Download Organiser On 2010: “I’ll talk to Van Halen, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Metallica”

jamesgill / Festivals, News / 10/07/2009 12:39pm

download_90Download organiser Andy Copping has told Metal Hammer that while it’s still early days for next year’s festival he’d “be a fool not to expand of the Classic Rock stage” idea.

The charismatic organiser – always spottable by his cowboy hat – has said that while he hasn’t yet spoken to any bands about Download Festival 2010 he was very happy with the success of the Classic Rock Stage on the Sunday and would be an idiot not to embrace the theme for next year.

You can hear the interview with Andy on this weeks’s podcast here. A fascinating peak inside what it takes to organise a massive festival.

He also said that he was skeptical about whether bands such as AC/DC, Van Halen and Aerosmith would play Download Festival 2010, he would aim to talk to all of them.

He added that he wasn’t worried by any other festivals entering the summer metal festival market – especially after the success of 2009.

49 Comments


I had Andy Copping down as a bit of a silly bastard by booking shite like the Prodigy, Limp Bizkit and Pendulim but by saying the magic VH words I’m happy to ask for a pardon. All the more reason for me to have a few beers tonight after work, the best news I’ve heard for a while. Here’s hoping here can convince them to play next year.

Headcrusher

Andy Copping is having those dreams with the weird naked Indian

Remember Andy… if you book them, they will come!

For Your Malice

yeah first festival was DL 09. liked it overall, but might try family camping next year.

hope they have a great line up again!

sepul, driver, lamb, malefice, gojira, megadeth, slayer

system would also be interesting…..

mmmm

The classic rock day was great fun. :-) if somthing like that happend next year i would be quite happy. (ecstatic if they got Manowar or Heaven and Hell)

Also, im glad that The Prodigy proved (again) that they are a great adition to Download! (so ha to the folks saying they had no place being at download)

I don’t see why anyone moaned about Prodigy. Personally not my cup of tea.
But you had Slipknot, Prodigy or Anvil (and i guess the blackout) on at the same time.
If you can’t go and enjoy at least one of those sets then you were at the wrong festival….

Prodigy shouldnt of been there them getting such a big crowd just means that lots of people have bad taste who go to download i was at ANVIL who were the band of the weekend.

Halen, Cooper, Aerosmith and Metallica..
despite having seen all but the first, to have them all at one fest would be amazing!!!

i was there this year and despite Prodigy, Pendulum and LB not being everyones cup of tea… all 3 kicked arse!!

king of heavy metal

get alice cooper, aerosmith, van halen, cheap trick, kiss, ratt and poison for classic rock sunday and i am happy

AC/DC n aerosmith All The way. its just gotta be done, maybe throw metallica in there aswell now tht would be a festival.

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK!!!!

theoutlawtorn

Andy please give us Metallica, AC/DC and Aerosmith!
Can’t say any fairer than that!!

Look as long as somehow they manage to get SEPULTURA to reform they can book pinkie and perkie to play for the rest of the weekend.

Just get Sepultura together again.

nailman

make the main stage classic rock and the tuborg stage black and death metal for sunday… W.A.S.P, kiss, motorhead, testament, overkill, diamond head, saxon, dimmu borgir, swallow the sun, gorgoroth, cannibal corpse, 1349, satyricon, cradle of filth, exhumed, amon amarth, carcass, at the gates, old mans child… and sure why not get kansas aswell haha..

All I ask is to see AC/DC and Alice Cooper. That is all.

Eddiemaiden

As long as Download 2010 isn’t more fucking nu-metal bands i’ll be happy. Also Last Three years, he’s had some questionable headliners: MCR, Linkin Park, Lost Prophets and The Offspring as well as Faith No More. why not actually go for headline bands who deserve it?

englishrover

alice cooper, helloween, twisted sister, thunder, mr big and the scorpions, now there is a classic line up worth seeing

Rammstein, Soundgarden and Aerosmith for headliners next year please :D fuck me, if they were the headliners i’d be sold

VAN HALEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck yeah

Van Halen would be immense, AC/DC would be immense, Aerosmith would be immense. FML it already sounds tasty, here’s hoping they see sense and sign up to 2010!

lee magee

OH MY GOD Van Halen please please please they totaly rock.

GOOD CALL FRANK^ Rammstein are well over due @ Donny (ive been going since ‘88 & their one of the bands ((& Wolfsbane!lol)) Im still waiting to see there) & with their stage set they could headline!!

The ultimate Download, 10-

Metallica
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
Slayer
Megadeth
AC/DC
KISS
Black Label Soiciety
Ozzy Osbourne
Five Finger Death Punch
Slipknot
Trivium
Avenged Sevenfold

and loads loads of more kick ass bands like these!!!!!!!!! ROCK ON, DOWNLOAD 2010!!!!

MrBrownstone

GUNS N’ ROSES ARE A MUST

Eddie Maiden

Either that, or instead of ‘A7X’ You could have a good band! We want DIFFERENT from the last couple of years, we DON’T want any shit.

Exactly, most peopel have seen msot or all these bands at some point before!
In fact (not that it’s a bad thing) but it seems we can’t seem to be rid of Metallica lately!
They headlined Downlaod in 2006, then they played Wembley two nights in a row in 07 (G8 then their own show), then they headlined Reading and Leeds festivals last year, THEN they came over for a tour earlier thsi year, and now they’re comign back for Sonisphere!

I think it’s unlikely that he’ll manage to get Van Halen, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Aerosmith and Metallica all to play on one day since any one of those bands could easily headline. But fingers crossed! Glad they’re sticking with the classic rock day.

YES YES YES Bring on the classic Rock!!! Although I would like to see some of the modern bands ( Enter Shikari, Trivium) , I would like to see the great bands from the 70’s and 80’s

Ac/Dc, Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Black Sabbath with Ozzy ( I doubt it), Deep Purple, Cinderella, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Night Ranger, Poison, Van Halen, W.A.S.P ( are they still playing?), Van Halen, Blue Oyster Cult., Kiss, Whitesnake.

Something along those lines :)

It would be good to have some classic rock but you should have have some metal bands like Slipknot and Trivium please book slipknot and trivium next year three good headliners AC/DC, Slipknot and Van Halen

AC/Dc: been away from donn for far to long. and were amazin at birmingham and wembley.
Aerosmith: amazin band know how to put a show on
s o d: be intrestin, think are a real possibilty as he said there might be more reformed bands for next year.

or
metallica: cause they rock and ya always know wat ya gna get wiv them

seriously, if you were at download this year, Trivium by far were the best band there on the sunday, and they should headline the mainstage next year on one of the nights!

my friend told me today the organiser was speculating about van halen,airosmith,alice cooper and metallica i was like fucking hell if you had tesla back to kick start sunday and go strate in to poison strate in to zz top, airosmith,alice cooper motley crue, metalica then van halen!!!!!!!!!!!!! fucking hell its got to be done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROCK N ROLL BABY!

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE!!!…please… :D

Lee adams

Gojira avanged sevenfold korn etc great new bands not old bands there old news

kyle farmer

try too get CORN

Cameron

look i was at download 2009 and it was amazing but seriously everyone is shouting stuff like AC/DC and stuff like tht
guys the people who diserve to be put up to headline is ANVIL they have beeen fucking playing for 34 years !!! they have basic jobs just to keep there homes no record label will pick them up FUCKING GET THEM UP THERE ITS THERE TIME TO SHINE ANVIL rly do diserve something like this

I was at ‘05 where Sabbath played with Ozzy and it was absolutely AMAZING. Haven’t been to ‘load since but would definitely go if BS were playing with Ozzy again… fuck me that would SO GOOD

next year i would absolutly love to see

ac/dc
metallica
iron maiden as headliners

bring me the horizon
enter shikari
killswitch engage
5fdp
slipknot
trivium
slayer
disturbed
machine fucking head!!!
hollywood undead

Anthony and thats all you'll ever know

Bring back mudvayne and while youre at itget arch enemy to play in the toon i was fucked on legal shrooms and missed then, got shrooms band but want to look at another kind of natural deathly beauty

Anthony and thats all you'll ever know

Download should have a sikth replacement play off year, those with iphones download free app last radio andmake a sikth station fucking awesome

shuuut up about ANVIL they aint no good

Download every year: 1 classic rock day, 1 heavy/ extreme day & 1 mainstream day. Fun for all the family! Get VH! Get em now!!

I’m comin over from Australia next year to see Download 2010 and the only band I wanna see is THE WiLDHEARTS… AND GIVE THEM THE HEADLINE!!!

AC/DC
Metallica
Blink 182/Green Day

5fdp
machine head
inme
megadeth
anthrax
limp bizkit

im hoping AC/DC Metallica Aerosmith

that would be a weekend to remember

MEATALLICA. ACDC, that would be worth my £150, the rest would be a sweet bonus!

METALLICA, ACDC, that would be worth my £150, the rest would be a sweet bonus!

the 3 bands tht would make me go to download would be linkin park(missed out on sonishpere and kickin myself for it) slipknot(seen em once and would love to see em again) and nightwish(although the old signer would have been better) actually i could go on about bands id want to see but these are probly the main 3

DL09 blew me away, i’m all for the classic rock stuff however i Limp bizkit, Korn, Prodigy and Pendulum were fantastic!! Between Soni and DL this year im going to have one kick arse summer! Metallica, Alice Cooper, Rammstein, Iron Maiden, ACDC egt

DL09 blew me away, i’m all for the classic rock stuff however i Limp bizkit, Korn, Prodigy and Pendulum were fantastic!! Between Soni and DL this year im going to have one kick arse summer! Metallica, Alice Cooper, Rammstein, Iron Maiden, ACDC get this party started!

BFMV already confirmed

Metallica pleaseeee =) that would make my weekend tbh!!

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