Three more artists have been added to V Festival’s already stellar line up, Jamie T, Chipmunk and The Divine Comedy.

The newly announced artists will join the likes of Florence and The Machine, La Roux and Calvin Harris alongside headliners Kings of Leon and Kasabian.

The festival which takes place between Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd August 2009 at Chelmsford, Essex and Weston Park, Stafford sold out in a record two hours, as reported previously on wristband4festivals, however site Gigs And Tours have just released a very limited amount of tickets.

To keep up to date with the line up and all the very latest from the festival check back on wristband4festivals.

The Aussie maestros whose live sets enrapture rockers and ravers alike are set to make their momentous debut assault on Dores this June on the Friday night in the mighty Clash Arena, and one that coincides with the release of their third album ‘Immersion’.

Hinting on what to expect from the new material, frontman Rob Swire revealed on NME.com the band has “gone quite electronic again”, cryptically adding that there were collaborations with “major electronic artists” including one he thought it would be “impossible” to hook up with.

Speaking about their RockNess appearance – another Scottish festival exclusive - PENDULUM said “We can’t wait to hit Scotland again. Everyone knows the Scottish crowd is one of the best. Here we f*cking go!”. The summer beckons!

Joining PENDULUM is the ‘Baron of Techno’ DAVE CLARKE, an electro genius whose prolific output knows no boundaries and will be appreciated in heaps by the party loving RockNess crowd.

Commenting on the announcements, Festival Director Jim King said “This is an important announcement for the festival. Pendulum have been a hugely impressive band over the last year, their new album is amazing and looks set to take them even higher. There’s now no better reason to get to Loch Ness on the Friday than simply to check out their new live show in the Clash Arena. Nothing more can be said about Dave Clarke other than he is the master. His sets are legendary and Sunday is going to finish with one hell of a bang.”

This latest news comes hot on the heels of the reveal that VAMPIRE WEEKEND will support THE STROKES on the Sunday night, completing a double whammy of New York cool.

The most judicious dance and rock fans are well catered for this year with DOVES, IAN BROWN, HADOUKEN!, ENTER SHIKARI and FRIENDLY FIRES joining a dazzling proposition of the finest international electronic talent including THE BLOODY BEETROOTS, VITALIC, AEROPLANE, PLAN B, BOOKASHADE, THE JAPANESE POPSTARS, DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP, CHASE & STATUS, BOYS NOIZE, THE DUB PISTOLS and RockNess favourites THE CUBAN BROTHERS.

Five years since FATBOY SLIM staged the first RockNess, and following a sabbatical in 2009, he returns to headline this June. Joining him in a truly unmissable coup, and another brilliant Scottish festival exclusive, is LEFTFIELD – the first live performance in a decade.

BBC RADIO 1 is on board as the OFFICIAL RADIO PARTNER for 2010 too with the inimitable ZANE LOWE , ANNIE MAC and ROB DA BANK all Scotland-bound to each host an arena . Topping the fantasy DJ line up of clubbers far and wide, RockNess is also proud to announce the appearance of the world’s most exclusive DJ collective CLUB 75.  Part Justice, part Cassius, with the very best of the mighty Ed Banger Records thrown in, the all-French star line up is set to deliver what promises to be one of the hottest performances of the entire summer.

The monstrous ARCADIA ARENA makes its big, bold RockNess debut in 2010 in one of the few times witnessed outside of Glastonbury. This world class audio and visual feast of mind boggling post-apocalyptic pyrotechnics, dramatic podiums extending into the crowd, multi rave platforms and fire performance displays has to be seen to be believed. Set against the backdrop of Loch Ness, expect to be well and truly blown away. Watch this space for the Arcadia DJ line up coming soon!

RockNess takes place on Friday 11th – Sunday 13th June and returns as a three-day event following last year’s successful extension to three nights when the Main Stage got the party started on the Friday night for the first time.

Having expanded to a three-day event, adding Manchester’s musical heritage to the firmly established Bristol and Nottingham dates, Dot To Dot Festival is set to unveil the first acts for their fifth outing, taking place over the last bank holiday in May. Covering both the well-loved and established and the most exciting up-and-coming cutting-edge of the global music scene, Dot To Dot offers a unique experience for festival-goers, touring three of the UK’s most music-savvy cities.

Kicking off this year’s line-up will be the universally acclaimed Mystery Jets. With a brand new album due out on Rough Trade imminently, the Mystery Jets’ trio of appearances will be one of the first opportunities to catch brand new material as well as enjoy some of their lauded back catalogue, including ‘The Boy Who Ran Away’ and ‘Two Doors Down’.

BBC Sound of 2010 and Critics’ Choice BRIT Award winner Ellie Goulding will showcase the cut-up folktronic-pop that has caused such a sensation at both the Bristol and Nottingham dates and BBC Radio 1’s arbiter of all that is cool, Zane Lowe will be bringing his not inconsiderable taste to proceedings.

Irrepressible Cardiff 7-piece Los Campesinos! are confirmed for the 3-day, 3-city event, delivering the sort of frenetic stomp that can’t fail to get the crowd jumping and exalted dream-pop duo Beach House, whose third album ‘Teen Dream’ has catapulted them firmly into the limelight, will be leaving Baltimore behind to make appearances at the Nottingham and Manchester dates this year.

Mancunian three-piece rockers Twisted Wheel will demonstrate their anthemic credentials, American art-punk trio Liars visceral assault is set to stun and Blood Red Shoes whose second album ‘Fire Like This’ is currently earning them plaudits by the bucket-load will all be touring the triumvirate of towns.

Others acts confirmed to appear include woozy synth-pop from Ernest Greene aka Washed Out, Manchester’s brightest new hopes Egyptian Hip Hop, dubstep tour de force Jakwob the much-admired and widely tipped Chapel Club, teen-pop queen Daisy Dares You, Warp Records’ and Manchester-bred femme fatale Lonelady and Ibiza Rocks resident and pigeon hole refusenik Doorly.

With a deserved reputation as a festival that showcases the freshest bands around, Dot To Dot have teamed up with Fred Perry SUBCULTURE, the on-line home of all Fred Perry’s music activity globally, for this year’s event.

With a proud and unrivalled music heritage Fred Perry’s support for new music talent makes them a perfect partner for Dot To Dot. Fred Perry will also be bringing their unique “Fred Perry Table Tennis Club” to Dot To Dot giving customers and bands alike the chance to work on their forehand loops and backhand chops.

The festival will be announcing even more boundary pushing acts in the near future, who will join the ranks of Klaxons, Friendly Fires, Gallows, Ladyhawke, Laura Marling, Temper Trap, British Sea Power, Foals, Santigold, Glasvegas, Foals, Annie Mac, Erol Alkan, Kissy Selloutand many more who have all previously made early career appearances at Dot To Dot Festival.

Dot To Dot festival takes place in Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester over the May Bank Holiday weekend which runs from Saturday 29th to Monday 31st May 2010. Tickets are on sale now.

The award winning Creamfields festival which takes place on August Bank Holiday weekend has been granted a 3 year license for its festival site in Daresbury, the first ever dance festival to receive an extended year license.

Creamfields which scooped the award for ‘Best Dance Festival’ in the 2009 UK Festival Awards was granted the license last night by Halton Borough Council’s regulatory committee.  Following last years sell out show which attracted a record breaking 60,000 people from across the UK, the team behind the festival have increased investment into site infrastructure for 2010, which will see bigger and better arenas and increased space and capacity in the campsites.

Event Manager Jim King from Loudsound said:  “This decision to grant the festival a 3 year license is a very important decision in that it clearly shows the confidence that the authorities have in Creamfields and it’s management team. The festival has now established itself at its new location in Cheshire as one of the largest, most popular and well operated electronic festivals in the world.”

In 2006 Creamfields relocated from Liverpool to its Daresbury home in the heart of the Cheshire countryside, and to coincide with its 10th Anniversary celebrations became a 2 day camping show in 2008. Line up for this years show to be announced soon.

Creamfields 2010 returns on Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th August Bank holiday weekend, Early Bird camping tickets are on sale now.

V Festival tickets went on sale this morning and many outlets have already sold out for the twin festivals this August. The event which takes place between Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd August, was said to have been so popular that phonelines in Wolverhampton came to a standstill.

However, if you couldn’t get your tickets in time, there’s no need to be disappointed – you can head to Viagogo and purchase your V Festival tickets safely and securely.

Click here to purchase tickets

The event takes place at Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex and Weston Park in South Staffordshire, with Kings Of Leon and Kasabian headlining this year.

Following a surge in scam sites last year V Festival, who’s tickets go on sale on Friday March 5th, have released a list of official vendors who are fully authorised to sell tickets to the event.

This years tickets are priced as following:

Day Tickets: £78.50 (maximum booking fee £7.65)

Weekend NON Camping: £140.00 (maximum booking fee £8.95)

Weekend WITH Camping: £165.00 (maximum booking fee £9.75)

Again festival goers are reminded to be vigilant about touting sites and only buy from the official vendors listed below:

Gigs and Tours

0871 2200 260 – www.gigsandtours.com

See Tickets

0871 230 3179 – www.seetickets.com

Big Green Coach

0845 463 8361 – www.biggreencoach.co.uk

Star Green

0207 734 8932 – www.stargreen.co.uk

Ticketline

0844 888 9991 – www.ticketline.co.uk

Ticketmaster

0844 847 1670 – www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Essex Residents Ticketing Service

0844 579 0090 – more information

Millennium Concert Travel

01253 895555 – www.mct-online.co.uk

Bristol Ticket Shop

0870 444 4400 – www.bristolticketshop.co.uk

The Ticket Factory

0844 338 8000 – www.theticketfactory.com

BIC Ticket Shop

0844 576 4500 – www.bicticketshop.co.uk

Gigantic

www.gigantic.com

Wolverhampton Civic

0870 320 7000 – www.wolvescivic.co.uk

Roll up roll up one and all, this years fantastic V Festival line-up has been announced today. As confirmed this evening (Monday 1st March) from the official organisers, Virgin Media, here are the artists who will be rocking your weekend at Chelmsford or Staffordshire this year between Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd August to celebrate it’s 15th year anniversary.

Kings of Leon

Kasabian

Stereophonics

Faithless

Prodigy

David Guetta

Pet Shop Boys

Paul Weller

The Kooks

Paolo Nutini

Florence and The Machine

Madness

Cheryl Cole

Editors

White Lies

Temper Trap

La Roux

Passion Pit

Shed Seven

Plan B

Mika

Groove Armada

Paloma Faith

Pixie Lott

The Courteeners

The Charlatans

Amy Macdonald

Newton Faulkner

Skunk Anansie

Chase and Status

Ellie Goulding

Sugarbabes

Tickets for the festival go on sale on Friday 5th March 2010. For more updates be sure to check wristband4festivals.com

For those festival goers that have put down the £50 deposit for Glastonbury Festival tickets, now have until 11.59pm on Tuesday, 2nd March to complete their transaction to purchase tickets.

Festival goers who paid the £50 deposit on a ticket for Glastonbury’s 40th Anniversary Festival, had a deadline of 23.59 last night. The vast majority of people who’d paid a deposit have now paid for their ticket in full, but Festival organisers have decided to offer a 48 hour grace period for those yet to pay the balance or forfeit the £10 deposit and their ticket allocation.

For those wanting to pay the outstanding balance of £135 per ticket, who have already reserved tickets using the deposit scheme, click here.

To pay the balance, ticket purchasers will need the registration number and postcode for each ticket they are paying for, that’s all registered adults (aged 16 years and over), and children aged 13-15 years old. To retrieve registration details, using a surname and postcode, click here.

Once the balance has been paid on at least one ticket, there is then an option to book parking, campervan or Tipi tickets. Car parking tickets can be bought at the same time and are priced at £15 per vehicle, and campervan tickets are priced at £75 per van.

Tickets have sold out for this year’s Glastonbury Festival which runs for five full days from Wednesday 23rd until Sunday 27th June 2010 across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Somerset. eFestivals believes the next sale of tickets will be sometime from the beginning of March, we will of course keep you updated of any news in the meantime.

Only headliners U2, and Jack Johnson, plus breaking talent My Luminaire, and John E Vistic are confirmed for the Festival. The ticket price includes includes a FREE programme, a 40th anniversary commemorative ticket, a useful cloth bag, and a small around the neck guide.

Oh the times they are exciting in the Bestival bunker as the intrepid Rob da Bank and his trusty team continue to conjure strange delights making special plans for another Isle of Wight adventure from September 9th – 12th; Bestival 2010, The Year Of The Fantastic!

Featuring some properly iconic acts and a visionary fancy dress theme, this year’s show is going to be an earthly paradise beyond compare.

Rob da Bank says: “When it’s the year of the Fantastic at Bestival it doesn’t get much more fanbleedingtastic than Roxy Music. A lifelong fan of it all from the Seventies and Eighties, Roxy have always been at the vanguard of creating imaginary worlds in music all backed up with some of the best music of the 20th century. Add in Besti faves Mumford and Sons, the legend that is Tricky, Nile Rodgers bringing possibly the funkiest band alive Chic to the Island and loads more from Cornershop to Sub Focus, Skream to garage god Todd Edwards and we’re really taking shape now. Come and join us!’

Musical giants Roxy Music will be playing a hit-packed set on the main stage on Saturday night. One of the most influential acts of all time, the punks, new romantics, electro-poppers and more that have followed in their wake all owe a huge sonic and sartorial debt to this truly timeless act.

Driven by the refined and effortless cool of Bryan Ferry, one of pop music’s most revered frontmen, Roxy Music’s catalogue of boundary-crushing songs, that include Virginia Plain, Street Life and Love Is The Drug are sure to blow the Bestival faithful away.

Commenting on their appearance Bryan Ferry said: “The Isle of Wight has a strong festival tradition so it’s great to be coming to Bestival with Roxy Music – it seems a great idea to have fantasy as this year’s theme. I’m also really looking forward to seeing Nile Rodgers and Chic again”.

Having kept it a closely guarded secret we can now unveil the incredible and much anticipated fancy dress theme for our Year Of The Fantastic… Rob da Bank says: ‘Roll up roll up tribe of the Bestivalites  descend from your starships, rise out of the seabed, fall from the stars, unleash the Magick and release your imagination into our 2010 world of FANTASY.

Open the gates and welcome in Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, The Lord of the Rings, hobbits, trolls, elves, fairies, the Odyssey, King Arthur, Merlin, the Dong with the luminous nose, William Morris, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Willy Wonka, Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Harry Potter, Spirited Away, The Time Machine, Star Wars, the Incredible Hulk, magick, the supernatural, Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Lord Ganesh, Fantasy Island, Caractacus Potts, Tarzan, Veruca Salt, Zombies!’ The only limit is how far your mind’s eye can see…

Staying very much with the fantastical there’s even more amazing music to be announced including, alt-folk sensations Mumford & Sons. Currently riding high on a crest of adulation for their acclaimed ‘Sigh No More’ album, the band is a renowned live sensation that will add a sublimely rustic rock vibe to proceedings.

One of Camp Bestival 2009’s most incandescent delights Chic Featuring Nile Rodgers are set to wow the Robin Hill crowd with their peerless disco-funk that spans not only their own amazing back catalogue but also takes in Nile Rodgers penned solid gold hits from the likes of Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, David Bowie and Madonna.

Plus there will be Bristolian rhyme messiah and all-round musical maverick Tricky who is currently mining a rich seam of form that will see him captivating one and all with his genre-smashing exploits. The Brown Punk don is a bona fide trailblazer who, from his debut album ‘Maxinquaye’ all the way through to the recent, lauded ‘Knowle West Boy’, has never failed to capture the imagination.

As if that wasn’t enough to get you writing off anything else but booking a trip across the Solent for the second weekend in September organisers have got so much more to tickle your fancy including Aussie atmospherics from The Temper Trap, live tear out action from Sub Focus, the majestic musical musings of sing-a-long geniuses, Cornershop, plus BBC Radio 1’s newest purveyor of late night beats Alex Metric playing live, heads-down psych-garage agents The Jim Jones Revue, off-kilter pop from Everything Everything, bloggers delight Memory Tapes, North London types Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, trad. Scottish and English folk turned on its head by Erland And The Carnival dysfunctional electro-pop from the incredible Example and mesmerising ensemble singing from Gaggle.

There’s also gruff and grungy folk from Deer Tick, bittersweet drama from Sparrow and the Workshop, alternative rockers Summercamp, the wild and unkempt folk poetry of Crystal Fighters and lush, cascading, scuzz-rocking from the hotly tipped Egyptian Hip-Hop. one-man indie folk/alt country band Phosphorescent, future jazz from Portico Quartet, Euros Childs’s Race Horses lo-fi ramshackleness from Neon Indian, the unprecedented sounds of North Atlantic Oscillation, Gallic new wave house from Mademoiselle Caro & Franck Garcia, soulful singer songwriter Jamie Woon and surf noir from The Bikini Beach Band.

Extra hands in the air DJ manoeuvres will come courtesy of the inimitable Mylo, techno don Dave Clarke, Erol Alkan’s phantasy sounds, the blissful Aeroplane, deck-wrecker DJ Yoda, the incredible Skream, liquid funkster High Contrast with MC Wrec, the visionary Tom Middleton, Garage doyen Todd Edwards, the legendary DJ Zinc, bass chieftain Joker, turntable virtuosos Jackbeats, junglist Shy FX, dubstep playas Caspa & Mc Rod Azlan, soundsystem warrior Adrian Sherwood, the inimitable MC Dynamite remixer du jour Jakwob, chill out maestro Chris Coco, heads down action from Villa, the killer riddims of Reggae Roast, The Autonomic Showcase featuring dBridge, Instra:mental and SP:MC, the devastating Breakage, the Feeling Gloomy crew, Bestival’s very own Fear of Theydon and Sombrero Sound System and freestyle spinner Paddy Freeform.

Bestival takes place between Thursday 9^th and Sunday 12^th September 2010 at Robin Hill Country Park, Isle of Wight. Tickets are available now.

Bestival’s Fantasy Island

If you use unofficial outlets you take the risk of being scammed. You may not find out you have been scammed until you realise that your tickets have failed to materialise in the post.  If you do purchase tickets from an unofficial source festivals will not be able to assist you should you be scammed.  Festivals can only advise you to contact your bank and try and stop payment.

We have taken the step of listing below unofficial and potential scam sites that have cropped up on the internet.  We strongly advise you not to use these outlets, you cannot link through to these outlets from certain festivals website.

coasttocoasttickets.com

double8tickets.com

ebay.com

euticketshop.com

exciteticket.com

firstserveevents.com

getmein.com

play.com

soldouteventtickets.com

soldoutticketmarket.com

sold-out-tickets.net

stereoboard.com

stubpass.com

superticketshop.com

theonlineticketexchange.com

theonlineticketshop.com

TotalTickets.co.uk

ukticketfactory.com

v-2010.com (NEW)

vfestival2010.net

vivastreet.co.uk

worldticketshop.com

worldwideticketstore.com

ztickets.co.uk

The Office of Fair Trading has launched ‘Just Tick It’ which is a consumer awareness campaign aimed at increasing your awareness of ticket scam sites. Click here to visit their website.

If you find what you suspect may be an unofficial outlet or a scam site selling festival tickets you can alert us at editor@wristband4festivals.com putting UNOFFICIAL OUTLET in the subject box.