Big Green Coach are back as our Official Travel Partner – for the 11th year!

Early bird coach seats are now on sale – book Weekend Return travel and you can choose to arrive Wednesday or Thursday, and they’ll get you home on Monday morning.

As always, their services are carbon neutral and will drop you right at the gates, ensuring you don’t miss a minute of action.

WEEKEND SERVICES

If you’re camping up for the weekend then leave the car at home, mosh til you drop and forget that long drive home on Monday.

SECURE YOUR SEATS FOR JUST £1!

PAYMENT PLAN

Not only can you secure you seat for just £1, you can split the cost of your seat monthly!

Our pick up locations: Aberdeen, Basildon, Basingstoke, Bath, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Bournemouth, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cardiff, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Crawley, Dartford (Bluewater), Doncaster, Dundee, Dunfermline, Durham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Gillingham, Glasgow, Gloucester, Hamilton, Hull, Ipswich, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Victoria Coach Station), Luton, Manchester (City Centre), Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Newport, Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Poole, Portsmouth, Preston, Reading (Calcot), Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Southampton, Stockport, Sunderland, Swansea, Swindon, Taunton, Warrington, Wigan and Worcester.

DAY SERVICES

Will be on sale at a later date.

Add Drop Down Below Big Green Coach: By Car Share

Car sharing is a fun, easy, cheap and sustainable way to travel! If you’re travelling to the festival by car, sign up to Download Liftshare to offer your empty seats and get FREE access to our priority car park to get you closer to the action!

Looking for a lift?

Sign up to Download Liftshare to find your match and share the festival excitement.

Travelling to the festival makes up 80% of the total carbon emissions generated (source: The Show Must Go On Report, 2015). You could travel by lower carbon forms of travel such as coach, train with direct shuttle buses to the festival or carshare to help reduce this. See our travel page for all options.

Travelling to the festival makes up 80% of the total carbon emissions generated (source: The Show Must Go On Report, 2015). You could travel by lower carbon forms of travel such as coach, train with direct shuttle buses to the festival or carshare to help reduce this. See our travel page for all options

Help us save the planet, one festival at a time – we’re looking for volunteers who are full of energy, passionate about the environment and enjoy engaging with people about green issues.

If you would like to register your interest to volunteer, please email gmessengers@festivalrepublic.com and we will let you know when applications for 2024 open.

The Eco-Camp provides space for its campers to connect with and respects nature.

In this place, we want to create a community within a community. A community who value spending time in the beautiful fields just as much as listening to their favourite bands with their favourite people. This is a place where everyone wants to keep their camp clean and recycling is second nature, a place to meet like-minded people and get inspiration about how to live in a positive way. Where everything that is brought in is taken away again, and only experience and memories remain.

There is no extra cost to stay in The Eco-Camp, it just requires every guest to sign up to the following principles:

1.     All guests agree to being responsible for their gear and take responsibility for any waste they produce.

2.     All guests agree to separate their recyclables in the recycling facilities and put any residual waste in the bins provided.

3.     All guests agree to leave the Eco-Camp exactly as they found it. All camping equipment that is brought in must be taken home again.

4.     Most importantly! Guests are encouraged to have fun, play, explore, respect fellow campers, and enjoy the wonderful, natural surroundings.

Get your tickets here

In order to access the Eco-Camp, persons must also hold a valid weekend camping ticket to Liquid Death Presents Download Festival. As such it is understood that you must adhere to the festival terms and conditions.

Only bring what you can take home with you!  When packing ready for the festival weekend, remember to pack wisely and only bring essential items.

The reality is the majority of abandoned tents end up in incineration because it is impossible to recycle or reuse them all.

Say no to single use, reuse your tent!  Buy a durable tent that you can use again each year, it will save you money in the long run.

It’s that time of the year again, but before you make a panic buy and end up with the world’s wettest tent, why not read our handy guide to buying the ultimate tent?

Firstly, do you need to buy one? If you’re travelling far via train or plane, then carrying lots of stuff can be difficult. Have you check out all our pre-pitched and tent hire services yet?

If you are set on buying a tent then make sure you read through the guide below to ensure your tent is ready to make it through the many festival seasons.

Splurge a little

It might be tempting to get a cheap tent, but it probably won’t last you the weekend. We recommend investing in one that can actually survive a bit of rain and won’t fall to pieces when someone inevitably trips over the guide ropes at night.

Do some digging

Look up your tent online, read some reviews, see what people have to say about it.

Don’t get soggy!

Some tents are more waterproof than others, and you DEFINITELY want to be on the more side. Always look out for the HH rating (which apparently stands for hydrostatic head…of course). This tells you how much water the tent can handle before it starts to leak, and you wake up soggy. You generally want to get one with a higher rating than HH1500. We’d recommend a HH3000 one to stay warm and dry. No one wants a soggy bottom.

Get to know your tent

How is it that it always feels like it takes 10 minutes to put a tent up but 5 years to take it back down? Don’t worry, we’ve all been there, and it’s probably just because you don’t know your tent. Give it a test run before the festival and become a tent packing pro.

It’s not that hard

Take your tent home – it’s that simple. Make it easier on yourself and the environment, invest in a tent that you can use for years to come, and after you’ve used it, take it HOME!

If you have any broken tents chairs, gazebos and empty batteries, please take them to the Recycling Points. Any non-perishable, unopened, food or hygiene products can be donated at the AirHub after the festival.

Music Festivals have an impact on the environment because of the transport taken, energy they use, waste generated, water use as well as the food and drink consumed. The Show Must Go On Report 2020 shows that the biggest impacts are travel, energy and waste.

As set out in our Festival Charter we have a responsibility to preserve the live music experience for generations to come and the opportunity to use our platform to inspire global environmental action.

We are also proud to be one of the Vision: 2025 Festival’s committed to reducing our carbon emissions. You can read more about the Vision: 2025 pledge here.

From 2016 to 2019 Download has participated in Creative Green Certification. This is an external assessment by Julie’s Bicycle– a charity who support the creative industries to act on climate change – to measure our understanding, commitment and improvement towards environmental sustainability. In 2019 we achieved an awesome four out of five stars for a second year in a row! Read the 2019 report here. Although the green certification has stopped, we haven’t! Year on year we measure our carbon emissions. In 2022 we made the switch to using 100% Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil green diesel which emits up to 90% less greenhouse gas emissions.

We’ve made it easy for you to have the best time at Liquid Death Presents Download Festival while reducing your environmental impact.

As part of our ongoing commitment to reduce Liquid Death Presents Download Festival’s greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2025 we have been working hard to phase out single use plastic at Liquid Death Presents Download Festival.

The world has seen the impacts of plastic pollution on our oceans – turtles eating plastic, seabirds feeding plastic to chicks and now studies show microplastics in UK rivers which are not only a source of life for otters, freshwater fish and birds like kingfishers but there is growing concern they are becoming plastic waterways pumping pollution through our towns and villages and into our oceans.

Here’s what we’ve put in place to work towards eliminating single use plastic at the festival. We’re asking Downloaders to please work with us and dispose of what plastic is on site responsibly:

Please think about the single use plastic you bring! You probably don’t need to bring it.

• We encourage you to bring empty sports or metal refillable bottles of any size to refill at the water points inside the arena for free.
• Plastic cutlery will not be allowed in the main arena
• We have increased the amount of cans we serve over the bar
• All paper cups, cans and bottles sold in the arena have a 10p deposit included in the price which you can redeem at the refund points in the arena, on either cash or card (minimum 5 for 50p)
• We have banned all single use plastic cutlery and serveware at the festival for 10 years

We run a three-bin system at the festival, which means bin station in the campsite and village will be formed by 3 bins:

FOOD AND COMPOSTABLE PACKAGING
When you buy food from the traders, everything your food comes in is compostable so plates, cutlery and napkins can be placed in the compost bins along with the food scraps. Please make sure NO PLASTIC goes into the compost.

BOTTLES BEER CUPS AND CANS
Plastic bottles, aluminium cans, newspapers, magazines and clean and dry cardboard (no used greasy pizza boxes as these do not recycle).

EVERYTHING ELSE
There should be minimal left over that goes into General Waste.