Download Festival 2025 Review. Mud, music and good vibes were on the agenda at download festival 2025. They’ve not pussyfooted around and over last year and have overhauled the content bringing in even more diversity, and critically, fresh headline artists.

How does it hold up for louder than war’s dave beech and rebecca bush, who are there to find out… The uk’s biggest alternative festival, download, returns to the hallowed grounds of donnington for yet another year.