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Tickets for Oxegen - which takes place in Punchestown, Co Kildare on July 11th-13th - sold out this week, according to promoter MCD.
But as one door shuts, others open. The long- rumoured Tom Waits gig now looks set to take place on July 30th and 31st in a marquee in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Peter Aiken of Aiken Promotions said it was "his intention" to stage the gig on those dates and in that location, but it was "not 100 per cent". There is no information yet on ticket prices or timing.
Aiken has confirmed that Morrissey will play Live at the Marquee in Cork on June 26th. Tickets go on sale next Thursday, May 15th, at 9am.
Meanwhile, disappointed Oxegen fans should not despair. Tickets for "sold-out" events often reappear closer to the gig.
Tickets for the previously "sold-out" Bruce Springsteen shows in Dublin's RDS (on May 22nd, 23rd and 25th) went back on sale this week. Tickets for all three nights could still be bought on the Ticketmaster website yesterday.
Oxegen 2008 will run over three days for the first time. The current line-up is:
Friday:Kings of Leon, Interpol, Editors, Aphex Twin, Bell X1, Cat Power, Paddy Casey, Groove Armada, The Coronas, dEUS, Battles, Future Kings of Spain, Unkle, Calvin Harris, Annie Mac, MSTRKRFT, Koze, Kosheen, Burns, Sneaky Sound System.
Saturday:REM. The Verve, Amy Winehouse, The Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, Sterephonics, Counting Crows, The Zutons, Newton Faulkner, Panic at the Disco, Feeder, Richard Hawley, Seasick Steve, The Hoosiers, Scouting For Girls, The Charlatans, Powderfinger, Declan O'Rourke, My Morning Jacket, The Ting Tings, Camille O'Sullivan, British Sea Power, Black Kids, Delays, Concerto For Constantine, Paul Heaton, Pendulum, Justice, Bowling For Soup, Boys Noize, Mylo, Slam, Michael Mayer, Kavinsky, The Japanese Popstars.
Sunday:Rage Against The Machine, Kaiser Chiefs, The Swell Season (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová), The Fratellis, Ian Brown, The Kooks, MGMT, The Feeling, Kate Nash, Roisin Murphy, Tom Baxter, Reverend and the Makers, Band of Horses, Lightspeed Champion, The Pogues, The Subways, The Stranglers, Ryan Bingham, The Courteeners, Alabama 3, David Guetta, Luciano, Kaz James, Crookers, Radio Slave, Quiet Village, Does It Offend You Yeah? and Carl Craig.
Jape and Kinetiks to star in RTÉ show's webisodes
Good to see another example of the national broadcaster embracing the brave new world of online TV by taking its content to those media platforms whose schedules never appear in the RTÉ Guide.
WeTV, the weekend morning show which featured a huge amount of Irish acts during its recent run on RTÉ2, may be off our TV screens at present. However, the show will premiere a slew of new content on online webisodes over the next few weeks.
These shows include interviews with Jape, The Kinetiks and the woeful Kooks, a what-to-do (and what-not-to-do) guide to summer music festivals, and a preview of the forthcoming Darklight film festival.
You can tune in at www.rte.ie/wetv or youtube.ie/wetvonrte.
Future ticket shock
Summer may have just arrived, but some music fans are already dreaming of winter.
It would be interesting to know just how many die-hards have purchased tickets for a slew of recently announced shows that won't take place until November or December.
Maybe there really are hundreds of fans of The Levellers (Academy, Dublin, December 19th), Sultans of Ping FC (Academy, Dublin, December 20th) and Nouvelle Vague (Tripod, Dublin, November 29th) who need their tickets for these shows months in advance, but we doubt it.
