Wiley brings a 'Heatwave' to V Festival

Frank Ocean's replacement confirmed with JME & Skepta too

By Scott Williams | Published: Tue 14th Aug 2012

V Festival  (Chelmsford) 2012 - around the festival site
Photo credit: Rob Koster

V Festival (Chelmsford) 2012

Saturday 18th to Sunday 19th August 2012
Hylands Park, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 8WQ, England MAP
£175 w/e with camping
Daily capacity: 90,000

Godfather of Grime, Wiley, has confirmed he will be bringing JME, and Skepta along with him to the twin V Festivals next weekend, Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th August.

around the festival site
@vferstival confirmed the news that the English rapper and summer single 'Heatwave' singer would be appearing, by tweeting "Replacing Frank Ocean on The Arena Stage will be the Godfather Of Grime @Wiley__ Could this HEATWAVE get any hotter??"

The 'Wearing My Rolex' rapper confirmed the news, Tweeting (here) that he will also be bringing JME, and Skepta saying, "Catch me and my brothers @JmeBBK & @Skepta @vfestival on sunday .... #BBK 4 LIFE....."

In other news it would appear that LMFAO have not completely cancelled as we previously reported, but they will be one member down, due to illness.

The festivals' musical line-up includes The Stone Roses, The Killers, Snow Patrol, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Nicki Minaj, her N-Dubz band mate Dappy, Beverley Knight, Cher Lloyd, Tinie Tempah, Example, Ed Sheeran, James Morrison, Tom Jones, The Enemy, The Proclaimers, Tim Minchin, 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, Frank Turner, Labrinth, Maverick Sabre, Miles Kane, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, The Twang, Dodgy, Jack Beats, Lawson, and more!.

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

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

Weekend tickets with camping are priced at £175. Weekend tickets with no camping are priced at £149 for Staffordshire only. Day tickets are priced at £86, and a campervan pass is priced at £99 with luxury Vip camping Packages still available.

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