More big names for V Festival

Chart-topper Tinchy Stryder, Will Young and Calvin Harris are among the acts added to this year’s V Festival on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border.

Organisers today confirmed an extra 17 acts for the event at Weston Park, near Shifnal.

The other acts are: 2 Many DJ’s, Jet, Athlete, Human League, Starsailor, Lemar, Noisettes, The Proclaimers, Natalie Imbruglia, Red Light Company, Mr Hudson, The King Blues, Daniel Merriweather and Matt Tracker.

This year’s festival takes place at Weston Park on August 22 and 23 and sister venue, Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex.

The Essex venue has sold out but there are still a handful of tickets left for Weston Park.

Some of the biggest and best names in music today are already signed up including headliners Oasis and The Killers

Bob Angus, festival director, said: “We’re very happy with the new acts signed up for this year’s event. V always endeavours to cater for all musical tastes but this year fans are truly in for it with bands old and new entertaining music aficionados and festival debutantes alike.

“Stay tuned for even more top acts to be confirmed in coming weeks.”

The organisers of V reminded fans to not purchase tickets from unofficial outlets.

All official outlets are detailed at www.vfestival.com

Radiohead – Creep (Live @ V Festival 19/8/2006)

Radiohead perform ‘Creep’ live at V Festival 2006 in Hylands Park, Chelmsford. Best live so far!!!

Summer of Music!!!

Summer is about to start … and so is the season of Festivals… with V festival just a few weeks away, the excitement is beginning. V festival Tickets are available… Day tickets and camping tickets are also available!!!

Chelmsford Saturday/Staffordshire Sunday:

V Stage: The Killers, Razorlight, The Specials, Lily Allen, The Script, Taylor Swift

4Music: Fatboy Slim, Pendulum, The Ting Tings, The Wombats

The ARENA: Happy Mondays, The Saturdays

Virgin Mobile Union: Peter Doherty

Staffordshire Saturday/Chelmsford Sunday:

V Stage: Oasis, Snow Patrol, Elbow, James, Biffy Clyro, James Morrison, Ocean Colour Scene

4Music: Keane, The Enemy, Paolo Nutini, Katy Perry, Dizzee Rascal

The ARENA MGMT: Lady Gaga, The Streets, Alesha Dixon

Eat To The Beat Won V Festival Catering Contract

V Festival Catering

Eat To The Beat has won the contract to provide dressing room and the production team catering at this year’s V Festival in Chelmsford. Eat To The Beat has over 25 years of tour, location and festival catering experience spanning across the music, film, television and production sectors. During that time they have secured many long term festivals contracts including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds and the Hyde Park summer of events.

Mary Shelley-Smith, Eat To The Beat operations director said, “We are delighted to be adding this prestigious festival to our extensive roster of high profile summer events. The backstage catering has become a key ingredient in the success of the festivals we have become regulars at, thanks to great staff, equipment and expertise. We have previously worked with V Festival in the USA through our American office so to also be working with this one on our home turf is an honour.”

10th Anniversary of the first ever V Festival

It’s the 10th Anniversary of the first ever V Festival, so it’s gonna be a special event this summer. Get all the lastest information. News Updates 7, March 2009

Just a week or so after the V Festival 2005 named the likes of Oasis and Co. on the bill, The Ordinary Boys follow in their footsteps!

The Jam-esque Britpoppers have risen in popularity since the release of their ‘Over the Counterculture’ album in 2004.

Oasis, fellow Brit awards winners Franz Ferdinand and The Scissor Sisters are all co-headlining the 2005 V-Festival.

Oasis – fronted by Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam – are sure to bring their distinctive style of anthemic-rock to this year’s festival.

There’s also a new album entitled Don’t Believe The Truth due for release in late May 2005, so festival goers at V will be the first few to hear these new tracks live!

This is also the first time that Oasis have played the V Festival.

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V Festival T-Shirt

Now fans can share unforgetable moments with alot of people. Here a T-shirt is displayed, it’s in the memories of V festival 2007  - CHELMSFORD, where the Hoosiers seen performing live at the V Festival!

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Photo Mug V FESTIVAL

To keep memories save in different perticular forms V Festival fans can buy this specially made mug.

 

18.08.07 – CHELMSFORD PETE DOHERTY SEEN PERFORMING LIVE AT THE V FESTIVAL!

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V-ill you marry me?

V Festival – the perfect event for marriage proposals and honeymoons! Miss Joanna Morris got engaged at V Festival 2006, her boyfriend proposed via the big screen! The wedding took place on August 1st 2008 and was heavily V festival themed with the best man speech featuring a slide show of V photos and as you can see a V Festival wedding cake! Mr and Mrs Kirton will now finishing there honeymoon at V Festival 2008 in Weston Park, the honeymoon of the year!

The two Lauras’ V confession

It’s not often we that we get sent stories that make us laugh out loud here at V but this is one of them! The two Laura’s, we commend you:

“My best friend, Laura, first kissed her older brothers best mate at V2005! The next day no one spoke about it in front of her brother Dave, making things more than a little bit akward as we all knew what had gone on!
The very first act we saw at our very first ever V was Goldie Lookin Chain who opened with the song: ” I wanna f**k your sister!!”. It certainly worked in breaking the ice and everyone was laughing!

This is now our 4th V and Laura and Lewis are still together and very much looking forward to seeing GLC again this year!!!!!

Laura Mansell “

Thank you Laura, both Laura’s, that truly is a V love moment.

V Festival line up announced

THE KILLERS and OASIS will headline at this year’s V Festival, it has been announced.

RAZORLIGHT and SNOW PATROL will join the impressive line up, which was announced first by Iain Lee on Absolute Radio.

Also sharing the stage at the weekender are LILY ALLEN,THE SPECIALS, LADY GAGA, THE TING TINGS, KEANE and THE SCRIPT.

The two day event, sponsored by Virgin Media, will take place on August 22 and 23 at Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park, Staffordshire.

Other acts include FATBOY SLIM, ELBOW, JAMES, THE ENEMY, PENDULUM, THE SCRIPT, BIFFY CLYRO, PAOLO NUTINI, MGMT, KATY PERRY, THE WOMBATS, JAMES MORRISON, PETER DOHERTY, THE STREETS, DIZZEE RASCAL, HAPPY MONDAYS, SEASICK STEVE, OCEAN COLOUR SCENE and THE SATURDAYS.

From: TheSun
By ALISON MALONEY
Published: 02 Mar 2009