NME Festival Guide 2008
Oxegen

Kate Nash, Richard Hawley, Editors, The Hoosiers for Oxegen 2008

Kate Nash                                                                                Pic: PA Photos

Kate Nash Pic: PA Photos

Lightspeed Champion, The Zutons, Scouting For Girls for Irish bash

Kate Nash, Richard Hawley and Editors are among a slew of new acts announced to be playing the forthcoming Oxegen festival in Ireland this July.

The Hoosiers, Lightspeed Champion, The Zutons, Scouting for Girls, Battles, Roisin Murphy, Newton Faulkner, Pendulum and Bowling For Soup have also been added to the line-up. It has not been announced which days the new additions will play on yet.

The festival is set to take place on July 11, 12 and 13 at Punchestown Racecourse in Naas, County Kildare.

REM, Rage Against The Machine and The Verve are set to headline the festival.

The line-up so far is:

REM
Kings Of Leon
The Verve
Future Kings of Spain
Alabama 3
Counting Crows
The Prodigy
Panic at the Disco
Stereophonics
Rage Against the Machine
Kaiser Chiefs
The Pogues
The Courteeners
The Raconteurs
The Fratellis
The Feeling
The Charlatans
Ian Brown
Interpol
The Chemical Brothers
Hot Chip
Justice
Aphex Twin
Band of Horses
Seasick Steve
DJ Koze
Kaz James
Crookers
Bowling for Soup
Kate Nash
Editors
The Hoosiers
Newton Faulkner
Pendulum
Scouting for Girls
The Zutons
Battles
Róisín Murphy
Lightspeed Champion
David Jordon


To check the availability of Oxegen tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

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Oasis_Dublin 

Mar 4, 2008

Preet good line-up so far. Still missing an Oasis/Muse/ArcticMonkeys/The Coral to really make it a great line-up

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