Anticipation for the 2008 Leeds Festival has been hot right from the first announcement of the acts taking to the Bramham Park stage and the instant sell-out of all the tickets in record time.

The three-day music spectacular will feature more than 200 acts across seven stages with the entertainment beginning on Thursday evening for those pitching their tents a day earlier than the official start.

Metallica, Rage Against The Machine and The Killers are the main stage headliners over the weekend, but there are plenty more big names heading for the city and 70,000 fans ready to descend on the Leeds park.

The full line-up is:

Friday
Main Stage: Metallica, Tenacious D, Slipknot, Feeder, Avenged Sevenfold, Dropkick Murphys, Plain White T's, Alexisonfire, Mindless Self Indulgence.
NME/ Radio 1 Stage: The Cribs, The Last Shadow Puppets, Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band, Pendulum, The Music, Hadouken, Lightspeed Champion, Cajun Dance Party, Adam Green, Yeasayer, The Metros.
Dance Arena: CSS, Digitalism, Simian Mobile Disco, Chromeo, Crystal Castles, Lethal Bizzle, The Whip, Robots In Disguise, The Death Set, The Shoes.
Festival Republic Stage: The Kills, Wiley, Glasvegas, Sergeant, Cage The Elephant, The Rascals, Emmy The Great, Johnny Foreigner, Black Tide, In Case Of Fire, Wild Beasts, Natty, XX Teens.
Alternative Stage: Brendon Burns, Jeffrey Lewis, George Pringle, Chris Hicks, Ross Sutherland, Martin Bigpig, Andrew Lawrence, Jack Whitehall, Robin Ince, Steve Gribbin, Arnab Chanda, Alistair Barrie, Jason Rouse, Cole Parker, The Reverend Obidiah Steppenwolf, Milton Jones.

Saturday
Main Stage: Rage Against The Machine, Queens of the Stone Age, The Fratellis, The Enemy, Biffy Clyro, Serj Tankian, Dizzee Rascal, Taking Back Sunday, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Anti-Flag.
NME/ Radio 1 Stage: Babyshambles, The Wombats, Vampire weekend, MGMT, Jack Penate, One Night Only, The Duke Spirit, Be Your Own Pet, Blood Red Shoes, Pete and the Pirates, Future of the Left.
Lock-up Stage: Less Than Jake, Pennywise, Anti-Flag, Goldfinger, Tiger Army, The Unseen, H20, Frank Turner, The Briggs, The Loved Ones, Blackhole, Hexes.
Festival Republic Stage: Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Does It Offend You Yeah?, Late of the Pier, The Teenagers, Friendly Fires, Ida Maria, Esser, Florence and the Machine, Fighting With Wire, These New Puritans, Jubilee, Red Light Company, Fran Rodgers.
Alternative Stage: Adam Hills, Stephen Lynch, Henry Rollins, Beans on Toast, Dan Atkinson, Matt Kirschen, DoktorCocaColaMacdonalds, Michael Fabbri, Rob Rouse, Christian Reilly, Trevor Lock, Mitch Benn.

Sunday
Main Stage: The Killers, Bloc Party, The Raconteurs, Editors, We Are Scientists, Dirty Pretty Things, The Subways, British Sea Power, The Automatic, The Blackout.
NME/ Radio 1 Stage: Manic Street Preachers, Bullet For My Valentine, Justice, Foals, Seasick Steve, The Ting Tings, Mystery Jets, Santogold, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Kids In Glass Houses, Bombay Bicycle Club.
Lock-up Stage: Gallows, Alkaline Trio, Thrice, Glogging Molly, MXPX, Cancer Bats, Set Your Goals, The King Blues, The Gaslight Anthem, HiFi Handgrenades, Random Hand.
Festival Republic Stage: Eliot Minor, The Audition, All Time Low, You Me At Six, Black Kids, Louis XIV, Los Campesinos, White Lies, Twisted Wheel, Fight Like Apes, Black Acid, Lovvers, Collapsing Cities.
Alternative Stage: Michael McIntyre, John Cooper Clarke, Tim Clare, Byron Vincent, Excentral Tempest, Steve Weiner, Roger Monkhouse, Hugh Lennon, Ben Hurley, Jarred Christmas, Mick Ferry, Pete Johansson, Matt Reed.