{"id":638672,"date":"2026-06-14T18:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638672\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:51:12","slug":"download-festival-2026-mayhem-in-18-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638672\/","title":{"rendered":"Download festival 2026 mayhem in 18 photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2026 edition of Download Festival is well under way &#8211; and this year it truly is a monster of rock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Glastonbury on a fallow year, Donington Park in Leicestershire is hosting the biggest festival in the UK this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Headliners Limp Bizkit performed on Friday, with Guns N&#8217; Roses topping the bill on Saturday and Linkin Park set to close out the three days in the arena on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And with an almost total sell-out, it&#8217;s been a busy one, as our photo gallery shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 edition of Download Festival is well under way &#8211; and this year it truly is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-638672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}