Fed up with Portaloos and drink queues longer than Simon Cowell’s trousers? The World Cup may almost be over but to get you back in the party mood this Summer, VidZone and PSM3 Magazine are teaming up to host the longest and most convenient Music Festival in history. With 1 stage featured each week over 6 weeks, you’ll be spoilt for choice with what to watch. Found your favourite line-up ever? Just save the playlist to re-live over and over again! Stages include ‘Anything As Long As Its Loud’, ‘In The Mood For Dancing’ and ‘The Morning-After’, with not one muddy field in sight. Find out which stages we’re featuring by following our twitter and checking the PlayStation.blog each week between 8th July and 12th August.

This week we are featuring VidZone Festival – It’s Time To Party Stage including videos for The Prodigy ‘Invaders Must Die’ and Beyonce ‘Single Ladies’. Check out a sneak-peek at the line-up here.

Then to top it off next week we have a video exclusive for one of my favourite tunes of the year … Foreign Beggars & Noisia – ‘No Holds Barred’ (Excision remix). Last year saw Foreign Beggars release their 4th album, containing a selection of the group’s trademark traditional hip hop and some cutting-edge collaborations with electronic artists Noisia. This year has seen Beggars nominated for an Urban Music Award (Best Hip Hop 2010, Europe) alongside Tinie Tempah and Roots Manuva.

Now they’re back with a full remix album containing Excision’s filthy reworking of Foreign Beggars & Noisia’s ‘No Holds Barred’. Already massive with DJs and fans alike, make sure you get onto VidZone next Thursday to be one of the first people across the world to see this highly-anticipated video, as well as a mass of back catalogue and behind the scenes footage!
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Unless you have been living under a stone for the past week, you should have realised we have released a brand new VidZone patch!

As a quick recap, this includes improved search function, in-store game purchasing, a snazzy new main menu carousel and 100s of brand new TV channels including Artist TV, Genre TV, Label TV and Year TV! Is your favourite artist there? Are you missing a specific Genre? Or do you have any great playlists you remember us featuring that we can create a channel for?

You may have also noticed a new channel magically appearing earlier this week – Sub Focus TV! We’ve had one of the first plays of brand new Sub Focus video ‘Splash’ featuring Coco who is tipped for big things this year and is Sting’s talented daughter – if you’ve not checked it out yet, then we suggest you do!

Enough of that… on to this week’s update…

FEATURED

VidZone Recommends

Check out our list of favourite TV Channels this week, hand-picked by the wonderful VidZone pixies inside your PlayStation 3…

Music From Films TV

Featuring hotter than the sun (be careful not to look directly at them) tracks from Iron Man 2 by AC/DC – ‘Highway to Hell’ and ‘Shoot To Thrill’

Video Games Music TV

Once you’ve had enough playing your favourite video games, why not chill out and listen to the music from them instead? Including Sahara Hotnights – Hot Night Crash from Burnout 3 and Pearl Jam – Even Flow from Guitar Hero III.

Underground Acts TV

Our favourite bands that have inexplicably never become bigger than sliced bread – including Fenech-Soler, Shy Child and Tila Tequila.

Korn & Friends TV

A band that are ALMOST bigger than sliced bread – Korn! Featuring videos from Korn, Mudvayne and Adema.

Featured Category

A chance to feature our favourite TV channel category of the week! This week we want to spread the joy of music from various different countries – we have some amazing videos from the likes of German rockers Silbermond, the beautifully French Christophe Willem and Shannon Noll from Australia!

World Music

Featuring Brit Pop TV, French Pop TV, German Rock TV and Aussie Classics TV

Featured Channels

Hot New Videos

This week we are featuring videos so hot you shouldn’t touch them without a pair of oven gloves, including new videos from Sia ‘Clap Your Hands’ and Ciara ft. Ludacris ‘Ride’.

Artist Of The Week

Faithless

They’ve been out of the limelight for a while, but their new single ‘Not Going Home’ reminds us exactly why we loved them in the first place!

Pocket TV (GB only)

Another fine week of Pocket TV madness, featuring Rox live performance, Diana Vickers and Bashy getting grilled by Mr Matt Edmondson!

OTHER STUFF

Check out our ever-changing video of the day when you start up VidZone – a combination of our favourite hot new videos, exclusive interviews and classic tracks!

We have LOTS of other exciting announcements coming over the next few days, so keep your eyes on our blog, twitter and facebook for further details! And remember, if you have any problems or requests you can contact us as always in the following ways;

Twitter – http://twitter.com/vidzone

Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/vidzoneofficial

Website – http://www.vidzone.tv

Video Requests – playstation@vidzone.tv

Customer Support – ps-problems@vidzone.tv

You may also try contacting us psychically through the power of your mind…however I can’t guarantee you will get a response as our psychic team are usually pretty busy trying to predict future smashes in the world of Music.

By the way… as many of you VidZonians may have guessed this isn’t Ben, he is still sunning himself up on holiday, so it’s Lex to the rescue! He’ll be back for our next blog update, and don’t worry he says he misses you all a lot – in fact I think it’s the only reason he’s coming back to work!

Enjoy!

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