Oxegen Full Lineup & Stage Breakdown

comet

FULL STAGE BREAKDOWN

SATURDAY 8 JULY 2006

Main Stage:

The Who, The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Hard Fi, James Brown, The Magic Numbers, Damien Dempsey, Republic Of Loose, Sandi Thom, The Marshals.

NME Stage:

Richard Ashcroft, Editors, Feeder, Dirty Pretty Things, We Are Scientists, Delays, Morning Runner, The Blizzards, Captain, Breaks Co Op.

Green Room:

Primal Scream, The Go! Team, The Futureheads, Gomez, Jenny Lewis, Kubb, 747's, Mobile, Emm Gryner.

Pet Sounds Stage:

Death Cab For Cutie, Zero 7, Eels, Jose Gonzalez, Bic Runga, Regina Spektor, Dave Couse, The Spinto Band, The Weepies.

New Band Stage:

Boy Kill Boy, Animal collective, Fratellis, Automatic, Milburn, Phoenix, Lily Allen, Maccabees, Manic, Fear of Music, Upper Room, Paolo Nuitini, Rushmore.

MTV Dance Arena:

Erick Morillo, Felix Da Housecat, Dave Clarke, Cosmic Fury (Tom Midleton and Fred Deacon from Lemon Jelly), Vitalic, Justin Robertson, Jon Carter, Headman, Jon Averill.


SUNDAY 9 JULY 2006

Main Stage:

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Placebo, Bellx1, Mani Chao, Maximo Park.

NME Stage:

Paul Weller, Goldfrapp, Pharrell Williams, The Zutons, The Kooks, The Feeling, The Cribs, Wolfmother, Leya.

Green Room:

Rodrigo Y Gabriela, The Charlatans, Damian "JR Gong" Marley, Orson, Hope of the States, Greg Dulli / Twilight Singers, Guillemots, The Rifles, Delorentos.

Pet Sounds Stage:

Sigur Ros, Ben Harper, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Divine Comedy, Gemma Hayes, Xavier Rudd, Donovan Frankenreiter.

New Band Stage:

Humanzi, Bedouin Soundclash, ¡Forward Russia!, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Giant Drag, White Rose Movement, Reamonn, Tiny Dancers, The Morning After Girls, Cut Copy, Mummra, Karma 45.

MTV Dance Arena:

David Morales, Timo Maas, Mylo, Erol Alkan, Digitalism, Whomadewho, Steve Angelo, Switch.

s8n

Is there any acts still to be added ?

mockerydawg

It makes me happy that I've sold my ticket. The line up is a joke!

comet

mockerydawg wrote:

It makes me happy that I've sold my ticket. The line up is a joke!

you've got to be joking!! you obviously don't like indie music. Its possibly the best lineup yet.

garthv

Mneh...its an ok Lineup, wouldn't mind going this year if it wasn't for all the filthy little scumbags that have taken over in the past few years

Repli

exactly, Dirty Pretty things were originally down for Sunday wonder why they moved.. Automatic are a good band to check out in the new band stage, they sing that song "Is it a monster Is it a monsterrr".. Surprised Sandi Thom is on the main stage.. Hope the editors don't clash with arctic monkeys! Dunno which I'd see!

mockerydawg wrote:

It makes me happy that I've sold my ticket. The line up is a joke!

Main Stage: (Sunday)

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Placebo, Bellx1, Mani Chao, Maximo Park

Yeah.. such a terrible terrible lineup.. God the cheek of them charging €75 for a day ticket to see all those bands.. :rolleyes:

Repli

s8n wrote:

Is there any acts still to be added ?

I know Director were added they aren't on that list tho

layke

I'm Looking forward to the Sunday line up myself on the main stage.

Question to those at Oxegen before, should I drive up or get a bus?
I believe it's a bit hard to make it back on public transport.

meditraitor

mockerydawg wrote:

It makes me happy that I've sold my ticket. The line up is a joke!

Your telling porkies, admit it, you didnt get tickets in the first place? thats why your upset:D

JC 2K3

Repli wrote:

Yeah.. such a terrible terrible lineup.. God the cheek of them charging €75 for a day ticket to see all those bands.. :rolleyes:

Well if you like your pop music then it's good value, but personally I think all those bands are complete shíte bar RHCP, but they're so old now and the new album wasn't good enough to make me wanna see them(Although I'd have loved to see em at Slane '03). Haven't heard much of Placebo but I'm thinking they aren't too bad either, wouldn't necessarily wanna see em though.

I'd like to see Sigur Rós, they're the only band that really stands out to me, but it just seems like they're really out of place at Oxegen..

comet

JC 2K3 wrote:

personally I think all those bands are complete shíte bar RHCP

Fair enough :rolleyes:

Repli

JC 2K3 wrote:

I think all those bands are complete shíte bar RHCP

mayordenis

yea i agree awful line-up,
its very one track,
when you go to festivals in europe you notice that you get a bit of everything at least when it was witnness it was a bit more fun.
Gomez are the best band on the bill.

Repli

when you go to festivals in europe you notice that you get a bit of everything

example please. Oxegen isn't trying to appeal to appeal to everyone, if it was they would have rap (eminem, 50 cent, etc), hiphop, kiddie pop (robbie williams, girls aloud, etc), classical, etc etc, it appeals to people who are into rock and indie music which is the majority of young Irish ppl 18-30 age which coincidentally is what age group the majority of the ppl who go to oxegen are.. If the lineup was so bad it wouldn't have sold out (to 150,000~ ppl) in a couple of hours..

mayordenis

oh god,
you want an example??
look at either rockamring or rochwerchter,
firstly there usually is some rap and hiphop at oxegen,
theres no rock at it this year its all indie and some dance,
you think they are addressing 18-30 year olds??
to 18-30 year olds hate rock,punk,hip-hop and metal?
why not add the beastie boys, plenty punk bands would attract a huge crowd as would many metal bands, instead of having 4 stages of drivel.
And the selling out, well its just become the one thing to do, some people will argue that its better than nothing(marginally) the real answer is there are far to many RHCP fans (because they are terrible) and they have some of the bands of the moment (arctic monkeys, hard-fi, maximo park etc.)

honru

It's very NME. Besides getting headliners for each stage they will snub old respected acts for the latest thing. Most of the bands playing have only been around since the beginning of the noughties.

I'm planning to go on Saturday for Animal Collective and a few others but sure, I'd probably skip the whole thing altogether. For €75 I could go to the four day Dour Festival in Belgium a week later.

Repli

Rock am ring is mostly heavy metal (look at the main stages) with some of the oxegen bands thrown in.. grand if you're into that kinda music but they already had 2 days of a Download festival last week anyway (g'n'r, metallica, etc) I'm actually glad the place won't be full of heavy metal heads because most of them are assholes or complete nerds at gigs.

theres no rock at it this year

*cough* RHCP + The Who

its all indie and some dance

James Brown ain't indie so I guess he must be dance?? Right..

RHCP fans (because they are terrible)

Just because you say they're terrible, doesn't mean they are. Not many bands who last 23 years (and still going), won countless grammys, sold double, triple platinum albums, got in Rolling Stone 500 greatest albums of all time, etc .. are crap.. yeah god they must really be terrible..

Also if you have ever listened to albums from these 'bands of the moment' you will notice a lot of them are very talented, check out 'the kooks', 'the editors'.. Just because they only have 1 album out doesn't mean they won't last. Imagine u had said that to the beatles, u2, rolling stones, oasis, etc after their first album.. Oasis were a 'band of the moment' as u described it in 1994 with the release of Definitely Maybe.. and oh look they are still around 12 years later and have released the UK's fastest selling album of all time..

honru

Repli wrote:

example please. Oxegen isn't trying to appeal to appeal to everyone, if it was they would have rap (eminem, 50 cent, etc), hiphop, kiddie pop (robbie williams, girls aloud, etc), classical, etc etc, it appeals to people who are into rock and indie music which is the majority of young Irish ppl 18-30 age which coincidentally is what age group the majority of the ppl who go to oxegen are.. If the lineup was so bad it wouldn't have sold out (to 150,000~ ppl) in a couple of hours..

Have a look at the Rosklide lineup in Denmark. Doesn't snub metal, punk, or even Bob Dylan.

With the odd exception here and there, Oxegen simply carves itself into this commercial niche.

Repli wrote:

Also if you have ever listened to albums from these 'bands of the moment' you will notice a lot of them are very talented, check out 'the kooks', 'the editors'.. Just because they only have 1 album out doesn't mean they won't last.

I'm not dissing new bands, just hoards of them are riding the NME wave who will quickly dump them once they release their second/third album. People lose interest once NME move on to the "next big thing".

Repli

Yes but we you are on an Irish website mate so the majority of ppl here live in Ireland.. Most of us (students) don't have the money to travel to Belgium, Germany, Denmark, etc etc and I don't even see what's so great about the festivals there. For people who are into arctic monkeys, franz ferdinand, RHCP, kaiser chiefs, republic of loose, magic numbers, etc, oxegen this year is gonna be brilliant. And that's a lot of ppl (look at the ticket sales). I don't go around Download threads complaining how much I hate metallica, korn, tool, etc I just don't go.

gary the great

Im supprised placebo are so low down the bill on Sunday, thought thye would of been after the kasier hiefs (who stilll likes them?).
Well il be going to see Placebo, manu chao, sigur ros and Timo Maas. DOnt look like they will clash so im happy.

honru

Repli wrote:

I don't go around Download threads complaining how much I hate metallica, korn, tool, etc I just don't go.

If you're satisfied with Oxegen, that's fine. It's just good to know that there are alternatives out there.

Personally I think Oxegen represents us because it's our largest music festival, so I will vent my disappointment in that regard. Hopefully Electric Picnic will overtake it in the years to come.

mockerydawg

To respond:
I bought my ticket based on last years line up, which was a fantastic mix of musical genres. This years line up seems to consist of one or two big bands (none of which I would pay to see) and the rest indie. Sure there's the odd act playing that I would like to see, but only 3 in total.
There is nothing heavy playing, its all nice respectable fashionable borderline bands. I have nothing against them, but to go filling up a whole weekend of what is supposed to be Irelands premiere outdoor music event - is just farce.
To me Electric Picnic is the new Oxegen.

mayordenis

Repli wrote:

Yes but we you are on an Irish website mate so the majority of ppl here live in Ireland.. Most of us (students) don't have the money to travel to Belgium, Germany, Denmark, etc etc and I don't even see what's so great about the festivals there. For people who are into arctic monkeys, franz ferdinand, RHCP, kaiser chiefs, republic of loose, magic numbers, etc, oxegen this year is gonna be brilliant. And that's a lot of ppl (look at the ticket sales). I don't go around Download threads complaining how much I hate metallica, korn, tool, etc I just don't go.

yes but if you lived in england you would have the choice to go to any amount of festivals,
Download is THE metal festival, its only metal and thats all its billed as,
oxegen is billed as big music festival and have until now catered for most tastes,
and don't dare tell me off for like many others expressing a huge disappoinment in what has turned into a second rate festival.

Repli

mayordenis wrote:

don't dare tell me off for like many others expressing a huge disappoinment in what has turned into a second rate festival.

Oh, I didn't know I wasn't allowed disagree with you, I'll have to make sure I never disagree with anyone here again. Especially when they say stupid things like "RHCP are crap". Also, only a couple of ppl I don't even know on an internet forum have 'expressed a huge disappointment' at a 'second rate festival', compared to well over 100,000 people who are actually going. Hard luck..

Nalced_irl

Calm down people, its just a music festival. I bought my ticket before i even saw who was playing as it is a great weekend no matter what, but i would like to see Primal Scream, Kaiser Chiefs, Damien Dempsey, Strokes could be good, Franz Ferdinand, Placebo could be ok also and a few others. There is quite a mix there if you ask me. Damo Dempsey (Irish), Strokes/K.C./F.F (Indie) Placebo (rock) and alot of dance acts and obviously James Brown (soul). I saw RHCP in Slane and dont think i would go to them this time. All their new stuff sounds a little too samey to me but their older funky stuff is excellent. They were very good tho at Slane. Anyway, if your not into the music, bring a case of beer and just enjoy the good weather (fingers crossed) and get drunk or else sell your ticket and stop complaining about it. Simple fact is that most of bands on the bill have sold a huge amount of albums and singles during the year and have done well, so the organisers obviously are appealing to somebodys taste...the majority of music fans i would guess.

JC 2K3

Repli wrote:

Oh, I didn't know I wasn't allowed disagree with you, I'll have to make sure I never disagree with anyone here again. Especially when they say stupid things like "RHCP are crap". Also, only a couple of ppl I don't even know on an internet forum have 'expressed a huge disappointment' at a 'second rate festival', compared to well over 100,000 people who are actually going. Hard luck..

Where have you been? Under a rock? People are generally disappointed at Oxegen this year. Most people are going because of the fun of camping out and getting wasted for 3 days straight....

Oxegen would have sold out no matter what the lineup was because of the name "Oxegen", sure when it sold out only a handful of bands were announced.

mayordenis

Repli wrote:

Oh, I didn't know I wasn't allowed disagree with you, I'll have to make sure I never disagree with anyone here again. Especially when they say stupid things like "RHCP are crap". Also, only a couple of ppl I don't even know on an internet forum have 'expressed a huge disappointment' at a 'second rate festival', compared to well over 100,000 people who are actually going. Hard luck..

you can disagree all you want saying stuff like "oh i dont say bad things about download" as if me saying bad things about oxegen is doing something wrong.
hard luck??
you're fighting a losing battle, its a festival for people who like what ever is in the charts more or less - there are exceptions of course but thats generally it, as others have said people are generally going for a laugh now - i'd love to see how many bought tickets before the line-up was even announced.
i'd say it would support my view - hard luck . . .

ghostdancer

Repli wrote:

I know Director were added they aren't on that list tho

and !!!, Coheed and C-something, The Raconteurs....

Repli wrote:

example please. Oxegen isn't trying to appeal to appeal to everyone, if it was they would have rap (eminem, 50 cent, etc), hiphop, kiddie pop (robbie williams, girls aloud, etc), classical, etc etc, it appeals to people who are into rock and indie music which is the majority of young Irish ppl 18-30 age which coincidentally is what age group the majority of the ppl who go to oxegen are.. If the lineup was so bad it wouldn't have sold out (to 150,000~ ppl) in a couple of hours..

a) it did have rap, hiphop, pop most years before.
b) it sold out before most of the lineup was announced
c) oxegen's capacity is around 50,000

you sound like a teenager who's just discovered oxegen cos most of their friends are going and OMGZ da chilli's nd arctic monkeys r playn n der de best bands evr!!!!




and to whoever said it's turned into a second rate festival, i agree compltely, compared to the days when it was Witnness and compared to Electric Picnic, the actual festival is a complete ****hole. a compelte ripoff of a weekend with ****e planning, ****e organisation, ****e treatment, and all surrounded by a bunch of ****wit 16 year olds acting the tw@t on their first pissup weekend away from their parents. i'm prob just gonna head home after the acts each day instead of having to put up with the bull**** of the campsite.
only for there's a few bands i'd love to see playing, i honestly can't be ****ed with the place as it's such a ****hole populated by ****. EP and a euro festival or 2 next summer for definite.

Mushy

It's very NME.

Hence the second stage bein the NME stage;). anyway, the lineup isnt great. mainly cos the bands i want to see, iv to put up with so much crap beforehand. id have to agree more with the anti-oxegen crowd here(still goin though). Im saving up to try for Bennicassim next year hopefully. Not gonna bother with an irish fest next year. too expensive/not worth it in comparison

Toast

Still not 100% sure Ill go but if I wasnt going to Roskilde the week before Id be quite excited with the lineup as it stands.

Dont get me wrong I think Oxegen is an overexpensive, horrible excuse of a festival.. but my love of music will justify living with the other crap in my mind (probably not everyones)... just make sure you get another festival in for the actual fun.

yeh its a lot less rocky then it was last year but last year was a bit of an exception. If you are counting on Oxegen to provide you with a rock/metal show then you are deluding yourself. However check out Wolfmother if you are stuck for a bit of head banging. They're a very Sabbath influenced band.

mayordenis

not counting on it for rock metal just though the could push the boundries in every direction a little,
the line-up is incredibly safe.
and thinking about it going to rock am ring which was 3 days would of cost not much more than oxegen and for the organisation alone it was worth 20 times the price.

Matthewthebig

Wacken pisses all over Oxegen.

80 quid for a 3 day festival with camping. Sure you pay for flights but overall it's cheaper as booze and food is a lot less.

I wouldn't be a huge fan of the bands playing. I like a few songs by a few of the bands. But it is a very indie/chart festival now. Apealling to the masses...

Toast

I get the feeling people have this misconception that Oxegen owes them a lineup that is tailored to them personally. MCD is under no obligation to do that. This is simply a case that whatever is popular will sell.

I 100% agree that if you are a fan of Rock and Metal that Oxegen is utter ****. I 100% agree there are better value and cheaper festivals throughout Europe and I 100% believe that people need to give other festivals a go before they decide Oxegen is the bees knees.

And having said that I think most metal fans would prefer to go Wacken rather than see MCD throw in 5 or 6 subrate metal bands into a tent 20 feet away from the dance tent. Theres little point in doing something badly just for diversity. Would you want the clientel from Oxegen at Wacken? I doubt theyd want to be there either.

Theres a million things wrong with Oxegen.. but the lineup it has for the sort of festival it is is perfect.

Basq

Looks like if i was going i'd be staying at the 'Pet Sounds' stage for a fair bit of it!

Tusky

JC 2K3 wrote:

personally I think all those bands are complete shíte bar RHCP,

hah.

cookie dough 61

I remember saying to a mate on the bus home from last years event that the line-up will NEVER be as strong again.... I honestly hope I am proved wrong, but Im not gonna be this year.

When I saw the initial line-up I had a feeling that the debate as to how good this year would end up being would divide 'the nation' the same way the Keano/McCarthy saga did.... and it seems it has

Personally, Id like to have seen a band with a bit of b*llocks to them.... a mean MF'er of a band.... jeez, even Velvet Revolver would have done..... although we have Wolfmother

Generally the line-up is kind of one-dimensional, but there are still a lot of bands I want to see (The Who topping my list ). My only 'fear' is that the few bands that I really want to see will clash...
Im going and after my fiasco of not getting to Robbie, Im actually looking forward to it.... no... it wont be a patch on last year, but... bleh....

Atomic Pineapple

the worst thing about oxegen lately has become the campsite, as said above its become populated with 16 yr old **** who cant hold there drink and end up destroying the experience for proper festival go-ers!

its like its completely lost its festival feel since it became oxegen, its more about making money these days than giving people a good time.

Mushy

the worst thing about oxegen lately has become the campsite, as said above its become populated with 16 yr old **** who cant hold there drink and end up destroying the experience for proper festival go-ers!

Sorry! Na, i wasnt drinkin last year as a 16 year old. Am this year though so dont know whats gonna happen. Drink slowly and eat plenty and should be ok.

JC 2K3

Tusky wrote:

hah.

Why do people laugh? I meant out of the main stage only...

weemcd

Nothing to excite me there apart from Jose Gonzales, Franz Ferdinand and at a stretch - feeder.

jemja

im going for my second time this year. i tink the line ups fab but im havin a bit off an 'NME moment' rite now not sure about the whole camping thing though....

was in topshop in dublin the other day and a group of girl skangers (all about 14/15) were talking about the weekend and how ''fookin amazin'' it was going to be. sounds like the campsite is gonna be messy...

Tha Gopher

comet wrote:

you've got to be joking!! you obviously don't like indie music. Its possibly the best lineup yet.

Absoloutely appaling line up. Fact is, the Chillis sold out Oxegen. Which is a shame because

a- The Chillis are utter sh1te. A 20 year career and only one brilliant song to show for it. As my mate said, if he wanted to see a group of recovering junkies playing sh1t music he would go to an Aslan gig down the local.

b- The fans. GOD THE FANS!!! Is there anyone more middle of the road and boring than a Chillis head.

Once it sold out, MCD didnt have to make any particular effort. Other years, they needed to sell it out. They needed the people who wanted to go for the likes of Wu Tang, Prodigy and Faithless. This year, they dont. There are a few bands and artists that, if grabbed, will sell out Oxegen in a day or less. U2, Oasis, Robbie Williams, Eminem and, unfortunately for all of us this year, the Chillis.The Chillis fans bought it out, therefore anything else will do to make the numbers up (seeing as any band wielding a guitar and singing 20 songs in a row about either losing in love or nothing in particular should suffice for them). Im suprised they even bothered getting any dance DJs in.

And what does disliking indie have to do with it? Its the Oxegen MUSIC Festival, not the Oxegen Indie Festival. Fair enouh, its always leaned a bit more towards the indie side, but in the past two festivals I went to they provided for those who are largely disinterested with it. Wu Tang Clan, Faithless, The Madchester Experience, The Chemical Brothers, NERD, Underworld, Felix Da Housecat, they all made the festival of 04 the best weekend of my life (the sets by the Wu Tang, Faithless and Felix being the best of the best). 2005- slightly less, however there was Snoop, Prodigy and Orbital (on a whole last year the dance wasnt great, they shouldve kept it in that warehouse like back in 04, the place was heaven).

2006- what do we have? The only brilliant act on it is Felix Da Housecat. Damien Marley is decent. Damien Dempsey is fairly listenable. The Kaiser Chiefs put on a good show as shown in 2005. But thats basically it. The only act this year that I would be arsed paying to see solo would be Felix, and hat is not worth 140 euro. Seriously considering selling my ticket if I can get more than 700 euro for it from some braindead chillis fan.

lordgoat

comet wrote:

you've got to be joking!! you obviously don't like indie music. Its possibly the best lineup yet.

You sir are a cabbage

comet

lordgoat wrote:

You sir are a cabbage

whatever
In previous years you had a few big names who all clashed, so in fact the real lineup, the bands you actually got to see, was pretty crap. This year its got strength in depth, rather than a few big names, thats what a makes for a good festival for me anyway.

Surrender

comet wrote:

whatever
In previous years you had a few big names who all clashed, so in fact the real lineup, the bands you actually got to see, was pretty crap. This year its got strength in depth, rather than a few big names, thats what a makes for a good festival for me anyway.

Laughable mate, I've seen the Chillis twice and both times they played the same (identical nearly) Californication/By the Way set list (identical) with Under the Bridge and Power of Equality thrown in to keep the old timers happy. Their 80's stuff wasn't touched: Uplift Mofo Party Plan, Freaky Styley, Mothers Milk etc.
This is a band who seem to be cashin in and these clowns are dumb enough to still buy into it. I turned my back on the chilis 2 years ago and am a happy camper since.

comet

Surrender wrote:

Laughable mate, I've seen the Chillis twice and both times they played the same (identical nearly)

Don't know what your're on about, i'm not a fan of the chillis, don't intend going to see them so i don't know why you are directing that at me. My point was to look at the overall lineup not the main stage headliners, both of whom i have no interest in seeing.

honru

Ahright. Think it's time to lay this to rest.

Some people like the lineup and some people don't. Get over it.