In support of the album 's release , the band embarked on a small national tour and received an invitation to perform a sell-out month-long residency at The Dublin Academy for four consecutive Fridays , thus ending their habit of playing Dublin only once per year . This involved two-hour sets featuring new material and duets with Sinéad O'Connor &mdash; on her song " Nothing Compares 2 U " &mdash; and Damien Dempsey &mdash; on the Thin Lizzy song " Dancing in the Moonlight " . The Academy residency led to a Meteor Award nomination for Best Irish Live Performance the following year and they would return for another performance at the same venue that September . A couple were engaged as part of a BBC television series prior to the Sunday evening appearance of Republic of Loose on the O2 Stage at Oxegen 2008 &mdash; a performance which also featured collaborator Styles P &mdash; whilst the band also performed for several journalists backstage . They performed a DJ set at Castlepalooza before headlining Solas Festival on 17 August 2008 . Republic of Loose featured on Today FM 's '' The Ray D'Arcy Show '' s charity album '' Even Better Than the Disco Thing '' released in December 2008 , finishing off the year with three shows in Cork
Oxegen 2008
Oxegen 2008
Republic of Loose