BABYMETAL crashes the music festival of a promoter who hates them … cause fuck it

BABYMETAL has surprisingly earned a bunch of respect (or at least attention) in the metal world recently, but Andy Coppin of Download Festival is certainly not among those that enjoy the band.

@G_Bentley @robwillsher @BABYMETAL_JAPAN There's a time & a place for Baby Metal. Each to their own but Download Festival is not it — Andy Copping (@Maverick_AC) July 28, 2014

@Amazing_Pete Yep, it's a no from me…another Japanese novelty fad. It works in their homeland & I have big respect for that — Andy Copping (@Maverick_AC) April 7, 2014

@bryanmcknight_ For all the wrong reasons, like they did for PSY — Andy Copping (@Maverick_AC) March 17, 2014

Despite their growing profile since those tweets, they still weren’t invited to the festival, and that must’ve made it real weird when BABYMETAL crashed his event unannounced cause fuck it.

And then Dragonforce shared a stage with them.

Just seen Baby Metal hanging around backstage at Download?? What is going on?? @DownloadFest #DL2015 @BABYMETAL_JAPAN — Andy Copping (@Maverick_AC) June 12, 2015

Gotta appreciate trolling like this.