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Oasis and Killers to headline V Festival

Plus Razorlight, Lily Allen, Pete Doherty, Elbow to play

March 2, 2009 | 10 Comments
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Oasis and The Killers will headline the V Festival this year.

Other bands announced to be playing the bash include Razorlight, Snow Patrol, Keane, Lily Allen, The Specials, Pete Doherty Elbow, MGMT and The Ting Tings.

The event takes place across two sites, one in Chelmsford and one in Staffordshire on August 22 and 23.

The V Festival 2009 line-up so far is:

Oasis
The Killers
Razorlight
Snow Patrol
Fatboy Slim
Keane
The Specials
Elbow
James
Lily Allen
The Enemy
Pendulum
The Script
Biffy Clyro
The Ting Tings
Paolo Nutini
MGMT
Katy Perry
The Wombats
James Morrison
Peter Doherty
The Streets
Lady GaGa
Dizzee Rascal
Happy Mondays
Seasick Steve
Ocean Colour Scene
The Saturdays
British Sea Power
Taylor Swift
Alesha Dixon

Tickets go on sale at 10am (GMT) on Friday (March 6), and you can get yours via NME.COM.

To check the availability of V Festival tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

Gerbalism

Mar 3, 2009

I'd only go to see Elbow and MGMT. The lineup looks pretty poor to be honest.

jamesheal

Mar 3, 2009

I see the organisers have claimed this is 'eclectic' - just sounds liek a bunch of largely uninspiring, popular bands, with a couple of token pop acts like Alesha Dixon and The Saturdays, quite possibly the thickest girl group from the past 15 years...

A_Dis

Mar 3, 2009

Agree with previous comments, poor line-up. Shame really...used to go every year in the early noughties but increasing prices, uninspired line-ups and overcrowding means that I won't be going again in the forseeable future. Save your money for Reading or one of the smaller festivals this year.

DaveIndieBoy

Mar 3, 2009

As much I love Oasis, this line-up is really poor....pretty much what a load of middle-aged, middle-class tossers consider "indie"

Geekpie

Mar 3, 2009

The Killers were the last band I saw at V - they were bad, real bad. Can't believe they've been given the headline slot again.

fnchy77

Mar 3, 2009

Amazing how everyone is slating the line-up at V! Oh surprise surprise.... its poor lol! When has V ever had a good line-up? Since its conception, its only ever had maybe one or two bands a year who aren't frequently played on Radio 1.Since when was V for anyone other than chavs and people who don't take music too seriously? I went once..... saw so much burberry, nike and Lonsdale that I vowed never to go back.

gazmassie

Mar 3, 2009

You are all entitled to your opinions... but you are all wrong. I vowed never to go to this corporate whore fest but seeing this line up i may reconsider. Oasis are the best band on the planet - The Killers, although admittedly are annoying, are a great festival band and with other acts such as Razorlight (who are the new Oasis in the fact that everyone hates them for no reason), The Specials and MGMT, it promises to be the best V Festival in years.

strummer-ville200

Mar 3, 2009

DaveIndieBoy thats a sweeping statement that middle aged people are tossers & consider this as indie, I like alot off people on here are what you would call middle aged but certainly don't class this as an indie line up & since when has V festival been an indie festival anyway you only have to go back to last year with Girls Aloud & Sugababes Etc ,Whilst some people no doubt like those sort of bands alot dont, Like A_Dis said save your money for Reading if yo dont like the line up like alot of us will & don't think for one minute its only people below 30 that know what indie is

D. Conka

Mar 3, 2009

That's an awful line up.

be.brave

Mar 8, 2009

i'm going for the first time this year. i think it could be quite good. quite a few bands i'd miss, but i'm going for oasis, mgmt, the specials, killers, elbow, the enemy, paolo nutini.. most bands here i wouldn't usually see, but why not go if i've got the opportunity to?