V Festival reveals the Bowtime Bar line-ups

V Festival, which takes place at Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Essex and Weston Park, Staffordshire on Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th August 2008 have announced the line-ups at the Bowtime Bar at both events.

The bill includes breakthrough live acts such as The Whip and Golden Silvers, plus DJ's playing a mix of house & hip-hop beats, plus there will be exclusive DJ sets from several main stage artists including The Foals and The Maccabees.

Fiona Seath, from Strongbow said: "We are proud to be celebrating a ten year association with music festivals in the UK and this year's V Festivals will once again provide festival-goers with the perfect opportunity to sample the combined delights of the event experience with total first pint refreshment from Strongbow."

The line-ups for both festivals are as follows:

Chelmsford
Saturday 16 August
Beatlife Orchestra (live)
David Griffiths (House Rules)
Black Cherry (live)
Dead Audio Boy (Babycream)
Man Like Me (live)
The Foals DJ Set
Streetlife DJs
Devils Gun (live)
Leroy Thornhill (X Prodigy)
Alex Metric

Sunday 17 August
David Griffiths (House Rules)
Sam Isaac (live)
Slim Jim
Golden Silvers (live)
The Macabees – DJ Set
Six Toys (live)
The Nextmen
The Petebox (live)
No Fakin' (live)
The Whip (live)
Evil Nine

Staffordshire
Friday 15 August
Beatlife Orchestra (live)
Russell Reid (Lake of Stars)
The Petebox (live)
Tokyoblu (live)
Dan Greenpeace
Subsource (live)
The Beat Monkeys (Chibuku)

Saturday 16 August
Matty J & Ben Terry (Tirk Records)
Cut Cut Shape (live)
Russell Reid (Lake of Stars)
Sam Isaac (live)
Jaguar Skills (BBC Radio 1/1 Xtra)
6ix Toys (live)
The Nextmen
No Fakin' (live)
Evil Nine

Sunday 17 August
Buddha
Bye Bye Johnny (live)
Dash
Micachu (live)
DJ Kid Blue (Chew the Fat!)
The Maybes? (live)
The Foals DJ Set
Devils Gun (live)
Streetlife DJs
Dom Chung (Ministry)
Yousef (Circus)

They join a line-up of artists playing across the weekend that includes the headliners The Verve, and Muse who will be playing their only UK festival date. Acts also confirmed include Kings Of Leon, Stereophonics, Amy Winehouse, The Kooks, Maximo Park, Lenny Kravitz, The Feeling, Squeeze, The Prodigy, Kaiser Chiefs, The Pigeon Detectives, The Zutons, Newton Faulkner, The Hoosiers, Reverend And The Makers, Duffy, and more. To see which acts play at which site on which day, click for Hylands Park, Chelmsford or Weston Park, Staffordshire.

Tickets are still on sale for Staffordshire priced at £125 for a weekend pass with no camping, rr £145 with camping, and £70 for a day ticket for Saturday or Sunday.

There are still combined coach, camping and weekend tickets available for both events, with coaches for Staffordshire currently available from Newcastle, Swansea, and York.

Coach with camping and weekend tickets for those heading for Chelmsford are currently available from Milton Keynes, Northampton, Norwich, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Brighton, London, Ipswich, Southampton, and Peterborough.

All these ticket options can be purchased by clicking here.

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