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    DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL

    May 01, 2019 5 minutes
    REVIEW: MATT DORIA
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    PETER ZALUZNY

    For an event only in its second year, the Australian offshoot of the Download Festival is way more enormous than it has any right to be. Even without a headliner – Ozzy Osbourne was forced to back down mere weeks beforehand due to health complications – the 2019 jaunt was ridiculous in scope, wall-to-wall legends shredding it up across five stages. It was still considerably smaller than the Donnington, UK archetype it’s modelled after, but that’s to be expected for a gamut of reasons the politics of which aren’t worth going in.

    Australian metalheads were spoilt for choice on this sunny Labour Day long weekend – as were punks, emos, goths and rockaholics – and by midday, the Flemington Racecourse was swarming with puppy-like excitement.

    Things kicked off on a poignant, if slightly lowkey note with Tassie underdogs, whose crushingly catchy blend of melodic punk and pub-rock had fists pumping in droves, and good vibes rushing through us all. Their coltish energy was infectious, and made a lustrous prologue to the scuzzy, sloppy fun of the British menaces in . Brash and abrasive, yet strikingly upbeat and with a palpable positivity that distinguished them from their peers, the duo delivered a set we could’ve fawned over for hours.

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