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'''Oxegen''' is an annual [[music festival]], held since [[2004]], sponsored by [[Heineken International]]. It was previously called [[Witnness]], which ran from the year [[2000]] and was sponsored by [[Guinness]]. Oxegen was originally a two-day festival but for [[2008]] will be expanded to three days. It takes place at the [[Punchestown Racecourse]] in [[County Kildare]], [[Republic of Ireland]] and has an average attendance of around 80,000 a day, with around half of these camping on site for the duration, and the rest travelling to the site each day. The festival is promoted by [[MCD PRODUCTIONS|MCD]].
'''Oxegen''' is an annual [[music festival]], held since [[2004]], sponsored by [[Heineken International]]. It was previously called [[Witnness]], which ran from the year [[2000]] and was sponsored by [[Guinness]]. Oxegen was originally a two-day festival but for [[2008]] will be expanded to three days. It takes place at the [[Punchestown Racecourse]] in [[County Kildare]], [[Republic of Ireland]] and has an average attendance of around 80,000 a day, with around half of these camping on site for the duration, and the rest travelling to the site each day. The festival is promoted by [[MCD PRODUCTIONS|MCD]].


While Oxegen has not yet reached the iconic status of [[Glastonbury Festival|Glastonbury]], it still manages to attract a large quantity of high profile acts each year. Generally, the festival's line-up is identical to that of [[T in the Park]], which [http://www.tinthepark.com/ runs on the same weekend], but in [[Scotland]]. Many acts play Oxegen on the day that they're not playing TitP.
While Oxegen has not yet reached the iconic status of [[Glastonbury Festival|Glastonbury]], it still manages to attract a large quantity of high profile acts each year. Generally, the festival's line-up is identical to that of [[T in the Park]], which [http://www.tinthepark.com/ runs on the same weekend], but in [[Scotland]]. Many acts play Oxegen on the day that they're not playing TitP.Yet Roisin thinks that she has superior knowledge to Wikipedia and claims the Oxegen festival is twinned with V festival,which incidentally is held 6 weeks after Oxegen and T In The Park and who's line-up bears no resemeblance to the almost identically line-ups of the aforementioned festivals.She bases her claim upon the questionable story that her mother's friend is the manager of a local bin company(in Boggerland,Co.Tipperary) which provides its refuse service to both Oxegen and the V festival.Also,as the basis of a sister festival is that both take place on the same weekend,her claim is undeniably false,leaving many to question Roisin's sense of time.


As well as six stages of music, there are two large areas for camping which are subdivided by number. Stalls and shops are also provided, as well as toilet and shower areas (from [[2006]]). The toilet facilities have been criticised by some as not being adequate for the large number of people at the festival.{{Fact|date=March 2007}} There is also a funfair adjacent to the arena, featuring a big wheel and other rides, such as the "Magic Carpet", the "Big Drop", and the [[roller coaster]].
As well as six stages of music, there are two large areas for camping which are subdivided by number. Stalls and shops are also provided, as well as toilet and shower areas (from [[2006]]). The toilet facilities have been criticised by some as not being adequate for the large number of people at the festival.{{Fact|date=March 2007}} There is also a funfair adjacent to the arena, featuring a big wheel and other rides, such as the "Magic Carpet", the "Big Drop", and the [[roller coaster]].

Revision as of 23:27, 23 January 2008

For the chemical element, see oxygen.
Oxegen
File:Oxegen.jpg
Oxegen
GenreRock
DatesJuly 11 - 13
Location(s)Punchestown Racecourse, County Kildare, Ireland
Years active2004 - present
Websitewww.OXEGEN.ie

Oxegen is an annual music festival, held since 2004, sponsored by Heineken International. It was previously called Witnness, which ran from the year 2000 and was sponsored by Guinness. Oxegen was originally a two-day festival but for 2008 will be expanded to three days. It takes place at the Punchestown Racecourse in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland and has an average attendance of around 80,000 a day, with around half of these camping on site for the duration, and the rest travelling to the site each day. The festival is promoted by MCD.

While Oxegen has not yet reached the iconic status of Glastonbury, it still manages to attract a large quantity of high profile acts each year. Generally, the festival's line-up is identical to that of T in the Park, which runs on the same weekend, but in Scotland. Many acts play Oxegen on the day that they're not playing TitP.Yet Roisin thinks that she has superior knowledge to Wikipedia and claims the Oxegen festival is twinned with V festival,which incidentally is held 6 weeks after Oxegen and T In The Park and who's line-up bears no resemeblance to the almost identically line-ups of the aforementioned festivals.She bases her claim upon the questionable story that her mother's friend is the manager of a local bin company(in Boggerland,Co.Tipperary) which provides its refuse service to both Oxegen and the V festival.Also,as the basis of a sister festival is that both take place on the same weekend,her claim is undeniably false,leaving many to question Roisin's sense of time.

As well as six stages of music, there are two large areas for camping which are subdivided by number. Stalls and shops are also provided, as well as toilet and shower areas (from 2006). The toilet facilities have been criticised by some as not being adequate for the large number of people at the festival.[citation needed] There is also a funfair adjacent to the arena, featuring a big wheel and other rides, such as the "Magic Carpet", the "Big Drop", and the roller coaster.

Glass bottles are banned from the festival site and items such as bottle corks are banned from the concert area.

2004 Festival

File:Oxegen 2005.jpg
The Oxegen 2004 Logo

The Cure, The Darkness, Ash, The Strokes, Kings of Leon, PJ Harvey, The Divine Comedy, The Libertines, Faithless, Massive Attack, Basement Jaxx, Chemical Brothers, Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, Scissor Sisters, Muse, Snow Patrol, Elbow, Electric Six, Ocean Colour Scene, Orbital, The Complete Stone Roses and Cartoon are some of the bands that played at the 2004 festival which took place over five stages on the weekend of Saturday July 10 and Sunday July 11. The Killers, Republic of Loose and Razorlight were among the bands headlining the New Band Stage. David Bowie was due to headline the festival but had to pull out due to illness. [1]

Tickets sold out a week before the event, having gone on sale on Friday March 5. One-day tickets cost €59.50, two-day tickets were priced at €110.00 whilst a two-day ticket with camping included cost €130.00. [2]

2004 Line-up

The main acts that played the festival:

Saturday July 10

Main Stage

Sunday July 11

Main Stage

Oxegen 2004 poster
Oxegen 2004 poster

* denotes cancelled performance

2005 Festival

The Oxegen 2005 Logo
For main article, see Oxegen 2005.

Green Day, [3] Foo Fighters, [4] [5] New Order, [6] Ian Brown, [7] James Brown, The Prodigy, [8] Queens of the Stone Age, [9] The Frames, [10] Keane, [11] Feeder, The Killers, [12] Bloc Party, [13] Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, [14] The Bravery, Nine Black Alps, The Departure, Razorlight, LCD Soundsystem, [15] Echo & the Bunnymen, The La's, The Revs and Snoop Dogg are some of the acts that performed on Saturday, July 9 and Sunday, July 10.

2005 Line-up

The main acts that played the festival:[1]

Saturday July 9

Oxegen Stage

Sunday July 10

Oxegen Stage

2006 Festival

The main stage on Saturday at Oxegen 2006.
For main article, see Oxegen 2006.

A limited number of tickets for the 2006 festival went on sale a week after the 2005 festival on Friday, July 15. On February 20 the festival was launched and the first acts (including headliners The Who and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs) were officially announced. [16]

Tickets went on general sale on Friday March 3 at 8 a.m. Weekend camping tickets were priced at €160. This allocation of tickets was completely sold out within 48 hours. The festival itself encountered bad weather which eclipsed previous records. The weather did improve on Sunday afternoon with sunny skies and a cool, gentle breeze ensuring a decrease in wet festival-goers.

Moments that will be remembered from the festival include The Who's first live performance in Ireland for 35 years, the sound problems encountered by HARD-Fi in particular due to the weather conditions on the Saturday, the Arctic Monkeys' arrival in Ireland, the Kooks performance on the NME Stage which was too small for them. When Franz Ferdinand had completed their set on the Sunday evening, the action on the large screens by the Main Stage switched to BBC One where the World Cup Final had gone down to a penalty shootout. This was followed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers who performed in Ireland for the fourth time in five summers. On the previous night (Saturday), James Brown had headlined the Main Stage in what turned out to be his last ever live performance at a festival in Ireland.

File:Oxegen 06 Headlines.jpg
Mirror newspaper headline after Oxegen in 2006.

Security arrangements were however criticised as being poor by some sections of the media. The camp-site was not free from trouble in 2006 troublesome, with some reports of tent-burning and an alleged stabbing on the Sunday night/Monday morning of the festival. In the Green Room there was seen to be a considerable leak allowing rain into the enclosed tent.

There were 225 arrests for drugs (with 13 charged for possession with intent to supply), one alleged rape, [17] and the Evening Herald reported that around 250 people were treated for alcohol and drug abuse. Fears were raised of a bad batch of the drug ecstasy when 40 people were sent to the Naas general hospital, but no evidence of such a batch was found.

A number of media outlets were threatened with legal action on their coverage of the Oxegen festival in its aftermath. These included the Irish Independent and boards.ie, where all discussion of MCD events and venues was banned.

2006 Line-up

The main acts that played the festival:

Saturday July 8

Main Stage

Sunday July 9

Main Stage

Oxegen 2006 Logo

2007 Festival

Muse headlined Oxegen 07.
Muse headlined Oxegen 07.
For main article, see Oxegen 07.

Oxegen 07 took place at Punchestown Racecourse on Saturday July 7 and Sunday July 8. The Live Earth concerts occurred around the world on the same day as the Saturday of Oxegen 2007. Tickets went on general sale at 8 a.m. on Friday March 2 2007. These sold out in under seventy minutes. The price of a day ticket rose to €96.50, a weekend ticket cost €177.50, whilst the price of a weekend ticket plus camping this year rose to €197.50 (roughly the same price as a three-day Electric Picnic ticket), as compared to €160 in 2006. As in 2006, it was possible to purchase four weekend camping tickets together and receive a free car parking ticket. As with previous years, a number of pre-sale tickets went on sale on November 10 2006 at the same price as the 2006 festival.

Bands that played the festival included Muse, Snow Patrol, Arcade Fire, Scissor Sisters, Razorlight, The Killers, Bloc Party, The Kooks, Kings of Leon, Daft Punk, Interpol, My Chemical Romance, Queens of the Stone Age, The Fratellis, The View and The Bravery. Brian Wilson, Avril Lavigne, Mika and Sinéad O'Connor also made appearances. Irish bands that played included The Blizzards, Director, Delorentos and Royseven. Amy Winehouse pulled out at the last minute [18] whilst The Immediate were officially announced only to split up on the same day. [19]

2007 Line-up

The main acts that played the festival:[2]

Saturday July 7

Main Stage

Stage 2

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Sunday July 8

Main Stage

Stage 2

* denotes cancelled performance

2008 Festival

It has been confirmed on the official OXEGEN website (on November 21 2007) that Oxegen 2008 will be a three-day affair, [20] taking place from Friday July 11 until Sunday July 13 at Punchestown Racecourse in Naas, County Kildare. On November 2 2007, the official OXEGEN website offered fans the chance to vote for who they would like to see perform during the festival in return for entry into a prize draw for free weekend tickets to OXEGEN 08. Oxegen will take place over 3 days with €20 for a Thursday camping pass. Presale tickets went on sale at 8 a.m. on Friday November 30 at a cost of €197. Actual sale tickets will go on sale at 8 a.m. on Friday March 7.

On November 27 at 5 p.m, Kings of Leon became the first band to be announced to play Oxegen next summer. The band topped an online poll which asked festival-goers for their dream line-up and so the band were immediately asked and confirmed. Vocalist Caleb Followill said: "We love playing in Ireland, the fans are brilliant and we can't wait to play Oxegen 2008". [21] [22]

The rest of the line-up will be announced in February.

References

  1. ^ ""The Darkness replace Bowie at OXEGEN"". RTÉ. 2004-06-30. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  2. ^ ""Bowie & Darkness Punchestown-bound"". RTÉ. 2004-02-19. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  3. ^ ""Green Day confirmed for festival"". BreakingNews.ie. 2005-03-03. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
  4. ^ ""Foo Fighters to headline OXEGEN 2005"". RTÉ. 2004-12-01. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  5. ^ ""Foo Fighters to headline Oxegen"". BreakingNews.ie. 2005-12-01. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
  6. ^ ""New Order & QOTSA join OXEGEN bill"". RTÉ. 2005-03-03. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  7. ^ ""Ian Brown joins line-up for OXEGEN"". RTÉ. 2005-01-04. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  8. ^ ""Prodigy announce OXEGEN appearance"". RTÉ. 2004-12-10. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  9. ^ ""Tickets for Oxegen on sale today"". BreakingNews.ie. 2005-03-04. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
  10. ^ ""The Frames added to OXEGEN line-up"". RTÉ. 2005-02-14. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  11. ^ ""Keane join line-up for OXEGEN 2005"". RTÉ. 2005-02-10. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  12. ^ ""Killers are added to OXEGEN's bill"". RTÉ. 2005-02-08. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  13. ^ ""New acts added to Oxegen line-up"". BreakingNews.ie. 2005-04-20. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
  14. ^ ""Streets & Kasabian added to OXEGEN"". RTÉ. 2005-02-11. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  15. ^ ""Top dance music names lined up for Oxegen"". BreakingNews.ie. 2005-04-05. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
  16. ^ ""The Who, Chili Peppers to headline OXEGEN 06"". RTÉ. 2006-02-20. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  17. ^ ""Now rape-claim revelation rocks Oxegen organisers"". Irish Independent. 2006-08-11. Retrieved 2007-12-16. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  18. ^ ""Amy Winehouse a doubt for Oxegen"". MUSE.ie. 2007-07-05. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
  19. ^ ""The Immediate split up!"". MUSE.ie. 2007-05-14. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
  20. ^ ""Oxegen 2008 to run for three days"". The Irish Times. 2007-11-24. Retrieved 2007-12-16. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  21. ^ ""Kings of Leon confirmed for Oxegen 2008"". Breaking News.ie. 2007-11-27. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
  22. ^ ""Kings Of Leon confirmed for Oxegen"". virtualfestivals.com. 2007-11-28. Retrieved 2007-12-26.
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