Download to release a limited number of day tickets

Live Nation, organisers of the Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival, will release a limited number of day tickets for the rock ‘n’ roll event of the summer!

Day tickets will be priced £65 and go on sale this Friday (May 1) at 9AM from www.downloadfestival.co.uk.

Download 2009 takes place at Donington Park on June 12, 13 and 14 and will be headlined by:Faith No More (Friday 13), Slipknot (Saturday 13) and Def Leppard (Sunday 14).

Other acts on the bill include: A Day To Remember, Anvil, Architects, Auger Bane, Backyard Babies, Billy Talent, Black Stone Cherry, Bring Me The Horizon, Buckcherry, Chris Cornell, Clutch, DevilDriver, Dir en grey, Down, DragonForce, Dream Theater, Esoterica, Facecage, Fightstar, Five Finger Death Punch, Go:Audio, God Forbid, Hatebreed, Hostile, In This Moment, Journey, Karma To Burn, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Lacuna Coil, Lawnmower Deth, Limp Bizkit, Loaded, Man Raze, Marilyn Manson, Meshuggah, Middle Class Rut, Motley Crue, No Americana, Opeth, Papa Roach, Parkway Drive, Pendulum, Shinedown, Skin, Staind, Static-X, Steadlur, Stone Gods, Suicide Silence, Sylosis, Tesla, The Answer, The Blackout, The Prodigy, Therapy?, Tim 'Ripper' Owens, Trivium, Turbo Wolf, Voivod, Volbeat, We Are The Ocean, Whitesnake, You Me At Six, ZZ Top

Weekend tickets for Download are on sale now from www.aloud.com. Prices are as follows: a full weekend ticket: £135, camping: £25, family camping: £25, car parking: £10 advance, £20 on the day, camper vans: £40, lockers: £11.