So are you one of those fans who meticulously checks when their favourite bands are playing and keeps a list so they can get around them all? Or are you one of those people who just camp out in front of one of the four stages at the Download festival and just listen to whoever appears?
There are people who fall into both these categories. But there is a third, comprising of the people who continually move around blindly and listen for a few minutes before moving on again? If you are either of the latter categories then it will not bother you if the band appearances clash - for some people there is nothing worse.
Of course it is inevitable, with four stages all kicking off at roughly the same time and with around 100 bands playing over the three days at Donington Park this weekend from Friday, June 10, through to the end of Sunday, June 12. Differing musical styles and genres will dictate what bands you choose and the organisers are careful not to have too many clashes they know will upset fans.
On Friday, the bands start at 1pm and immediately there is a choice to be made. Is it to be Waywards Sons on the main Apex stage? Or Ayron Jones (Opus stage), Press Club on the Avalanche stage or Heriot (Dogtooth stage)? And so it goes on.
Funeral for A Friend - headlining the Avalanche stage on Saturday night at 7.40pm, overlap with Sepultura on the Dogtooth stage (8.15pm to 8.55pm), Megadeth on the Opus stage (7.30pm to 8.45pm) but fortunately they are all about finished when headliners Iron Maiden take to the main Apex stage at 8.55pm.
On Friday, if you are watching Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes on the Opus stage from 7.35pm to 8.50pm, get ready to run if you don't want to miss the start of headliners Kiss on the main Apex stage, who are due on at 8.50pm. But if The Ghost Inside is your thing then you will miss the start of Kiss because they are not due off the Avalanche stage until 9.10pm.
It's an 11am - 11.15am start on Sunday morning when the competing bands will be Wargasm, Control the Storm, Static Dress and The Injester. Later in the day, there are some interesting clashes that may not bother too many people of differing musical tastes. On the main stage at 6.30pm are American nu metal band KoRn, while rockers The Darkness occupy the Opus stage. There's more British rock on the Avalanche stage with Boston Manor and watching any of those you could miss Twin Temple - American (Satanic) rock and roll/doo-wop duo.
But it all ends with British rockers Biffy Clyro on the main Apex stage on Sunday night when their set kicks off at 9.10pm - by then the last notes of Steel Panther and the Descendents will be dying away - although if you want to hear Us singer and guitarist Myles Kennedy on the Dogtooth stage, you will have to forego Biffy Clyro, as they start at the same time - what a contrast.
So much choice, so little time but if you move fast enough around the site, maybe you will be able to hear a lit bit of everyone - now there's a challenge.
