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The early bird tickets for Lowlands 2008 have officially gone on sale today. From two years experience at this awesome festival, I will be buying my ticket over the next few days, and I recommend you do too.

Lowlands is a really special festival- with a line-up that could equal Reading or Leeds, great facilities, tasty food and most important of all, nice people, it was my first festival experience, and one that I will always remember.

The tickets are outrageously cheap at this point: an 'early bird' ticket (i.e before the line-up is announced) will set you back €122, and the first 10000 people to buy their tickets will get a further €10 discount. To put this into perspective, for Reading you are looking at around £130 for three days, and Glastonbury £150. The €122 euros for a Lowlands ticket translates into £90, and the other costs associated with a good festival experience are also a lot lower. Shuttle buses from the station are included, and a 'Lowlands' train ticket will cost you €14, from the airport to the festival site and back again. Then you have the food- catered for by a Dutch eatery 'La Place', you can eat what you want, when you want- healthy or junk food, Lowlands will satisfy your every desire.

The build up to Lowlands is always enjoyable, and this year I will be going with an even larger troop of people. Last year, me and two mates arrived first, and saved space for the 20 tents which eventually turned up. All in all, its an epic experience, and I can promise that if you end up going, you will have a great time. Let me know if you end up buying tickets- a meeting could be arranged, perhaps? MAKE LLOW NOT WAR

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