No Slane this year

There’s bad news for Slane fans with Lord Henry Mountcharles appearing on RTÉ Radio One’s Marian Finucane Show this morning to announce that there will be no gig this year.
Mountcharles had previously said that he was planning to run the 2010 event on August 28 subject to himself and MCD finding the right headliner.
Lord Henry denied reports that he’d been in talks with Sir Paul McCartney, only to be knocked back by the former Beatle who’s playing the RDS in June for rival promoters Aiken Promotions.
Acknowledging the Facebook campaign to bring Kings Of Leon to Slane, he revealed that they’re one of the acts on his shopping-list for 2011, which will be the 30th anniversary of him running concerts, and his own 60th birthday.
In other interesting asides, the Slane boss said he’d turned down the opportunity to have Bon Jovi headline in 2005, and to stage a second concert last year headlined by AC/DC.

Picture: Lord Henry with Adam Clayton at this year's Meteor Awards.