You've got your tickets, a copy of the stage line-ups and you're raring to go but now festival organisers have lined-up four stages full of top music acts there is even more anguish over which bands you should go and see.
Here the Evening Gazette highlights the possible V nightmares that lay in wait for the festival-goer and provides a solution for each.
Saturday August 21 Divine Comedy - The Killers - Aqualung - The Crimea The first tough choice of the day is whether to listen to Neil Hannon's delightful witty pop numbers, the Killers' fantastic electro rock sound, Matt and Ben Hales' melodic orchestrations or Welsh new kids on the rock block, the Crimea.
Verdict - For anyone who has seen them live it has to be Las Vegas' the Killers.
Faithless - Keane - Human League - Tim Booth. Tim Booth no doubt playing some old James numbers as well as his new ones has tough opposition with the kings and queens of 1980s electro pop, Human League, cherubic Coldplay wannabes, Keane, and Dido's old dance chums, Faithless.
Verdict - They may be wannabes but Keane still sound great, even without a guitar.
Muse - Kings of Leon - Basement Jaxx - Hope of the States. Festival rock regulars Muse are pitched against America's finest, Kings of Leon, dancefloor fillers, Basement Jaxx, and Chichester's excellent Hope of the States.
Verdict - Despite a loss in the family Muse continue their ascendency to music god status.
Sunday August 22 Badly Drawn Boy - The Zutons - Roni Size - Inme. The brilliant songmanship of Damon Gough up against wacky Scousers The Zutons, drum n base guru Roni Size and Essex's very own InMe.
Verdict - As our county's only act at the festival, come on, it has to be InMe.
The Thrills - Scissor Sisters - Audio Bullys - South. And quickly following that another difficult choice with Ireland's purvayors of West Coast grooves, the Thrills, New York's glamest rockers, Scissor Sisters, masters of the bass beat, Audio Bullys, and London experimentalists, South.
Verdict - They wowed the crowds at Glastonbury and Scissor Sisters look set to do the same at V.
The Strokes - Massive Attack - Primal Scream - Delays. Finally it is spending time in indie heaven with Primal Scream, getting laid back with the trip hop tunes of Massive Attack, watching Southampton's bright new things, Delays, or witnessing the phenomena that is New York punk quintet the Strokes.
Verdict - Tough one bearing in mind the sort of show the Screams put on but you know where most people will be for the Last Night - with the Strokes.
Published Tuesday August 17, 2004
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