Exclusive: James Taylor + Bob Geldof to play the Source Festival

hotpress.com has learned that this year's Source Festival in Kilkenny is to be headlined by American songwriting legend James Taylor.

Taking place in Nowlan Park on July 18, he'll be mixing tracks from his new October Road opus with classics like 'Fire & Rain', 'How Sweet It Is', 'Sweet Baby James' and 'You've Got A Friend'.

Also Source-bound is Bob Geldof who reveals on his official website that he's also playing festival dates in Galway and Letterkenny.

Talking of Sir Bob, The Band Aid trust are to auction the global rights to the historic concert. This follows on from the arrest last month of an English bootlegger who'd been selling pirate copies of the gig online.

"The Band Aid record and the Live Aid concert are the sole assets of the most wretched and put-upon people on this earth," Geldof says. "Every pirate or bootlegger must be aware that when they sell illegal copies of these assets, they almost literally take the food from the mouths and the needles from the arms of the hungry and sick. I will personally stop at nothing to see the bootleggers in jail."