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Yeah this Thursday me and a few mates from Liverpool and Bristol are transporting down to Donnington for Download Festival 2009. The line up is pretty damn good this year and it's the first festival I have ever attended so this thread serves a dual purpose.

1. Talk about any gigs or fests you have planned this summer

2. Advise me on the dos and don'ts of festivaling it up.

I have purchased a dual layer tent and wellies. I have my beady eye on the weather forecast and a sleeping bag that I murdered an eskimo for - true story.

Here's the lineup for Download:

http://downloadfestival.co.uk/lineup/

I am so excited I made a topic! I might even do another post with my obscenely small nipples in again if you're lucky 

I am most excited about Faith No More, Opeth, Lacuna Coil, Dream Theater and Therapy?

I am gonna go and see Limp Bizkit because it would be a shame not to. I will be baked the entire weekend.

yea the only thing worth it at download is seeing FNM
there is nothing really worth going to in my area this year and i'm not driving 14 hours to go to lolla (and its too expensive for me anyways) so I've got nothing going on as far as festivals go

dude opeth and dream theater together if porcupine tree was there itd be like the holy trinity

I tried to find some some shows playing in jacksonville but I didn't find anything worthwhile

wouldn't pay festival prices to see opeth (let alone DT)
would tho to see FNM so maybe thats the difference

a good tip is to go toilet

hey as an aside is this a new zealand specific thing or do people say this everywhere?

don't bother bringing deoderant unless you've got enough for everyone. you might want to prepare a neckbeard before hand so you don't get laughed out.

theres the lil difference that opeth and porcupine tree are actually good LOL

I actually really like DT. From album to album they are a different band so it's a bit of a mixed bag. My personal faves are Train of Thought which is super epic and Images and Words which is the cheesiest prog I own  We're talking Stinking Bishop style cheesy.

Good lineup? lol

EDIT:  I'm retarded and didn't scroll down all the way so all I really saw was like Korn and Limp Bizkit and made an assumption.

i would go see them but I wouldn't pay to see them laughs arenb't worth that much to me

yeah when you can take off your pants and have them for free​

I would see Limp Bizkit just for laughs, they were the shit when I was like 12/13.

Thats the plan 

BTW I am not gonna be here until monday night, you gonna have an edpost free forum for 4 whole days. This... is my... gift to you all ;__;

Possibly one of the best moments of my life ever, watching that.

I'm going to Leed's Festival this august


well suffice to say, I'm more excited about the smaller stages (such as lock-up) but I really can't wait for the festival atmosphere. What was the atmosphere like at download ed?

It was amazing, everyone was really friendly and it was good to just get shitfaced and hang out with random people.

I lost andy during Limp Bizkit cause I think he thought I had turned feral so I spent the rest of friday with just random people but that was a cool experience in itself. First time I have been in a circle pit and not though OMGz i'm gonna die. I actually enjoyed it a lot.

I found that vegitarian food was a lot better than the "burgers" and stuff they had on offer so it's worth looking into that.

We all took immodium to avoid crapping on festival toilets cause they were fucking awful.

I took my own tent home and stole stuff that people had left behind when it was all over. I don't believe in burning your tent its totally gay.