Bigelf Added To High Voltage Festival Bill

Classic Rock‘s High Voltage festival welcomes its latest addition to the bill – Bigelf. They will be gracing the Prog Stage on July 24.

The US four-piece are signed to Classic Rock’s Powerage label in the UK.

The band are an amalgam of many sounds – part classic rock and part prog.

As the legendary Mike Portnoy (Dream Theatre, Transatlantic) said in 2009: “Big Elf blow my mind. Cheat The Gallows is my favourite album of the year.”

The latest line-up by day for High Voltage is as follows:

Saturday, 24 July 2010:

Main Stage: ZZ Top, Foreigner, Gary Moore, The Answer, The Union

Metal Hammer Stage: Black Label Society, Saxon, Cathedral, HammerFall, Orange Goblin, Black Spiders, New Device

Prog Stage: Transatlantic, Asia, Dweezil Zappa, Big Elf, Focus, Pendragon, Touchstone

Sunday, 25 July 2010:

Main Stage: Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Joe Elliott with very special guest Ian Hunter, Down ‘N’ Outz, Joe Bonamassa, Bachman & Turner, UFO, Quireboys

Metal Hammer Stage: Down, Opeth, Clutch, High On Fire, Audrey Horne, Lethargy

Prog Stage: Marillion, Argent, Uriah Heep, Magnum, Steve Hackett, Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash, The Reasoning

High Voltage also offers a wide range of added attractions to make it the ultimate festival experience.

These include:

* Air guitar championship

* The Victoria, a pub serving award-winning real ales

* Fine food including Spectacular Suasages, Roaming Rotisserie. Pure Pie and Goodness Gracious Healthy Foods (the UK’s leading mobile vegetarian caterers)

* Classic car and motorbike exhibition

* A fairground including 1950s dodgems and a Victorian helter skelter

* Wall of death – the legendary, death-defying test of nerve and skill

* Vinyl exchange area filled, of course, with classic rock and metal!

High Voltage takes place on July 24/25 at London’s Victora Park.

For ticket details go here.

For info about VIP tickets, including the recently launched ‘Rock God’ package, go here.