The V Festival is almost here and the line up this year is one to impress. If you’re looking to buy tickets now, they seem to be close to selling out so you might want to start making plans ASAP! To check ticket availability go to http://www.seetickets.com/see/ or www.ticketmaster.co.uk

For those who are already ticket holders for the festival which is taking place Saturday August 19th and Sunday the 20th at Hylands Park, Chelmsford: Westford Park, Staffordshire, you’re in for what looks to be a great time.

The line up:

Headliners are RADIOHEAD and MORRISSEY

FAITHLESS is the co-headliner with Morrissey, Beck, Paul Weller, Keane, Razorlight, Kasabian, The Charlatans, Editors, Fatboy Slim, Groove Armada, The Go! Team, Rufus Wainwright, Bloc Party, Hard Fi, The Ordinary Boys, Starsailor, Girls Aloud, The Beautiful South, The Magic Numbers, Sugababes, We Are Scientists, James Dean Bradfield, Kano, Gomez, Sandi Thom, The Cooper Temple Clause, Mew, The Dears, The Cardigans, Delays, Echo And The Bunnymen, Nerena Pallot, My Morning Jacket, Pipettes, Matisyahu, Bell X1, The Divine Comedy, The Dandy Warhols, Orson, The Feeling, Xavier Rudd, Imogen Heap, Regina Spektor, The Crimea, The Dead 60’s, Kubb, Kula Shaker, Morning Runner, Matt Willis, Richard Hawley, Jamie T, Oceansize, Daniel Powter, Gavin De Graw, Biffy Clyro, The Rifles, Phoenix, Bic Runga, Art Brut, Liam Front and the Slowdown Family, The Saw Doctors, Dogs, The Young Knives, Jim Noir, Rushmore, Lily Allen, Pure Reason Revolution, Mute Math, Boy Least Likely To, Captain, Lorraine, The Upper Room, James Morrison, Paulo Nutini, Butch Walker, Seth Lakeman, Director, The Grates, The Milk Teeth and The Dodgems.

For more information regarding where and when each band is playing go to the official V Festival website. The V Stage and Channel 4 stage looks to be holding some of the bigger names but the other stages should be interesting, too.

We saw Norway based band Lorraine at the Lovebox Festival and it looks like they’re going to be on the Virgin Mobile Union stage as well as The Young Knives who happen to be from Oxford which is very good to see. The other Oxford band playing on ‘the big stage’ is one you might have heard of - Radiohead!

Speaking of Radiohead - since they’re from Oxford and one of the headliners at the V fest, here’s the video for their beautiful, ‘Pyramid Song’. Also-they have a blog called Dead Air Space which is definitely worth checking out.