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Here’s when the first Download Festival 2026 line-up announcement is happening
The countdown is on… Download Festival will be making their first big line-up announcement in exactly one month’s time.
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Download Festival 2026 reveal first announcement date and time
Set your alarms, people: not only do we know the date the Download line-up is dropping, but also the exact time, too!
- Words:
- Emily Garner
- Photo:
- Todd Owyoung
After confirming their first major announcement date, Download Festival have just revealed the exact time of their planned 2026 line-up drop.
Donington-goers will get to find out everything about DLXXIII on Monday, November 3 at the very specific time of 9:15pm (GMT, obvs). For the past couple of years, Download have unveiled all the headliners plus around 80 or 90 additional bands for the undercard, so let’s hope we get that big a chunk of a reveal this time around, too.
Sharing a graphic of the announcement last night, the fest posted: “That’s 482 hours, or roughly 2.4million heartbeats and 14,413 line-up guesses from Downloaders.”
Download Festival 2025 saw Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn all step up as headliners for the first time, while elsewhere PRESIDENT made their live debut, McFly filled out the Avalanche Stage and Malevolence played a surprise set. On top of that, Weezer, Within Temptation, Rise Against, Don Broco, Sex Pistols, Shinedown, Bullet For My Valentine, Lorna Shore, Spiritbox and so many more had incredible performances.
Download Festival takes place from June 10 – 14, 2026.
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