VIDEO GOES HERE
V FESTIVAL HISTORY
V
Festival, often known as
V Fest, is an annual music
festival held in England
during the penultimate
weekend in August. The event is
held at two parks simultaneously
which share the same bill. The
sites are located at Hylands Park
in Chelmsford and Weston Park in
South Staffordshire. Known to be one
of the Biggest music festival in the
England, V festival has amazing artist
lining up from The Killers, Beyoncé,
Eminem, Radiohead, Calvin Harris
6
December 2016
and Many more over the years, and
many bigger artists will perform
there.
The “V” in V Festival represents the
Virgin Group, with the event being
sponsored by Virgin Media.
The first every V Festival was hosted
in 1996 and it’s now coming up to
their 21st Year of the festival. In
2006, 2007 and 2009, All the tickets
was sold out. It was originally
televised by Channel 4 from 1997
approx 190 words at 11 point
to 2013, predominantly on their
sister channel 4 Music, it was then
televised by MTV from 2014 to
2015 and for the 2016 edition of the
festival it was televised by Channel 5.
Thousands of people have enjoyed a
music-packed weekend at V Festival’s
twin sites in Staffordshire and Essex.
More than 90,000 attended this
year’s event at Weston Park, and
about 180,000 at Hylands Park in
Chelmsford.
December 2016
7