Download Festival Name A Stage After Lemmy (And Announce 36 New Bands)
The first of many tributes to the former Motorhead frontman.
Download Festival has decided to rename the main stage of the festival in memory of Lemmy from Motorhead, who passed away from cancer just before the New Year. With the band due to play on the Friday night of the rock festival at Donington Park, it has been thought that a suitable tribute will stand in their place, in memory of Lemmy. After introducing 36 bands to the entire line up, the three main acts headlining the main stage, now formally known as 'The Lemmy Stage', will be Black Sabbath, Rammstein and Iron Maiden. To continue the support and remembrance of Lemmy, the line-up poster shows further support as Motorhead's name has been replaced with a drawing of the black cavalry hat that bore the 'Death or Glory' insignia, which Lemmy would wear to each of his performances. The festival will be taking place on the weekend of 10-12 June with new additions being announced on the main Download Festival site, where it was advertised in November 2015 that Korn, Megadeth, Disturbed, Deftones and Architects were added to the line-up. However, the Architects won't be playing the main stage along with the rest, they will be playing alongside Skindred and Bury Tomorrow on Saturday 11th June, on the Encore Stage. Iron Maiden were announced as the first headliners of Download 2016, where they also shared that Download 2016 would be their only UK gig during their European Tour, to support their new album 'The Book Of Souls'.