Met up with Tom and we headed for Donington today for day one of the Download festival. Got to the hotel and checked in and were told that the hotel bar closes at midnight so in our entrepreneurial way we went and stocked the room with alcohol to possibly make money with thirsty drinkers later. We were like a couple of contestants on the Apprentice!

Made it to the site in time to do my first scheduled band Billy Talent. Had no space to put a computer down in the media tent which was handy seeing as we needed to upload everything as we shoot for the review! Had enough cards to get through the day which was packed with Killswitch Engage, Korn, Faith No More, and of course Limp Bizkit. Now I think I've mentioned it before that I find testimonials that photographers put up on their website to be absolute cheese! I might be able to fill a website with them too but on today's occasion I thought I would do the opposite. Was told by a particular lead person that he didn't really like any of the pictures in the feature. I was told just didn't like any of them when I asked if there was anything in particular... Brilliant! Got the lowdown from the manager after who didn't seem to bothered...

Left as Faith No More were finishing so we could get back to the hotel to sort out all the images from today. Back at the hotel Tom and I realized we would have been fired had we been contestants on the Apprentice as they kept the bar open all night long...

Would love to put up my favorite shot of the day (a Limp Bizkit one) but I'm sure it will be STOLEN by a load of fan sites and posted all over the Internet. Check the mag on Wednesday for it but in the meantime here's a shot of the best numbered pit security man!