V Festival - Chelmsford & Staffordshire

18th of August 2007 - 19th of August 2007

V Festival, sponsored by Virgin Mobile, is back for its thirteenth year and yet again we¹ve 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 it¹s 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 industry¹s 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:
³We¹re 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!²

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 - ³V Festival 2008: The
Line Up², due to air on Saturday 8th March at 9.25am.

MUSE  € THE VERVE  € KINGS OF LEON  € STEREOPHONICS  € KAISER CHIEFS   THE
PRODIGY  € AMY WINEHOUSE € THE KOOKS € THE ZUTONS € THE PIGEON DETECTIVES €
LENNY KRAVITZ € MAXIMO PARK € IAN BROWN € THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS  € THE VIEW
€ NEWTON FAULKNER € THE POGUES € THE CHARLATANS € THE HOOSIERS € REVEREND
AND THE MAKERS  € THE FEELING   ALANIS MORISSETTE € SCOUTING FOR GIRLS €
DUFFY € JAMIE T € HOT CHIP € GIRLS ALOUD €  THE FUTUREHEADS € SQUEEZE € THE
TWANG € SUGABABES € TRAVIS € AMY MACDONALD € THE COURTEENERS € SHED SEVEN €
THE RIFLES € ROBYN     DAVID JORDAN € ONE REPUBLIC