Pet Shop Boys, NIN, Jane's Addiction, and more added to Oxegen

Pet Shop Boys, Nine Inch Nails, and Jane's Addiction, lead the latest announcement of acts for this year's Oxegen festival in Ireland.

Newly announced for the bill on Friday are Eagles of Death Metal, Dreadzone, God is an Astronaut, Tom Middleton, and Aeroplane.

Saturday's new additions to the line-up are headed up by Pet Shop Boys, with Doves, The Saturdays, and Gary Go.

Sunday's programme now includes the debut Oxegen appearance of Nine Inch Nails, pioneers of the American alternative rock movement Jane's Addiction with bassist Eric Avery back in the band, Glasvegas, and Hudson Mohawke.

The line-up includes Kings of Leon, Blur, and The Killers as headliners, with Lily Allen, Keane, The Specials, Bloc Party, Snow Patrol, Manic Street Preachers, James, The Game, Squeeze, Florence & The Machine, The Script, Katy Perry, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Peter Doherty, Elbow, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Ting Tings, White Lies, Fight Like Apes, Pendulum, and more confirmed. For the full line-up details, and day splits (as available) please see here.


Oxegen takes place at Punchestown Racecourse, Naas, Co Kildare, Ireland from Friday 10th to Sunday 12th July.

Tickets will go on general release at 8am tomorrow Friday 6th March 2009 and are priced at a 2008 price freeze of €224.50 for 3 day including camping ticket. For an extra €20 fans can purchase a 4 day ticket including camping ticket to include Thursday also.

As a special thank you to those who purchased Early Bird tickets before 31st December 08, there is a €20 cashback on-site at the festival or in advance at point of purchase. This year Oxegen is introducing a Ticket Deposit Scheme. Ticket purchasers can pay a €120 deposit to secure tickets and pay the remaining balance before Thursday 30th April 2009. All ticket purchases are limited to 4 per person, and to encourage car pooling, one free car pass will be issued with every 4 tickets purchased.

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