Download Festival 2023 – Sunday. Whenever a band suffers technical difficulties, you’ve always got to feel for them. It’s inevitably going to happen from time to time, but when it happens to you, it ain’t fun. Dinosaur Pile-Up had such a misfortune which meant their set was delayed 10 minutes, and they had to improvise slightly in regards to quickly changing their set around to give us the best show they could.
As Dinosaur Pile-Up creator and frontman Matthew Bigland stated, “This is fucking bullshit, so we’re gonna have to cut a couple of songs, but we’re gonna give it our all!” And with that, they used their time in the best they could and gave us a set that was loud, grungy and get-in-your-face great.
Their Nirvana-esque style, peppered with heavier elements, shone on The Opus stage, with almost everyone I knew heading over to watch their show.
Each song has its anthemic quality, which no doubt led to some heavy moshing, causing the dust from the heat and the ground to rise above the head-line of their audience.
It’s a shame they were dealt a bad card but totally pulled it out of the bag with the audience response nothing short of tremendous.
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Download Festival 2023
MetalTalk Download 2023 coverage can be found at MetalTalk.net/tag/download-2023
Download 2023 will see the festival celebrate its 20th anniversary with an additional day, meaning four days of live music in total.
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