Prodigy join V Festival line-up

<loc>Essex</loc> act Prodigy are to headline the second stage at this year's V Festival, joining main stage headliners Scissor Sisters and Franz Ferdinand.

The event, which is in its 10th year, will be held at two venues - Hylands Park in <loc>Essex</loc> and Weston Park in <loc>Staffordshire</loc> on 20 and 21 August. Meanwhile, rock veterans New Order have joined the T in the Park line-up alongside Athlete and Green Day. The <loc>Manchester</loc> band will play on 9 July at <loc>Scotland</loc>'s biggest festival. It will be their debut performance at the music event which is held over the weekend of 9 and 10 July in <loc>Balado</loc> near <loc>Kinross</loc>. Other bands at the sold-out festival include Queens of the Stone Age, The Killers, Keane, The Streets and Foo Fighters.

A month later at the V Festival, Prodigy will play at Weston Park on Saturday 20 August and Hylands Park on Sunday 21 August and the Chemical Brothers vice versa. It will be the Chemical Brothers' only <loc>UK</loc> festival performance of the year. V festival director Bob Angus said: "With the Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers now confirmed to headline the second stage, we are headed for a really stellar line-up. "We pride ourselves on putting on an unbeatable live music experience and V Festival 2005 will not disappoint." Tickets for the V festival go on sale on Friday 11 March.