V Festival (Staffordshire) 2010

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. V Festival returns on Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd August 2010.

News

For news articles about the V Festivals please click here.

Line-up

Kasabian will headline Saturday and Kings of Leon headlining Sunday with Stereophonics, Faithless, The Prodigy, David Guetta, Doves, Calvin Harris, The Kooks, Paul Weller, Paolo Nutini, Florence And The Machine, Pet Shop Boys, Cheryl Cole, Madness, Editors, White Lies, Mika, Groove Armada, The Courteeners, The Charlatans, The Temper Trap, Amy Macdonald, Goldfrapp, Shed Seven, Newton Faulkner, La Roux, Skunk Anansie, Passion Pit, Ellie Goulding, Paloma Faith, Plan B, Sugababes, and Pixie Lott. There are still many more to be announced.

For the line-up details, stage and day splits, as available please click here.

Tickets

Tickets are now available with or without camping. Tickets are priced at £165 for a weekend pass with camping, £140 for a weekend pass without camping. Day tickets priced at £78.50 have sold out.

To buy tickets, car parking passes, lockers or coach travel only click here.

With a capacity of 90,000 the site will 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.

New area

The Mansion, an area dedicated to giving festival-goers access to laptops, free Wi-Fi, gaming and 3DTV services. It will also have power points for phone charging, and live performances from guest DJs through the entire weekend.

Big Green Coach

This year festival goers can get their hands on coach and festival tickets in one transaction by purchasing via Big Green Coach, www.biggreencoach.co.uk, who will also be helping festival- goers reduce their carbon footprint to the festival.

Car parking

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, the ticket prices for which have not yet been announced. The Big Green Coach will be expected to run 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.

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.

Video

Here is a short eFestivals film about V Festival 2009.



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