Last year's Witnness showstealers, Kings of Leon, have been added to the Oxegen bill.

Elsewhere, Snow Patrol, Franz Ferdinand, Muse and Dogs Die In Hot Cars have been confirmed for T In The Park, Oxegen’s sister festival which takes place over the same weekend near Glasgow. With the bills in past years being pretty much interchangeable, there’s every chance you’ll see ’em at Punchestown too.

Meanwhile, an MCD spokesman has denied that the event is being sponsored by O2. Also ruling themselves out of the running are their rivals Meteor who tell hotpress.com: “From our point of view to do that, following the Meteor Awards, it would be too much of the same thing.”