Who was the founder of the British rock festival that featured "massive technological surveillance by police" in 2015?
Download Festival Download Festival is a British rock festival, held annually at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England, since 2003. It is the most popular British summer rock and heavy metal festival and has hosted some of the genres' biggest names, including Saxon, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Kiss, Judas Priest, Status Quo, Mötley Crüe, Journey, ZZ Top, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, and Guns N' Roses. The 2015 festival featured massive technological surveillance by police in conjunction with festival organizers Live Nation UK. RFID wristbands and facial recognition technology was used to compare visual scans of attendees against a European criminal database.
Dave Beer Dave Beer (born David Michael Beer on 24 January 1965) is a Yorkshire music mogul who achieved notoriety in the 1990s as the promoter of the UK’s longest running club night Back To Basics. In the early days, his passport occupation read "purveyor of good times" and he went on to be nicknamed by music Mixmag as the "King Of Clubs". With his Leeds based club night "Back To Basics", Dave features as one of the youngest men in Leeds City Museum’s exhibition chronicling the popular culture of Leeds.