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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