The V festival, day one – review

Hylands Park, Chelmsford"This is heaven," sighs Stephen Holt, founder member and newly reinstated singer of the Inspiral Carpets, surveying the sun-drenched, sweat-perfumed scene before him. Few others would describe pop's biggest holding pen, the V festival, so kindly. But for those who believe that, as one reveller's T-shirt puts it "on the sixth day, God created Manchester", Hyland Park's lineup of northern baggy and Britpop might very well be utopia.Under a blistering midday sun, the Inspira...

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