A few hundred yards across the field, power-pop stars Hot Milk are throwing some raucous rock shapes to a rapidly filling main arena. It stays heavy as the bodies continue to spit themselves over the barrier during Malevolance’s hellish set with members of the band looking close to tears on multiple occasions during their vicious set. Welcome to Gloom”, the smiles on their faces as they pummel the masses with tracks like “Fuck Everything” couldn’t have been bigger. Joining the ten thousand fans were almost fifty of the finest rock, metal, punk and indie bands the UK has to offer for a weekend that, for everyone involved, was going to be unforgettable.Ĭomprising of two stages, the first band to bring live music back to the rock masses was Liverpool brutalists Death Bloom and, while Paul Barrow’s T-shirt states “Download. So, over the weekend of June 18th-20th, rock fans (albeit in much smaller numbers) again descended on the hallowed grounds of Castle Donington for a weekend of drinking, partying and live music all without the restrictions imposed on the general public over the past eighteen months. Hope that this was the start of a return for the kind of live events that music lovers had been deprived of for nearly two years. However, with news that organisers, in conjunction with the UK Government, had agreed for a test pilot event to go ahead in June, there was hope. Up until last month, rock fans had been devastated by the news that, for another twelve months the staple of the festival calendar, Download Festival, would be postponed again. Last weekend was a huge moment not just for rock music but for normality as a whole.
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