V Festival (Chelmsford) 2012

Offering a bill of predominantly commercial acts, crowd favourites, and radio friendly indie upstarts in a party atmosphere. V Festival returns on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th August 2012.

Line-up

Latest additions are Propaganda DJs, Delilah, Niki & The Dove, Ren Harvieu, Devlin, Dot Rotten, Marlon Roudette, Aiden Grimshaw, Gabrielle Aplin, Random Impulse, Juan Zelada, Australian Pink Floyd, The Milk, All The Young, Bo Bruce, Minus The Bear, Gentleman's Dub Club, Josh Osho, Conor Maynard, Mull Historical Society, Selah Sue, Lonsdale Boys Club, Nneka, and Josh Kumra.

Headlined by The Stone Roses on Saturday with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds appearing before them. The Killers headline Sunday with Snow Patrol before them. Also confirmed are Nicki Minaj, Tinie Tempah, Example, Ed Sheeran, James Morrison, Tom Jones, The Enemy, The Proclaimers, Olly Murs, Noah and the Whale, The Stranglers, David Guetta, Nero, Keane, Madness, Friendly Fires, Happy Mondays, Professor Green, Emeli Sande, Ben Howard, Rizzle Kicks, Gossip, Sub Focus, Newton Faulkner, Wretch 32, Beverley Knight, The Feeling, Rita Ora, StooShe, Childish Gambino, Cover Drive, The Rifles, Frank Turner, Labrinth, Maverick Sabre, Miles Kane, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, and more. For the line-up details, stage and day splits, as available please click here.

Tickets

Weekend tickets with camping are priced at £175. Weekend tickets with no camping were priced at £149 and have sold out. Day tickets are priced at £86, and a campervan pass is priced at £99. UPDATE: Only camping and coach travel packages, and day tickets still available.

Registered disabled customers are permitted to one helper free of charge, if you need more than one helper please purchase a second ticket for that person. (The second helper may not gain access to the viewing platforms, please visit here for full information.)

To buy tickets from Seetickets, click here.

To buy tickets from Ticketline, click here.

To buy tickets from Ticketmaster, click here.

get there by coach

Big Green Coach is running coaches to V Festival (Chelmsford) from 28 locations.
To book, click here.

Opening times

With a capacity of 90,000 the site is open (for weekend campers) from 10am Friday until midday Monday. On Saturday and Sunday the arena will open at 12 noon and close at 11pm (when the bands finish).

Weekend with camping ticket holders must exchange their ticket for a wristband at the wristband exchange tent. Both weekend ticket holders (without camping) and day ticket holders do not need to exchange their tickets.

Please note, if you have a weekend ticket (without camping) then your ticket will consist of three parts. The left hand section is to be handed in to the stewards at the gate on Saturday, the right hand on Sunday and the centre is to be retained by yourself. Do not lose any of these sections as you will not be granted admittance and duplicate tickets will not be issued.

Parking

There is ample parking on the festival site.

Please note for both festival sites 1 campervan pitch is for a campervan, caravan or camping trailer and a maximum of 4 persons per pitch. There are no tents, cars or vans allowed in the campervan site.

Restrictions

There are to be no campfires and no glass allowed on site. No alcohol is permitted to be taken into the arena. The only containers permitted in the arena will be those carrying non alcoholic liquid in collapsible plastic, foil or cardboard forms of not more than 1 litre.

Bars

The bars are operated on a token system. Tokens are purchased from the token booths then exchanged at the bar for drinks. Some token booths will remain open for 1 hour after the bars have closed so vouchers can be redeemed.

Lockers

Lockers are situated outside the arena by Gate 3, prices are as displayed.

There'll be more information here when available.

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