Zoo Thousand and Eight festival adds These New Puritans

plus The Teenagers, Metronomy, We Start Fires and more

By Scott Williams | Published: Fri 16th May 2008

Zoo Thousand Music Festival 2008 - The Teenagers
Photo credit: Clark Wainwright

Zoo Thousand Music Festival 2008

Friday 4th to Sunday 6th July 2008
Port Lympne Wildlife Park, Lympne, Hythe, Kent, UK MAP
standard weekend ticket £99 kids weekend ticket £45
Daily capacity: 10,000

Zoo Thousand and Eight have confirmed more acts and a line-up change for the festival takes place in the grounds of Port Lympne Wildlife Park in Kent held from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th July.

The organisers have announced that These New Puritans will replace Lupen Crook as headliners for the Suburban Kings tent. They have also confirmed that French band The Teenagers and electronic outfit Metronomy will play the main stage.

Additions have also been made to the Tap 'N' Tin stage with We Start Fires and Cut Copy (DJ set) playing on Saturday and DJ Yousef joins the line-up for the Devious / Pukka Up tent on the Friday.

Headlining the Friday is Mark Ronson with other acts including The Cribs, Athlete, Funeral For A Friend, Young Knives, Bloc Party (Dj Set), Lethal Bizzle, Pendulum (DJ set), Roni Size Reprazent, British Sea Power, Hadouken!, Wiley, The Rascals, Friendly Fires, Chas & Dave, Mitchell Brothers, The Whip, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Does It Offend You Yeah?, The Rumble Strips, Little Man Tate, Stanton Warriors, MSTRKRFT, Switch, Micky Slim, Goldie, Andy C, Fabio, Dj Excalibah, Bodyrox, Freemasons, Newham Generals, The Hexes, Inner City Dwellers, Fucked Up, Friction, Hazard & Sly, Jungle Drummer & Fu, Alix Perez, Subfocus, Dice & Ruffstuff, Evil Nine, Underground Heroes, Nick Harrison, Marner Brown, Maker, Boa Binga & ID, Kid Blue, Merca, Hana Holland, Small Fry, and Lupen Crook all announced with a headliner expected to be announced sometime in the near future.

For the line-up details, and stage splits as available please click here.

Tickets are on sale now priced at £99 for a standard weekend ticket, a kid's weekend ticket is £45. click here.

The event hopes to raise money for the John Aspinall Foundation, a charity which works to promote wildlife conservation and helps pay the bills on the family zoos and their own endeavours in conservation.

The Teenagers


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