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Punchestown, County Kildare, Ireland
12-13 July
Ireland's biggest festival entered its fourth year with the Manic Street Preachers, David Gray and Coldplay topping the bill.
Underworld, Badly Drawn Boy and Doves also played the event, which has the ability to bag the odd special performance – like beating every British festival to book Oasis last year.
A record 50,000 fans turned up at the festival's venue - a racecourse near Naas - to see more than 100 acts over five stages. Warm, sunny weather this year made up for a 2002 show blighted by heavy rain.
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