It's been a long time coming, but Harmonix, MTV Games and Electronic Arts have finally put a release date to Rock Band in the UK. The game will hit the Xbox 360 on May 23rd.

Yup, that's the Xbox 360 version. As rumoured, PS3, PS2 and Wii owners will have to wait until "later this summer", according to EA. The rumour - which accurately put the 360 launch in May and other platform versions at a later date - suggested September will be when everyone else will be able to get Rock Band.

In North America the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Rock Band launched simultaneously.

Over in Europe we'll get nine exclusive tracks that weren't released across the pond spread across the English, French and German languages. The list goes as follows:

• Blur - Beetlebum (English)
• Oasis - Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (English)
• Tokio Hotel - Monsoon (English)
• Muse - Hysteria (English)
• Les Wampas - Manu Chao (French)
• Playmo - New Wave (French)
• Die Toten Hosen - Hier Kommt Alex (German)
• Juli - Perfekte Welle (German)
• H-Block X - Countdown to Insanity (German)

Those will join the 58 tracks available in the North American version at launch. Additionally, the full catalogue of downloadable tracks for Rock Band available over there (currently numbering 70) will be opened up to us on May 27th at 160 Microsoft Points a pop. Following that, new DLC will be made available simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic.

Pricing has yet to be confirmed.

You can find out what SPOnG's Girl Gamer thought of Rock Band when she played it on import here.