The UK's twin-site V Festival is to go international, with a two-day event already confirmed to take place in Toronto.
The Canadian city will play host to the first V Festival to be held outside of the UK. The location is Island Park, the dates September 9 and 10, and the line-up includes The Flaming Lips, The Hidden Cameras and The Dears so far. There will be no camping.
The Virgin Group are looking at other sites, too - already there is talk of a V Festival in Baltimore, before the year's end. Canada is also likely to be revisted: Vancouver and Montreal are in line to host events.
Richard Branson, boss of the Virgin Group, referred to the V Festival/s as "the biggest sort of social event on the calendar for a particular age group in the UK". Which is very specific, I'm sure you'll agree.
More news on the international events as we have it. The UK's V Festival runs from August 19th to the 20th, and is headlined by Morrissey and Radiohead.
How exciting.
I hope that, one day soon, all music in the World is owned and controlled by one company who have the power of God over all gigs and festivals and anyone who even considers buying an instrument has to receive special dispensation from that company's CEO.
A company that really, really cares about music enough to own it completely, I'm thinking. Carling, perhaps. Or Omni Consumer Products. Or Smithklein Beecham.
ACME Music Co.
Carlsberg..
because they would probably be the best music company ever
.
Surely GlaxoSmithKline.
Anyway quibbles over mergers aside, they would have an awesome festival I am sure. You could take part clinical trials whilst watching my mum's favourite indie bands.
J
this news
makes me sad. Toronto just staged a majorly successful (mini) festival in exactly the same place, curated by broken social scene. Keep things local i say.
Also, V festival is shit.
I agree...
because I was at the BSS show and it was amazing. Feist was sick, but she still sounded great. But I think the V-Fest sounds pretty cool. I'm too poor to go to it right now, but I want to. I mean, come on! The Dears, Alexisonfire, Sam Roberts, The Strokes, MSTRKRFT...what's not to like?
V in accotiation with M&S Chichen Wraps
This isnt just a festival----
This is a M&S festival
with all the best qualitiy organic bands
striped off all there soul
neatly packaged into small bitsized
bandette's
with nothing too scary or any surprises
overpriced beer
percisition festivals
WOW HOO were parting now
Government approved rock and roll!!!
rant over
death to the sugerbabes
jkicks
As bad as V Festival is...
Is it just me or does the Toronto Festival seem to have much better bands than the festival here?
wut!?
r-a-d-i-o-h-e-a-d,m-e-w,t-h-e--d-a-n-d-y--w-a-r-h-o-l-s!
err ooh and biffy clyro.
thats a line up.better even than (gasp) reading. though reading does have tv on the radio and eagles of death metal and slayer and mastadon. *explodes in a piff of indecision*
Bollocks I forgot Radiohead
I was thinking more along the lines of 90% of the bands I had seen on the bill being MOR dross like Keane, The Feeling and Orson.
Say what you want about V Festival
But this years line up is top.
Radiohead, for crying out loud! When was the last time they played a non-Glasto festival in this country?!
Seriously
anything with richard branson's face on it immediately turns me off. Nothing to do with anticommercialism or anything like that, i just hate his face. Its so damn ugly.
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