WHAT an opening day of music at this year's Download Festival – where to begin with so much choice and so few words to talk about them? writes Zena Hawley.

Much-anticipated headliners Faith No More have reformed to play a European tour centred around Donington.

It's been 11 years since their much-publicised break-up and aside from a warm-up at the Brixton Academy last Wednesday – their first reappearance together.

Aptly, they started off with the old Peaches and Herb hit Reunited but soon went into their back catalogue with The Real Thing, Epic and Midlife Crisis.

Earlier in the day, Limp Bizkit treated fans to a glimpse into their record archive with Break Stuff, Eat You Alive and their version of George Michael's Faith.

They also invited on stage one ecstatic male fan who had caught lead singer Fred Durst's eye because he was singing to every song and had dressed like him.

Also delighting ardent fans on the main stage yesterday were Korn, who finished just as perennial bad-boy favourites Motley Crue took to stage two.

Earlier in the day Crue member Tommy Lee said: "It's great to back here. Last time [2007] we were in a tent and it was really cosy.

"Tomorrow I am coming back to mix in the crowd and act like a real fan."

On the Tuborg stage Messuggah got their moment and Black Hole headlined on stage four.

With 110 bands to choose from this weekend, it's going to be hard to see all of the them but difficult to decide what to leave out.