V Festival
2008: 16th & 17th August - View Gallery
2009: 22nd & 23rd August - Tickets go on sale in March 2009
Hylands Park Chelmsford.
Weston Park Staffordshire.
V Features
Follow the links here to find out who the stars were looking forward to seeing, their guides to festivals past and present and what records they like to listen to in their tents with their feet up post gig.
We've also put together a guide to the top tunes to get your mitts on by the bands who performed at the V Festival 2007, and find out just what cult hero author irvine welsh thinks of the legendary Iggy Pop, plus much more.
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V's Gone By
The success of V can be attributed to us having one of the most eclectic line ups of the UK
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2007 minutes of music.
Or 1.39375 days, or 33.45 hours, or 120420 seconds, but this is the V Festival 2007 so we'll stick to 2007 minutes of music thank you very much.
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The Happy Mondays in Rio
The Mondays were going World Scumbag Class... the evening paper had announced the band were bringing in 10,000 ecstasy pills.
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Irvine Welsh on Iggy Pop & The Stooges
If anybody is ever hostile to Iggy in a feature or interview, you can rest assured that they are soulless, jealous and bitter. It's the ultimate litmus test. Trust me on that one.
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The Rise of The Killers
People ask me if we were trying to be funny with this record because it's big and exciting and confident. And my answer is, 'I don't think Beethoven was trying to be funny.'
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AMY's Full House
Amy played to the biggest crowd the main stage has accommodated all weekend. With a heartfelt performance of Love is a Losing Game even the security were melting.
Lost Property
If you've lost or found something at V Festival, you can hand in or claim the item by contacting the releavnt V Fetsival Park lost property office.