[James_86]

Hey guys,

The promoters of Download Festival have started a poll on the official forum asking which bands fans would like to see headline next year's festival. I was mighty suprised to see Bon Jovi in a list of 15 or so artists.

I was more suprised to see at this present time they are ranked fifth, behind only The Foo Fighters, ACDC and a couple others!

Not sure if I'm reading too much in to it, however, surely the promoters wouldn't ask just out of curiosity to then sign a different set of headliners..

..thoughts?

James

[Ollie]

It will come down to lots of things... Most importantly... Are the highest ranked 'wanted headliners' actually touring....

[nikos greece]

its a matter of great interest to me how a band so uncool, with a series of bad albums in the last 5 years, which tanked commercially, with cheap hits from all the critics etc can be such a crowd puller...
its obvious their body of work , all the hits but still...
i still hope they have a great album in them but as years go by i lose faith...
on top of this all, they have overtoured the last 13-14 years and dont yet have the status of old timers/classics like ac dc or springsteen

[dcj28]

Originally Posted by nikos greece

its a matter of great interest to me how a band so uncool, with a series of bad albums in the last 5 years, which tanked commercially, with cheap hits from all the critics etc can be such a crowd puller...
its obvious their body of work , all the hits but still...
i still hope they have a great album in them but as years go by i lose faith...
on top of this all, they have overtoured the last 13-14 years and dont yet have the status of old timers/classics like ac dc or springsteen

It worked for Aerosmith......who don't play regular gigs over here and i dare bet most fans at this year's didn't know anything pre Permanent Vacation.
Plus BJ Didn't have really bad attendances considering Sambora didn't appear on the last tour.

[Captain Walrus]

I would be very suprised if Motley Crue don't do it next year as part of their Final Tour, and if they do then I can't see BJ doing it too.

I've always thought that there's no reason that they couldn't do it ... considering Def Leppard and Aerosmith have headlined twice, I can't particulary see why Andy Copping or the festivalgoers as a whole would particulary have a problem with it, so my guess is that maybe Jon is hesitant to do it

[ticos_stick]

Download would have been the perfect festival for Bon Jovi around ten years ago. But now? I doubt the crowd would care much for the unlistenable, immobile Jon and his merry tribute act.

[TheOriginalJez]

Oh god, can you imagine KOS headlining download?! If Phil has any sense of self-preservation he'll take The Drills instead and probably go over pretty well but that crowd would rip Jon and Bobby to shreds...

[Dave 1986]

I'd be very surprised to ever see Bon Jovi play Download. It would be good for them to headline a real rock/metal festival but I can see a lot of Download fans being turned off at the thought of them headlining.

If they did, they would really have to beef up their set list!