Big additions to The Music Show Live Stage

Aside from the recent announcements that The Brilliant Things and Sharon Corr are confirmed to play, the past week has seen a flurry of other acts sign up.

You can now catch the brilliant Maud In Cahoots on stage this Saturday. As the winners of the Hot Press Our Thursdays Final, the band are fresh from supporting Snow Patrol on Arthur's Day, a show which saw singer Maud Reardon perform a goosebump-inducing duet with Gary Lightbody on 'Set The Fire To The Third Bar'.

Ireland's premier pop-punkers Jody Has A Hitlist will have teenage hearts pounding when they take to the Live Stage on Saturday. With a huge fanbase and a Meteor nomination for 'Best New Act' in the bag, the lads have been just been confirmed to play The Music Show on Saturday. Anyone who caught their headlining show in the Academy several months ago (and braved the deafening screams) will know to get down the front as soon as possible.

One of the most successful Irish acts of the past five years, The Coronas will take to the RDS stage on Sunday. The band's second album Tony Was An Ex Con is still in the Irish Top 30 a year on from its initial release. Like their debut album Heroes and Ghosts, it has gone platinum. The band are now setting their sights on the US and Australia, as the campaign for international success to match their stratospheric performance on home turf intensifies.

Also set to play on Sunday are The Cork-based five-piece O Emperor. The band will be kick starting their Irish tour in support of their debut Universal album Hither Thither. They've spent the best part of a year writing and recording the album in a cold country house, stopping along the way to play a well-received Oxegen slot at Punchestown in July.