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NME Festival Guide 2008
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NME Festivals 2008 Guide featuring news, interviews, videos, photos, reviews, ticket information, line-ups, dates and more...

Latest Festival News

Streets, Dizzee Rascal, Fratellis for Ibiza Rocks TV shows

Streets, Dizzee Rascal, Fratellis for Ibiza Rocks TV shows

  • Aug 20, 2008
Leeds Festival: traffic and travel information released

Leeds Festival: traffic and travel information released

  • Aug 19, 2008
Subways threatening to 'throw a pint of beer over Pete Doherty'

Subways threatening to 'throw a pint of beer over Pete Doherty'

  • Aug 19, 2008
Reading And Leeds Festivals 2009 tickets on sale early

Reading And Leeds Festivals 2009 tickets on sale early

  • Aug 19, 2008
Pendulum, Fucked Up set for Reading Festival after parties

Pendulum, Fucked Up set for Reading Festival after parties

  • Aug 19, 2008
Watch The View reveal new album details at V Festival

Watch The View reveal new album details at V Festival

  • Aug 18, 2008
The Twang show NME.COM around VIP area at V Festival

The Twang show NME.COM around VIP area at V Festival

  • Aug 18, 2008
Watch The Hold Steady's pre-show ritual at V Festival

Watch The Hold Steady's pre-show ritual at V Festival

  • Aug 18, 2008

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V Festival 2008

V Festival 2008

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Featured Festivals

V Festival

Muse! The Kooks! Duffy! The Verve!
Step this way for all the latest news on the mighty V Festival, which returns to Chelmsford and Staffordshire this weekend, August 16-17.

Underage Festival

Underage Festival hit London, last weekend
Look back over the best bits from the Victoria Park event with news, blogs, photos and more.

All Festivals

Festival Blog

NME writers off the leash: reviews, rants and gossip direct from the festival front-line...

V Chelmsford - Jacob Perlmutter's Picture Blog, Day 2

Noah and the Whale Goldie Lookin Chain [...] Read more!

V Chelmsford - Jacob Perlmutter's Picture Blog Day 1, continued (part 2)...

[...] Read more!

V Chelmsford - Tate & Vile

Few bands have carved their own tombstones as elegantly as Little Man Tate did with their only semi-sorta-nearly hit: 'Man I Hate Your Band'. [...] Read more!

V Staffordshire - Mud Update

Emma and I tried to have some fun with some of the muddier revellers. It didn't end well. We have a woman down!

V Staffordshire - Maximo's Paul Smith Has A Natter With NME

Back in the damp and now somewhat grubby artists village (ah mud, the great leveller) we nabbed a quick chat with Paul Smith from Maximo Park after he stepped off the main stage. Watch him talk to us about his wellies and saying naughty...

V Staffordshire - Mr T (Jamie, that is) Rocks the JJB Arena

In a day that’s so far seen sets from the impressively banal likes of The Hoosiers and The Script, Jamie T is a breath of fresh, talent-infused air. Now apparently at Chelmsford yesterday, the JJB Arena was stuffed for his gig – when we...

All Festival Blogs

The NME.COM Signing Tent

Festivals - Signing Tent

View all of the photos from the NME Signing Tent at V Festival 2008.

Bands meeting and greeting fans this year included Ian Brown, The Kooks, The Hold Steady, The Charlatans and more.

Were you there? See all the pictures right here!

Message Boards

Festivals - Message Boards

NME Mobile: Festivals On Your Phone

Festivals - Mobile

For lightning-fast reports, ticket info, reviews, backstage gossip and last-minute line-up changes (in short, everything you need to know to survive the festival season) in the palm of your hand, access NME's new mobile service.

Simply text NME to 61718 or type m.nme.com into your phone browser. Happy fest-ing!

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