Tickets for next year's Oxegen festival are to go on sale next week.

A limited number of early bird tickets are being released for a period of one week, from Friday, August 8th, to Friday, August 15th, at '2008 prices', to folks registered at the official site.

Presumably this means that tickets for Oxegen 2009, which takes place on July 10th, 11th and 12th 2009, will be more expensive than this year's event, although it's not clear by how much.

Early bird ticket prices are €244.50 for three-day camping, and a free car parking pass is available with every four tickets purchased.

Meanwhile, MTV2 is planning to show a weekend of coverage from Oxegen 2008 from 7pm this evening.