2025/06/13 - Download Festival, Donington, United Kingdom

[Lindsay]

Please use this thread to talk about Green Day's show at Download Festival. Exact date is TBD.

[Undómiel]

Waiting for day tickets to go on sale...

[Undómiel]

Day tickets are on sale now: https://downloadfestival.co.uk/tickets/#no-camping

 

It's gonna have to be a no from me at £135 each because I am so so broke. I'm really sad, but hopefully they'll be something else to look forward to in the not too distant future. 

[Psycho Britney]

Tbh £135 is actually slightly cheaper than I was anticipating. I think as long as the tickets haven't jumped up drastically by next week (we all know what Ticketmaster is like!) and they haven't sold out, I might have to bite the bullet and get tickets!😬

[GreenDay_Fan]

Set times are out, they’re on from 8:50-10:50PM 

[Andrew Kennedy]

Anyone know if they'll be streamed?

[farley drexel hatcher]

Anyone else going just for the Friday? Never been before and going solo 

[Stewe]

Can anyone who's going share pictures of the merch stand?

[farley drexel hatcher]

3 hours ago, Stewe said:

Can anyone who's going share pictures of the merch stand?

I can try 

[farley drexel hatcher]

There’s a brief video of facebook of merch, looks to be a download exclusive dookie dog and download dog 🤣 

[Stewe]

5 hours ago, farley drexel hatcher said:

There’s a brief video of facebook of merch, looks to be a download exclusive dookie dog and download dog 🤣 

Can you link the video?

[farley drexel hatcher]

22 hours ago, Stewe said:

Can you link the video?

I can’t find that one but there is this photo 

https://imgur.com/a/x2ZZMsW
I actually can’t tell if it is the download dog as it’s too small but looks like it could be 

[Stewe]

1 hour ago, farley drexel hatcher said:

I can’t find that one but there is this photo 

https://imgur.com/a/x2ZZMsW
I actually can’t tell if it is the download dog as it’s too small but looks like it could be 

Thank you 

[farley drexel hatcher]

No posts at all? We got JAR! 
that set was phenomenal. I don’t really do festivals but Green day always make festivals feel like a green day show. I can’t put into words how it felt when - after a day of sunshine and heat - it started raining the second Billie sang “here comes the rain again”. No one could believe it, not even Billie! 

[giozzam]

Do you think this will be the setlist for the following few dates? I'd love to have 1-2 more songs in it

[jengd]

Festival sets are usually shorter and tailored to more general music fans I would say (that’s why I’m going to Vienna 😂). JAR though, who knows.

[giozzam]

1 hour ago, jengd said:

Festival sets are usually shorter and tailored to more general music fans I would say (that’s why I’m going to Vienna 😂). JAR though, who knows.

And Revolution Radio! Would love to hear that in Firenze tomorrow

[Stewe]

5 minutes ago, giozzam said:

And Revolution Radio! Would love to hear that in Firenze tomorrow

Yes, will be great.

Never heard Revolution Radio in any show but in 2017's one 

[Dingle]

What happened when Green Day headlined Download Festival 2025

Download gets a big “Heeeeeey oooooh” as Green Day finally make their stunning, powerful, feisty headlining debut.

June 14, 2025 Words: Emma Wilkes

It’s perhaps not unreasonable to ask why it’s only now that Green Day are headlining Download for the first time. Decades of success, an illustrious arsenal of era-defining hits, multiple albums considered staples of a rock fan’s coming-of-age years – they reach every cross-section of this audience, even where teenagers and their parents can watch them together. Still, after their best album in years in the form of last year’s Saviors, and a foul-smelling political climate that’s made American Idiot feel eerily more timeless, now’s as good a time as any.

After a rather long, multi-part introduction that features the usual a person in a bunny costume clowning around to Blitzkrieg Bop before being accosted by fake security, the Oakland trio are striking with purpose. Opening their set with the dynamite trio of American Idiot, Holiday and Know Your Enemy doesn’t just feel like a flexing of their muscles, but very deliberate, especially when Billie Joe Armstrong, unsurprisingly, talks politics two songs in. “We are slipping into fascism. Donald Trump and his administration are a fascist government,” he warns. “It is up to us to fight back.” Aside from resurrecting an old “you fat bastard” chant to apply to Trump – which is yelled back with notable vehemence from the crowd – the world outside the confines of Donington Park doesn’t overwhelm the show. Green Day are here for fun.

It's an animated, all-killer set, where it’s rare for any time to go by without Billie Joe getting a “HEEEEEEEEEEY-OOOOOOOOOOH!” call and response going with the crowd. The hits everyone has committed to memory, from Basket Case, to Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, fit seamlessly with newer cuts Dilemma and One Eyed Bastard. There’s some cheeky curveballs, from rare gem J.A.R. to a surprise dusting off of the underrated title-track from 2016’s Revolution Radio. More than once, there’s something that raises a chuckle, from the ‘BAD YEAR’ blimp that flies above the stage to bassist Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool making themselves useful for Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) by throwing rose petals over Billie. The real moment of the set to treasure, however, is a complete accident. Wake Me Up When September Ends, as profound and soul-stirring as it always is, gains another dimension when Billie sings, ‘Here comes the rain again,’ and it begins to drizzle. Something about it feels perfect.

Towards the show’s conclusion, Billie mentions that this is the last time Green Day will play in England for a while as the Saviors touring cycle wraps up. They’ve signed off, if that’s the case, on a masterful note. “England, you are in my heart forever,” he says. “You will never get rid of me.” Good.

 

https://www.kerrang.com/green-day-download-festival-donington-2025-headline-debut-billie-joe-armstrong-dookie-american-idiot

 

 

 

 

[PhuzzyPhriend]

Some videos:

 

[StillBreathing]

Did Billie not play guitar during JOS???