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Download Festival have advised that there has been a limited release of day tickets. Tickets are on sale now for £60 for each day. The headliners are KISS, The Offspring and Lostprophets.

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The multiple-award winning Download Festival returns in 2008 with a mouth-watering line-up!

Rock legends KISS, chart-topping Californian punks The Offspring, and Welsh nu-metal kings Lostprophets will headline at Donington Park on the weekend of June 13, 14, and 15. Other bands confirmed are UK rock gods Judas Priest and Motorhead, Finnish sensations HIM, and Chicago rockers Rise Against!

More bands: Incubus, Biffy Clyro, Cavalera Consipracy, Coheed and Cambria, Disturbed, Children Of Boredom, Simple Plan, Apocalyptica, Seether, Job For A Cowboy, Bullet For My Valentine, Alesana, Jimmy Eat World, Chris Cornell, Throwdown, Madina Lake, Kid Rock, Alter Bridge, In Flames, 36 Crazy Fists, Fightstar, Bleeding Through, Black Dahlia Murder, A Day To Remember, The Devil Wears Prada and many more!!

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Weekend and Weekend plus Camping tickets also available, plus the campsite is open two days before the music starts - from midday on June 11 - with a host of entertainment to be announced soon to warm up for one of this summer’s unmissable festivals.

The 2008 event kicked off in earnest, with 5,000 ‘early bird’ tickets put on sale which sold out immediately!

Returning for a second year Kids In Glass Houses are moving up a stage to make more room for their energetic live set. Joining them on 13, 14, 15 June are Black Tide, The Wildhearts, Rival Schools, Haunts, Zebrahead, Skindred, Invasion, Canterbury, Twin Method and Amon Amarth.

Tickets for Download 2008 are priced at: a full weekend ticket £130, standard camping £20, camper van £40, family zone camping £20, lockers £11, parking £10 in advance or £15 on the day. Day tickets will be avilable from Thursday 1st May priced at £65 for Friday or £60 for Saturday or Sunday. To buy your tickets,

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Back by popular demand welsh lads Kids In Glass Houses return to Download for a second year running. With their debut album “Smart Casual” due for release in May their Download performance will be nothing short of amazing.

Bringing even more metal to the fold Black Tide hail from Miami and with an average age of 20 years old this year is proving to be their year. 2008 has already been a busy year with the band performing live on Jimmy Kimmel, this year also marks their Download debut.

Main Stage
Friday 13 June
Kiss
Judas Priest
Motorhead
Disturbed
Kid Rock
Seether
Black Tide
Saturday 14 June
The Offspring
Incubus
Bullet For My Valentine
Biffy Clyro
Alter Bridge
Madina Lake
36 Crazyfists
Skindred
Sunday 15 June
Lostprophets
Jimmy Eat World
Coheed & Cambria
In Flames
Within Temptation
Apocalyptica
Black Stone Cherry
Fightstar
Second Stage
Friday 13 June
Simple Plan
Rise Against

Second Stage
Friday 13 June
Rival Schools
The Subways
Comeback Kid
The Black Dahlia Murder
Zebra Head
Saturday 14 June
HIM
Ash
Pendulum
Ace Frehley
Job For A Cowboy
Amon Amarth
Bleeding Through
Throwdown
Sunday 15 June
The Cavalera Conspiracy
Children Of Bodom
The Wildhearts
Elliot Minor
Kids in Glass Houses
Chiodos
Airbourne
Rose Tattoo
Municipal Waste
Third Stage
Friday 13 June
Dillinger Escape Plan
Slaves to Gravity
Hostile
Third Stage
Friday 13 June
Trigger The Bloodshed
Saturday 14 June
Testament
A Day To Remember
The Devil Wears Prada
Alesana
Brigade
Twin Method
Sunday 15 June
Jonathan Davis
Valient Thorr
Animal Alpha
Haunts
August Burns Red
Canterbury
Exit Ten
Invasion
unknown stage
Friday 13 June
The Guzzards
Saturday 14 June
AurA
Romeo Must Die
Sunday 15 June
All That Remains
Fall Out Boy - strong rumour
unknown day
Devildriver
Evile
Fear Factory
Hanzel und Gretyl
Henry Rollins

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