them fifteen of the best emerging bands from Ireland's Celtic neighbours. On September 13, Kraftwerk played a tented 4,999-capacity show originally scheduled for Luggala, County Wicklow (later moved to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham due to adverse flooding conditions). Tickets priced €89.50 went on sale on Friday July 18 at 9 a.m. Running under the A Day In The Life banner, the event kicked off at 3 p.m. and also featured Los Angeles' Lucent Dossier Vaudeville Cirque, Comtron, The Jimmy Cake, Dark Room Notes, Boxcutter and D1 DJs . The two-hour concert is Kraftwerk's only show in western Europe this year. News of the event, to take place two weeks after Electric Picnic was expected to close the festival season, was described as "music to the ears of fans who would otherwise be suffering the horrors of post-festival cold turkey". There was, however, "an air of farce" when a curtain refused to close for the appearance of four robots for the song, "The Robots". On September 29, it was announced that Autamata and Jape had both been shortlisted for 'Best Budget Video' at the UK Music Video Awards, which take place in London's Odeon West End on October 14. Their respective 'Need You Sunshine' and 'Floating' clips are nominated alongside Example's 'Me And Mandy', Lise Westzynthius 'Childlike Curves' and These New Puritans' 'Elvis'. Also representing Ireland in the 'Best Styling In A Video' category is Róisín Murphy, nominated alongside Gnarls Barkley, Klaxons, Late of the Pier, Sonny J and The Hoosiers and D.A.D.D.Y. in the 'Best New Director' category. October U2 plan to release their twelfth studio album, the follow-up to 2004's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It will be followed by a twelve-month world tour. Following a stint in Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios earlier in the year, the band moved to France in May 2008 to continue recording No Line on the Horizon. In August there was much unconcern when a Dutch fan uploaded poor quality recordings of four songs from the album ("Moment Of Surrender", "For Your Love", "Sexy Boots" and "No Line On The Horizon") onto YouTube, after recording them on his mobile phone as they blared out a window of Bono's French Riviera retreat in Eze-sur-Mere. From October 4–5, The Music Show took place in the RDS in Dublin. Ireland's only music exhibition, it displayed an array of musical instruments, technology and live music and be