Thousands watch Foxes, Pixie Lott and Justin Timberlake take to the stage at V Festival

 
V Festival: The crowd watching Kiesza (Picture: Yui Mok/PA)
Alexandra Rucki17 August 2014

Thousands enjoyed performances by Justin Timberlake, Foxes, Miles Kane and Blondie at V Festival yesterday.

Headline act Justin Timberlake took to the stage at the pop music festival in Hylands Park, Chelmsford, and awed crowds with a mixture of new and old tracks.

Other highlights included an afternoon set from Bastille and a packed-out crowd watched Foxes on the Arena Stage.

Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers were forced to cancel their performance after being stranded in Hungary.

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They are expected to perform at V’s Staffordshire event tonight instead.

Writing on Twitter, a band spokesman said: "With huge regret, Manic Street Preachers announce the cancellation of their scheduled V Festival show in Chelmsford today (August 16).

"After five hours on runway at Budapest Airport following Sziget Festival last night, MSP were informed the BA plane they were on would not fly.

"The band made every endeavour to get back to the UK in time to play. The band apologise to their fans at V Chelmsford for the cancellation.

"Manic Street Preachers are playing tomorrow's V Festival in Stafford."

Lily Allen, Chic feat Nile Rodgers and Rudimental perform at the festival today, followed by headline act American Indie-rockers The Killers.

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