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Festival News

Paul Weller, Glasvegas, Sam Sparro for free London shows

Paul Weller 2005

Paul Weller 2005

Plus The Pretenders and Does It Offend You, Yeah? for iTunes gigs

Paul Weller, Glasvegas, The Pretenders, Does It Offend You Yeah? and Sam Sparro are among the acts set to play this year's iTunes festival at London's KOKO.

Elliot Minor, Kids In Glass Houses and Annie are the other new acts set to play shows announced today (June 17).

Glasvegas will be supporting Paul Weller at his headline show on July 2. The Scottish band appear on the cover of the new issue of NME, on UK newsstand tomorrow (June 18).

Each headline band will play a gig at the venue, which will be recorded then made available to buy from Apple's iTunes website.

All the tickets for the shows are free, and can be won at iTuneslive.co.uk.

The line-up of the iTunes festival so far is:

N.E.R.D. (July 1)
Paul Weller, Glasvegas (2)
Hadouken!, Does It Offend You, Yeah? (3)
The Feeling, Gabriella Cilmi (4)
Elliot Minor, Kids In Glass Houses (6)
Lightspeed Champion, Pete And The Pirates (8)
The Ting Tings, Florence And The Machine (9)
Jamie Lidell, Yelle (10)
James Blunt, Beth Rowley (12)
Death Cab For Cutie, I Was A Cub Scout (14)
The Zutons, Red Light Company (15)
CSS, Alphabeat (16)
Guillemots, Lykke Li (17)
Feeder, Infadels (19)
Sam Sparro, Annie (21)
Suzanne Vega (22)
The Script, Sam Beeton (23)
McFly (24)
Chaka Khan (26)
Pendulum, INME (28)
The Pretenders (July 30)

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