Green Day (CAA), Korn (ITB) and Sleep Token (UTA) will headline the 2025 edition of the Download Festival, the U.K.’s venerable hard-rock and heavy-metal gathering.
Weezer (ITB), Bullet for My Valentine (K2), Jimmy Eat World (WME), Cradle of Filth (TKO), The Darkness (X-Ray), Eagles of Death Metal (WME) and a reconstituted Sex Pistols featuring vocalist Frank Carter (Solo) will also play.
The Live Nation event, curated by U.K. Touring President Andy Copping, will be held at Donington Park 6/13-15 and feature more than 100 acts.
For Crush Management client Green Day, Download joins a raft of other 2025 festival headlining plays, including Firenze Rocks in Florence, Italy (6/15), Southside Festival in Neuhausen, Germany (6/20-22), and Rock Werchter in Werchter, Belgium (7/4).
Download is also the first festival appearance for the John Lydon-free iteration of the Sex Pistols, which played nine U.K. shows this year centered on the group's iconic 1977 album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. Lydon announced his own 2025 tour today with his post-Pistols group, Public Image Ltd.
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