Perth Music

V Festival Australia proudly announces the return of the mighty V Festival in 2008 – now touring nationally and once again staunchly supported by our pals at Virgin Mobile.

Building on the success of 2007 V Festival will not only revisit Sydney and the Gold Coast but will leap and bound further across the country, launching new events in both Melbourne and Perth for 2008.

Since its inception 12 years ago in the UK, V Festival has prided itself on creating line-ups that combine an intangible, eclectic hand-picked mix of the absolute iconic with the new and the cutting-edge, and in true V style you’ll witness first time visitors popping their Antipodean musical cherries alongside star-spangled and seasoned tour veterans.

This year V Festival has pulled a remarkable swag of rabbits out of their musical hat.

Leading the charge as headline acts for 2008 are THE SMASHING PUMPKINS (who last graced Oz with their sizeable talents some ten years ago) and perennial UK pop chameleons DURAN DURAN, returning to Australia to showcase their sensational new album ‘Red Carpet Massacre’ (gold dusted with the Timbaland and Timberlake Midas touch).

Joining them on V Festival’s two main stages, audiences will be wowed by QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, the freshly reformed THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN in their original incarnation, UK sensation MIKA* (east coast only), French electronic-ists AIR* (playing Australia for the first time - east coast only), love-from-above disco indie party people CSS, and the newest Modular sensations PLUG-IN CITY. V Festival will kick off in every city with the national winner of Virgin Mobile’s Garage to V competition, at the conclusion of it’s national search for the best new talent.

Aussie dance heroes THE PRESETS will take to the stage once again programmed by Modular, the wunderkinds of cool, along with THE TOUGH ALLIANCE, and many more uber hip acts from around the globe… more to be announced later!

The addition of Melbourne and Perth sites means V Festival is now Australia’s newest, most sophisticated national touring festival.

V Festival 2008 will be easy as pie to buy tickets for, with online buyers choosing between printing out tickets at home (ahem, recycled paper please!), getting the real deal in the mail, or even getting it SMS-ed direct to any Virgin Mobile phone!

Folk digging the traditional face-to-face approach will also be able to buy tickets at all Ticketmaster & Virgin Mobile outlets, as well as Virgin Megastores, Sanity and HMV. Take note that every single ticket is carbon neutral – with a big sloppy kiss to Ticketmaster, who have carbon offset the energy burned in getting everyone’s tickets
into their hot hands!

In 2007, V Festival raised more than $54,000 for charitable causes around Australia, and in 2008 we plan to allow you to luxuriate in the warm fuzzy feeling of doing good by default by once again donating $1 from every ticket sold. The kind souls at Virgin Unite (the charitable arm of the Virgin Group) will manage the distribution of your generosity, and if you’d like to see how they shared your collective love last year, check out the details at vfestival.com.au.

* Mika & Air not appearing at V Festival in Perth

Saturday March 29th - Sydney Centennial Park
Sunday March 30th - Gold Coast Avica Resort
Saturday April 5th - Melbourne Showgrounds
Sunday April 6th - Perth The Esplanade (City)

Tickets go on sale Thursday December 6th - Check VFestival.com.au for details

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