ALternative to Oxegen

Sandals

ANyone have any ideas of a good alternative to Oxegen, what's the name of that big one in Spain?, me and my mates might "do Europe" and take in some Rock Gods under the late-night sun.

Beastieboy

I sure i've seen a thread in the last week with the exact same question word for word. Anyway 'Benicasim' in spain i think thats the 'big' one.

Mushy

Benicassim is the big Spain one. There are loads all over the place. Isnt there another thread bout this?

Arucard

as i said before, NovaRock all the way. Alice in Chains, Motorhead, Metallica, Gnr (if you want to throw stuff at Axl), Placebo, QOTSA, AND......

OPETH & TOOL

www.novarock.at

phantom_lord

Is there any chance of qotsa coming here?

Toast

Depends on the sort of thing you want. Reading is easy to get to. 40 minute flight to Heathrow and a bus straight to Reading from the Airport and a 20 minute walk down a hill. Its kinda the same atmosphere as Oxegen with a relatively young crowd and mixed music with a slightly more rock vibe to the third day. Its also much better organised. You'll have to manage to convince people to be ready to buy tickets on the day they go on sale though as it goes within a few hours these days. Dunno how much it costs these days but I think its probably around 190 euro for the 3 day ticket. Flight should be only 45 quid if you book soon after. Youd pay the same to a tout for oxegen.

If you want something more eclectic and chilled probably Roskilde would be an option then. 4 Days in Denmark. Ticket is about 195 euro and flights are around 180 at the moment.

If you want something more specific (ie a metalfest or a dancefest) then go for one of the things already mentioned.

matrim

There's a 3 day reggae festival in cologne sometime in July aswell.

odhran

I'm going to a festival in Budapest in August called Tzeiget , or something along those lines (give me a second to look it up). Ah yes, it's called Sziget. The line up so far includes Robert Plant and Franz Ferdinand. I also heard that Radiohead were going to play.

dimerocks

the Leechrum festival in......eh Leitrim.

Mr Rivers

Electric Picnic, 1st,2nd and 3rd of September in Laois. Line up will be announced with in the week but be certain one headliner is Massive Attack

www.electricpicnic.ie

tman

Mr Rivers wrote:

Electric Picnic, 1st,2nd and 3rd of September in Laois. Line up will be announced with in the week but be certain one headliner is Massive Attack

www.electricpicnic.ie

hells yeah!:)
gonna be booking time off work for that next week.

last year's EP was easily the best festival that i've ever been to

whacker4fun

couldny agree more lads,what a festival,its goina rock this year,but whos goina compete with fat boy slim last year,i heard daft punk,id pay the 160 just to see them.............

youcancallmeal

Going to roskilde in Denmark meself. Comes highly recomended
Line up is pretty sweet so far.

Particularly looking forward to "ROGER WATERS PERFORMING DARK SIDE OF THE MOON" :eek:

youcancallmeal

odhran wrote:

I'm going to a festival in Budapest in August called Tzeiget , or something along those lines (give me a second to look it up). Ah yes, it's called Sziget. The line up so far includes Robert Plant and Franz Ferdinand. I also heard that Radiohead were going to play.

Planning on doing this festy next year, heard great things about it.