Thanks for checking out our first full episode of Festpod - The Unofficial Download Festival Guide.In this week's Download News:• The first lineup announcement including the headliners for each day.• The new headliners - our thoughts on Iron Maiden dropping out, and Kiss, Biffy Clyro and System of a Down heading the bill.• Some people are not happy about Biffy Clryo headlining.• We compare this year's headlining bands to previous ones, including Guns & Roses and Slash.• We discuss some of the bands added to and missing from the line-up, including  Korn, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, and The Offspring.• Some of the RIP tickets have sold out! Park Farm, Steel Suite, Lux Suite, and the Bedouin tickets are now all gone. We discuss how else to camp and the 8-person Tourbus option!• Is staying in a campervan still available?• The new layout of the site at Donington Park.• The new Merch Magstore. The new way of buying your band merchandise in the village.• Getting around when it's muddy.• The village will be on tarmac instead of grass.In this week's The Guide :• We talk about The Village - what exactly is the village at Download?• Download's own-brand of ale.• The Cinema. It's new home and what they show.• Who can use the village?• Life-saving items we've bought there.In this week's The Legend:• Neil remembers someone being pushed over whilst in a portaloo.• Dave saw someone in the torrential rain dancing in a mud puddle to Nightwish without a care in the world.• Leigh remembers meeting Andy Copping, the band booker for Download, and having a picture with him.Send us a voice message to comment on anything we've talked about, or even just to say hi, by clicking on Message at anchor.fm/festpod and we could play it out on the next episode!Hosts: Neil Wilkinson, Leigh Ellingham and Dave Kingdon.Find us on the socials at Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by searching for Festpod.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/festpod/message

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