- Sorry if you wanted to go a-hippying this year: you can't. The Green Man Festival has sold every one of its 6000 tickets, which organisers It's Jo and Danny celebrated by saying "Yeeha!" very enthusiastically.

- The line-up for the Virgin Mobile Social Tent at this year's V festival has been announced and it's a cracker.

The Cooper Temple Clause, Sandi Thom, The Dears, Mew, My Morning Jacket, The Concretes, Regina Spektor, BellX1, Jamie T, Crimera, Art Brut, Ocean Size, Captain, The Young Knifes, Liam Frost & The Slowdown Family, Jim Noir, The Upper Room, Lorraine, James Morrison, Paolo Nutini, Butch Walker, Seth Lakeman, The Grates, Director, Milk Teeth, and Love Bites will all play the stage, and hurray! It'll turn into an indie disco afterwards.

Following in O2's  footsteps at Wireless, there will be a texting element for Virgin customers, who will have the chance to win backstage access to the festival.

- Global Gathering organisers have decided to share the love with festival-goers by showering them with flowers - literally. The Dutch company Flower Rain will unleash three drops over the site from a helicopter 200m up, sending around 100,000 chrysanthemums and anemones over the festival to try and make everyone feel happy.

Just pity the poor suckers with hayfever.