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.

Electric Picnic organisers have today revealed which bands would be playing on each day of the festival.

Disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder is to make his first ever appearance in Ireland at the Electric Picnic festival in September, it was announced today.