Haze sends the link:
Morrissey to headline V Festival - BBC News
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Morrissey and Radiohead have been announced as the headline acts for this summer's V Festival.
Bloc Party, Keane, The Magic Numbers and honorary Brit Award winner Paul Weller are also on the bill for the event, taking place on August 19-20.
The ex-Smiths frontman and Oxford-based Radiohead will both be making their debuts at the 11th annual festival.
The two-centre event will take place over the weekend at Hylands Park, Essex and Weston Park in Staffordshire.
Radiohead will headline the main stage at Hylands Park on Saturday, with Morrissey playing the event in Staffordshire.
The two acts will swap venues on Sunday.
...Last year's V Festival attracted more than 130,000 music fans to both sites, with Oasis, Franz Ferdinand and the Scissor Sisters among the 80 acts taking part.
Tickets for the 2006 V Festival are to go on sale on 3 March.
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An anonymous person also sends a link to the
V Festival 2006 official lineup.
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Klangster also sends the news item at NME.com:
Radiohead and Morrissey set for V---
sable also writes:
VIRGINMOBILELOUDER website is selling v tickets tickets now (27/2) in advance of general release
The website says you must be a virgin mobile phone customer and when you phone the number 08701432203 the message also says this but they do not check it
I've just bagged 2 weekend ticks to see Moz and Radiohead so I'm a happy chappy
Good luck
I shall certainly be attending (Score:1)
Perfect.
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V Va Moz (Score:1)
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Who put the V In Morrissey? (Score:1)
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Q Review speculation (off-topic I know...) (Score:0)
In it he said that he "stood by [Q's] decision to award album of 2005 to Coldplay's 'X and Y'" because he did not "subscribe to the theory held by most of the UK music press that only albums by those with forever selective appeal are of any artistic merit".
Now - he did NOT mention Moz, but strangely I instantly thought of Morrissey and Tom Waits when I read this. I'm not even saying Rees had Moz in mind, though M might well fit that description in his eyes. But - it does suggest an editor who wants to be populist, to speak for the masses, and I do wonder if ROTT was marked down by Tom Doyle because, as with so many magazines, he writes for the editor. I mean, it got only three despite Doyle saying that "for much of the album he's as focussed as he's ever been". I didn't detect outright bias in there, but I do wonder if Dolye, knowing that Rees isn't a fan of Moz and in the absence of an interview, deliberately erred on the cautious side. Just a thought and possibly totally untrue, but something to ponder!
Moz is simply not festival headline material... (Score:0)
Most festival headline acts have had a fairly large number of highly acclaimed and commercially successful (i.e multiple platinum) albums, or at least songs which have received lots of radio airplay. These acts would include Blur, Radiohead, REM, Oasis, The Cure etc each of whom must have nearly 10 well-known songs (NB I don't particularly like these bands). The only Moz songs which have been (small) radio hits are Gang, Suedehead and Everyday. Normal radio never went anywhere near the Smiths.
Anyway, I'll still probably go. With any luck he may have two radio hits to add to his list by the summer time although the initial reception for YHKM (ignored by all UK stations except XFM) suggests otherwise...
J
Don't believe the hype (Score:0)
Need I mention IOW?
Festivals are awful (Score:0)