ZZ Top and ELP to headline new High Voltage festival

ZZ Top, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer have been announced as headliners for a new festival, High Voltage.

High Voltage is a new rock festival set to take place on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th July 2010 in London's Victoria Park. ZZ Top headline the Saturday, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer the Sunday. The two-day festival will feature classic rock, progressive rock and metal acts with over 40 playing over three stages all hand picked by music magazine, Classic Rock.

This will be the the first time that ZZ Top will be headlining a UK rock festival in 25 years. The trio are celebrating their 40th year with the same personnel line-up intact. The group has sold in excess of 40 million albums over the course of their career.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer are reuniting especially for High Voltage this summer. This will be ELP's one and only live performance of 2010 – and possibly the last show they will ever play together, the culmination of a career that has seen the trio sell over 30 million albums worldwide.

Classic Rock Editor-in-Chief Scott Rowley: "High Voltage is the festival all true rock fans have been waiting for – custom built by rock fans for rock fans. The High Voltage team have been to every rock festival imaginable – we're taking what we've learned to build a festival unlike any other.

"First of all there's the music: two amazing headliners and three unique stages specially curated to cater for different sides of the rock audience, and a brilliant supporting cast playing special must-see sets."

"Then there's the festival itself. The facilities will be second to none: great food, proper beer, clean toilets, deluxe hospitality packages, designated hotels, free shuttle transport. This is somewhere you take the whole family."

Early bird tickets are priced at £120 for weekend tickets and £65 for day tickets). The early bird tickets will end on 31st December 2009. Standard tickets prices will be £130 for weekend tickets and £75 (for day tickets.

To buy tickets, click here.

Early bird ticket purchasers will be able to upgrade their tickets with a host of options including accommodation, transport, parking and VIP bar access, from January 2010. Early bird tickets include a free festival laminate and the ability to fastrack queues on the day.

"If you can think it up, we can do it," says Scott Rowley. "We asked our readers what they'd like to see and we're taking the best of their ideas and making them happen. It's 30 years since the first Monsters Of Rock festival, and now, at last, rock fans have finally got a quality festival they can call their own."

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