Jake Black, co-founder of the Alabama 3 group has died.

The line up for this year’s Electric Picnic Festival in Co Laois has been announced. The self style ‘boutique’ festival returns as a three day event this year on September 1-3.

Tickets for the Oxegen music festival - headlined by Foo Fighters - have sold out, a record six weeks before the event.

Coldplay, The Charlatans, Badly Drawn Boy, The White Stripes and Doves are among the acts playing at this year's Glastonbury Festival.