3 Promoters, 1 Pod!

Download's Kam Haq joins us to lift the curtain on the workings of the UK's biggest metal gathering.

What's life like at the top of the ladder, all Champagne and cigars at Live Nation HQ? Or is it the same headaches and hassles with billing, booking headliners and clashes as the rest of us mere mortals suffer?

We get in about it all and pick some must see bands from this year's line-up as we look forward to Download 2024.

We go again, next Thursday morning. Be there.

We (drunkenly) go again!

Gav and James get the pints in and tackle some of the more light-hearted questions.

Favourite food vendors at our festivals? What bands would we go back and see with a time machine? Top three bands we've ever seen live?

And why did Gav buy not one, but two tour buses?

Hiccup!

We go again, next Thursday morning. Be there.

Not all events are booked the same.

Some promoters enjoy a professionally packaged tour arriving on their doorstep, others don't mind the challenge of luring over bands who rarely play and then there's Damnation, who want artists to dust off old records and perform them as a world exclusive sets in Manchester.

Problem is, that's as time consuming, expensive and as difficult as it sounds.

But in the end, is it worth all it?

We go again, next Thursday morning. Be there.