Comments on: Download Festival 2009: Interviews, Photos, Setlists, Gossip – it’s all here

By: Photos: Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour @ Manchester Academy – 04 February 2010 | Thrash Hits

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:06:54 +0000

[...] Young Guns, and the lamentable My Passion – the only band we turned down for an interview at Download Festival 2009 – complete this retinue of [...]

By: A to Z of the Noughties: Slayer to Zakk Wylde | Thrash Hits

A to Z of the Noughties: Slayer to Zakk Wylde | Thrash Hits — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:46:28 +0000

[...] enjoyed huge success here in Blighty, culminating in their headline slot on the second stage of this year’s Download Festival. To look at Trivium’s progression to this point is to see a group of no-frills Metallica [...]

By: Future Hits 044: Japanese Voyeurs | Thrash Hits

Future Hits 044: Japanese Voyeurs | Thrash Hits — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:51:54 +0000

[...] far, what has been the best thing about being in Japanese Voyeurs? Raj: Playing Download ‘cos we thought it might have been too metal for us and too early in the morning but the [...]

By: A to Z of the Noughties: Avenged Sevenfold to Iron Maiden

A to Z of the Noughties: Avenged Sevenfold to Iron Maiden — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:44:16 +0000

[...] The first of seven Download Festivals was held in 2003. The festival has become the Monsters of Rock for the modern era with Main Stage [...]

By: Bloodstock Open Air 2009: Interviews, Photos, Setlists, Gossip - it’s all here

Bloodstock Open Air 2009: Interviews, Photos, Setlists, Gossip - it’s all here — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:21:09 +0000

[...] making our splash pages for Download Festival 2009 and Sonisphere Festival 2009, we thought we’d stick with tradition and do another for [...]

By: Alana Deadly

Alana Deadly — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:12:42 +0000

Mines the one were you have to take a shot every time you say a swear word…
I was drunk within 2.5seconds

By: Sonisphere Festival 2009: Interviews, Photos, Setlists, Gossip - it’s all here

Sonisphere Festival 2009: Interviews, Photos, Setlists, Gossip - it’s all here — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:11:08 +0000

[...] making our first ever splash page at Download Festival 2009, we thought we’d do another with the inaugural Sonisphere Festival 2009. We’re here at [...]

By: Interview: The Ghost Of A Thousand - “I’m Going To Live In My Pants Down A Well”

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:27:09 +0000

[...] to put on a bigger and badder show on your upcoming tour after having to cancel your appearances at Download Festival and two other shows? TOM – Very much so, we’re stoked to be on tour in July and some of the [...]

By: Win tickets to see Fightstar at iTunes Festival in London

Win tickets to see Fightstar at iTunes Festival in London — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:28:07 +0000

[...] Thrash Hits TV: Fightstar @ Download Festival 2009 [...]

By: Raz

Raz — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:03:49 +0000

As ever with festivals, no amount of planning can prepare you for some things.

On Friday, the whole Thrash Hits website was offline due to technical difficulties which pissed us all off quite a lot.

There were also some significant problems with the media infrastructure backstage at Download Festival which resulted in our star photographer Gar Wolstenholme’s laptop getting fried.

This all means that the Download Festival coverage has been shitty so far. We’ll get loads up next week though.