Jay-Z confirms second European festival

The rap star will be joined by The Raconteurs, Babyshambles, Les Savy Fav, Black Kids, Foals, Black Mountain and many more at the Scandinavian event, which takes place in the week leading up to Glastonbury.

Those acts are highly likely to appear at Glastonbury alongside Jay-Z, as are Norway-bound acts Duffy, Simian Mobile Disco, The Wombats, Band Of Horses, The Kooks, The Teenagers and Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong.

Hove Festival takes place on the island of Tromøya, outside the city of Arendal on the Norwegian south coast, from 23-27 June.

The lineup so far reads like this:

Animal Alpha (NO), Animal Collective (US), Audrey Horne (NO), Avenged Sevenfold (US), Babyshambles (UK), Bad Religion (US), Band of Horses (US), Behemoth (PL), Black Kids (US), Black LIps (US), Black Mountain (US), Bloody Beetroots (IT), Boys Noize (DE), Brian Jonestown Massacre (US), Bullet for my Valentine (UK), Cavalera Conspiracy (US), Chrome Hoof (UK), Coheed & Cambria (US), Converge (US), Crystal Castles (CAN), Deerhunter (US), Dimmu Borgir (NO), Duffy (US), Familijen (SE), Flogging Molly (IR), Foals (UK), In Flames (SE), Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong (UK), Killswitch Engage (US), Kim Hiorthøy (NO), Les Savy Fav (US), Lukestar (NO), Mattias Tellez (NO), Pirate Love (NO), Primordial (IR), Shape of Broad Minds (US), Slagsmålsklubben (SE), Stars (CAN), The Cool Kids (US), The Kooks (UK), The National Bank (NO), The Scaramange Six (UK), The Teenagers (FR), The Wombats (UK), Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy (NO), Truls and the Trees (NO), Ungdomskulen (NO), We (NO), Wild Beasts (UK), Yeasayer (US).

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