Festival news: final weather watch for T in the Park and Oxegen, occulty goodness at Supersonic, free condoms in County Kildare

- How’s this for a way to kick off a festival? At Exit in Serbia, acrobatic jet planes opened the festivities - and apparently festival attendees can contact them to go for a ride as well
- Oxegen opens today, with the “wires” abuzz with that summer editorial staple, festival survival guides, as well as free condoms and tighter safety guidelines following trouble last year
- Meanwhile Amy Winehouse, performing at both Oxegen and T The Park, might find herself homeless by the time she gets back to London. The most shocking part of this story for me is that Amy Winehouse is living in a rented flat. If she can’t get on the housing ladder what hope the rest of the country, etc etc etc
- Rick O’Shea’s The Whole Curiosity Blog is coming live from Oxegen this weekend. Let’s hope he doesn’t get mud in his wi-fi

- One more festival weather update? Go on then - basically, the weather in Scotland and Ireland is going to be Scottish and Irish
- The rather eclectic Supersonic Festival in Birmingham will see Julian Cope joining some folk called Gravetemple for a bit of a knees-up. If that’s not occulty enough for you, you might like to check out “a presentation on 20th century occultism and witchcraft, and their influence on British pop music” at the same event
- The Guardian has a good write-up about the explosion in high-quality food at boutique festivals over the last few years