Word reaches us that Muse and the Verve will headline this year’s brace of V festivals.
The rumours from a 'reliable industry source' come in the wake of Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft's comments last year that it would be a "travesty" if his band were not to headline Glastonbury.
Kaiser Chiefs and the Prodigy will apparently back them up on the second stages at the sites in Chelmsford and Staffordshire.
The event runs over Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th of August, though tickets are currently unavailable.
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Insert Predict-o-headliner comment
Here.
ive heard
the other headliner is coldplay not the verve
When do
Muse not headline the summer festivities?
Perhaps the Verve
are trying to make amends for their unspeakably dull V98 performance, which sapped my life essences to the extent that I couldn't listen to them for 5 years afterwards.
In which case, good.
five happy years
I should imagine.
As it happens, no.
But the presence/absence of Verve records in my life would probably have made very little difference given the circumstances.
All this Verve bashing is a bit poor.....
....granted, Urban Hymns was a pile of M.O.R. poo, but A Storm in Heaven and A Northern Soul ar both beautiful albums. It's all about McCabe. Ashcroft is his puppet.
^Well, quite.^
McCabe left the band prior to their V98 headline. So they were shit. Now he's back, and they're ace. Everyone wins! But mostly me.
Day ticket for Muse it is, then.
too right :D
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Don't V usually have exclusivity contracts on their headliners?
If so, we can discount these from Glastonbury...
Did the Killers do both last year?
Yep
They were at Glasto and V.
No
Glasto has an exemption of sorts. It can share headliners provided it doesn't publicise them in any way, shape or form. Muse played both a few years back. On a less interesting front, Stereophonics were once a beneficiary of this exception too...
Do Reading and Leeds have similar deals?
Hence Metallica and Funeral For A Friend appearing at Download as 'secret' bands in 2003 and 2005?
Basically
...anything that detracts from the 'exclusivity' of booking a band (and therefore the odds of it being a deal-maker to a lot of punters on which festival they go to) is not allowed. To you and I, this is a pile of pants - we'd prefer a choice of where to go to in order to see X band - but I guess I can understand the thinking of organisers.