High Voltage Festival: Further Details Revealed
Come inside for the latest news on what’s being billed as ‘The Best New Rock Festival In The World’.
High Voltage, the UK’s new prestige rock festival, launches in July 2010 with headline appearances from Emerson, Lake & Palmer and ZZ Top.
The dates: July 24 and 25, 2010.
The place: Victoria Park, London, UK.
High Voltage is the must-see rock event of 2010 – a two-day festival featuring the very best in classic rock, progressive rock and metal, with over 40 acts handpicked by the UK’s fastest-growing music magazine, Classic Rock.
Topping the bill are the legendary Emerson, Lake & Palmer and ZZ Top with many more acts to be announced..
Emerson, Lake & Palmer are reuniting especially for High Voltage. 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 spectacular career that has seen the trio sell over 30 million albums worldwide.
This marks the first time that ZZ Top will be headlining a UK rock festival in 25 years. The superstar trio, known far and wide as that little ol’ band from Texas, is celebrating its 40th year with the same personnel line-up intact. The group has sold in excess of 40 million albums over the course of a career that saw them inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame by The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards in 2004. The Birmingham Mail cited their recent Wolverhampton appearance as ‘a barnstorming boogie blitz that pretty much blew the roof off the Civic Hall’.
Says 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.”
High Voltage offers a new and unique festival experience for rock fans of all ages. Only High Voltage gives ticket buyers the freedom to design their own bespoke festival package – which can include accommodation, transport, parking and VIP bar access. Early-bird ticket purchasers will be able to upgrade their tickets with a host of options from January 2010.
“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.”
Early bird tickets priced £120 (for weekend tickets) and £65 (for day tickets) went on sale from 9am on Friday 4th December 2009. The early bird tickets will end on 31st December 2009. Standard tickets are prices £130 (for weekend tickets) and £75 (for day tickets).
Classic Rock subscribers were able to purchase early bird tickets from Wednesday 2nd December 2009. The subscribers’ early-bird tickets include free festival laminate and the ability to fastrack queues on the day.
There is no booking fee for Classic Rock’s High Voltage festival tickets.
Tickets are available from www.highvoltagefestival.com or 24hr credit card ticketline 0871 230 5582.
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Let’s hope the concert is better organised than the ticketing – as a Classic Rock subscriber I tried to get early bird tickets today. The website was down, so I telephoned to be told that I could only purchase with coach tickets and that the tickets without the coach are not on sale yet. This is not clear from the information available so far. The girl on the other end of the line couldn’t tell me when they would be but we only have until end December to get the early bird price?
Tried to get some tickets via the link, but the website was down. Telephoned to find out I could only purchase early bird tickets if I also took the coach tickets, which I didn’t need. Subsequently had to purchase via Ticketmaster, which didn’t even ask for my Classic Rock subscription. Hope the concert is better organised than the ticketing!
Still waiting for the support bill to be added,any news?
Old prog rock fan.
Its a shame your own reviwers comments on zz top didn’t speak as highly of zz top as the birmingham post did!!
Pearl Jam ticket £47.50!
ELP or ZZ Top ticket £75?
Old prog rock fan.
As a festival advertising itself as a family event, I think £75 is excessive for children. Why no child’s ticket prices?
It’s gonna have to be a ‘very special’ line up to get my money in an already saturated festival choice. I still think Graspop in Belgium has set the standard,excellent line ups, flushing toilets and a clean site every day. I would love to support it but it all depends on who’s going to be attracted to play…and why the hell in London? The trouble with British festival promoters is that they are greedy and charge for everything….best of luck.
What a load of negative sods!!
Well done Classic Rock on trying something new.
Theres bound to be teething problems. The problem I have had getting Download tickets beggars belief sometimes!! I hope its a good support bill though. Would love to see the likes of Skin,Gun Quireboys,FM,The Answer,Heavens Basement. Some homegrown bands rather than a festival full of bands from across the pond. Even Deep Purple might support ELP.
im with phil on this well done i don’t care about the rest of the bill as elp are headlining and im yet to see them live so i can’t wait,
and im sure the rest of the line up will be great and being a londoner it will be nice not to have to track halfway across the uk to get to a gig,
PLEASE get STACKRIDGE on the bill…….. definately the best return to form CD by any of the reconstituted bands from my youth. and the best Xmas single since Wizzards!
Saw them live this year and would love to see them again on this bill
I hope this is not another “memories of woodstock” we never got a refund for our tickets, and we even lost the air fare money ,because we were flying from MALTA . That festival was too good to be true ! Can CLASSIC ROCK help us for a refund ,so we can invest them in HIGH VOLTAGE ???? once bitten twice…………………….
JUST GOT MY TICKETS AM SOOOOOOOOOOOO happy