Download Pilot review – a joyful noise for fans and bands

Donington Park, LeicestershireExuberant scenes at the rock and metal festival test event find its 10,000 guinea pigs leaving Covid blues far behindWhen was the last time rock’n’roll felt this important? With the world starved of concerts, all eyes are on Download Pilot to roadmap the future of live music post-Covid. Granted, the three days are a shell of the festival’s usual fare; only 10,000 – one-11th of Donington Park capacity – descended upon a shrunken site thi