Now in season two, the Virgin Festival brings together some of the biggest names of the past, present, and future for 2 days of glorious rock and roll out on a horse race track. The two headliners that were initially announced were The Police and The Smashing Pumpkins. Those two alone were enough to inspire some excitement but now that the 2-day lineup has been disclosed, well, it’s hard to believe that this thing won’t sell out.
August 4 lineup
- The Police
- The Beastie Boys
- Modest Mouse
- Peter Bjorn and John
- Sasha and John Digweed
- The Fratellis
- Amy Winehouse
- Incubus
- LCD Soundsystem
- Ben Harper
- TV on the Radio
- Sander Van Doorn
- Shout Out Out Out Out
- Cheap Trick
- Felix da Housecat
- Paolo Nutini
- Booka Shade
- Miguel Migs
- Fountains of Wayne
- Fiction Plane
- Danny Tenaglia
August 5 lineup
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- 311
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- The Crystal Method
- Bad Brains
- Deep Dish
- Velvet Revolver
- Regina Spektor
- Spoon
- Wu-Tang Clan
- Dieselboy and Andy C
- Chris Cornell
- M.I.A.
- Infected Mushroom
- Interpol
- Girl Talk
- CSS
- Matisyahu
- James Zabiela
Tickets go on sale on May 5. Two-day passes are $175 while single-day tickets will set you back $97.50 (that is, if they don’t sell all of the two-day passes in which case the single-day tickets will not be put up for sale).
Anybody affiliated with the festival want to give me a press pass? 🙂
What a lineup!