ZEPPELIN's Confirmation For BONNAROO Leads To Mass Confusion

February 6, 2008

The Pulse of Radio reports that a number of news sites — including the British music news site NME.com (which apparently "broke" the news) — erroneously reported that LED ZEPPELIN was going to headline the 2008 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, scheduled for June 12 through June 15 in Manchester, Tennessee. The lineup was posted at the official Bonnaroo site at midnight ET on Wednesday (February 6). But in actuality the lineup includes LEZ ZEPPELIN, an all-female LED ZEPPELIN cover band from New York. Nevertheless, dozens of other sites picked up the erroneous story without apparently first bothering to check the official Bonnaroo site itself.

LED ZEPPELIN's appearance at the event had been rumored for weeks.

The festival, which launched in 2002, will take place once again on a 700-acre farm 60 miles south of Nashville, with a total lineup of more than 100 bands and over 20 comedians, including the headliners METALLICA, PEARL JAM, JACK JOHNSON and KANYE WEST.

Tickets go on sale at bonnaroo.com on Saturday, February 16 at 12:00 p.m. ET. METALLICA will headline the bill on June 13.

The choice of METALLICA as a headliner is bound to cause controversy, given the festival's more relaxed vibe and past leanings toward jam bands, indie acts and prog-rock. Although TOOL performed last year, the METALLICA audience is often decidedly more raucous.

LEZ ZEPPELIN performing live, February 2007:

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