Download was awesome, despite the world trying to stop it being good.

We set off at 10:30 and it took us until 13:13 to get into the festival, this is way too long considering that it’s a 35 minute drive to the site if there was no traffic. We were queueing on the motorway there was that much traffic.

I didn’t really spend all that much time with the guys becuase they just wanted to watch the main stage, but I wanted to see the whole thing, so I went to the Barfly and Game On tents as well.

The bands I saw were (possibly in order of appearance):
We heard Ill Nino finishing their set as we were walking in
Turbonegro
Random NY band in the Barfly tent who no one knew the name of
Soulfly
Hatebreed
Machine Head
Do Me Bad Things
Amplifier
Slipknot
Recover (who were awesome)
Dirty Americans (who were very stoned)
Korn (well, one song before I moved on)
Slayer (egomaniacal bastards that they are)
Taking Back Sunday (who were my favourite band there but had their 40 minute set cut to 5 songs cos Slayer took up their time)
Metallica (who turned up an hour and a half late, without Lars, so they had to have Joey from Slipknot, Ben from slayer and their roadie to the drumming, which meant a cut down set)

14 bands in 12 hours, thats not bad going considering I sat at the Snickers soul bowl for ages where I saw Matt Hoffman, and one of the guys from Dirty Sanchez.

Upon leaving it took us one and a half hours to get out of the car park and then 35 mins to get home, woohoo British organisation!!!!!

I’ll put up pictures when I get home and can use the photoblogging service on my laptop.