Download Festival 2025 is scheduled to be held from June 13, 2025 to June 15, 2025, at the Donnington Park in Derbyshire, England, UK. The 2025 edition will be the festival's 22nd edition overall, having been first held in 2003 and annually ever since.
Presale for the festival is currently ongoing and can be accessed via the official website of the tour. The presale is available via Mastercard and is priced at £290.00 per person for the non-camping Weekend tickets.
There are also camping tickets available, which are priced at £325.00 per person for Eco Camping, and £345.00 per person for General Camping. Ticket prices may change upon the release of general tickets. Download Festival announced its first lineup via a post on their official Instagram page on November 13, 2024.
Download Festival 2025 first lineup and other details
The first lineup for Download Festival 2025 is given below:
- Green Day
- Sleep Token
- Korn
- Weezer
- Alien Ant Farm
- Bleed From Within
- Boston Manor
- CKY
- Dayseeker
- Eagles of Death Metal
- The Ghost Inside
- Jerry Cantrell
- Jinjer
- Mallory Knox
- Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
- Meshuggah
- Northlane
- Bullet for My Valentine
- Jimmy Eat World
- Don Broco
- Spiritbox
- Sex Pistols with Frank Carter
- Within Temptation
- The Darkness
- Steel Panther
- McFly
- Apocalyptica
- Cradle of Filth
- Lorna Shore
- Sikth
- Airbourne
- Polaris
- Poppy
- Starset
- Turbonegro
- Whitechapel
- Dead Pony
- Eivør
- Faetooth
- Filter
- Fit for an Autopsy
- The Funeral Portrait
- Gore
- Alcest
- Amira Elfeky
- Anaal Naehrakh
- Archers
- Arrows in Action
- Artio
- Bad Nerves
- Battlesnake
- Bex
- Currents
- Dead Poet Society
- Graphic Nature
- Harpy
- The Haunt
- Holy Wars
- House of Protection
- Karen Dió
- Kim Dracula
- Teen Mortgage
- Trophy Eyes
- Underside
- Unprocessed
- Venus Grrrls
- Vola
- Vower
- Vowws
- Windhand
- Kittie
- Lastelle
- Loathe
- Lolo
- The Meffs
- Melted Bodies
- Nothing More
- Novelists
- Orbit Culture
- Riding the Low
- The Scratch
- Seven Hours After Violet
- SiM
- Sophie Lloyd
- The Southern River Band
- Spiritual Cramp
- Split Chain
- Static Dress
- Survive Said the Prophet
- Svalbard
- Sylosis
Download Festival 2025 has a strict policy on bringing items to the festival. A brief overview of the list of banned items at the arena are given below. Furthermore, some items maybe permissable at the campsite but not at the Arena. Interested patrons will need to check the festival to view the full list and confirm items accordingly:
- Aerosols over 250ml
- Airhorns and megaphones
- Alcohol (allowed at Campsite)
- Animals (other than approved assistance dogs)
- Any goods for unauthorised trading
- Any goods with unauthorised festival logos
- Any items which may cause danger, offence or disruption to any other person
- Any items which may reasonably be considered for use as a weapon
- Audio recorders (allowed at Campsite)
- Bags bigger than A4 size (30cm height x 8cm depth x 21cm width) (allowed at Campsite)
- Bicycles / scooters / roller-skates / skateboards
- Blow torches
- Camping equipment (allowed at Campsite)
- Cans (allowed at Campsite)
- Cutlery (allowed at Campsite)
- Disposable BBQs and permitted cooking stoves etc (allowed at Campsite)
- Drinks bottles (allowed at Campsite)
- Drones or other unmanned aerial vehicles
- Excessive amounts of cigarette
- Excessive amounts of food
- Firewood
- Fireworks / pyrotechnics
- Flags with poles (allowed only at exclusion zones)
- Etc
Download Festival can be traveled to and from via several means. Big Green Coach is the official travel partner of the festival and will have pickup points across 791 places in the UK. Those traveling via car will need to purchase pre-paid car parking passes. Other options are via train at East Midlands Parkway or via Taxi.