Is this the most cursed edition of Download to ever go ahead? Optimism for the 2024 edition of the heavy metal festival was at a low from the off, when the two-thirds non-metal trio of Queens of the Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold were announced as headliners. Then, in the week before the event, the smaller stages were gutted by bands such as Pest Control and Ithaca pulling out over the sponsorship of Barclaycard, which has ties to defence companies supplying Israel.
Barclays suspends sponsorship of Download, Latitude and Isle of Wight festivals
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