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Crue Fest 2 pre sale tickets will be available exclusively to Motley Crue fan club members beginning on February 25th. Beginning on March 2nd, pre sale tickets will be available to the public. Fans can go to www.cruefest2.com for all pre sale information.

Last summer’s multi-artist inaugural Crue Fest was the most successful touring rock festival of the summer season, Crue Fest was also the number ten tour overall for the summer of 2008, according to Rolling Stone. Featuring Motley Crue, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx:A.M. and Trapt, the festival played for nearly half a million rock fans to Live Nation amphitheaters and arenas in 40 cities across North America. Crue Fest attracted strategic partners including MTV’s Rock Band Game, FUSE Television, JVC Mobile Electronics, Clear Channel Radio, Best Buy and Fender Guitars, which resulted in a nomination for a 2008 Billboard Award for Concert Marketing & Promotion. Strategic marketing and the wide demographic range both Motley Crue and the other acts represent added to the success of the festival.

Says Motley’s Tommy Lee, “Last year at Crue Fest, we set out to have more fun than humans are allowed to have. We succeeded beyond that. This year, we are going to top that and I guarantee we will.”

As part of the robust integrated marketing and partnerships, the activities surrounding the announcement of this year’s line-up and ticket on-sale include launch parties in local venues and in-theater special screenings of a performance documentary on Crue Fest 1, which will also be released on DVD on March 24th. More details on all of these activities are available at www.motley.com.

About Motley Crue

Motley Crue recently returned to the top of the charts with Saints of Los Angeles, their first new studio album with the original line-up — Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee and Vince Neil — in a decade and the ninth studio album in their career. Based on the band’s New York Times bestseller The Dirt, the disc debuted at #1 on the Independent Album chart and was the top debut of the week on the Billboard Top 200 albums at #4. “Saints of Los Angeles,” which was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at this year’s Grammy Awards, was also noted as the #1 Rock Song of the Year in 2008 by iTunes critics.

For more information on Crue Fest 2: The White Trash Circus, please visit: www.cruefest2.com. For more information on Motley Crue, please visit: www.motley.com.

For live footage from Motley Crue’s performance at last year’s Crue Fest, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnlL5ExbJ0Q.

                Crue Fest 2: The White Trash Circus Tour Dates
  JULY
  19    Camden, NJ                Susquehanna Bank Center
  21    Cuyahoga Falls, OH        Blossom Music Center
  22    Tinley Park, IL           First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
  24    Minot, ND                 North Dakota State Fair (Motley Crue only)
  27    Auburn, WA                White River Amphitheatre
  28    Portland, OR              The Amphitheater at Clark County
  30    Mountain View, CA         Shoreline Amphitheatre
  31    San Bernardino, CA        San Manuel Amphitheater

  AUGUST
  1     Las Vegas, NV             The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
  3     Salt Lake City, UT        USANA Amphitheatre
  4     Englewood, CO             Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
  5     Albuquerque, NM           Journal Pavilion
  7     Spring, TX                Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
  8     Dallas, TX                Superpages.com Center
  9     Kansas City, MO           Sprint Center
  11    Maryland Heights, MO      Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - St. Louis
  12    Indianapolis, IN          Verizon Wireless Music Center
  14    Cincinnati, OH            Riverbend Music Center
  15    Clarkston, MI             DTE Energy Music Theatre
  16    Pittsburgh, PA            Post Gazette Pavilion
  19    Mansfield, MA             Comcast Center
  21    Virginia Beach, VA        Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach
                                   Amphitheater
  22    Bristow, VA               Nissan Pavilion
  23    Raleigh, NC               Time Warner Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek
  29    Atlanta, GA               Lakewood Amphitheatre
  30    Charlotte, NC             Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

  SEPTEMBER
  1     Saratoga Springs, NY      Saratoga Performing Arts Center
  3     Syracuse, NY              New York State Fair (Motley Crue only)
  4     Scranton, PA              Toyota Pavilion
  5     Darien Lake, NY           Darien Lake Performing Arts Center

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