Rage Against The Machine to play free show as reward

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Image caption, Fans have until midnight on 14 February to register for Rage's free gig

Rage Against The Machine have revealed details of a free gig rewarding fans following the campaign for last year's Christmas number one.

The Californian band have fulfilled their promise by playing a concert at London's Finsbury Park venue on Sunday 6 June.

Tickets for the 40,000 capacity event will be distributed via a lottery system with fans having until midnight on Sunday 14 February to register their details for the ballot.

Fans will then receive confirmation of their registration number and details of when and where to apply for tickets.

At 9am on Wednesday 17 February, tickets will be released and put on a rolling lottery basis and fans will need to apply for them with the registration number provided.

If people have been successful, they will receive a confirmation email.

Announcing the news on Radio 1's Zane Lowe show guitarist Tom Morello said: "We promised to play a free show if our song was number one at Christmas and here we come."

'Very happy'

He added: "We were very happy that our song was a vehicle for what was truly a grassroots people's revolution.

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Image caption, Rage beat X Factor's Joe McElderry to Christmas number one

"It was not so much the band as the people who toppled the X Factor giant - frankly it was a shock wave around the world."

In December Rage Against The Machine beat X Factor winner Joe McElderry to Christmas top spot following a Facebook campaign begun by music fans Jon and Tracy Morter.

In the most competitive festive race for many years the Californian rap-rockers sold 500,000 downloads of their track Killing In The Name, beating McElderry's cover of Miley Cyrus's The Climb by 50,000.