Written by S. Monteban    Monday, 08 March 2010 10:56   
Arcade Fire to headline Oxegen Festival 2010
altArcade Fire has announced a new European festival appearance and will play Oxegen Festival 2010. The Grammy-nominated band, famous for the albums ‘Funeral’ and ‘Neon Bible’, will headline the Irish event.
 Playing the last time they were in Ireland to 20,000 people in the Phoenix Park, Win Butler’s mob are currently applying the finishing touches to the follow up to 2007’s Neon Bible album.
Click here for the latest Oxegen Festival line-up.

Primary Market Tickets will be released this Friday (March 12, 2010) with a price tag of 224.50 Euro (£200). Oxegen Festival 2010 will take place at Punchestown Racecourse in Ireland from 8-11 July.

Arcade Fire is an indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and fronted by the husband and wife duo of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne. In addition to instrument mainstays guitar, drums  and bass guitar, members play piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, xylophone, glockenspiel, keyboard, French horn, accordion, harp and mandolin. The band takes most of their instruments on tour, and the multi-instrumentalist band members switch instrumental duties throughout their shows.

Arcade Fire has won numerous awards, including both the Meteors 2008 Best International Album award and the Juno Awards 2008 Alternative Album of the Year award for Neon Bible. It has also been nominated for the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy in 2005 for Funeral and in 2008 for Neon Bible.

In addition to founders Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, members include Richard Reed Parry, William Butler, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara. Touring lineups have included Marika Anthony-Shaw, Colin Stetson, Kelly Pratt, Owen Pallett, and Pietro Amato

Lineup includes:

Aeroplane
Arcade Fire
Armand Van Helden
A-Trak
Broken Social Scene
Calvin Harris
David Guetta
Ellie Goulding
Eminem
Empire Of The Sun
Erol Alkan
Faithless
Fatboy Slim
Florence And The Machine
Goldfrapp
Gossip
Hot Chip
Jay-Z
John Mayer
Kasabian
La Roux
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Newton Faulkner
Paolo Nutini
Rise Against
Stereophonics
Steve Angello,
Simian Mobile Disco
Steve Aoki
The Black Eyed Peas
The Coral
The Prodigy
The Temper Trap
Two Door Cinema Club
Vampire Weekend
Wolfmother

 





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