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[GuffGuy]

Fortunately I think that V goers are safe from that one..... god I hope I havn't talked that up!!!

Only possible headliner I'd care to see would be Foo Fighters at present - I'm looking at (hopefully) some decent acts further down the bill like Friendly Fires, Delphic, Gomez, Vampire Weekend, Miike Snow, or a decent headliner on the other stages like The Prodigy, Groove Armada or Supergrass or something along them lines - I think that's where V has been really poor over the last few years - these sort of acts have been replaced by the likes of Lady GaGa, NDubz, Katy Perry, Lemar and Alesha Dixon (although I must admit she was damn entertaining last year).

[thetime]

Bunny you're spot on.

I wish there was a festival out there which was a smaller scale version of the old V

It surely would do enough business, Summer Sundae kind of does it, but it books many obscure acts and shit headliners, I've been twice and they've had great headliners like Elbow and Gomez who are cult favourutes and then Divine Comedy, The Zutons and The Streets, they aren't enough of a cult act to get the fans in IMO

Supergrass, Shed Seven, Travis, Gomez, The Futureheads mixed with The Cribs, Biffy Clyro, Frank Turner then add some quality dance acts like Hot Chip, Delphic, Underworld, Infadels

Mid sized acts playing a smaller festival and Id be happy, I say it over and over again, theres a market for this type of festival and no-one is doing it, and I can't understand why

Aim it at the type of folks who used to go to V and are now loved up with sum kids and make it kid friendly and book sum classic indie with some great current artists, keep the costs down and make it family friendly. I really can't see why this hasn't happened, I don't need the obscure acts or the artsy fartsy added costs that Lattitude has, just a field with band and plently of space for people to chill in.

Im sure that at Staffs more than one festival could be run there a year, and do one in the school holidays near the start, so its away from V and use the same area but limit it to around 30,000 people and just have 1 open stage and a tent or two, you can have all the sponsored tents, whatever, but it wouldn't be anywhere near as crowded and they would still make a profit because you wouldn't be paying the large fees for the acts.

Seriously why is there only one festival at the Staffs site a year?

[Bunny]

What?. Alesha Dixon??? Ms 'Bump 'N' Flex'??? Ms'Our Time,your time, my rhymes'??

Did she attempt to cut her own head off with a pair of childs safety scissors??? is that the entertaining bit??

[jordanuk90]

Foo's are likely to be at 1 festival next year but i must admit i'm hoping Leeds coz that way i get to kop out of going to V nothing against anyone but V just seemed so different last year and i spent most of my time listening to cricket because o the line up