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untitiled

Cleaned up spelling and Grammar - overuse of apostrophes!

Criticisms

Definately needs to be a criticisms section. V Festival has a reputation for being soulless, sanitised, expensive and overly commercial. It has been in the news for confiscating water from festival-goers and forcing them to buy own brand water for £2+ a bottle. 2007 saw 8 hour queues to get on site and 2-3 hour queues just to leave the carpark afterwards. Of course this all amounts to hearsay and would need to be linked to various reports and articles online. Vorpaul 11:17, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I attended the Reading Festival in 2006 and everything you mentioned above could be applied to that festival as well. I think it's a staple of music festivals to have promoters or sponsors try and make maximum profit while treating the ticket buying public as cattle. --Factorylad (talk) 14:17, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree - the 'Atmosphere and reputation' section is overly positive and doesn't seem to give a balanced overview. I will probably change it to 'Criticisms and reputation' and add some details like mentioned above. Houghster (talk) 21:34, 28 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added a note to this section explaining the Lady GaGa situation. Can't find any articles on this, but I saw it with my own eyes. Anybody find any sources? Thought it's relevant as it ties in with the greedy discussion and oversale of tickets, yet couldn't really point this out as it's not concrete, just opinion.Mjones87 (talk) 20:10, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Virgin brands

swapped around the category from Virgin Radio to Virgin Group. The former isn't really a category, so I stuck it into "see also".

Deano 14:38, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This article says the the first V Festival had a leg held at Leeds. I bleive this is wrong as the Northern Leg was held at Warrington, I was there.

Was this on ITV once?

Just wondering. Jimmy93211 80.229.241.200 16:02, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lists

There are a number of typos - incorrect capitalisation etc. - that need sorting.

But all these long lists with all that white space - we need to tidy that up somehow.

What about linking to artists ? -- Beardo 14:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have broken the list with subheadings for ease of editing. Some of the commentary looks like it may have been copied, though. -- Beardo 15:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gatecrashing

One of the scams when I went was finding someone who could slip off their wrist band, them staying inside the arena, someone else keeping their wristband on, taking the removed one out of the arena and giving it to someone waiting outside who would slip it on.

However, is this section entirely relevant? Spugmeister 15:08, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Atmosphere and reputation

These "rougher edges" include crowd trouble, alcohol and drug use, mud-bathing and pelting of acts at other festivals such as Reading - although this does not mean these festivals are anarchic or non-commercial.

Although this seems to be a popular view, after attending V2008, I can honestly say the majority of the above happened at the festival considering the state some people were in. --Factorylad (talk) 14:21, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You need to put the hatnotes into one {{[[Template:|]]}}. If you can't do this, then make the appropriate change on the (appropriate) template, or make a new template for this purpose. This will save server resources.96.53.149.117 (talk) 07:03, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removed Essex Importance Tag

As event is not solely focused on Essex.

Marked bit about chavfest as POV

This bit either needs an external source or should be removed. I've been a couple of times and it is bloody horrible but this is just one person's opinion with no citation. NBeddoe (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:14, 18 July 2011 (UTC).[reply]

How about 50,000 - 100,000 people at Hylands who say this every year? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.84.1.3 (talk) 13:23, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And their opinions are all published and citable I suppose? NBeddoe (talk) 21:11, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PR Puff

"Its weekend format, low queuing times and professional organisation have given it a loyal audience."

It must be a completely V festival than the one I used to attend. But that's just my POV. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.238.1.135 (talk) 13:14, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alabama 3 at V97

Does anyone know of any reliable source to prove that Alabama 3 were in fact performing at V97 in Chelmsford on Sunday 17th August 1997?

I was there, went to the dance tent to see Bentley Rhythm Ace and was instead irked to discover instead that some band calling themselves Alabama 3 were there, playing some track I'd never heard of called "Woke Up This Morning". So I'm fairly certain they were there, even though they don't show up on the official lineup poster nor in the Wikipedia list of acts for V97.

There are various mentions of them at V97 in forums, such as this mention by lemonjelly on 18th November 2011 (post #1250; I can't get a direct, static link to the actual post to work, for some reason). But casual mentions in blogs or forums won't be valid references for use in Wikipedia.

Is this a fever dream, or is there reliable evidence out there?--Bob (talk) 19:04, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]