V Festival Information

The V Festival is an annual music festival in England. The first to be held at the same time at two sites currently Hylands Park in Chelmsford and Weston Park in South Staffordshire, organized by SJM Concerts. Earlier it had been held at Temple Newsam in Leeds, before being replaced by Carling's Leeds Festival. Originally, the festival took the name of the current year, with the first festival being named "V96". Since 2003 it has been known as simply the V Festival.

V Festival (Weston Park, Staffordshire) '2009:

Held over a large site, and offering a bill of predominantly commercial acts, crowd favourites, and radio friendly indie upstarts in a corporate festival atmosphere. Festival returns on Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd August 2009.

V Festival 2009 Lineup:

Festival Director, Bob Angus commented, "V Festival is delighted to add such a range of hot talent to our line up at this late stage. We now have over sixty acts confirmed to play at this year’s V Festival, and feel confident that all the acts on the bill genuinely offer a fresh and diverse mix of the best the current music scene has to offer!”!"

They join a line-up that includes the previously announced The Killers, Oasis, Razorlight, Keane, The Specials, Snow Patrol, Elbow, The Ting Tings, MGMT, Fatboy Slim, Pendulum, The Script, Paolo Nutini, Lily Allen, The Wombats, The Streets, Biffy Clyro, Katy Perry, James Morrison, Peter Doherty, Happy Mondays, Ocean Colour Scene, The Enemy, Dizzee Rascal, Lady GaGa, James, Alesha Dixon, Taylor Swift, and The Saturdays.

Vehicles Checked Near V Festival:

Police are checking if vehicles have insurance and tax in the area around the V Festival site in Staffordshire. Some 90,000 people are expected to go to Weston Park on the Staffordshire/Shropshire border where Oasis and The Killers are headlining the music event.

CCTV has been stepped up this year and includes infra-red thermal cameras.

Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras are scanning car registration numbers on the roads around Weston Park and on entry gates.

The system searches for stolen cars, drivers who have no insurance, no tax, are driving while disqualified or who are wanted by police.

The V Festival is taking place on Saturday and Sunday.

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service has urged people attending to take care when cooking around tents.

Arrest in Festival Ticket Inquiry:

The 65-year-old man was arrested earlier this week in Surrey and has been released on bail, a spokesman for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said.

Xclusive Tickets sold thousands of tickets to gigs, festivals and the Beijing Olympics but did not deliver.

More than 2,500 people who purchased Reading, Leeds and V Festival tickets from the company were affected.

The parents of double gold medal-winning swimmer Rebecca Adlington were reportedly among those who had tried to obtain Olympic tickets through the site.