So now we can safely rule out all of these bands...

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

There's a news report posted on the V site saying Kasabian are only doing The Great Escape and Eden.

[luckysalt]

The full V announcement today was 31 acts

theres been acts missing off various lists so I'll post the full list here, cus acts like British Sea Power were missed off the first list, by the way V hasn't announced its tent headliners yet, so could be a couple of big names still to come

Oasis

Snow Patrol

Elbow

James

Biffy Clyro

James Morrison

Ocean Colour Scene

Keane

The Enemy

Paolo Nutini

Katy Perry

MGMT

The Streets

Alelsha Dixon

The Killers

Razorlight

The Specials

Lily Allen

The Script

Taylor Swift

Seasick Steve

Fatboy Slim

Pendulum

The Wombats

Dizzee Rascal

Lady Gaga

Happy Mondays

The Saturdays

Pete Doherty

British Sea Power

The Ting Tings

[Budweiser]

There's a news report posted on the V site saying Kasabian are only doing The Great Escape and Eden.

[SpiralD]

Slipknot, anyone?

[noalarms]

Well, generally, that line up is terrible. Hopefully most of them acts are ruled out for a Leeds schedule.

[flossy_]

i'm a bit gutted about the streets and mgmt, also pendulum would of been nice again but that's about it.

aren't nme massive fans of the streets? im kinda surprised he's playing V, cos I guess he was asked by reading and leeds and thought maybe that would of been a natural choice. but nevermindddd.

and im happy maximo park and yeah yeah yeahs havent been announced again. i think they will play r/l.

EDIT: also really surprised about Pete doing his solo thing at V. would of thought he would of jumped at the chance to play R/L.

Edited March 2, 2009 by flossy_

[Chr!s]

Damn we don't get The Saturdays

btw i'm serious

[beLIEveR]

What about the chances for the View, the View, the View are on fire?

[moss265]

Generally, a lot of the bands announced for T in the Park that are NOT announced for V go on to play Reading as well. For this reason I'm thinking it's likely we will get some of these:

Mars Volta

Mogwai

Foals

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Gaslight Anthem

Simian Mobile Disco

Maximo Park

Also, it seems Madness are doing a few festivals around Europe, I reckon they will play, maybe NME headline or top 3 on main.

Edited March 2, 2009 by moss265

[ALLHALLOWS]

Gutted that V have got Elbow. I went to see them last night in Sheffield and they were so good. They are the perfect festival band to play when the sun starts to go down. However the post above stating that Gaslight Anthem and Maximo Park are likely to play Leeds/Reading has cheered me up.

[gr4h4m]

Slipknot, anyone?

[Lithium05]

Hm ain't they exclusive to Download? like their only UK festival apperance?

[Ainzy968]

Why is it that bands that play the V Festival don't play Reading and Leeds?? its not like the festivals clash, personally I would have liked bands such as MGMT, Wombats, Ting Tings to play again at Reading and Leeds this year

[Lithium05]

Why is it that bands that play the V Festival don't play Reading and Leeds?? its not like the festivals clash, personally I would have liked bands such as MGMT, Wombats, Ting Tings to play again at Reading and Leeds this year

[hearing_aid]

A lot of the time it is down to the festival signing them to an exclusive contract which makes business sense from a festivals point of view.

[penny_wishes]

Mars Volta, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Maximo would make my weekend!

Other than Radiohead playing, of course...

Shame there's no MGMT, I hoped to be able to see them this year since we couldn't even get in the tent properly last year. I'm actually quite tempted to go to Bestival now as well (proving the 'exclusive' theory right I guess. But I would never resort to V :/).

[rivalschools.price]

A lot of the time it is down to the festival signing them to an exclusive contract which makes business sense from a festivals point of view.

[Reading Local]

I would prob add Vampire Weekend to the list of Reading/Leeds bands since they haven't been announced for anything and what with MGMT playing V I would have thought they might have gone after them as well, unless they have already been signed up for somewhere else ;o)

[beLIEveR]

this may have been a good idea a few years back but now they are competing against more and more festivals so insisting on exclusive only bands seems to have severely restricted reading/leeds this year and that is why we have ended up with arctics and king of leon cos all the other potential headliners are playing other festivals or doing thier own outdoor shows.maybe in the future r/l will have to drop their exclusive rule or risk having a lower quality line up.