Zeppelin fans disappointed as festival line-up announced

Led Zeppelin will not be playing the 2008 Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival, concert organisers announced today.

Metallica and Pearl Jam will instead headline the event, which will be held from June 13-15 on a 700-acre (280-hectare) farm in Manchester, Tennessee.

Led Zeppelin reunited in December for a single show and speculation has abounded that a world tour is possible. Last week, guitarist Jimmy Page said he wanted to tour with singer Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer Jason Bonham, who replaced his father, John, who died in 1980.

Instead, Plant will be heading to Bonnaroo with bluegrass star Alison Krauss, with whom he made the hit duet album 'Raising Sand'.

The festival organisers, referring to the Led Zeppelin reports, trumpeted a performance by the cover band 'Lez Zeppelin' at the festival.

Also scheduled to perform are Kanye West, Jack Johnson, My Morning Jacket, Willie Nelson, BB King, Phil Lesh and Friends, Sigur Ros, the Raconteurs, Against Me! and Death Cab For Cutie.

A line-up of comedians performing in the festival's Comedy Tent will include Zach Galifianakis, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Jim Norton, Mike Birbiglia and Brian Posehn.

Tickets for the seventh annual festival go on sale on February 16. More acts will be announced later, with an expected total of more than 100 bands.