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It’s been over thirty years since Donington became the religious home of all things hard rock in the UK. Over the past decade, Download Festival has become synonymous with Donington Park, and in 2012 the festival will celebrate it’s tenth birthday, and no doubt in style! Taking place in June (8-10), Download’s promoters have always focussed on delivering a line up that compliments all sorts of sub genres that could fall under rock, with some of the recent festivals showing off headline sets from the likes of System Of A Down, Lostprophets, AC/DC, Rage Against The Machine, KISS, Slipknot, Tool, Linkin Park and a whole bundle more.

In it’s earlier incarnation, Donington Park hosted what was known as the Monsters of Rock festival, which came to an end in 1996. Last years Download Festival had a huge array of bands right across the rock spectrum, performing on a total of five different stages, with the main stage being headlined by Def Leppard, System Of A Down and Linkin Park. The promoters done an excellent job of offering a varied selection of headliners on each night as the Second Stage boasted big name headliners Pendulum, Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie. Over 100,000 fans packed Donington in 2010, making it the second biggest festival in the UK behind Glastonbury. 2011 seen the festival face stiff competition in the UK, most notably from Sonisphere at Knebworth, but with 2012 being the festivals tenth birthday, the Download team will no doubt be pulling out all the stops to ensure Donington has a weekend to remember.

In 2012, the festival takes place at Donington Park on the 8-10th June, and it promises to be one of the most explosive weekends in Download Festival history.