V Festival Review

Overall Rating

I went to the past two V Festivals' at Stafford and I'm due to go on my third in a couple of weeks. I think of all the festivals, V is a very corporate affair and there just doesn't seem to be a true festival vibe going on - it's more like they've tried to cram as many gigs as possible together and nothing more than that really... Saying that, as I mentioned earlier I am going again so it's not all bad. There's always a fantastic line up, and the weather was great in 2005. I've seen some brilliant performances there including Oasis & Scissor Sisters in 05 and Faithless and my old favourite, Paul Weller last year. As far as facilities go, I would say that they are generally below parr; the food was very over priced and the toilets got progressively worse but then I guess this is a festival, what do you expect? I also agree with another reviewer that last years festival was not the cleanest and some of the line up had a lot to answer for (I mean Sandi Thom? What is that about?).

Still, all in all it's worth going if you like music as there's so many acts on there's always something to satisfy. Definitely looking forward to V 2007 anyhow!