Blur, Sam Smith, Grace Jones and Interpol are among the very big name additions to the bill for Electric Picnic.
Talking recently to Hot Press, Alex James proffered: "You probably think we say this to all the countries but we're dying to come back to Ireland. That place with the museum, Kilmainham, was brilliant a couple of years ago, and we've always had good gigs in Ireland."
We'll have more - lots more! - from Mr. James in our next issue.
Also making us desperately count down the days to the September 4-6 Stradbally blowout are FKA Twigs, Despacio, Paul Kalkbrenner, Yasiin Bey, Mac DeMarco,
MK, Gavin James, Printer Clips, Julio Bashmore, The Riptide Movement,
The 2 Bears, SOAK, Viet Cong, Dawes, Benjamin Clementine, Fat White Family, Honne, Kwamie Liv and Fickle Friends.