Appropriately for a music festival that veers in tone from eccentric to sublime and all the way back again, on the first day of Electric Picnic the weather couldn’t make up its mind.

The Prodigy have been voted the best dance act of all time in a poll by long-running dance magazine Mixmag.

THE thousands of revellers that arrived at the Oxegen campsite yesterday will be relieved that, despite dull, grey conditions, the rain held off.

Cork house music groovers Cartoon feared they would without their saxophone player Gary Baus for the launch of their debut album tonight.

DESPITE the huge number of open-air concerts last year, new arrival Electric Picnic proved the hit of the summer and with another star-studded line-up just announced, it looks poised to repeat the trick.

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.

Music lovers heading to the Electric Picnic in Co Laois tomorrow are guaranteed a concert feast fit for a king.

Paul McCartney was today preparing to entertain thousands of music lovers on the second day of the Glastonbury Festival.

The sun beamed down on music lovers as the music started at Glastonbury Festival today.

More than 110,000 rock fans were expected to descend on Phoenix Park today for a mega-concert headlined by the Pixies and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

SO much for sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.

Retro rockers the Darkness lead the field for next month’s Brit Awards with four nominations.

“HAVE a nice day,” urged the Stereophonics, and the thousands of music fans enjoying the 8th annual Heineken Green Energy Festival in Dublin at the weekend obliged.

DON’T be sad, ‘cause two out of three ain’t bad.

THEY’VE been around for decades but The Rolling Stones can still satisfy their eager fans.

Ms Dynamite will be hoping to crown an explosive year tonight as she vies with Coldplay and The Streets to be the toast of the Brits.

Ms Dynamite and The Streets headed the shortlist for the Brit Awards tonight as the UK’s urban music scene was the toast of this year’s event.

The great traditions of Irish music festivals.

All 40,000 tickets for this weekend's Witnness Festival in Ireland have been snapped up.

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