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Here’s how to get tickets for the UK’s biggest rock festival, with Evanescence, Mötley Crüe, Turnstile, Faith No More, Napalm Death and more

Next summer’s festival headliners are coming in thick and fast. Fatboy Slim and Robbie Williams are going to be at the Isle of Wight Festival, Phoebe Bridgers has been announced for All Points East and Bon Jovi is lined up for BST Hyde Park. Now, the UK’s metalheads have been given something to get excited about.
More than 100 acts have just been announced for Download Festival 2027. Pop-punk, goth rock, nu metal, alt rock, death metal – it’s all covered. Headline sets will come from none other than Blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon and Evanescence.
Tickets for DLXXIV are on sale this week and are expected to sell out in record time. So, here’s all the info you need if you want to be there.
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The fest is taking place from Wednesday June 9 to Sunday June 13 at Donington Park in Leicestershire, the ‘spiritual home of rock’.
Blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon and Evanescence top the bill.
More than 100 artists have been announced, including heavyweights like Turnstile, the Prodigy and a ‘very special performance’ from rock legends Mötley Crüe. Here’s the full Download lineup so far.
5 Seconds of Summer
Ally Nicholas
Ando San
Asava
Basement
Better Lovers
Big Ass Truck I.E.
Bilmuri
Body Count ft. Ice-T
Bodysnatcher
Breakkaway
Cage Fight
Cancer Bats
Carcass
Carpenter Brut
Castle Rat
Cenobia
Clutch
Comastatic
Comeback Kid
Converge
Currents
Dayseeker
Deaf Havana
DeathbyRomy
Dexter and the Moonrocks
Dogma
Down
Dragged Under
EMNW
Faith No More
Fit For A King
Ghostemane
Grandson
Guilt Trip
GWAR
HANABIE.
Hawthorne Heights
HEALTH
Heaven’s Basement
High Vis
Highly Suspect
Holding Absence
Hollow Pact
Honey Revenge
Hot Mulligan
I Prevail
Jinjer
Karen Dió
Kreator
Ladrones
Locked Shut
Malevolence
Maple’s Pet Dinosaur
Mötley Crüe
Murderdolls
Nails
Napalm Death
Nasty
Never Easy
Orbit Culture
Pain of Truth
Paledusk
Parkway Drive
Pierce the Veil
Point North
President
Primus
PVRIS
Reclus.é
Riff Wood
Sace6
Senses Fail
Showing Teeth
SKYND
Soft Play
Soil
Speed
Split Chain
Split Dogs
Static Dress
Static-X
Terror
The Dark.FM
The Devil Wears Prada
The Hives
The Howling
The Prodigy
The Raven Age
Trash Talk
Turnstile
Villanelle
Violent Vira
Waterparks
Windwaker
Winona Fighter
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A PayPal presale is currently live, and general sale will launch at 10am on Sunday November 15. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster. Only weekend tickets will be up for grabs – day tickets normally go on sale around March or April.
The closest mainline railway stations to Donington Park are East Midlands Parkway (20 minutes away) and Derby (30 minutes away), which will both be served by regular transfer buses.
Alternatively, you can book a spot on a Big Green Coach, which will be running services from 81 different UK locations. If you’re planning on taking a car you’ll need to buy a parking pass.
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