Download Festival 2007.
Day one.
Me, Mike and Sean left College around 2.00pm.

Exciting car photo.

Arriving at Donnington.

Within seconds- matching T-shirts!

Our friend we met last year at Download Alan helped us with our bags.

Foreshadowing- This is what I lived on for 5 days.

The tent was well hard to set up in such a small place.

All the old faces were there- Mike and me with Hayley.

Me, Yon and Jay.

Me and Rob.

The interior of our tent had stains from last year, like in Saw 2 or something.


Drinking officially began.

'FIRE!'
Day two.
I got up early and went to get chips for breakfast.

This is the Download Supermarket. I got milk.

Cereal bars saved my life.

No one was impressed with my mini chess.

I bet teh people in the tent didn't even write this.

Me and Mike went halves on chairs. Two for a tenner!

The Camel's Arse.

Pure old man stylin'.

Classic Pringles 'trick'.

It'll catch on...

This is nothing, you should've seen it on the last day.

Me and Mike tagged up our chairs.


Original, eh?

We all bought bare merch.

Yon is Mel's Brother!

Probably the best tent.

Party poppers went down a treat.

This photo was taken when 'Buffalo Soldier' was playing.

We had to entertain ourselves until the music started the next day.

Check out Yon's cocktail of brown and red sauce.

Some bloke in a chicken costume.

I can't count the number of these shitty burgers I consumed over 5 days.

'VILLAGEEEE!'

Out of 80,000 people I bumped into Waldy!

Lee (from our campsite) was right behind him wearing some big hat.

There'll be Casino stands next year.
This was well patriotic.

Classic plane shot over Donnington.

Now the party gets started- Arron and Talman arrived!

Leanne, Elaine and Mic did aswell.

Stereotypical camping food.

Since this lot took up all the room along with soem other new campers, I decided to migrate with...
THIS LOT!Nick, Andy, Mason, Arry, Will, Talman and myself welcome you to
CAMP CUUUUNT!
My new tent self-assembled in 3 seconds.

Next door to us was George and Ellena. They're Greek!

We sat around a camp fire singing songs with an acoustic guitar. It was really nice.

Talman didn't give a fuck.

'CUUUUNT!'

Talman stole 4 chairs, a giant candle, a crate of Stella, 2 burgers and an ice cream.

Pyromaniac.

George wasn't half bad.

Night!
Day three.
Good morning Camp Cunt.

At least this guy was half in his tent.

Went back to Sean's camp to see how everyoen was doing.

'Three quid for this?'

Arry tried setting his farts on fire.

Mason had tons of fucking 'Skol.'

Andy had a big fuck off 'Faxe.'

NLT reppin' at Download 07.

Dual inflatable guitar solo.

Bare whammy bar style.

We headed towards main stage where the bands finally started playing.

The Village was pretty full.

Ah, there she is- Mainstage.

Some of us headed to the Redbull FMX thing before bands started playing.

This is pretty impressive...

I'm not sure who they were, but- Cliffhanger.

Not sure what this trick is called.

90 degree tailwhip.

Superman seatgrab.

Backflip!

Me, Nick and Andy checked out second stage-
Ill Nino were pretty good.

This is the band that does 'Sailor Man' in Bam Margera's 'Elementality' part-
Turbonegro.

Not impressed at the Jackson Guitar tent.

A lot of people showed for...
Megadeth! I'm not as big of a fan as others but I must admit Megadeth were pretty awesome.

This lot seemed to think so too.

Turns out I was near Arry during their set.

Next up was
Dragonforce!
This is the third time I've seen them now, and they get better and better.

I saw Chubaka in the mosh!

This fat blue haired man loved it.

I went and checked out
Sanctity on third stage after I saw them support Trivium. They were pretty good.

Some crazy tall latex woman.

I dunno who this is but how scary are these things?!

Free Muller Rice was sick!

I only saw
Wolfmother perform 'Woman' on my way to the second stage, but it was sick!

'Woman! la la la woman...'

I had such a shit spot for
Paramore, so here's a picture of Fit Ginger Hayley on a screen.

There! Thats the best I could do. Anyways, Paramore were actually really good.

Heres me with some giant Smurfs.

I'm so going to this in November.

This is
Velvet Revolver. I didn't watch them- I'm not a fan.

I checked out
Enter Shikari. Again- shit spot so heres the screen. I didn't think much to them but they seem like good performers if you're into that stuff.

Heres me and Sean 'raving' to Enter Shikari.

Sometimes you just need a good rest.

The headliner of the first day was My Chemical Romance.

Their drummer looks well like Robbie.

I actually quite enjoyed them, but they got bottled to fuck. Kinda unfair if you ask me- good live band.

As good as
MCR were, it got cold so I went back to Camp Cunt.

Back in camp a fire had already been started.

Drunk?

'CUUUUNT!'

Yeah George.

Talman stumbled back wearing this pink cowboy hat.

I ate loads of crisps that weekend.
Day Four.This isnt a suggestion- its a commandment. Anyway, ice cream for breakfast.

Too early.

It's never too early for metal.

Mason broke Will's chair.

Arry was still asleep.

We thought it would be funny to get a picture with a burning hat on...

...But it singed all of Nick's hair.


More free Muller Rice.

Laughing Gas? Whatever it was it didn't work, apparently.

This manakin thing was asking for it.

'CUUUUNT!'

We headed for Mainstage again.

This is
Turisas- battle metal from Finland. Pretty lame.
Hellyeah were quite good- Vinne Paul (Pantera) on drums was good to watch.

Nick bought a Motley Crue shirt for later.

This guy is way too old to do this shit.
Shadows Fall were good, the singer had dreadlocks to the floor.

Good old
Aiden were up next, who fucking ruled. They got lots of shit from the crowd though.

It didn't effect their performance, and as WiL said- 'This is thirty minutes of your life that you're
never getting back!'

The next band I saw were
Beyond All Reason on the third stage who were awesome. I heard a few of their songs on TV before and I reckon they're gonna be big.

This was
30 Seconds to Mars. I didn't watch them because to be honest it sounded a bit boring.

Bowling For Soup had one of the biggest crowds of the day!

You know you love Fat Chris.

'All I wanted was to see her naaaaakeeeed!'
Machine Head sounded alright. The crowed loved them but I didn't think too much of them.

SLAYER! Biggest band of the day, fucking incredible.

Dave Lombardo is an amazing drummer.

Fuck yeah Kerry King! This is my attempt replica of the 'Blog of Peril' logo at the top of this page.

After Slayer I gave a fake e-mail to some guy to get a free EA Games bag.
Marilyn Manson gave a good performance, I'm just not into him that much.

I mainly watched his set on this big screen.

Today's headliners were an improvement on last night-
Linkin Park!

I'm actually a big fan, and although I've not listened to them for a while I knew every song word for word.

They gave the crowd a great performance and sounded really good live.

They didn't do too many new songs which is alright, because everyone loves the old stuff!

All in all an amazing set. If you ever get the chance I recommend seeing
Linkin Park.

Back at Camp Cunt our usual antics were occuring.


Just look at the excitement on Talman's face.

Andy indulged in his huge can of Faxe.


Arry burnt the support strings of Mason's shitty cheese tent so it just collapsed.

Mason retaliated and jumped on Arry and Talman's tent.

It kept popping back up.

In the meantime Arry and Talman completely destroyed Mason's tent.

This is Noddy.

When Talman and Arry went bed we gave them a good tent rolling.

'That was better than Megadeth!'

Looks like they had a good time...

We did 'leg and a wing' and all that, eventually their tent ripped.

Heres Mason's attempt at re-constructing his tent.

During all this excitment, Will was just listening to Ellena play 'Hurt' by Nine Inch Nails/Johnny Cash.

Noddy thought the whole tent sabotage thing was hilarious and jumped on Talman and Arry.

They actually slept in there all night.

The rest of spent the night listening to How Noddy took a shit through someone's car sunroof.
Day Five.We were all happy to see Arry didn't suffocate in the night.

This was at 7.00am.

Mason put the remainder of his tent over our 'cove' and slept there.

'Once you try, our saucy beans!'

We had a few leftover beers, which were all left by Arry...

He's such a cunt.

Nick still has a stashed Strongbow in this locker somewhere.

As easy as it was setting up my tent, it was a bastard putting it down.

These guys got done for having a fire, we had loads and got away with it.

Camp Cunt at Download 2007.

We put all of our stuff in Nick's Dad's car so we could make a quick get away later that night.

Muller Rice sesh went down.

First band of the last day were
Reuben, who were nothing special.

I met up with Ben and his mates.

We watched one band together then I never saw him again...

That band was
Chimaira who were pretty good, but I didn't know much of their stuff.

This is
Papa Roach- pure Year 8 band. They were good, they played 'Last Resort.'

Heres me and Nick surrounded by 6 tall half naked woman.
Mastadon- I didn't watch these because they're supporting Metallica in July anyway.

I saw
Devildriver instead- who were pretty good.

They set a World Record for biggest circle pit. It was immense!

The whole of the second stage was going crazy, I'd say 10,000 people?

I hope theres footage of this, 'cause I wanna see it!

Devildriver aftermath.

We bumped into Sean on the way to Mainstage.
Lamb of God were sick. The crowd loved 'em.

Their drummer Chris Adler has an awesome double bass technique.

Fake Talman.

Me and Nick went to see
Napalm Death. Just to say 'Yeah, I've seen Napalm Death.'

Mainstage was getting pretty full...
Stone Sour were alright, but Corey Taylor is much better in Slipknot.

I saw Yon towards the front just before...

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE!

KSE were my favourite band of the festival. Absoloutley amazing.

Howard Jones' vocal range is awesome, and Justin Foley on drums is one of my favourite drummers, so stoked to see him play.

Stoked!

Me and Nick were gonna get natchos, but at the last minute we saw the woman there dribble. It was disgusting.

Everyone hates big scary clowns.

I just think it's the perfect scenario for a blog photo.

Heres Nick playing Command and Conquer in the EA Hub.

Duracell Bunny shot.

We were just waiting for
Evenesance to finish. I didn't hear much from them.

This slither of watermelon cost me £2, and it was horrible.

Honeycomb is well nice.

Headliner today was
Iron Maiden! They were obviously awesome, it's Maiden!

I was suprisingly close! They did a lot of 'Number of the Beast' stuff 'cause it's 25 years since they realeased it.

Yeah Steve Harris.

The photos are a bit blurred, as youd expect at the front of at Iron Maiden.

Things got a bit intense, so I decided to watch Maiden from a bit further back instead of trying to not get crushed.

Well, further back people were setting fire to things, it was crazy.

It got put out...

So everyone started it back up again...

This dude was spraying everyone with the fire extinguisher.

It went on for ages.

Anyway, by this time I had to leave Maiden a little early to catch a lift home with Nick's Dad.

I saw Waldy again on the way out, bare coincidence.

Goodbye Download.




That was fucking amazing.
