Download Festival 2019: Onsite entertainment announced for weekend

Alongside the world’s biggest rock bands, including headliners Def Leppard, Slipknot and Tool, and the high-flying WWE NXT UK, fans will enjoy a stunning array of unique performances, experientials, stalls, food, drink and more at the three-day Donnington Park festival

Heavy metal exercise class RockFit is set to make its festival debut with classes that will see fans throwing shapes and working out to an energising soundtrack featuring AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Metallica as well as acts from the bill like Slipknot, Def Leppard, Slash and Rob Zombie and more.

DO.OMYOGA is back after a successful schedule last year. Fans can practice the ancient Indian practice of Nada Yoga where music and sound become one. Welcoming all to taking a leap into the heavier world of wellness and fitness in a slow vinyasa based practice, the sessions are set to a selection of dark, ‘vibrational’ music, suitable for experts and beginners alike.

The SINDROME Arena will be back this year playing host to a programme of alternative entertainment. Fan favourite, Area 51 and their wandering Caravan of Lost Souls are back with their dark circus sideshow and human curiosities to hype the crowds.

In an official world premiere The Thunderdome comes to Download, where Young Wall of Death stars Luke and Kerri Fox will defy death on a nine-metre mesh wall in their new stunt show.

The hugely popular Demolition Download from Battle Heritage are making the charge back to Donington for a sixth year where medieval fighters from all over Europe will gather to take each other on in battle.

By popular audience demand, festival goers will be able to try their hand at the sport at the Demolition Download workshops featuring Battle Heritage Fighters.

Fans are invited to take part in the UK Air Guitar Championships set to make its grand return to the festival. Attendees can exclusively enter into this internationally recognized competition to gain the chance of becoming the UK’s ultimate 2019 Air Guitar Hero and a shot at the world title in Finland.

Dr Haze, the Undead Ringmaster of The Circus of Horrors, will host the competition and at the end of each heat, performers from the Circus of Horrors will hit the SINDROME Stage.

The Metal Den will allow revellers to lay in hammocks and savour Download’s very first Outdoor Cinema The Metal Screen and its hand curated Cineprogram.

From noon to midnight each day a collection of Arthouse, classic, comedy and documentaries will be screened. As the witching hour strikes the Metal Screens’ resident metal VJ Harry K will take to the decks spinning metal and rock classics into the early hours.

Download’s revered resident tattooists, Old Sarum are on hand ready to ink the masses, for those who want a more permanent memento of their weekend.

Downbload Festival will take place from June 14 to 16 at Donnington Park.

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