the guy who was organising download when gnr played in 2006 was fired a couple of years later, and now does sonisphere. he was fired for trying to do sonisphere on the quiet from livenation and poaching their staff to work for him at soni
No he wasn't. Andy Copping was still doing Download this year. There may have been someone higher up than him who got fired, but he's the one in charge of booking bands.
ah yeah, i was thinking galbraith. my bad on that one