NME has linked up with the Oxegen festival to present a stage at this year’s event.
The 2007 Irish festival, which takes place July 8 and 9 at Punchestown Racecourse, near Naas, County Kildare, will now feature the NME Stage.
“We’re delighted that NME have come on board Oxegen this year,” declared festival promoter Denis Desmond. “We are looking forward to a memorable weekend of music at Ireland’s ultimate music festival.”
NME editor Conor McNicholas was similarly pleased. “Oxegen is such a brilliant festival, and we at NME are excited to be part of such a massive event in Ireland,” he explained. “Oxegen‘s second stage is where it’s at for new music so that’s where we’ll be playing host. See you down the front!”
The NME Stage line up for July 8 is:
Richard Ashcroft
Editors
Feeder
Dirty Pretty Things
We Are Scientists
Delays
Morning Runner
The Blizzards
Captain
Breaks Co Op
Meanwhile on the Main Stage that day the following are playing:
The Who
The Strokes
Arctic Monkeys
Hard-Fi
James Brown
The Magic Numbers
Damien Dempsey
Republic Of Loose
Sandi Thom
The Marshals
On July 9, the NME Stage line up for is:
Paul Weller
Goldfrapp
Pharrell Williams
The Zutons
The Kooks
The Feeling
The Cribs
Wolfmother
Leya
While the Main Stage line up on the same day is as follows:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Chiefs
Placebo
Bellx1
Mani Chao
Maximo Park
The festival, which sold out in 12 hours earlier this year, also features Primal Scream, The Futureheads, The Automatic and Sigur Ros among others across seven stages.
For the full line-up go to Oxegen.ie now.
NME meanwhile is offering the ultimate soundtrack to the summer with a festival CD, including The Ordinary Boys, Panic! At The Disco and Razorlight among others, which is free with this week’s issue (June 17) on newsstands now.