Snow Patrol & Damien Rice for Live Earth Concerts

Taking place on the 7th July in Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg, London and as yet undecided cities in Brazil, Japan & United States the shows are billed as Save Our Selves: Campaign For A Climate in Crisis.

"In order to solve the climate crisis, we have to reach billions of people," Gore said in a statement. "We hope to jumpstart that movement right here, right now, and take it to a new level on July 7, 2007."

The SOS campaign was founded by Kevin Wall, the producer behind the Live 8 global concerts in 2005 that raised money for Africa.

"Our climate crisis is the biggest challenge facing humanity," Wall said. "SOS is more than a global distress call. SOS will give the world the tools we need to answer that call with meaningful action."

Given that 7 shows are taking place on the opening day of Oxegen 2007 it'll be interesting to see if they have any effect on the availability of major acts for Punchestown knees-up.

Artists who're already committed to the cause are the below.

Pharrell
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Foo Fighters
Snoop Dogg
Lenny Kravitz
Bon Jovi
Paolo Nutini
Sheryl Crow
AFI
Melissa Etheridge
John Mayer
Damien Rice
Corrine Bailey Rae
Duran Duran
Bloc Party
Snow Patrol
John Legend
Black Eyed Peas
Akon
Enrique Iglesias
Fall Out Boy
Mana
Keane
Kelly Clarkson
Korn
Faith Hill w/ Tim McGraw
Ray LaMontagne
Robin Thicke
Kenna