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Speculation

Just who will they be applauding at Marlay Park in August? What’s on the cards for Dublin’s Marlay Park on August 3 and 4?

MCD and Festival Republic have applied for a licence for shows at the south county Dublin park on the August bank holiday weekend – the same weekend as Oxegen

Say hello to Longitude, MCD’s new festival for 2013

It would appear that MCD are planning a new music festival called Longitude for July 2013 to run on the same weekend as the Latitude festival in the UK. We understand that offers for acts for the festival have already …

Summer 2013 speculation

Earlier this week, I wrote about what could be in store for summer 2013 on the big-gig front. Since the piece appeared, there’s been even more speculation about who might be coming to Ireland and where they might be playing. …

Here comes summer 2013

It’s that time of year again. Behind the scenes, promoters are engaged in the usual bouts of ducking and diving with agents and acts over next summer’s big outdoor shows. The venues have been booked, the dates have been ticked …

The Cure for Electric Picnic?

No doubt many of you have been keeping an eye on The Cure’s website over the last few weeks where they’ve been having the crack announcing European festival shows for summer 2012. An Irish show is definitely on the cards …

Factory Floor to play Forbidden Fruit 2012?

I was lucky enough to see Factory Floor a bunch of times in 2011 at Primavera, Great Escape and Trans Musicales. The band have yet to play Ireland, despite the best efforts of various promoters to bring them in for …

Unblogged

On the Record is off the record until Monday May 16 due to, er, stuff. I’ll be updating comments during the week so please feel free to use this post to recommend gigs and new albums, give out about stuff, …

Arcade Fire for Electric Picnic

OTR has learned that Arcade Fire will be one of the headliners at this year’s Electric Picnic when the bill is announced next week. The band have already confirmed a show at Edinburgh Castle for September 1, the day before …