Virgin Mobile USA today announced that Virgin Mobile FreeFest tickets have been scooped up. But music fans need not worry, because people across the East Coast will have the chance to volunteer through The Re*Generation Free I.P. program in order to receive a VIP ticket to the hottest free festival of the summer. The Virgin Mobile FreeFest will take place August 30th at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. Artists include Weezer, Blink 182, and Public Enemy…
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June 30th, 2009
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June 30th, 2009
Pearl Jam and Billy Talent will headline Virgin Festival Alberta this year. Other acts joining them in Calgary on August 8 & 9 include K-OS, Thunderheist, Arkells, Mother Mother, The Cliks, Metric, Tokyo Police Club, White Lies and Shout Out Out Out Out…
June 30th, 2009
Metric, The Roots, Broken Social Scene, Carly Rae Jepsen, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes and Chris Velan have been added to the lineup for the Virgin Festival to be held at Deer Lake Park, BC, Canada on July 25 & 26. They join Sonic Youth, Ben Harper & Relentless7, Our Lady Peace, Mutemath, Spinnerette, Jarvis Cocker, De La Soul and K-OS on the bill…
June 24th, 2009
Speculation and predictions that have filled blogs and discussion boards can be put to rest. The Virgin Mobile USA Festival is returning, but with a catch. Admission will be free. Those scheduled to appear at this year’s FreeFest include Weezer, Blink-182, Franz Ferdinand, Public Enemy, Jet, The National, Girl Talk, The Bravery, The Hold Steady, St. Vincent, Wale, and Taking Back Sunday, as well as dance tent favorites that include HOLY F*CK, Pete Tong, Danny Howells and Lee Burridge…
May 1st, 2009
The competition to win a pair of tickets to The Great Escape festival in Brighton ends 4th May (Monday).
The winner will get a pair of tickets for the entire weekend at this years Great Escape festival, and we’ve also got 4 pairs of tickets to just the Road to V gigs in Brighton to give away as runner up prizes. That’s 2 pairs to see Just Jack perform along with the first 5 Road to V finalists on 14 May and 2 pairs to The Charlatans gig with the other 5 finalists on 15 May…
April 28th, 2009
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.
April 28th, 2009
If a trip off the beaten path of blog endorsement and into the wild and woolly outback of lo-fi blips and thrashes of jaggedy Fenders sounds good then the annual Dot to Dot extravaganza might be your niche. New signed bands is the name of the game and the poster reads like Pitchfork’s index (were it a magazine and could stomach a British band or two)…
April 21st, 2009
We’re reaching that great time of year; the sun is properly out for the first time in months, the coats, scarves, gloves and hats are being left at home and we are facing a whole summer full of good times, festivals and (hopefully) great weather!
One of the nicest places to spend a sunny evening in London is Somerset house, which last year played host to Justice, We Are Scientists, Duffy and Adele during their Summer Series. This year, Somerset House have so far confirmed Grace Jones, Lily Allen, The Ting Tings, Pendulum and Athlete. The other headliners will be announced on 29th April for the event which runs from 9th – 18th July.
April 14th, 2009
We’re giving one lucky winner the opportunity to head to Brighton for this year’s Great Escape Festival where you can catch Virgin Media’s Road to V gigs featuring headline performance from Just Jack and indie legends The Charlatans. Not only that but you’ll also have access to all other gigs happening across The Great Escape between 14th-16th May and with a line-up including Kasabian and British Sea Power, you’re pretty much guaranteed a good time. Read on to find out how to be in with a chance to win tickets…
April 4th, 2009
One of the world’s best loved and well known, if not muddy, festivals sold out this morning, as music lovers snapped up the last few remaining tickets. Final sales started at 9am, enabled those who had registered in the intial stages with photographic information to deter to touts, to get their musical mitts on the gold dust tickets. Acts officially confirmed by www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk include Lily Allen, Fleet Foxes, Neil Young, Blur, Bruce Springsteen, Doves and White Lies to name a few. It is anticipated that the remaining headline acts will be announced in the next few weeks.
April 3rd, 2009
Grab yourself a pair of tickets to see the fantastic Peaches who marks her return to the scene with an appearance at the Ether Festival on London’s South Bank next weekend. All you have to do to be in with a chance to see the electro-punk princess is add a comment to this post. Then we’ll randomly pick one of you and set you up with your date with the lady herself (and a few hundred other people) next Friday - 10 April at the Royal Festival Hall…
March 31st, 2009
Radiohead and Kings Of Leon join Arctic Monkeys as headliners of Reading and Leeds Festival 2009. Prodigy, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party all get second billing across the three days from Friady 28 to Sunday 30 August. Other bands added to the lineup include Placebo, Maximo Park, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fall Out Boy, Vampire Weekend, Ian Brown, Funeral For A Friend, Gossip, Glasvegas, White Lies, Florence & The Machine, Friendly Fires and Gallows. Tickets are on sale at seetickets.com or by calling 0871 231 0821.
March 11th, 2009
music.virgin.com has finally gone pop! Self confessed indie boy Bob ’skinny jeans’ Fear and urban wannabee Eleanor ‘OG’ Conway hit up pop starlets and general hotties The Saturdays upon the release of their Comic Relief inspired cover of Depeche Mode’s Just Can’t Get Enough (they even treated us to an exclusive impromptu a cappella performance of the new single). The Saturdays have now been confirmed as playing this year’s UK V Festivals in Chelmsford and Stafford in August - following in the dainty high-heeled footsteps of Girls Aloud last year. We asked them who they would most like to camp with at V Festival so watch the video interview to find out who picked who out of these chosen plus-ones: Michael Jackson, any of Kings Of Leon, fat Elvis, thin Elvis…
March 9th, 2009
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…
March 2nd, 2009
Oasis and The Killers are set to headline Virgin Media’s V Festival in Chelmsford and Staffordshire on 22 & 23 August. Fatboy Slim, Keane, The Specials, Elbow, Pendulum, The Tings Tings, MGMT and Lady Ga Ga will also be playing at what will be the V Festival’s fourteenth year. The Virgin Mobile Union stage sees lyrical genius Peter Doherty take to the stage and will be joined by a load of other acts to be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday. Read on for details the full lineup so far…
March 2nd, 2009
Ian Easton has only got himself a preview copy of the new Peter Doherty album, Grace/Wastelands. To hear his verdict, quotes from the Babyshambles man himself, as well as details of the track listing, Peter’s tour dates and how to get a free (legal!) download of one the tracks, read on…
February 24th, 2009
Don’t miss your chance to see rock royalty in Sydney this week when Alice In Chains take to the Enmore Theatre stage on Wednesday 25th Feburary. After a long hiatus, the members of Alice In Chains have decided to honour their musical legacy by taking their beloved songs to the road. Jerry Cantrell, Mike Inez and Sean Kinney will be joined by William Duvall on lead vocals who fills the void left after the tragic 2002 death of the legendary Layne Staley. This year the band are thrilled to be reunited and returning to the music they created and the legacy that is Alice In Chains.
February 23rd, 2009
The Big O is a series of O week events to be held at university campuses in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Wollongong and Newcastle. Tickets are available for both students and the general public. So come and celebrate O week when The Big O hits the University of Sydney this week. Taking the stage at Manning House will be: The Music, The Fratellis, Ben Lee, Bluejuice, Yves Klein Blue and Cassette Kids…
February 16th, 2009
Britain’s answer to SXSW, The Great Escape festival, has been taking over sunny Brighton every May for the last few years to great success, bringing a veritable feast of brand new music to the attention of fans and industry alike. This year’s festival will run over the 14th, 15th and 16th May at dozens of venues around the British riviera and will feature performances from a whopping 300 bands, including Passion Pit, Metronomy, Ben Kweller and many, many more…
February 12th, 2009
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…
