V Festival

V Festival, sponsored by Virgin Mobile, is back for its thirteenth year and yet again we've got a cracking line-up! Be sure to book out your diaries and start planning for the greatest summer ever. The biggest and best festival of the year taking place on 16th & 17th August 2008 at Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park, Staffordshire is on it's way! Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday 7th March.

This year over 100 of the hottest acts will belt out tunes across five stages.  A host of established acts along with more than a smattering of the industry's hottest hopes for the future will entertain us over the weekend. Headliners Muse and the The Verve, live supremos Kings of Leon and Stereophonics and other favourites as well as future Brit icons such as Amy Winehouse, Kaiser Chiefs, The Prodigy, and The Kooks will be gracing both sites.

Festival Director, Bob Angus comments:
"We're really proud of the V Festival line-up this year.  A European exclusive performance by Muse and some truly fantastic established live acts mixed with some exciting newcomers will result in a cracking weekend.  Something to get every fan on their feet!"

For those not lucky enough to get a ticket, to celebrate five years of festival coverage, Channel 4 will be running a series of V Festival programmes specials in the build up to the event. More live coverage than ever before ensures that viewers can enjoy front row seats to one of the hottest festivals of the summer! Heading up this televisual feast will be Popworld graduate Alexa Chung with a launch special - "V Festival 2008: The Line Up", due to air on Saturday 8th March at 9.25am.