The line-up: This year you can catch Snow Patrol, Kasabian, Foo Fighters, Manic Street Preachers, Happy Mondays, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Lily Allen, Pink, KT Tunstall and Primal Scream.

Why you should be there: The Virgin Mobile V Festival is famed for its consistent blend of great bands which play massive crowd-pleasing sets on alternate days in Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park in Staffordshire. This is a festival that really spoils you with carpets of grass saving your gleaming new wellies from the usual muddy fields at the other festivals.