V Festival (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.

For news articles about the V Festivals please click here.

Headlining on the Saturday will be The Killers and Sunday it's the turn of Oasis. The main stage will also see Razorlight, The Specials, Lily Allen, The Script, Taylor Swift, Snow Patrol, Elbow, James, Biffy Clyro, James Morrison, and Ocean Colour Scene.

The 4 Music Stage has Fatboy Slim, Pendulum, The Ting Tings, The Wombats, Dizzee Rascal, Keane, The Enemy, Paolo Nutini, and Katy Perry.

The Arena Stage has Lady Gaga, Happy Mondays, Ladyhawke, The Human League, The Saturdays, MGMT, and The Streets.

The acts announced for the Virgin Mobile Union Stage include Pete Doherty, British Seapower, Alphabeat, The Twang, Mystery Jets, Gary Go, and more.

The line-up is now complete. For the line-up details, day, and stage splits, please click here.

The only tickets still on sale are a weekend pass with camping and coach travel, priced at £152.50 plus coach travel cost.

To buy tickets, click here.

The site is open (for weekend campers) from 10am Friday until midday Monday. The arena will be open from 12 noon on Saturday and Sunday to 11pm. Weekend Ticket holders (camping and non camping) should exchange their tickets for wristbands at the wristband exchange tent. Day ticket holders do not need to exchange their tickets for a wristband.

Car parking will be available on site at around £10 per car, or there is a park and ride scheme from Telford. Camper vans are allowed on site, at a cost of £50 per pitch in 2008. The Big Green Coach will also be running coaches into the two sites from destinations across the UK.

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.

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.

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

There'll be more information here when available.

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