The organisers of V Festival have confirmed who’ll be headlining this year’s event.
Amy Winehouse, Kings of Leon and The Verve join Muse at the pinnacle of the weekend’s bill, which takes place as usual at dual sites in Chelmsford and Staffordshire from the 16th ‘til the 17th of August.
Two of those acts were of course confirmed to headline Glastonbury last month, while – what’s this? - DrownedinSound brought you this news as rumours a little while back. Others for V include Stereophonics, The Prodigy and Girls Aloud, full list so far from the festival website below:
Hylands Park, Chelmsford; Saturday 16th August
and Weston Park, Staffordshire; Sunday 17th August
Muse
Stereophonics
The Kooks
Maximo Park
Alanis Morissette
The Futureheads
The Prodigy
The Pigeon Detectives
Newton Faulkner
The Hoosiers
Duffy
Amy MacDonald
Shed Seven
Ian Brown
The Pogues
Jamie T
The Twang
Sugababes
David Jordan
Hylands Park, Chelmsford; Saturday 17th August
and Weston Park, Staffordshire; Sunday 16th August
The Verve
Kings of Leon
Amy Winehouse
Lenny Kravitz
The Feeling
Girls Aloud
Squeeze
One Republic
Kaiser Chiefs
The Zutons
The View
Reverend and the Makers
Scouting for Girls
The Courteeners
The Rifles
The Chemical Brothers
The Charlatans
Hot Chip
Travis
Robyn
Tickets for the festival go on sale this Friday (7 Mar) at 9am.
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i'm SO there!
whoop!
chavtastic!
errr
Girls Aloud?
Yes please
Supposedly they were amazing at V last year (or was it the year before?)
year before
can't wait
Though I adore KOL
The fact they headline over Kaisers/Prodigy is odd.
Ignore that
I just checked the proper line-up and they're below The Verve.
oUT OF ALL OF THE SUMMER FESTIVALS
SURELY V HAS TO BE THE WORST?
It leaves a bad taste in the mouth I think.
It seems to be directed at people who love anything that Virgin Radio will shove down their throats.
Oh bloody Jesus
I was fully intent on booking a day ticket for Muse. But that's a horrible HORRIBLE lineup. Newton sodding Faulkner? Stereophonics? The f**king Hoosiers? Whoop-dee-doo.
The other day looks much better... Girls Aloud, Robyn, Hot Chip, Chemical Brothers, Amy Winehouse, The Zutons... but no Muse. Bloody V schedulers.
Ah well I'm going anyway
If Lenny Kravitz plays 'My mumma said' then I'm a happy chappy.
Dire
Dire. Dire.
Wasnt this the line up
For V96 as well?
Ok,
Stereophonics, The Verve, The Chemical Brothers, Alanis Morissette?...
They should rename this “Tired mid 90s bands festival ”
Yes, along with
Prodigy, Charlatans, Shed 7, Ian Brown, Kravitz, Travis.
Mind bendingly bad. Now will someone actually compare it to the 96 line up please?
dirty v
You can usually piece together a reasonable fest. once the full line up's about.
I don't know if I could ever forgive V for putting Sonic Youth on the 3rd stage, as the third headliner. Above them? Robert Plant. Hmm, interesting, you may say. And the main headliners above the Led Zep dude?
Texas.
but why would you
spend upwards of £150 to put together 'a reasonable fest'? why not take the money and go to one of the really good festivals??
because
they know no better
Hooray that they have
Kooks, Pigeon Detectives, Twang, View, Reverend and the Makers, Courteeners. As this means they won't be at Reading (and they are some I thought may be there).
Big boos that they have Futureheads and Hot Chip for similar reasons.
oh dont worry
the usual yearly crop of shite bands will make it to reading too, they always do