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V Festival pinches Glastonbury headliners, adds Lenny Kravitz
TheBoyDeadly by TheBoyDeadly March 4th, 2008

The organisers of V Festival have confirmed who’ll be headlining this year’s event.

Amy Winehouse, Kings of Leon and The Verve join Muse at the pinnacle of the weekend’s bill, which takes place as usual at dual sites in Chelmsford and Staffordshire from the 16th ‘til the 17th of August.

Two of those acts were of course confirmed to headline Glastonbury last month, while – what’s this? - DrownedinSound brought you this news as rumours a little while back. Others for V include Stereophonics, The Prodigy and Girls Aloud, full list so far from the festival website below:

Hylands Park, Chelmsford; Saturday 16th August
and Weston Park, Staffordshire; Sunday 17th August
Muse
Stereophonics
The Kooks
Maximo Park
Alanis Morissette
The Futureheads
The Prodigy
The Pigeon Detectives
Newton Faulkner
The Hoosiers
Duffy
Amy MacDonald
Shed Seven
Ian Brown
The Pogues
Jamie T
The Twang
Sugababes
David Jordan

Hylands Park, Chelmsford; Saturday 17th August
and Weston Park, Staffordshire; Sunday 16th August
The Verve
Kings of Leon
Amy Winehouse
Lenny Kravitz
The Feeling
Girls Aloud
Squeeze
One Republic
Kaiser Chiefs
The Zutons
The View
Reverend and the Makers
Scouting for Girls
The Courteeners
The Rifles
The Chemical Brothers
The Charlatans
Hot Chip
Travis
Robyn

Tickets for the festival go on sale this Friday (7 Mar) at 9am.


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