V Festival Announces 2011 Lineup

This year’s edition of V Festival will feature headline performances from Eminem, Rihanna, Arctic Monkeys and British rapper Plan B.

The U.K. festival takes place Aug. 20-21 with two days at Hylands Park in Chelmsford and two days at Weston Park in Shropshire.

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Eminem and Rihanna play Shropshire on Saturday, Aug. 20 followed by a Sunday set in Chelmsford.

Arctic Monkeys and Plan B can be found at Chelmsford on Saturday and at Shropshire on Sunday.

The weekend will also feature performances from Duran Duran, Bruno Mars, The Script, Dizzee Rascal, Pendulum, Kaiser Chiefs, Manic Street Preachers, Razorlight, Tinie Tempah, Ellie Goulding, Mark Ronson and Glasvegas.

Primal Scream will also be there along with Wiz Khalifa, Chase & Status, The Courteeners, Scouting For Girls, Jessie J, The Wombats, Big Audio Dynamite, Kele, KT Tunstall and more.

Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, March 4. Virgin Media customers can purchase tickets now through Wednesday.

Weekend tickets are priced at £149 ($242.27), weekend tickets including camping will set you back £175 each ($284.55), and single-day tickets are £83.50 ($135.77) each.

A number of luxury camping options are available at both venues with accommodations including the pod pat, octopad, lux pad, pennard tipis, cloud yurts, squrts, hotel bell tent, pop-up hotel rooms, hearthworks tipis and hearthworks yurts.
 
For more information, click here for V Festival’s website.