--- title: "Blink-182 to headline Download Festival 2027 at England’s Donington Park with Evanescence" url: https://badiyaa.com/blink-182-download-festival-2027-headline/ published: 2026-11-14T01:48:00+00:00 modified: 2026-11-14T01:48:00+00:00 section: Entertainment publisher: Badiyaa --- # Blink-182 to headline Download Festival 2027 at England’s Donington Park with Evanescence Blink-182 will headline Download Festival 2027 at Donington Park in England, sharing the top of the bill with Bring Me the Horizon and Evanescence. Blink-182 will headline Download Festival 2027, England’s biggest rock weekend. The festival named the California pop-punk trio as one of its three headliners alongside Bring Me the Horizon and Evanescence, with more than 90 other acts already on the bill for next June at Donington Park in Leicestershire. The 2027 event is the 24th Download. The festival’s own site lists the gates as open from June 9 to 13, which includes the camping days, with the main music running June 11 to 13. A presale for tickets is already under way. ## The band that reunited, again For Blink-182, the booking caps a comeback that has run since late 2022. Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker are the line-up most fans know, but DeLonge has left the band twice over the years. Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba filled the guitar spot from 2015 to 2022, and DeLonge’s return was announced on October 11, 2022, alongside a world tour that stretched across two years. The reunion album, *One More Time…*, arrived on October 20, 2023, and went to No. 1 in the US. A deluxe edition followed in September 2024, and both Hoppus and DeLonge said in spring 2025 that the trio was writing new material. The band formed in Poway, outside San Diego, in 1992 and has sold an estimated 50 million albums worldwide. ## A bill with deep Download roots What makes the 2027 headliners interesting is how far back two of them go with the festival. Evanescence were on the main stage on the Sunday of the very first Download in 2003, the same year the band broke through internationally. Bring Me the Horizon worked their way up from the smaller stages in the 2000s and already topped the bill in 2023, when Download stretched to four days for its 20th anniversary and Metallica headlined twice. Blink-182’s booking also keeps a pop-punk thread running through the top of the poster. Here is how the last three years of headliners compare: - 2025: Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn - 2026: Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses and Linkin Park - 2027: Blink-182, Bring Me the Horizon and Evanescence That means two of the most famous California pop-punk bands of the late 1990s, Green Day and Blink-182, will have headlined Donington within three years of each other. The pair once toured together, co-headlining the Pop Disaster Tour in 2002. ## What Download is For readers outside Britain: Download has been held every June since 2003 at Donington Park, a motor-racing circuit next to East Midlands Airport. It was set up as the successor to Monsters of Rock, which ran on the same site from 1980 to 1996, and it now pulls 75,000 to 80,000 fans in a typical year across a site of about 900 acres. Live Nation owns the festival, and Far and Beyond Events took over running it from 2023. The UK festival calendar is filling up early. In the US, Coachella has already moved on to ticket sales, as we covered in our story on [Coachella 2027 passes going on sale with VIP from $1,349](https://badiyaa.com/coachella-2027-passes-sale-november-13/). More concert and festival news sits in our [Entertainment section](https://badiyaa.com/category/entertainment/). Download’s organizers have not yet said which night each headliner will play. With 90-plus acts already named and seven months to go, the 24th Donington weekend opens on June 9, 2027. ## Further reading - [Wikipedia: Download Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Festival) - [Wikipedia: Blink-182](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink-182) *Image: micadew, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons* *This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. [How we work](https://badiyaa.com/editorial-policy/).*