Obtain Competition points warning as wet climate turns Donington Park into mudbath
Obtain Competition has issued a warning as wet climate has turned Donington Park right into a mudbath.
The Leicestershire pageant might be celebrating its closing day within the wake of some torrential rains which have hit the UK – and now, the pageant have taken to social media to publish a press release.
“Driving to Obtain at the moment?,” the assertion started. “The climate has affected circumstances within the South Automobile Park. Your arrival and departure at the moment could also be slower, so please put together with drinks, snacks and any medicine it’s possible you’ll want. Site visitors is presently transferring steadily. If you happen to want help, please flip in your hazard lights.”
Aong with inflicting visitors points for festivalgoers attempting to succeed in the venue, the rain has created extraordinarily muddy circumstances for these already on the pageant.
Obtain has generated a lot mud that even Pantera referenced the sludgey fields in a tweet exhibiting a snippet of their set: “We had a good time at the moment at Obtain! Right here’s a glimpse of our efficiency. Hope you guys had enjoyable within the mud.”
Check out some pictures of the park under:
Driving to Obtain at the moment?
The climate has affected circumstances within the South Automobile Park. Your arrival and departure at the moment could also be slower, so please put together with drinks, snacks and any medicine it’s possible you’ll want.
Site visitors is presently transferring steadily. If you happen to want help, please flip… pic.twitter.com/Pty4gC8GAD
— Obtain Competition (@DownloadFest) June 16, 2024
Our first Obtain mud angel 😇 #DLXXI pic.twitter.com/mNVKCeUGuK
— Planet Rock (@PlanetRockRadio) June 16, 2024
The bottom at @DownloadFest is actually sludge at this stage! We’re all simply mud folks now! #Download #Download2024 #Download24 #DownloadXXI pic.twitter.com/ryXoWOlHEH
— Fran Foley Winston (@Celticpussycat) June 15, 2024
Obtain pageant, mud all over the place pic.twitter.com/zuJyRj15BL
— kisvig (@kisvig) June 15, 2024
We had a good time at the moment at Obtain! Right here’s a glimpse of our efficiency. Hope you guys had enjoyable within the mud 🤘🏻
📹: @metaldavemedia #pantera #downloadfestival #castledonington pic.twitter.com/UBZrqluOcP
— Pantera (@Pantera) June 15, 2024
The pageant beforehand issued a warning earlier this month as a consequence of “unprecedented” congestion ultimately yr’s pageant.
There have been main delays on the encircling roads, together with the M1, A50 and A453, as festivalgoers descended on Donington Park in Leicestershire final yr. Some followers stated it took them as much as seven hours to get on the location, whereas in response to the chief of Leicestershire County Council, round 600 folks missed flights on the close by East Midlands Airport as a consequence of visitors jams.
75,000 persons are anticipated to attend Obtain this weekend. The pageant has been working from June 14-16.
Obtain Competition booker Andy Copping has teased {that a} “massive band” will carry out a shock set at this yr’s version of the pageant.
The booker revealed the information throughout an hour-long present on Planet Rock referred to as Andy Copping’s Secrets of Download, saying: “In some years we’ve had some secret units from completely different bands – Enter Shikari, Black Stone Cherry, Bullet For My Valentine. However one of many very particular secret units, which form of, I suppose, units all of it off, was Metallica again on the very first Obtain (in) 2003,” he stated.
He went on to tease: “One factor’s for positive, you’ve bought to maintain your eyes and ears peeled for this yr at Obtain as a result of, sure, we have now one other band coming in doing a secret set. One thing very, very particular. Huge band. So look out for that.”
In the meantime, quite a lot of bands have dropped out of this yr’s version as a result of pageant’s former ties with Barclays, and the financial institution’s function within the Israel-Palestine battle.
Pest Management have been the primary band to pull out of the Donington Park pageant, saying that they might not “participate in an occasion whose sponsor income from facilitating a genocide.” Scowl, Velocity and Zulu all boycotted the pageant later, in addition to Enter Shikari.
The variety of boycotts finally led to Barclays pulling out of quite a lot of festivals together with Obtain, Latitude and Isle of Wight.
In different information, Bambie Thug has devoted their cowl of The Cranberries’ ‘Zombie’ to these in Palestine at Obtain.