


In the end just one of the 25,000 punters wanted their money back, and Download’s debut was deemed an overwhelming success. ‘We were a headliner down in our first year, which was a complete disaster,’ he says.

Festival booker Andy Copping was convinced it was going to be a catastrophe after the headliner, Limp Bizkit, cancelled just weeks before. So just like the IRL event, you had to be there… And there has been a festival every year since, including during the pandemic, when virtual events were staged with the launch of Download TV, which, despite its name, couldn’t be downloaded to watch at a later date. Tickets in that first year included a special code that allowed festival-goers to download tracks for free. Turning to the lifx component implementation in HA Core, it seems that HA actually gets the state information from each zone in the updatecolorzones () method by calling getcolorzones () from the aiolifx module. Three years earlier, Metallica had successfully sued Napster (then a peer-to-peer filesharing pioneer). Back in 2003, downloading music was still a controversial concept. Glad you asked: the reason makes for an interesting trip down a musical memory lane. These days it has grown into a four-day spectacular and has, in the past, spawned spin-off events in Paris, Sydney, Melbourne and Germany. Download spans four days but used to be a two day camping festival (Picture: Joseph Okpako/WireImage)
