all english festivals look like” and it made me never wanna come back. 🤣🤣 aww how sad with baby metal 😃😃.
Heilung were incredible. I was already a fan, but I'd say their set was almost life-changing. Best act of my personal Download experience.
I remember back in 1999...the best live experience ever happened in pouring rain. Baal - released their album - Sensorama. It was life changing.
Anyways..Steve! - if you EVER run out of songs to react to..... mark my words:
Haken - Eyes of Ebony.
Haken - Canary Yellow.
Whatever anyone might think of Haken, too proggy or whatever, they may never get to listen to these two songs. Fuggin amazing!! All I can say. Think you will appreciate both, but you probs always know em. Take care, overthere. Cheers :)
Do you know the drama that surrounding Avenged Sevenfold right now with Download?
Yeah you missed brownload in 2012. Before they put all the dranage paths and trackway in blue behind the village was an ankle breaker.
Honestly seeing and hearing so many people moan about the weather and mud has been worse than the reality of it.
While you're there you just get on with enjoying the music and people, and the conditions become of very little consequence unless you have mobility issues.
It was an awesome weekend, can't expect last year's perfect weather every time.
We call them 'Wheelie bins'
Didn’t waste my money this year. Nothing to do with the weather, just the poor lineup.
Love that you enjoyed Polyphia! They are definitely one of the most interesting modern instrumental acts.
Interesting review!
Alien Weaponry absolutely smashed it on Opus stage - really great energy and sound. Couldn't agree more about Heilung, completely mesmerising and something I'll definitely be listening to more of. I think that 2019 Drownload was worse mud but it's the risk you take with the great British weather! You just have to embrace the mud!
I been going since DL’s inception in 2004 (Linkin Park, Korn, surprise Metallica gig…) but i missed this year. Im glad lol
The mud made us miss a few bands simply took too long to slide from one stage to another, but the only time I considered sacking it off was first thing Saturday morning in the thunderstorm that got a bit miserable think Florence black was on, at the time, machine head were fantastic best I've ever heard them, and Winston dealt with no one being able to hear anything but drums in the dogtooth by holding theic out and grinning while we sang his songs to him, that was the best audience atmosphere I've been on since maybe 2006. My festival ended with the nightmare of nightmare blowing the stage fuses, when you're so exhausted you're falling asleep standing up it's time to give in 😂
2012 was worse but sabbath we’re playing so it’s totally even 🎉🎉
how you know it was worse?
@@TheCurtisdavies quite possibly by attending both events?
I attended in 2012 and it was grim. In fact, had we not been booked into a hotel, we wouldn't have stayed! 😂😂😂
iDestroy first on the Dogtooth Friday morning where insane, only been told they were playing 24 hours before gave it everything. my camping chair of 4 years finally gave up the ghost on the last day, so now need a new one. but yea after 2016 i learnt if you have only 2 things on you its a chair and a poncho. with those things you can do the whole day. for next year i have opted for the camper van plus as the mud this year made me re-allies i am now to old for that tent rubbish. Great review as well thank you.
It was nice meeting you in the Guest Area before Fall Out Boy :)
You too! So impressed that you managed to find a group of Downloaders to hang with via Facebook 👏🏻 RIP absolutely paid for itself this year with the ability to grab seats on picnic benches instead of mud huh 😅
Wargasm we’re good
I did rip too. Surprised they didn't look after the guest area and the walk to the guest area a bit better especially with the weather forecast.
Yeah they threw down some wood chips on the path but like… that was about it lol.
I haven’t been to Download for a number of years, so I enjoyed your roundup 👍 out of interest, is RIP camping less busy, or is the same but with more toilets?
In RIP camping you get more space to pitch your tent, you also drive onto the camping fields and park exactly where you pitch your tent (so you don't need to carry a damn thing), campsite has proper toilets and free hot showers, you get access to the Guest Area of the arena which has plumbed toilets / more seating / faster bar service. It's worth every penny IMO.
@@SteveOGRock it does sound better, thanks
Bowling for Soup/Sum 41/Limp Bizkit was a fantastic end to the festival.
I watched about 20 mins of Avenged but they really didn't grab me (even though I like a lot of their material).
Believe me . Wet Glastonbury is worse. 5 days and soooo much walking. Such a big site
My friends caught Heilung and I wish I’d seen them now but apparently they were amazing
I was gutted I couldn't go this year but after seeing everything that happened im kinda glad I didn't go! 😅already got my ticket sorted for next year though!
Haha yeah you dodged a bullet there 😅
I also have my ticket for next year 🤘🏻
I didn't go this year but definitely looked much worse with the mud than 2019, I'm a fit 40 something and I was still so knackered by the end of it, I think I'd of been dead on my feet after day one had I done it this year lol 😆 always a pleasure to see a good review 😊
Thanks!
I was there Saturday with my son was a right mess after all that rain, I really enjoyed Bambi Thug one of the highlights of the day, we luckily took chairs with us so we could sit down, I also thought the Offspring were really good,watched Enter Shikari was ok, Fallout boy was really good I enjoyed the whole set.
For me Machine Head stole the weekend with a brilliant set.
Had to queue for over 3 and a half hours to get into the arena on Sunday already had wristband needs sorting out shouldn’t have missed bands when you get there early!!
Re: food. I often go for chow mien or noodles. Safe or unsafe?
So hard to judge. Just trust your taste buds while you dig in.
5:01😂😂😂
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I was exactly the same, hoped for the used and erra but just didn't have it in me. That mud really did a number on everyone
🫂 so nice to hear I wasn’t alone in that one. It really pained me to miss them but I just couldn’t face the pain 😅
Nowhere to sit , just sit in the muck , it’s part of festival going . It is horrid but really not the end of the world
I’d like to see what you think of night verses new stuff if you like polyphia. I’m not a big instrumental guy but night verses has some really hard hitting material.
Night Verses is decent for sure. But I really crave for them to have vocals 😅 I checked out part 1 of their new album releases (it’s on my channels somewhere).
it was so good but so muddy cant wait for next yr
limp and boling for soop, hurd about the chicken and my friend got food poisoning from the Yorkshire pudding van in the vilgae
i missed harper so sad :(
Most weren't there for Wheatus, they were there for Busted afterwards
i loved the mud it was just fun, next year if its muddy im bringing crocs
Madness 😂
Try download 2016 now that was what you call muddy 🤙👍
Yeah that was probably the worst weather year goin’
Stevie I did the one day on the Saturday. Please try and review CALVA LOUISE, (songs: Feast is Over', 'Over the Threshold', 'Under the Skin', they have 3 albums. Lead female vocalist is from Venezuela. They have heavy songs in Spanish and shes fluent in English, French, and Spanish. Watch there official videos too very futuristic if you like scifi. ALT BLK ERA, MALLAVORA especially! I recommend FREAKSHOW and NORMALLY LIKE THIS for ABE, and WAKE UP, SKIN, and IMPOSTER for Mallavora.
My memories of the day is the rainbow completely took over the horizon at the lead man from Enter Shikara pointing to it and then decided to fall backwards on purpose into the disgusting mud from the height of the stage to the floor! Bambie Thug, Egregore, and her take on the Cramberries Zombie was ICONIC! I loved Doomsday Blue too!
I didn't let the weather get the better of me or the conditions really. Took it in my stride! KNIFE BRIDE and RORY was very good and While She Sleeps. But left the event to the sound of OFFSPRING pretty fly for a white guy! I loved the day! The 3 hours beering it up going to the event and chilling out queuing up listening to my Spotify CAlva Louise setlist was just epic to start with.
Thanks for your thoughts! Love hearing opinions from folk who know there stuff!
NASHESTVIE VIBES
Did the exact same as you, once Limp Bizkit was done - my body was screaming for some rest lmao
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Was the same in 2012... Brownload. Nothing can really be done after all it's a field.
I was at drown load a few years back when Maiden headlined and will never forget the moment the ground on the hill just couldn't take any more water and literally turned liquid. A tsunami of mud just rolled down the hill through all the tents and vendors it was horrible. That was Maiden but this year's pile of shit line up was definitely not worth a light shower let alone a deluge. Download I'm afraid to say is dying a slow death which is sad. The demand is there and it has so much potential but the fact that 4 and 5 day events on the continent are getting much better line ups each year, the inevitable crap weather and the imperfect site. Although hollowed ground from the much missed Monsters Of Rock festival. They need to re-develop the layout because the long walk from camping to the arena is 1 hour! So there's no nipping back to the tent. You're out for the day when you leave. No chance of a quick power nap. The bad weather (just push it back to July!) the horrendous queues get worse each year. The prices are standard for UK festivals but still astronomical for crap food. It's just badly organised and badly run for years now. Things need to change Download!
It wasa muddy one this year. but ive been there when its been even worse.i think 2012 if i remember correctly was so much worse from what i remember
When it rains, it pours, and we don't give A f*ck 🤟
They get muddy as hell and the show STILL goes on! Meanwhile, BRRF last year gets "chance of heavy rain" on the last two days of the festival and fucking cancel it 😡😡😡
I’m m sad you didn’t get to see callous daoboys.
I know, if the weather wasn’t so horrendous I would have.
Didn't see any metal bands then?
so glad i didn’t end up getting the yorky i wanted to, it had doubled in price since i got it last year so i decided against it. apparently that was the cause of hundreds of people getting food poisoning, thank god, that would have been awful.
We had the exact same thing with the price... went to the cheaper one down by the tavern. Crisis averted!
I don't think they can use loads of woodchip as it damages the grass permanently.
Ohhhh interesting. I had no idea about the consequences of that. Thanks for sharing that.
@@SteveOGRock Well I think that's the reason. I'm not an expert! It's probably more to do with finances as you mentioned tbh.
What about Busted!
Believe it or not. Wood chip is free as it’s a forestry waste product. The straw (not hay) is actually the opposite, isn’t free as it’s used for bedding for animals 🤷♂️ So yeah, could have used more wood chip
Oh wow, I did not know that!
2012, 2016 stick in my mind as drownloads
Didn’t go this year I’m going to a metal festival instead , Bloodstock 👍
Slipknot headline 2019 was the same with the mud.
Glad you compared it to Drownload haha I know that one was worse that this year haha
He choose not to watch Offspring over Pantera 🙃
Musical taste is subjective
Dogtooth stage sounds sucked, i can't believe i missed Machine Head to watch Erra on that shit sounding stage.
I actually was at the arena from opening to closing every day 😭
Also I've been 11 times too, not the same 11 though. I've been 05-13, 15 and now 24
So many bands.. The Offspring would have been my fav band at the event. No, i was not there.
Not gonna lie, I've always wanted to go to a big music festival like this (live in New Zealand so we get jack sh*t over here) but this straight up turned me off entirely. That sounded like a miserable experience tbh haha. Love the optimism amongst all that though.
Muddiest? Nahhh this was tame compared to 2012
did you see Busted?? haha not 2nd stage, and if you didn't get near Wheatus then ya didna get near Busted (the reason people were in the tent)
You’re right, I misspoke. They were on the Avalanche stage. I had headed there from the 2nd stage after I’d pivoted away from Wheatus back to the 2nd stage beforehand.
@@SteveOGRock no problem lad, I never had intentions to go that stage but it was my friends - they had to go mental early and barge their way in hours earlier.
Slaughter to Prevail tho - alot of new fans that weekend, including me
Nah 2016 was muddier
They try to rival Wacken I guess ^^
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