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Pigeon Detectives to Headline Underage Festival

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

The annual Underage Festival which only opens it’s gates to those that are 18 and under, has confirmed it’s first acts today. Headlining the London event will be Leeds indie band Pigeon Detectives, who also played the event back in 2007.

Joining Pigeon Detectives will be New Zealand favourites Ladyhawke and Metronomy who will both be making their first appearances at Underage festival. Hadouken!, Rolo Tomassi, Kissy Sell Out, Caspa and JME will also be joining the bill.

Underage Festival takes place in Victoria Park, London on 2nd August. Tickets for the one day festival cost just £30.

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V Festival 2009 Bands Announced

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

The twin V Festival events have confirmed recently reformed Oasis to headline alongside previously announced The Killers for this years festival.

The event which is set to take place at Hylands Park, Chelmsford, and Weston Park, Staffs from 22-23 August has also today confirmed a whole range of different acts to play which include Razorlight, Fat Boy Slim, Lily Allen, Elbow, Biffy Clyro and Keane.

It has also been confirmed that The Streets, The Enemy, MGMT, The Wombats, Pendulum, Dizzee Rascal, Katy Perry, The Saturdays, The Ting Tings, Lady Ga Ga plus many others will also be playing the weekend!

Tickets for the event go on sale on Friday 6th March.

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More Acts Confirmed for T in the Park

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

The T in the Park organisers have announced yet more acts for this years festival line-up. A huge surprise has been the addition of hip-hop rapper The Game to 2009’s line-up. It seems more and more festivals these days are opening up to a wider audience by adding more hip-hop acts.

The other acts announced are Friendly Fires, Of Montreal and Jeff Mills.

The majority of tickets are already sold for the event which takes place in Balado, Scotland from Friday 10th to Sunday 12th July.

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Blur to Headline Glastonbury

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Recently reformed britpop act Blur, will headlining this years Glastonbury Festival according to the festival organiser Micheal Eavis. The news was slipped at the 2009 NME awards (last night) after two of the four Blur members performed ‘This Is A Low’ at the ceremony. BBC 6 Music then asked Micheal Eavis about the rumours surrounding Blur and the Glastonbury music event.

Eavis replied: “Can look forward to that, yeah. But it’s not officially announced yet. There’s a bit more work to do on that yet. But you will not be disappointed, I can assure you.”

Rumours of Blur headlining Glastonbury have been circling for quite a while now so it comes as no shock to see Blur announced for the event. Blur will be joining Bruce Springsteen (who was announced earlier this week) at the famous festival.

Tickets to Glastonbury Festival have now sold out but a few very limited cancelled tickets will be going back on sale on April 5th.

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The Killers headline V Festival

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

The Killers are going to headline 2009 V Festivals. The foursome from Las Vegas played the gig back in 2007 so will welcome the return to the festival locations with open arms. The band also headlined Reading and Leeds festival last year.

In an interview with the Daily Star, band member Mark Stoermer said: “We are indeed headlining the V Festival and we’re lucky to be doing it on our third album – things keep getting better for us. We will have the biggest lighting show we’ve ever had – it costs twice as much as our last tour.

“When you’re playing big places you’ve got to give something to everyone, including the fans at the back. We’ve become more refined as a live act.”

V Festival 2009 takes place at Hylands Park, Chelmsford, and Weston Park, Staffs from 22-23 August.

V Festival tickets go on sale 6 March.

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