Funeral For A Friend, The Distillers added to Download Festival 2020

The 2020 installment of Download Festival was already loaded with acts such as System of a Down, Killswitch Engage, and Babymetal. Today, the organizers shook things up by adding over 40 more acts.

One noticeable act is Funeral For A Friend, who reunited for benefit shows last summer. The band will be headlining the The Avalanche Stage, which also features newly announced band Bowling For Soup. The Main Stage will be rocked by newly added groups Alter Bridge, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, and Wage War. For the Second Stage, The Distillers, Mastodon, and The Darkness will make their presence felt. The Dogtooth Stage will be electrified by performances from Sepultura, Higher Power, and Haken.

You can check the updated festival lineup below. Download Festival takes place at England’s Donington Park from June 12 through June 14. Tickets are on sale right now.

Funeral For A Friend to reunite for benefit shows

Funeral For A Friend have announced today that they’ll be reuniting for a pair of benefit shows.

These shows will help benefit longtime friend Stuart ‘Big Stu’ Brothers, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness that’s given him only a few weeks to live. The benefit shows will help raise money for his family.

The performances will take place on October 28 inside The Globe in Cardiff and October 29 inside Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London. Both shows will find Funeral For A Friend performing material from their 2002-2007 era. To make this special, guitarist Darran Smith and drummer/vocalist Ryan Richards will return for these shows. Smith left the band in 2010 while Richards left in 2012.

Tickets will go on sale Friday at 10am GMT. If you can’t attend the show but still want to donate to the Brothers family, head to their crowdfunding page.

Funeral For A Friend played farewell shows back in 2016.

Funeral For A Friend tour dates

October 28 - Cardiff, UK - The Globe

October 29 - London, UK - Shepherd’s Bush Empire