Debuting on TV in 1983 with Bad News Tour, the low-key comedy exercise became a reality-straddling metal phenomenon when the four bewigged comedians played Donington Monsters Of Rock in 1986. I went to this festival too. I remember my brother saying it could get lively…little did I know. we were moved out the back area to join the concert crowd once we had got the all clear … was scary one guy was still being worked on by us …. It’s a great feeling knowing you’re already at a festival the night before it starts. I was at Donington it was a fucking shambles king Edward spuds flying all over, I also remember it raining full pint pots which meant looking over your shoulder constantly or moving back out of range. Helloween were made target of plastic bottles filled with mud and/or piss. Often credited as Castle Donington or Donington Castle. 1987's More Bad News shows the band re-forming for a one-off concert, then signing a record contract and eventually playing the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donnington, where they are beaten up by the notoriously unforgiving crowd. Unfortunately, it was the first time I drove to the event and made the mistake of exiting the M1 at J23. Now known as The Download Festival, the annual pilgrimage of UK Heavy Metal fans to a field outside Nottingham (Castle Donington) is as essential a rite de passage for every wearer of denim and leather and dodger of soap as is an Eton Education to a future King or posting photos of themselves shoplifting on Facebook is to a British teenager. Wheatcroft declined to comment, but the Telegraph said that if the 85-year-old has "lost faith in Gillett, this could be a big blow to Donington's attempt to stage the British GP". Here’s how to get it fixed! at 1.00am which got us to Donington at some crazy early hour. The main thing that REALLY puzzles me is what the 1989 line could have looked like. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Sod it. Funnily enough, I don’t remember ANY rain at all during the day. We are the four horsemen of the Rock Apocalypse, leaders and saviours of the wild ride to oblivion and ecstacy. I clearly remember walking back to the campsite afterwards (much fun was had there the night before – as you say, none of this fortunes-for-a-ticket ‘glamping’ nonsense back then. I returned to the B&B where I was staying and I found my friend worried because he had heard the news from the telly and I, having gotten lost, arrived very late at night. Of course Maiden was the biggie for me, I remember buying Can I play with madness single and it had ‘only Uk appearance on it’ so it was a must for me. We went to information points to find more details but nothing. and it was obvious there were still crowd control issues throughout that day. Apparently this was a new concession to campers by the organisers: a reaction to people tearing down trees without permission the previous year. – but Maiden had a great sound and light show…. Hi Karen, when you say “pulled out” do you mean you were being trampled ? The biggest gig we played so far is 80 - seven. Killed the mood, yet there were still huge crowds pressing to get on the buses. Marketplace . The whole event should have been cancelled immediately they realised, not just out of respect but to prevent other possible fatalities. Great comments too. yep traffic was mental around m1 in Nottingham-shire but got there on time. Curious to see Kiss playing before Maiden (when the situation was reversed 8 years earlier), which of course blew up the stage, and not with the fireworks at the end. Comes with 32 page booklet. I was only 14 when I went with my older brother. ( Log Out / The thought of their terrible demise, being trampled in that mud is so very distressing (especially as I’m now a mother of two teenage boys, with all the fears you have for their safety). I’ve never been to a big music festival and I’m not sure if I’d like it or not. My first trip abroad (from Italy) by motorbike – a Ducati Indiana 650 – with a friend: England, Ireland, Scotland and – on the way back home – Castle Donington, of course under a black sky that had poured everything and more on the hill facing the stage, making it as slippery as if it were covered with oil. A fiver got us a space to pitch up so we could drink, sing and explode cans of unopened baked beans on our own bonfire all through the night – rock n roll!) Just horrific and I’m so grateful to have survived it. This release has been blocked from sale in the marketplace. At the end of the set Axle says ‘ cheers, don’t f’ing kill yourselves’. My friend stayed against the barrier all during Gn’R and didn’t see me get yanked out, but we met up at the Dunlop bridge after Gn’R and we revelled at how fucking great they were. Rise to stardom since the bill was announced. Guns n Roses at Donington '88 - The Triumph and The Tragedy. Helloween kicked off the day well. Since they had been named fifth on the bill, however, Sweet Child of Mine had gone ballistic and they were suddenly looking as uncomfortably out of place as a famine survivor on Maria Carey’s Live 8 stage.
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