Dublin hotshots Little Green Cars and Kodaline are among the first batch of acts to be confirmed for the 2013 Eurosonic festival, which runs from January 9 to 12 in the northern Dutch town of Groningen.

Attended by thousands of bookers, promoters and other industry professionals, it’s been an invaluable shop window in the past for the likes of Fight Like Apes, James Vincent McMorrow, And So I Watch You From Afar, Delorentos and Imelda May who’ve all been inundated with gig, tour and festival offers after playing there.

The aforementioned Irish acts will get to exhibit their wares alongside the likes of Denmark’s Rangleklods, Portugal’s Orelha Negra, Italy’s A Toy’s Orchestra and Britain’s Jake Bugg who we suspect will be one of the hot tickets. If you fancy attending, [link]festival.eurosonic-noorderslag.nl/en[/link] has all the details.