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Here's tha place for all the chat about this years music festivals including Download, T in the Park etc.  Anyway first concert news about T in the Park and Radio 1s One Big Weekend.

The Verve, Rage Against The Machine and REM have all been announced to headline this year's T in the Park in Scotland.

The festival is being held at Balado in Kinross-shire between 11-13 July.

Other bands who will play over the three days include Kings of Leon, The Fratellis, Kaiser Chiefs, and Stereophonics.

The Verve and KOL have already been confirmed to headline Glastonbury, alongside Jay-Z in June.

It's a return to T for Rage Against The Machine - who played the very first event in Strathclyde Park in 1994.

A host of Scottish talent will be on show, including The Fratellis, KT Tunstall, newcomers Sergeant and Biffy Clyro. James from the band told Newsbeat the band are looking farward to it.

He said: "It's really exciting to be involved again. We've played there loads of times and it's great to be back again.

"I love Rage Against The Machine. The organisers have done really well, they've got some great bands."

Tickets for sale

Compared with just 2000 campers 15 years ago, 60,000 music fans are expected to create Scotland's 5th largest temporary town.

For the first time, a limited number of campers have permission to pitch tents a day early on 10 July.

The first batch of around 40,000 'early bird' tickets sold out in less than 70 minutes.

The rest go on sale 16 February at 9am.

Radio 1's announced that this year's Big Weekend is taking place at Mote Park in Maidstone on 10 and 11 May 2008.

 

Scouting For Girls, who recently hit Number One with their self-titled debut album, have been unveiled as the first act confirmed for the bill.

It's also been announced that a fourth stage will be added this year - the BBC Introducing Stage - which will feature the best new and emerging UK talent selected from new music shows across the BBC.

Hosted by Radio 1's roster of DJs, Radio 1's Big Weekend is the eighth of its kind hosted by the station and the UK's biggest free ticketed music festival.

Tickets for locals

The event will be broadcast on Radio 1 with more performances available to download at www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 and many full live performances available to watch on demand and via the red button on TV.

The site can hold 20,000 people per day and Radio 1 will be making sure the majority of free tickets go to residents of Maidstone and the surrounding Kent area.

To ensure a fair distribution of tickets in the region, Radio 1 will ask listeners to register their details and then select by random based on postcode.

The event of the year

Over the coming months, listeners can keep listening to Radio 1 and logging on to www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 for the full line-up, details on how to register for free tickets and to get answers to frequently asked questions.

Last year's Big Weekend was held in Preston and saw live performances from the likes of the Scissor Sisters, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Mark Ronson, Mika and Stereophonics.



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The Carling Leeds and Reading festival line-ups have been announced:

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Metallica, Rage, Slipknot, QOTSA, Tenacious D, Avenged Sevenfold, Serj Tankian, Bullet For My Valentine........headbang.gif

This looks like the best line-up in years! Pity I'm not going....tears.gif

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Glastonbury Line up announced now too.

The full line-up of musicians to perform at the Glastonbury festival has been revealed.

The Kings of Leon, The Raconteurs and Crowded House will be among the bands taking the top slots on the Pyramid Stage during the three-day event.

Among the other acts listed are Mark Ronson, Panic At The Disco, Massive Attack and Groove Armada.

The list was revealed a day after details were leaked on the internet festivals forum eFestivals.

The Fratellis, KT Tunstall, James Blunt, Shakin' Stevens, The Verve and Goldfrapp are among the other big acts confirmed to play on the largest stage at the festival

On the second Other Stage The Enemy, Massive Attack, Duffy, Hot Chip and Groove Armada will perform.

Headlining the John Peel Stage will be Jamie T and Biffy Clyro.

Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis did not rule out a last-minute appearance by Amy Winehouse in one of the vacant slots.

She also defended the slow ticket sales, saying she was delighted to have sold 100,000 on the first day.

More than 150,000 people attended the event last year, when Arctic Monkeys and The Who were headline acts.

This year, US rapper Jay-Z is to headline this summer event, leading to speculation that a break from the festival's guitar music roots had contributed to the slow ticket sales.

But Ms Eavis said the festival, which began in 1970, had a long history of attracting rap artists.

She said on Tuesday that some details on the leaked line-up had been "wrong".

She blamed a printing firm mole for leaking details of acts performing on the festival's main three stages.

"I'm not really angry about it - it is normal for bits and bobs to come out," she said.

The official line-up is listed on The Guardian and Q magazine's websites.

Shakin' Stevens indeed....

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Glastonbury's been shit for years now. It's all about Download and Bloodstock for me this year :D.

Reading looks strong but it's not going to stay that way. It is a mainstream festival after all, I might check out the sunday if it doesn't clash with anything else. Just for Avenged Sevenfold and Metallica.

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James Blunt - bottle throwing time methinks!

And wasn't that 50 Cent bloke bottled off a couple of years ago just two "tracks" (I can't call them songs) into his set? Proof that (c)rap doesn't belong at this festival.

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