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16 (count ‘em) more acts have just been confirmed for this year’s V Festival on 22 & 23 August at Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park, Staffordshire. The last remaining tickets for Weston Park, Staffordshire are expected to be snapped up today via www.vfestival.com so don’t miss out and be fast to grab yours now. Calvin Harris and 2 Many DJs join the bill currently headed by Oasis and The Killers. Also added are Jet, Athlete, Human League, Starsailor, Lemar, Will Young, Noisettes, The Proclaimers, Natalie Imbruglia, Red Light Company, Mr Hudson, The King Blues, Tinchy Stryder, Daniel Merriweather and Matt Tracker - who won last year’s Road To V contest.

Front man Mr Brandon Flowers cruises around the stage with his trademark smooth style. Audience participation they have down to a tee and this is not a set for the faint hearted. As thousands of people jump around to Mr Brightside and a chorus of Smile Like You Mean It echoes around this arena tonight I get that mesmerising feeling that this is one of those once in a lifetime moments. The Killers know what they are doing for sure and their confidence is almost cocky…

Watch this fantastic performance from The Killers as they play Human at this year’s V Festival in Sydney, Australia. Give us a shout out if you were there, and if not - well treat yourself to this video clip and spirit yourself there anyway. Having already played Gold Coast last weekend, The Killers are now set to headline V Festivals in Melbourne and Perth this weekend… Check back soon for more video clips from V Festival Australia.

With only a few days until the Australian V Festivals kick off, and with me, Eleanor Conway, your trusty Global VPass winner already en route, thought it might be time to whet your appetite with my first tour diary. London to Hong Kong to Sydney… all in a day’s work!

V Festival has once again almost completely sold out across both sites only hours after tickets went on sale. Tickets to Hylands Park, Chelmsford sold out in under two hours and only coach packages now remain. The last remaining tickets to Weston Park, Staffordshire are going fast from www.vfestival.com. Tickets went on sale at 10am last Friday…

The Kills, M83, Howling Bells, Jenny Lewis, Jackson Jackson, Wolf & Cub and Children Collide join The Killers, Snow Patrol, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, Elbow and Duffy on next month’s V Festival Australia lineup. Legendary 80s heroes Madness and Human League have also been added to the bill - fitting in to that classic retro groove so nobly filled by Duran Duran last year and Pet Shop Boys the year before. The presence of The Kills’ Jamie Hince will alert Aussies to the possibilities of one Kate Moss making an appearance down under…

For all you eager Aussie beavers quivering with anticipation over the forthcoming Australia V Festivals - here’s a flashback to this year’s awesome V Festivals in Sydney, Gold Coast, Melbourne and Perth. Watch Queens Of The Stone Age rule the stage with Make It Wit Chu. Also - watch the interview with QOTSA from backstage at V Festival Melbourne… The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol, Elbow, Duffy, Louis XIV, Tame Impala, The Do, The Temper Trap and The Canyons are already on the V Festival lineup for 2009 and tickets are on sale now.

V Festival Australia is on for 2009 and The Killers, Snow Patrol and the Kaiser Chiefs will be headlining. Virgin Mobile’s third V Festival whirlwind is to hit Sydney on 28 March, Gold Coast on 29 March, Melbourne on 4 April and Perth on 5 April next year. Elbow, Duffy, Louis XIV, The Do, Tame Impala, The Temper Trap and Canyons beef up the already awesome lineup with more acts to be announced soon. Tickets will be on sale Friday 28 November but if you’re a lucky lucky Virgin Mobile Australia customer then you can get your hands on pre-sale tickets from this Wednesday 19 November…

Amongst freshly cut grass, children playing in the snow and the late October appearance of Christmas decorations in my local supermarket here is a list of discernibly nice things that are nice to like (in no particular order): Cage The Elephant - my new favourite band, Stricken City - spangling, jangling pop, Ladyhawke - she’s a lady, but no hawk, Say aha - perhaps in a Alan Partridge or a Morton Harket kind of way but preferably in a Santogold’s latest-single-kind-of way…

Well let’s start off with the fact that they all have chart topping singles out right now… You know record labels want to make few extra coins this holiday season - with the economic crisis in America taking away a lot of business profit. So Island Def Jam is making a bold move - they are moving the release date forward of The Killers’ Day & Age, Ludacris’ Theater of the Mind and Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak.

Jack White has had to pull out of a performance at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool in November due to a prolonged neck injury. Having slipped a disc whilst on tour with the Raconteurs, White had been hoping to recover in time to perform a duet of Bond theme “Another Way to Die” with Alicia Keys for the MTV event but fans and organisers have been left disappointed by Jack’s ongoing problem. Unable to travel and with a neck which is refusing to heal we wish Jack White a speedy recovery.

“Probably the most contrived way to organise a duty free booze run ever” ELEANOR CONWAY

Please enjoy the first video installment of VPass Ambassador Campaign: ‘Eleanor Conway needs to go global… V Festival Video’. Where topics such as what would you do if provoked by a rampant Wino in it’s natural habitat?

Forget the celebs, we meet Lord Chop A Lot, Barbara Streisand, The Elephant Head Of Doom and many, many more……

Ahoy Fellow Festival Goer, last year we had the Foo Fighters, The Killers and Kasabian grace Hylands and Weston Park. And now that the VFestival hype is building up with this years amazing line up confirmed which will see the likes of Muse, The Chemical Brothers and The Verve appear, we can look back at […]