Every week until Oxegen arrives (see counter to the right there for exact days), Day & Night have a pairs of weekend camping tickets to the festival that is bringing you such acts as Blur, Kings of Leon, The Killers, The Script, Bloc Party, Lily Allen, Nine Inch Nails, Crystal Castles and a gazillion more.

All you have to enter the competition is answer to the question below by finding it in current edition of Day & Night supplement in the Irish Independent today (June 12th with Chris Cornell on the cover).

What gig is reviewed in this week’s Day & Night?

HOW TO ENTER: Find the answer in the magazine, then turn to page 17 for details on how to enter by text and phone.

After our Kings of Leon covers post on Monday, this video has come to our attention. Everyone knows* that the band employ a bunch of musicians behind a screen off-stage to play the songs live because they are such incompetent musicians but when the band appeared on Jools Holland, he demanded they play themselves resulting in this abomination…

*This may not be strictly true..

Also….

Coldplay and Metallica get the same treatment.

What’s going on? It seems everyone is trying to get a slice of the Nashville boys popularity by covering their songs lately. Here we chart the best and very worst of them:

1. Tina Cousins – Sex on Fire (9/10)

This is the most polarising version by far. It’s either genius or pap. We can’t decide so it gets a solid 9. Ooh listen to that drama.
Favourite moment: 0:48 – when the BEAT kicks in. Kings of Leon do Europop.

2. Lemar – Sex on Fire (Rating: 3/10)

Lemar’s been covering the song on his tour. A sexified if rather pointless version.
Favourite moment: 0:40 – The Jesus pose combined with the chorus to disguise the fact he can’t reach the notes.

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The best songs on the web this week..

1. Lykke Li covers Kings of Leon
   The Swedish popstress takes on the Nashville rockers’ tale of a condemned pregnancy and creates a bit of magic with KOL’s Caleb Followill on backing vocals. [MP3]
2. Aeroplane remix MGMT
   Nearly a year on and MGMT are still doing the business. This remix of ‘Electric Feel’ is another master-stroke from Belgium’s Aeroplane after their reworking of Grace Jones and Friendly Fires.[MP3]
3. Peter Gabriel covers Vampire Weekend
   Not content with being namechecked in the song ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa’, Gabriel repays the compliment by getting together with Hot Chip to record his own version. [Illegal Tender]
4. The Rub’s Best of 2008
   Give it up one last time for 2008. A two hour mix of the best hip-hop and R&B tunes of last year as put together by the same guys who made those exhaustively brilliant hip-hop mixes. [The Rub]