Download is now only three weeks away, and if you haven't got your tickets yet, your chances of going are decreasing.
This week camping sold out, leaving just weekend and day tickets up for grabs.
For more information on Download, including news, interviews with performers, gig reviews and photos as wel as the line-up as it currently stand, check out our
Download Site.
If you fancy going to download but don't feel like paying, we might be able to help. Room Thirteen is currently running a competition with prizes including tickets to one of the days, plus an even more desirable prize of forty-eight Snickers bars! To find out how you could be off to the festival, or how we can help you get nice and fat for the summer
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While we're in the giving mood, if you don't fancy download but Wireless is more your thing, you have until Monday 29th May to win a pair of tickets to the day of your choice. The headliners include Strokes, Massive Attack and Depeche Mode in London, and Massive Attack also head to leeds to paly on the same weekend as the Who. To enter
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In other news this week, the line-up for the dance stage at the Carling Weekend was announced.
Now only one day, the stage will run on Friday at Leeds and Reading on Sunday (the day Pearl Jam headline). For the list of names confirmed to be appearing
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Some big names will be appearing at the Bulldog Bash, billed as Europe's biggest biker party.
Paradise Lost, Hundred Reasons, Skindred, The Answer and the Almighty are some of the acts appearing over the weekend of August 10-13 at Shakespeare County Raceway in Warwickshire.
Four more have been added to V. The new names for Chelmsford and Stafford are The Divine Comedy, Kula Shaker, Nerina Pallot, and Shack.
The line-up for Latitude grows ever longer. The latest additions are Tom Verlaine, British Sea Power, Guillemots, Stephen Fretwell, Crimea, Cord, Giant Drag, Polly Scattergood and New Cassettes.
Latitude has three live music arenas, and will be headlined by Snow Patrol, Antony & The Johnsons and Mogwai. Others appearing include Patti Smith, Jose Gonzalez, The Lemonheads, Mystery Jets, Zutons, Mercury Rev and Larrikin Love. All will be appearing over the weekend of July 14-16th at Henham Park in Suffolk.
The first acts for the Somerset House series in Central London have been announced.
They include Elbow, Jose Gonzalez and Robert Plant. Find out more
Here.
This weekend Great Escape, the event billed as the UK's answer to South By South West in Texas is going on in Brighton. Meanwhile the Evolution Festival in Newcastle was launched on Thursday by two gigs from the Futureheads. The first was an acoustic set at the Sage, the second a more conventional rock show at the Academy.
The event continues with a series of impressive acts on the bill, including Hard-Fi who are headlining the main Imagination Stage on Bank Holiday Monday: that event is free.
Festivals on sale as of 20th May:
Across the Tracks, ATP Nightmare Before Xmas, Beautiful Days, Bestival, Bloodstock, Bulldog Bash, Carling Weekend (day and coach packages), Collision Course, Creamfields, Damnation Festival, Download, Eastern Haze, Eden Sessions, Electric Gardens, Electric Picnic, Full Pontey, Get Loaded in the Park (Cardiff and London), Global Gathering, Gosforth Gathering, Guilfest, Hi: Fi, Hyde Park Calling, Isle of Skye Music Festival, Latitude, Lovebox, Monsters of Rock, Somerset House Summer Series, Sound Station, Summer Sundae, Tartan Heart, T on the Fringe, TDK Cross Central, Wakestock and Wireless.