What with the real lack of festival news this week (just 21 stories, frankly I'm embarrassed) let's report on another US festival, just to keep the numbers up. The headliners have been announced for the US edition of the V Festival, which will take place in August this year, 4-5 Aug, to be precise, which puts it directly up against the Lollapalooza festival. Taking place in Baltimore, headliners will be The Police, Beastie Boys and Smashing Pumpkins.
The festival's producer, Seth Hurwitz, says the decision to move from September to August was to enable the Police booking - because they had to fit in with the band's much hyped tour. Admitting the clash with Lollapalooza was "not ideal" he added: "Given the choice of booking the Police or not we had to go for it. If anything it's probably helped us because we were able to book some bands that were out already for Lolla. Hopefully both festivals will be strong enough that it doesn't matter".
The V Festival franchise has been expanding internationally for a year or so - though actually in North America it's called the Virgin Festival. The first US edition was staged last September, also in Baltimore.