The Pigeon Detectives to play the Oxegen Festival
The organisers of Irelands largest music festival have announced that The Pigeon Detectives are to play the festival at Punchestown Racecourse, Naas, Co Kildare.
On July 11 and 13 2008.
Other acts to be added include The Enemy, The National, Feeder, and The Go! Team
Tricky, The Whigs and One Night Only are also amongst the other additions.
The Pigeon Detectives are from Rothwell Leeds and they got together in 2002. They have been championed by DJs suchs as Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq/ They performed on the radio 1 stage at Reading Leeds Festival in 2006. They supported Kaiser Chiefs in 2006 and they play T in the Park in July 2007 on the Main Stage.
Oxegen Music festival has taken place since 2004 although it was previously called Witnness, it has been extended to a 3 day festival for 2008. it sees 80,000 people each day. The line up tends to share many acts from the T in the Park Festival which takes place over the same weekend. This years headliners are Kings of Leon, Rem and Rage against the Machine,
The festival has 6 stages and lots of others stalls and shops, there is also a fun fair.
