Here’s everything you need to know about Download TV

The one time only Download Festival event will stream exclusive footage, performances and more.

Despite the physical event being unable to go ahead as planned, Download Festival will be celebrating all things alternative with a weekend of exclusive footage, unseen performances, and interactive content from 12 – 14 June 2020 via their YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages.

Across the long weekend, when the best and brightest from the world of rock would have usually descended on England’s Donington Park, Download TV will split its action into daytime and evening programmes, promising hours of live music and exclusive footage.

The one time only event can only be watched at the time of broadcast.

Check out your Download TV 2020 line up!

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The virtual event will be headlined by the same bands originally set to top the bill on the festival’s main stage. Friday will welcome KISS, streaming standout moments from their 2015 set. Iron Maiden will headline on Saturday 13 June, bringing nostalgic performances, Legacy Of The Beast snippets, and promising something very special just for Download TV. System of a Down will round off the weekend as Download TV streams their performances from 2005, 2011, and 2017.

Across the weekend, fans will also get to witness the likes of Biffy Clyro, Deftones, Babymetal, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Creeper, The Offspring, Blues Pills, Alter Bridge, The Pretty Reckless, Funeral For A Friend, Volbeat, The Darkness, Bowling For Soup in action, plus some very special guests.

During the day, Download TV will host interactive activities, from a cookalong with MasterChef‘s Simon Wood, vegan superstars BOSH, and Nat’s What I Recon straight from Australia.

There will also be live Q&As with artists, live lockdown performances, tutorials, mindfulness sessions, and even some content provided by Downloaders too.

Download TV is encouraging fans to go all out. Set up a festival in your garden, dress up, rock out, and take part. But remember to stay safe and follow social distancing guidelines at all times, of course.

Here are all the artists set to appear on Download TV from 12 – 14 June 2020.

Who will be appearing on Download TV?

Download TV will be headlined by KISS, Iron Maiden and System Of A Down. As well as a number of special guests, the line-up features:

KISS
Iron Maiden
System Of A Down
Alestorm
Alter Bridge
Babymetal
Baroness
Biffy Clyro
Black Futures
Black Veil Brides
Bowling For Soup
Bury Tomorrow
Bush
Cemetery Sun
Creeper
Deftones
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Disturbed
Employed To Serve
Fozzy
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Funeral For A Friend
Gojira
Grey Daze
Higher Power
Holding Absence
Killswitch Engage
Korn
Lacuna Coil
Loathe
Mastodon
Milk Teeth
Motionless In White
NXT UK
Periphery
Poppy
Powerwolf
Skillet
Steel Panther
Stone Broken
The Darkness
The Hara
The Offspring
The Pretty Wreckless
The Wildhearts
Theory
Those Damn Crows
Twin Temple
Volbeat
Wage War
Wayward Sons

When can I watch Download TV?

Download TV will take place from 12 – 14 June 2020.

Daytime activities start at 12:00 on Friday and Saturday, and at 11:30 on Sunday.

Evening performances begin at 19:00 on Friday and Saturday, and 16:25 on Sunday.

What is the Download TV line-up?

Friday 12 June 2020
From 12:00:

Doom Yoga
Trivia
KISS makeup tutorial with Gemma Stafford
Cookalong with vegan superstars BOSH
Best hero outfits
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Black Futures
Theorgy
Of Mice & Men
Grey Daze (world premiere from Chester Bennington’s previous band)
+ more

From 19:00:

4 hours of performances, interviews + more, headlined by KISS

Saturday 13 June 2020
From 12:00:

RockFit
Cookalong with Nat’s What I Reckon
Cocktail making with Simon Wood
Killswitch Engage
Stonebroken
Employed To Serve
Holding Absence
Higher Power
Amaranthe
Bury Tomorrow
+ more

From 19:00:

Exclusive content and previous performances, headlined by Iron Maiden

Sunday 14 June 2020
From 11:30:

Mind The Dog mindfulness session
Trivia
Jam session with Nandi Bushell
Download Festival France
Circus Of Horrors
Festival fashion with Amy Valentine
Cookalong with Simon Wood
Mixology with Rocktail Cocktail
Wage War
Milk Teeth
Twin Temple
Cemetery Sun
+ more

From 16:25:

Over four hours of footage, headlined by System Of A Down

Who is hosting Download TV?

Split into day and evening, host Sophie K will guide fans through the tailor made afternoon programme, with Kylie Olsson picking things up for the evening.

Is there a Download TV afterparty?

BBC Radio 1’s Rock Show with Dan P Carter will kick off immediately after DLTV onSunday 14 June 2020, airing interviews with Download acts from across the years, and more.