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Yeah Yeah Yeahs to headline Chinese festival

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

New York trio are off to celebrate the 'Year of the Fire Pig'

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are set to headline a music festival in China.

The band will play the Modern Sky Festival, which takes place on October 4 in Beijing.

Other acts set to appear include a number of Chinese bands like Re-TROS, Joyside and Car-sick Cars.

Posting on their Myspace the band wrote: “What better year to make our debut than the year of the Fire Pig? It's a dangerous cocktail: China, YYYs, pigs, fire...anyone got a light?”

For full details of the festival go China.org.cn.

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tomtomtom23 

Sep 5, 2007

I thought it was the year of the spider pig?

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