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You can still get standing tickets for the Friday London show through the London Stadium site  

3 minutes ago, CAFC Nick said:

Hmm - what's the source? Looked back through a page or 2 and can see people mention it but no-one cites any source. For people not familiar, download normally trickle the headliners over a number of weeks and then the rest of the line up in the new year.

news article on the website

"This just in. Your official Download Festival 2017 headliners will be announced next Thursday, 3rd November at 7pm!

We can't wait to share with you the three headliners that will take to Donington for Download 2017, alongside a whole host of other great acts."

it doesn't necessarily have to be an exclusive, i don't think. they could quite easily do dates at wembley as well as download, it's just whether they'd want to.

it's interesting to see that download and hellfest haven't announced anything though, with rock am ring still with a headliner to announce.  

this is what it says on the website 

"This just in. Your official Download Festival 2017 headliners will be announced next Thursday, 3rd November at 7pm!

We can't wait to share with you the three headliners that will take to Donington for Download 2017, alongside a whole host of other great acts."

apparently all the download headliners are being announced at once, which is different to any other year i can think of. guess they want to announce the bunch seeing that other euro fests have announced all theirs. did GnR get announced with the rest of the coachella lineup or did they have a separate announcement?