82 rocking photos from Download Festival
Download 2025 brought the noise, the mud, and the memories - and now the official photo gallery is live!
From epic main stage moments to late-night campsite chaos, these photographers captured the magic (and mayhem) all weekend long.
Whether you were headbanging at the barrier, chilling on the hill, or covered in glitter and dust somewhere in between, you might just find yourself in the mix.
See more coverage from Download Festival via our sister website DerbyWorld.
Dive into the gallery and relive the riffs, the weather, and the roar of the crowd.
Soak up the Download energy all over again with these photographs taken by Download Festival photographers.
1 . Download Festival 2025
Cracking photos capture Download Festival 2025 - spot yourself in our gallery of rockers | James Bridle Photo Sales
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Cracking photos capture Download Festival 2025 - spot yourself in our gallery of rockers | Andrew Whitton Photo Sales
3 . Download Festival 2025
Cracking photos capture Download Festival 2025 - spot yourself in our gallery of rockers | Andrew Whitton Photo Sales
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Cracking photos capture Download Festival 2025 - spot yourself in our gallery of rockers | Andrew Whitton Photo Sales
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82 rocking photos from Download Festival
Download 2025 brought the noise, the mud, and the memories - and now the official photo gallery is live! From epic main stage moments to late-night campsite chaos, these photographers captured the magic (and mayhem) all weekend long. Whether you were headbanging at the barrier, chilling on the hill, or covered in glitter and dust somewhere in between, you might just find yourself in the mix. See more coverage from Download Festival via our sister website DerbyWorld. Dive into the gallery and relive the riffs, the weather, and the roar of the crowd. Soak up the Download energy all over again with these photographs taken by Download Festival photographers. 1 . Download Festival 2025 Cracking photos capture Download Festival 2025 - spot yourself in our gallery of rockers | James Bridle Photo Sales 2 . Download Festival 2025 Cracking photos capture Download Festival 2025 - spot yourself in our gallery of rockers | Andrew Whitton Photo Sales 3 . Download Festival 2025 Cracking photos capture Download Festival 2025 - spot yourself in our gallery of rockers | Andrew Whitton Photo Sales 4 . Download Festival 2025 Cracking photos capture Download Festival 2025 - spot yourself in our gallery of rockers | Andrew Whitton Photo Sales
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Woman sings on stage with Green Day at Download Festival
A woman who sang on stage with Green Day at Download festival said the experience "was a real big blast".India Barton was seeing the band for the ninth time on Friday when she was invited on stage at Donington Park in Leicestershire to sing their hit, Know Your 27-year-old, from Ely, Cambridgeshire, said the experience of getting to meet and sing with lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong was "crazy". She said it was her sixth time attending the event, which she described as "a really friendly festival". "I'm a really big Green Day fan, and I know that at all their gigs for one specific song, they always pull someone up to sing," Ms Barton said."So me, my dad, my boyfriend and my best friend, we all had this plan to just get me on there."I spoke to everybody in the crowd, and I was like, when I go on someone's shoulders, can you all point at me?"So as soon as the song started, I went up, and everyone around me was just pointing. I was waving the pom-poms, and then it worked."Ms Barton said she lost her voice on Wednesday, two days before she got up on stage."When it came to the Friday and I was getting on the stage, all I was thinking was, 'oh, my God, I haven't got a voice. What am I going to do? I'm just going to have to squeal'."It was one of those moments where I thought, I'm just going to have to go for this. So I just went."When we were leaving, I had so many people coming up to me, saying, you were amazing and stuff."Thousands of rock fans attended the festival, which also saw performances by Korn, Sleep Token, Weezer and McFly.
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'I still get nervous' says Download's heavy metal hairdresser
The self-styled "Heavy Metal Hairdresser" spent the weekend clipping the locks of rock royalty at Donington Park's Download Tuckwell, from Ilkeston, Derbyshire, has built up a reputation as a demon barber with his alternative and metal-themed salon in has looked after the locks of the likes of Slipknot singer Corey Taylor and last year's Download headliners Avenged Sevenfold, been invited to join bands on tour, and even sells his own 2025, the festival invited him along for the whole weekend - and Simon said "honestly I still can't quite believe it". "I do get quite nervous because I'm a massive metal fan," he told the BBC."I look up to these bands and I've listened to them since I was a kid some of them, so I feel that immense pressure to look after them."They're going to be seen in front of 100,000 people and however many at home on these giant screens so I have to make sure their hair looks absolutely killer." Over the weekend Simon and his Access All Haireas set-up hosted the likes of Sikth, Shinedown and headliners said: "I've been a huge Korn fan since I was about 14, they were the first CD that I bought with my own money that I'd made, I've got Korn tattoos - but I have to play it really cool when I go and do the hair."We've had some incredible bands but again it's when they come and sit in the chair, you know these huge rock stars, they're just people aren't they."I talk to them about their families, their tour schedule, what they're looking forward to when they get home because some of them have been on tour for months." Fringe festival He continued: "With music in general but especially in the rock and metal scene, hair is synonymous with the look. It's big, it's grungy, they want to look really cool."We do a lot of beard trims while we're here at Download and we make sure that the hair looks incredible, - some of them have been on the road for months so they just want someone to look after them."Watching all of these really quaffed metal heads going out on stage has been a highlight of the weekend." After the Castle Donington festival gig, it's back to the day job now for that often involves being invited on tour or backstage to arena said: "We now have bands that request for us to go out on tour with them, which is the closest I will ever get to being a rock star, and we do a lot of the arena shows, especially if they come through Nottingham."I've really carved out this incredible metal and alt community. I have people come to my salon in Nottingham and they literally travel sometimes from all over the world to come and get a haircut"We've been able to really help people find their identity, we've helped people build their confidence, change their look and honestly I would never get bored of it because it's incredible to watch somebody grow and see them change in the chair."It's been a dream come true."
