Metallica and Linkin Park for Download

The festival, that is...

Two of the biggest rock bands in the world are confirmed to headline this
year's Download Festival, winners of Kerrang!'s 2003 Festival Of The Year
award. Metallica, who have sold more than 90 million albums, won numerous
awards and were the secret guest at Download 2003 are joined as co-headliner
this year by Linkin Park ­ one of the most successful of the new breed of
rock bands from the US. The two bands toured the US together on Metallica's
Summer Sanitarium tour last summer and are both ready to lash up the action
at Download 2004 on June 5 & 6 with Linkin Park headlining on 5 June, and
Metallica headlining the following day.
Further bands and other exciting attractions will be announced soon.



Download also heads to Scotland on 2 & 3 June. The event will be two nights
of full-on rock for Scottish rock fans featuring four of the biggest bands
per night from the Donington line up. This new departure for Download will
be staged at the Glasgow Green and will run through to 10.30pm each day.



Tickets for Download 2004 go on sale Friday 30 January from 9am. Get download tickets through Ticketmaster or download tickets through Wayahead and support this site...



Donington ticket prices: £80 for the weekend (plus agent booking fees), £95 weekend and camping...
Scotland ­ ticket price: £79 for a two-day ticket
(plus agent booking fees). There are also VIP tickets available, featuring special access and free goodies, see downloadfestival.co.uk for details...

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