V Festival 2010 really rocked Weston Park
Monday 23rd August 2010, 11:29AM BST.
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Singing sensations Pixie Lott, Taylor Momsen and Diana Vickers dazzled thousands of festival-goers at this weekend’s V Festival. All three singers wore skimpy, revealing outfits, that were designed to thrill at the event at Weston Park.
Pixie Lott on stage at Weston Park for V Festival 2010
Nineteen-year-old Pixie wore a dangerously-short black mini dress while Momsen, 17, wore suspenders and a lingerie-style cream slip and Vickers, 19, dazzled in an animal-print dress.
Fans were also treated to pyrotechnic displays from some of the biggest names in rock, with Kings Of Leon, The Prodigy, Kasabian and more lighting up the night.
V Festival director Simon Moran hailed the event a success and said: “Once again the weekend has been a huge success with fans and artists really embracing the 15th V Festival.
“Every year V Festival gets bigger and better and this year has been no exception.”
Fans were today making a mass exodus from the site on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border.
Police said 130 people were cautioned for drug possession and 17 were held on suspicion of supplying drugs.
A total of 62 crimes were reported, including 26 thefts from tents, and 1,196 people were treated by medical staff for a variety of minor complaints.
Meanwhile, a Ludlow woman who lost £1,500 in a scam after she tried to order V Festival tickets to celebrate beating a brain tumour finally made it to the gig at the eleventh hour.
Hayley Parsons, 23, had wanted to go to the V Festival in Weston Park, Staffordshire, for several years but had not been well enough.
But following an appeal in the Shropshire Star, a friend managed to buy her a ticket locally via the eBay auction site.
Fans will have the chance to get their hands on tickets for V Festival 2011 at this year’s prices by taking advantage of an early bird offer from tomorrow at 9am for a short period of time.
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“Designed to Thrill” … give me a break! …… designed to titillate is more like it! … gets the punters in though and more importantly great for the “bottom” line ……..
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“All three singers wore skimpy, revealing outfits, that were designed to thrill…”
Please get the sub to read through a few NME’s before letting them loose at any other post-beat-generation headlines!
All they missed off was a reference to ‘..giving Pans’ people a run for their stockings’. ;-)
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V festival success ? Not if you were one of the vehicles stuck in the appalling shambles on the M54 on Friday morning. Stuck for 2hr 30 mins between junc 2 and 3. Hordes of undesirable idiots parking / abandoning cars and spending most time urinating anywere they could reach. No police / stewards / traffic management at all – Frankly a shropshire / staffordshire embarrasment. If this is the idea of a success then the authorities should hang their heads in shame. Disgusting antics of individuals who portrayed the area in such a low light – as for the organisers / police / highway agency ? Nothing BUT A JOKE
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The traffic issue has been an issue for years with no consideration for anyone who has to travel to work using either ther A5 or M54 on the Monday after ther festival.
Surely it would be common sense to allow vehicles leaving Weston Park on this day to leave after 9.00am when the rush hour traffic has dissipated, which would be easier for both commuters and V Festival customers heading home, reducing traffic congestion for both groups of travellers.
Not sure of a solution for the Friday traffic nightmare though.
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Traffic Management has got much better over the years since V Festivals started. The warnings that the festival is taking place are in place many weeks in advance, the overhead signs on the M54 and M6 having been warning of the fact for weeks beforehand. So why not find an alternative route in the Friday and Monday, not difficult.
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So much for it all being about the music…. a third of the editorial above is about clothes. And who told Diana Vickers she could sing. Oh yeah Simon Cowell with £ in his eyes – when they get Paul Weller on there again it will be worth waiting two hours in a traffic jam, until then….. Bet he won’t be wearing a sexy little cream number to Thrill! He will just thrill us all with his music. Nuff Said… Bring on all the comments from the Diana Vickers brigage! Tee hee!
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paul weller was there!!
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‘designed to thrill’? Isn’t that a little bit sexist??
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Its been on since 1996, every year and around the same time. I predict there will be a lot of traffic on the M54 this time next year so advise people not going to V-Festival to find an alternative route…….I wonder if it will sink in this time.
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Early warining to all motorists who use M54/A5/A41 the dates for V 2011 are 19 Aug – 22 Aug 2011, the busy dates for traffic will be Friday 19th August and Monday 22 August. You have 360 or so days to plan your alternative route.
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Considering the vast amounts of dosh made each year for those running the event has anyone asked them to contribute to some form of traffic alleviation scheme ( like putting another route into Weston Park)?
They make supermarkets do it when they want to set up shop….
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Possibly the worst story about a music event I have ever read! Who that actually went there gave a monkey’s what the acts were wearing?! Honestly, Shropshire Star, get a grip. I thought you were a local newspaper, not Elle magazine!
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OK Shropshire Star, I have but one question for you:
What. The. Hell. Is. This???
Who on earth wrote it? Have all journalistic standards utterly VANISHED? Are we as intelligent readers honestly expected to swallow this TRIPE?
To the “journalist” – and I use that term extremely looseley – who write this, please take a mental note of the following:
1) You are not writing for NUTS magazine.
2) Shropshire Star readers are on the whole educated and intelligent individuals who do not walk with a hunch dragging their knuckles along the pavement being ‘dazzled’ and ‘thrilled’ by anyone in a simple short skirt.
3) It’s a short skirt, SO WHAT? Have you never seen one before? They have actually been around for quite some time!
4) I would suggest you widen the reportoire of the articles you read to give you a better idea of how to write.
VERY disappointed in you, Shropshire Star, for allowing this to be published.
That is all.
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