Friday.
We arrived after work on the Friday, just as the rain was letting up, there was still a hint of life left in the grass on our first day at Download ever!
We headed in from the south car park, doing the half an hour trek through the car parks and orange campsite to reach the arena, and surprisingly got in quite quickly despite the huge queues reported earlier on in the day.
Once in the arena we headed over to the main stage to meet up with most of the Fox Rocks crew to catch up and watch the impressive black stone cherry! You’ve probably already read Fox’s review, so I won’t go into it again, if you haven’t read his review you can check it out here!
After that we wandered around the arena to get our bearings and headed over to the avalanche stage in the blue tent to catch Wheatus; we have already seen them live at the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham, and I (Rex) many years before that as a support act for Busted, so we thought we knew what to expect. However the lead singer had a cold and there seemed to be some sound issues, but despite this they still put on a great show!
Starting with ‘Temporary Song’ followed by ‘A Little Respect’ by Erasure, the crowd was jumping singing along, a few people around us were watching them for the first time and were surprised that the Teenage Dirtbag “One hit wonders” had so many other under rated incredible songs! We were glad to hear peoples enthusiasm for the band and let them know that we thought they are so much better in an intimate venue where you feel like you really get to know the band, and thier chaotic ‘audience picks the next song’ set list!
They re released thier first album as their record company lost the original masters, but Wheatus now has sole rights as they are no longer signed and have added 10 more songs that were previously ‘lost’!
We were also incredibly excited when they announced a tour with Bowling for Soup and Magnolia Park for later on in the year, and booked tickets as soon as they went on sale!
Wheatus finished thier set by playing the eagerly awaited for ‘teenage dirtbag’ with Mega Ran and Kid Bookie joining them on stage for a little bit of rapping.
The crowd quickly replaced its self with Busted fans, even with the majority staying we managed to get even closer to the stage!
Busted came jumping on stage and straight into the first two songs ‘Air Hostess’ followed by ‘Meet You There’ before gushing about how insane it was that they were playing at Download Festival, and from photos we saw later on it looked like a lot of people were there for it!
Busted played banger after banger with 5 songs from their first album ‘BUSTED’ such as ‘You Said No’, ‘Loser Kid’, and ‘That’s What I Go To School For’, as well as 7 from their album ‘A Present For Everyone’ including ‘She Wants To Be Me’, and ‘Crashed the Wedding’ the crowd were as enthusiastic as the band, and the band were so happy to be there, you could definitely tell by their energised performance jumping around and saying Fuck a lot.
During the set Charlie said they spent a lot of time thinking about what song to cover and they thought they should do a metal song, however this led to deciding to cover the most pop song they knew ‘MMMBop’ by Hanson, despite being a rock and metal festival this was well received!
We know that a 00’s boyband is a whole new thing for download, but we hope it makes a return for coming years! A hit of nostalgia is a great way to prepare for the headliner Queens of Stone Age.
We joined back up with the rest of the Fox Reviews crew to watch Queens of stone age where we caught ‘Go With The Flow’ and ‘No One Knows’ before walking back to the bus depot. After waiting for what seemed like forever, we finally managed to get on the bus out of the rain, for 4 minutes at least, before the bus slipped off the temporary road and got stuck! We then had to get off the bus and wait for another before finally managed to get back to our friends where we stayed for the weekend!
For our first day at Download left a great impression and we were eager to get back on Saturday!
Keep your eyes peeled for our next segment!
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