This is folks. The entire cash ticket allocation is now totally sold out, leaving all remaining tickets on sale solely from Ticketmaster. Due to extremely high demand, we expect Get Loaded in the Park 2008 to be sold out entirely within the next day or so!!

So if you haven’t yet bought your ticket, we urge you to buy yours right away to avoid disappointment.

We’ve had a word with the big man upstairs and depsite having a typically British summer (i.e. shit weather!!)… the forecast for this coming August Bank Holiday weekend is actually VERY GOOD!! Yes really. At Get Loaded in the Park on Sunday, they’re saying it’s gonna be 22 degrees no less, basicially sun all day, with some cloud. NO RAIN (touch wood).

Lovely jubbly!! So make sure you put on some suncream before you leave the house…..

Everyone’s talking about Noah and the Whale, and real soon there’ll be another 20,000 people talking about them as we’re absolutely thrilled to announce the amazing folk-rock four-piece will be gracing the Get Loaded Main Stage as the final act added to the bill. We always try and keep at least one slot back for one final breakthrough band (e.g. last year we nabbed Newton Faulkner the week he went No.1!) and we’re over the moon to have captured NATW before future summer smash ‘Five Years Time’ is set to gatecrash the UK Top 10.

Taken from the album ‘Peaceful the World Lays Me Down’ (released on 11 August), ‘Five Years Time’ is a wonderfully cheery feel-good song and the perfect festival soundtrack. Whereas last year Rhianna gave us her ‘Umbrella’ track and months of rain, it looks like Noah and the Whale are the real reasons behind the recent good weather as they sing about “Sun, Sun, Sun all over our bodies”!! Let’s hope so too, as Get Loaded in the Park is renowned for bringing out the summer sun! Oh, and seeing as GLITP is now in its 5th year, it was always meant to be right?

You always know what you’re getting with Bez and having been part of the reformed Happy Mondays exclusively for the first ever Get Loaded in the Park festival back in 2004, and then again in 2005, we open him back with open arms. 5 years on from those hedonistic parties, it seemed like the perfect thing to do. Leaving Bez and The Rev to rock out the indie beats, we turn to the cut n’ paste king DJ Yoda, to bring on the party classics and cheeky
cuts that we’ve come to love and expect from  one of the most innovative DJs ever.

His recent ‘Magic Cinema’ tour showcased his talents as the leader of the visual DJ experience and he’ll be back on the decks fresh from the Finger Lickin stage to pump up the jam good n’ proper into the early wee hours. Also on the bill is Get Loaded’s exclusive host for the day Beardyman, who’ll again show us why he’s the best beatboxer, like in the orld, ever… plus XFM’s radio guru John Kennedy hot foots it from the Common and his XFM stage to set the night on its way, with Together residents and future-superstars Streetlife DJs finishing off the night in true acid house fashion.

Get loaded in the park will kick off at 12pm in the afternoon on a hopefully beautiful bank holiday sunday 24th august. Already the early birdtickets are sold out and it is looking to be a 20,000 people sold out event, and thats not a suprise considering the talent on show.

Returning for its 5th year of indie-crazed-rock and electro-jackin-dance, Lock N Load Events presents London’s definitive inner city festival Get Loaded in the Park as we swagger back into town on Bank Holiday Sunday 24th August 2008 for another epic encounter on the capital’s finest field – Clapham Common.

Get Loaded’s award-winning festival hit heady new heights last summer with a critically acclaimed line-up boasting The Streets, Dizzee Rascal, M.I.A, The Wombats, Dirty Pretty Things, The Go! Team, Yoda and 2manydjs amongst many others. Nominated at the UK Festival Awards for Best Medium Sized Festival, GLITP07 was widely acknowledged as the best Get Loaded yet!

5 years on from that hedonist debut day of getting loaded on the Common - where they devilishly reformed the Happy Mondays, Get Loaded in the Park 2008 has again upped the ante to deliver their strongest line-up EVER, packed full of festival exclusives, iconic geniuses and the best of the nu-skool brigade. With too many festivals beginning to look and feel the same as every other festival, this year’s festival is truly different as we cover more musical genres than ever before and offering you the ultimate festival experience right bang slap in the middle of your back yard… ladies and gentlemen, this summer it’s time to GET LOADED IN THE PARK.

The build up to Iggy & co’s spectacular finale will be rather special this summer as we invite Brit-pop heroes Supergrass and gypsy punk kings Gogol Bordello to share centre stage. Living young, free and keeping their teeth nice and clean, Supergrass will be bringing back the spirit of the 1990’s and bringing us right up to date with their highly acclaimed new album ‘Diamond Hoo Ha’. With six Top 20 albums under their belts and countless classic hits like ‘Alright’, ‘Pumping on your Stereo’, ‘Moving’ and ‘Richard III’… Supergrass are without doubt one of the most highly regarded and accomplished bands in the UK. They are at their best when playing live (as witnessed at Lock N Load Events’ Electric Gardens festival last year!) and that’s exactly why they’ll be playing before Iggy & The Stooges on the big day. Warming the stage and bringing with them a rainbow of colour will be NYC’s multi-ethnic gypsy punkers Gogol Bordello. Described by Phil Jupitus as “a bit like The Clash and The Pogues having a fight… in Eastern Europe” – the band incorporates minor-key accordion and fiddle, mixed with cabaret, punk and dub!! Gogol’s talisman is Ukrainian visionary Eugene Hütz, whose unpredictable antics on stage have made a huge star. The band formed in 1999, and an international fan base quickly grew through word of mouth. In 2002 Gogal Bordello released their debut album ‘Voi-La Intruder’ (co-produced by Nick Cave) and it wasn’t long before Gogol Bordello’s live shows and Hütz’s captivating performances earned them invites to some of the world’s biggest stages. Coachella, Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, Reading/Leeds confirmed them as grassroots phenomenon’s; underlined by a recent sell-out show at Brixton Academy. Heck, the band even performed with Madonna at the London Live Earth concert last year! Definitely a band worth getting loaded too this summer, don’t miss it!! Next up are very special guests The Hives - fresh from April’s sell-out Brixton Academy show.

The Hives are the hugely successful Swedish exports with the smart suits! The punk-influenced garage rock band got their big break in 2001 with their 2nd album ‘Your New Favourite Band’ featuring the hugely popular single ‘Hate to Say I Told you so’. Follow up LP, ‘Tyrannosaurus Hives’ secured their highest positioning/selling UK album and single (‘Walk Idiot Walk’) and 2007 saw the Scandinavian stars drop ‘The Black and White Album’ on our senses. The Brixton show was part of a spectacular sell-out UK tour and the next time you’ll be able to catch these men of matching suits on a festival stage in the UK will be at Clapham Common this summer. Joining The Hives will be London 4-piece The Holloways. Hotly tipped by NME and alike, the band formed on Holloway Road are one of the UK’s most exciting new indie darlings. They’re about to jump aboard the tour bus in support of their new album and with feel-good thumpers like ‘Generator’ up their sleeves, they look set for their biggest year to date. Finally, watch out for Philly-rappers Plastic Little.

These guys are so hot right now and are set to explode big time this summer with Radio 1’s Jo Whiley & Annie Mac amongst the many who’re currently championing their ‘Get Close’ track, featuring the nifty ‘Cure’ sample! Other tracks like ‘I’m Not a Thug’ and ‘Crambodia’ are just as tongue in cheek, lyrically, and their phat beats and high-energy live shows make them one of the most ‘must see’ acts of the year. Don’t miss it!!

Check back for regular updates as we cover the build up to the event, we will also be attending the event with a full review featuring exclusive photos and information you wont find anywhere else.