Know Your Enemy

"It is Lord Of The Flies with NOS canisters and Native American headdresses because the memo about cultural appropriation has not yet reached Essex."

Drowned In Sound's Kate Solomon reports back from V Festival, which (as might have been expected) proved a gruelling ordeal. Surrounded by "young, selfish people" and subjected to Justin Bieber putting in a performance that would make a corpse seem lively, she ended up suffering something of an existential crisis.