Lacuna Coil singer to join Apocalyptica at Download
Lacuna Coil frontwoman Cristina Scabbia will be joining Apocalyptica on stage at this year's Kerrang!-sponsored Download Festival on Sunday June 15.
Scabbia will be performing the epic ballad SOS (Anything But Love) live for the first time with the Finnish instrumentalists.
"I've been invited by my friends Apocalyptica to join them during their set at Download," gushes Scabbia. "God, I sooooo can't wait! You know how much I love the UK and how much I adore the always fantastic crowd, so expect me to be very emotional and happy on stage! I want to see you all there during the performance, it's gonna rock."
Lacuna Coil are currently working on the follow-up to 2006's Karmacode.
The Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival will be headlined by: Kiss, The Offspring and Lostprophets.
The full list of other bands on the bill so far is as follows:
36 Crazy Fists, A Day To Remember, Ace Frehley, Airbourne, Alesana, Alter Bridge, Amon Amarth, Animal Alpha, Annotations Of An, Apocalyptica, Army Of Freshmen, Ash, August Burns Red, Beat Union, Between The Buried And Me, Biffy Clyro, Big Linda, Black Stone Cherry, Black Tide, Blackhole, Bleeding Through, Brigade, Bullet For My Valentine, Caimbo, Canterbury, Cavalera Conspiracy, Children Of Bodom, Chiodos, Coheed & Cambria, Comeback Kid, Cry for Silence, Disturbed, Elliot Minor, Exit Ten, Fighting With Wire, Fightstar, Finger Eleven, From First To Last, Galvatrons, Glamour Of The Kill, Haunts, High On Fire, HIM, Hostile, In Case Of Fire, In Flames, Incubus, Invasion, Jimmy Eat World, Job For A Cowboy, Johnny Truant, Jonathan Davis, Judas Priest, Kid Rock, Kids In Glass Houses, Kill Hannah, Last Supper, Lethal Bizzle, Madina Lake, Malefice, Mexicolas, Motorhead, Municipal Waste, Pendulum, Rise Against, Rival Schools, Rolo Tomassi, Rose Tattoo, Saxon, Seether, Sign, Simple Plan, Slaves To Gravity, Sons Of Albion, Stone Gods, Testament, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Devil Wears Prada, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Fall Of Troy, The Haze, The Subways, The Wildhearts, Throwdown, Trigger The Bloodshed, Twin Method, Valient Thorr, Within Temptation and Zebrahead.
The Download festival takes place the weekend of June 13 to June 15. Tickets are on sale now. Prices are as follows: a full weekend ticket: £130, standard camping: £20, camper van: £40, family zone camping: £20, lockers: £11, parking £10 in advance or £15 on the day. There will be a variety of ticket packages available to buy, including the RIP packages (a VIP package) from £315. For Club or VIP Experience packages, please call 020 7009 3484 to discuss your requirements.
Disabled customers can call 0121 767 9729 to discuss accessibility arrangements. Please note, disabled customers will be provided with one free ticket for their helper, where required. Should additional helper tickets be required, please call the disabled access ticket line on 0121 767 9729 or email access@downloadfestival.co.uk
For more details and up-to-the-minute news, please visit www.downloadfestival.co.uk.
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