Bands rock Download Festival 2010

Rage Against The Machine played a free concert for fans last weekend

Rage Against The Machine, Dave Grohl's Them Crooked Vultures and 30 Seconds To Mars are among the highlights at this year's Download Festival.

The line-up for the three-day event includes rock legends AC/DC, Aerosmith, Billy Idol and former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash.

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins also brings his side project The Coattail Riders to the Bedroom stage.

111,000 people will attend the festival, making it the second largest in the UK.

Download has also followed other festivals such as Reading and Leeds in banning flags from their main arena after an "overwhelming number of complaints".

Festival-goers will pay tribute to former Black Sabbath singer Ronnie James Dio, Slipknot bassist Paul Gray and former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable, all of whom have died in recent weeks.

Fans at Leicestershire's Donington park race track will get to pay their respects with a minute's clapping.

Video tributes will be played out before AC/DC's set and before Rage Against The Machine's headline appearance.

Download's second stage has also been renamed the Ronnie James Dio stage.

Several bands pulled out of playing at the festival including Wolfmother, Sum41, The Used and 80s hair rockers Ratt.

Download, now in its eighth year, started life as Ozzy Osbourne's one-off Ozz Fest in 2002.

Before that the one-day Monsters of the Rock festival was held at Donington Park between 1980 and 1996.