![]() Bizzle wasn't afraid of a challenge, though: he stepped up magnificently, playing a rowdy set that won the crowd over so decisively that he was roared back on stage for a quick run through of his verse from Gallows' cover of The Ruts' Staring At The Rude Boys. ![]() ![]() While some welcomed the different flavour that grime heavyweight Bizzle brought to Donington, others just weren't having it, a mixture of genre snobbery and outright racism polluting the reaction that the rapper received as he walked out on stage. If you thought the whingers had laid into The Prodigy playing Download, you hadn't seen nothin' yet. In 2007 they were arguably the best band in metal, and they turned up on Download’s Main Stage in devastating form, making even Slayer (yes, that Slayer) look ordinary courtesy of a pulverising seven-song set that culminated in a staggering rendition of Davidian. It’s impossible not to think that if Machine Head had carried on the momentum of their The Blackening-era career they surely would have gone on to headline Download. A new force in heavy music had officially arrived. The French extreme metal behemoths blew the roof off the tent with the heaviest riffs heard at Donington that weekend. If you're gonna have to swap them out, though, you really couldn't do better than subbing in Gojira for their first ever major UK festival show. Atlanta's finest were fast becoming recognised as one of the most powerful, exciting metal bands of their generation. Not many bands would have been up to the task of filling in for Mastodon in the mid-2000s. ![]() Prodigy would return to play the (now outdoor) second stage once more in 2009, before headlining the whole festival three years later. Once the band arrived on stage, the place went ballistic: mosh pits immediately opened up, crowd surfers were everywhere and people were even climbing the pillars. Billed opposite a main stage-headlining Guns N' Roses still in their 'Axl-and-friends' era, dance music's most abrasive firestarters brought so many punters to the tent that people were spilling out almost as far as the eye could see. Anyone bemoaning the idea of The Prodigy playing a festival like Download simply hasn't seen The Prodigy. ![]()
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