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As impressive Irish gigs have shown, London Grammar are not just pretty faces, writes Ed Power

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GIG WISE: With Electric Picnic out of the way, the next biggie on the Irish music horizon is the Guinness Amplify festival taking place through the five provinces on different weekends in September and October.

Festival fans have been given a chance to get their hands on tickets for this year's Electric Picnic - by raising money for charity.

Thousands of music fans are expected to descend on a Somerset farm in England today as Glastonbury throws open its gates to revellers.

Specials songwriter Jerry Dammers has been named a music industry inspiration three decades after his song, ‘Nelson Mandela’, stormed the charts calling for the release of the anti-apartheid campaigner.

Blondie and Sinead O'Connor are among the 21 new acts which have been added to the Electric Picnic line-up today.