Ginger & Friends

Ginger has been added to the line up for the 10th anniversary Download Festival at Castle Donington.

Tweeted Ginger: “Hit the tarmac at Stanstead to hear that I’ve been added to the Download bill. Playing big festivals and landing safely make me very happy.”

Details are scant at the moment, but we’ll fill in the blanks as and when we have the information. In the meantime, you can check out the Download announcement here.

Ginger had two glorious appearances at the Download festival last weekend. Firstly with the Michael Monroe band headlining the pepsi max stage. See the download site for Michael Monroe photos

The next day in a welcome diversion from the unexpected rain, Ginger and 8 other acoustic guitar wielders set about rousing the crowd with a succession of Wildhearts classics in a format dubbed ‘guitarmageddeon’. The crowd was in fine voice and Ginger commented afterwards on Twitter: “Back from Download. Had WAAYYY too much fun. Acoustic set was an AMAZING experience. Thank you for being so wonderful”

The full line up was as follows:

• Adam (No Americana)
• Dave Kerr
• Rich Jones
• Billy Morrison
• Ginger
• Jase Edwards
• Chris Catalyst
• Dav (No Americana)
• Tom Spencer
• Denzil (drums)

See the following YouTube links for a few samplers of the mayhem.

• TV Tan
• Geordie In Wonderland
• I Wanna Go Where The People Go
• Sick of Drugs
• Suckerpunch

There are also photos by Mark Lathem

The setlist included:

I Wanna Go Where The People Go
Suckerpunch
Someone That Won’t Let Me Go
Red Light Green Light
Nita Nitro
Sick Of Drugs
TV Tan
29 times the pain
Geordie In Wonderland

Well guys, it looks like the show of support to the Download organisers paid off!

As well as the already scheduled appearance with Michael Monroe on Saturday 12th, Ginger is to headline the Jägermeister acoustic stage on Sunday 13th June.

Ginger will be hitting the stage at 7.20pm – accompanied by Billy Morrison, Chris Catalyst, Jase Edwards and Rich Jones (so far…) – for a half hour set of Wildhearts songs that he’s determined will be “the loudest, most OTT acoustic gig ever, or we will have failed. And we don’t fail. Right?”

So you’ve heard the man: bring your best singing voices and expect mayhem and surprises!

Tickets and more information are available from the Download website.