Metallica‘s participation on Thursday and Saturday at the Download Festival will be recalled fondly by some of the local residents near Donington, England where it took place, but not so much by others.
The group will reap well deserved praise for contributing over $50,000 to the charity Help The Homeless, based in nearby Leicester, through their All Within My Hands Foundation. The money will do immeasurable good for less fortunate locals. The charity’s founder told the BBC that Metallica’s donation was “amazing” and that he was “a bit stunned” by it. He said it had “come at the perfect time as things were looking patchy.”
But many living close — but not even all that close — to the festival grounds will only remember the volume of the band’s sets, which brought noise complaints from as far as 15 miles from the site. These included, according to the Nottingham Post, some from folks who believed it was the result of a loud party at some nearby home.
It’s speculated that higher-than-normal winds may have had something to do with elevating the noise level so that it reached so far from the venue.
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