"Oxegen" Festival confirmed for 10/11 July, Bowie and The Darkness to headline

honru · 18-02-2004 06:22PM #1

David Bowie and The Darkness Headline Ireland's Only Multi Stage Music Festival Weekend
(Source: MCD.ie)
“..same dates, same venue, same ticket price, same campsite, same incredible atmosphere & non stop music fun, with just a fresh new name – OXEGEN,” Dave Fanning 2FM.

“A Rose by any other name... still the best music festival in Europe...in with the new, out with the old - OXEGEN the new name for Witnness”Tom Dunne Today FM

David Bowie and The Darkness are set to headline Ireland's only annual, multi-stage music festival, ‘OXEGEN’, which takes place at Punchestown Racecourse, Naas on Saturday 10th & Sunday 11 July 2004 - subject to licence.

Tickets for the festival will go on sale Friday 5th March 2004 priced as follows:

One Day – €59.50
Two Day - €110.00
Two Day including camping – €130.00
All above ticket prices are the same as last year and include booking fee.

Following his phenomenal sell-out performances at the Point Theatre last November, DAVID BOWIE is back to headline the Main Stage at ’OXEGEN’ in the manner in which only the original icon can!

A true legend in his own lifetime, Bowie is worshipped by fans and fellow stars alike - from Mick Jagger to Iggy Pop, Lou Reed to Brian Eno, he has left his own indelible mark on their own musical landscape.

With a career spanning four decades and a huge back catalogue of landmark hits that include ‘Space Oddity’, ‘Jean Genie’, ‘Changes’, ‘Heroes’, ‘Lets Dance’, ‘Rebel Rebel’, plus the on-stage persona to accompany them, Bowie at OXEGEN is set to go down in Irish music festival history.

THE DARKNESS will be bringing their spandex-clad rock ’n’ roll circus to the Punchestown for their very first Irish festival appearance.

The Darkness stole all the headlines at last night’s 2004 Brit Awards picking up a trio of Awards - ‘Best British Group’, ‘Best British Rock Act’, and the ‘Best Album’ Award for their hugely-acclaimed debut album, ‘Permission To Land’.

Their meteoric rise to superstardom has taken their debut album, 'Permission to Land' to Number One and now they’re storming the U.S. Billboards charts with over a-quarter-of-a- million sales to date.

Numerous other artists set to join the line-up will be announced over the forthcoming days...hours....so make sure to listen out for your favourite act!

JJ · 18-02-2004 06:58PM

I knew somebody would beat me to it on here.

JJ · 18-02-2004 07:08PM

But it's nice to have the title of this year's festival officially confirmed so we don't have to call it Witnness/Oxygen/Whatever.

comet · 18-02-2004 07:22PM

Witnness, Oxegen ...... someone in MCD needs a spellchecker

Hydromonkey · 18-02-2004 09:00PM

Muse and the chemical bros. are confirmed for T in the Park, Oxegen's (sp?) twin festival, so i'd say we'll see them here too

Dermo · 18-02-2004 09:06PM

Originally posted by f®eak s©enery
Ireland's Only Multi Stage Music Festival Weekend

don't sound good for the reading ireland thing!!

dregin · 19-02-2004 12:34AM

Who cares what it's called? The name won't make it any better?

Witnness sucked. Oxygen will suck.

Carling weekend it is.

drane2 · 19-02-2004 01:43AM

Best fesitval in Europe....... oh dear.

honru · 19-02-2004 03:34AM

Originally posted by dregin-x
Who cares what it's called? The name won't make it any better? Witnness sucked. Oxygen will suck. Carling weekend it is.

I take it you like punk and metal bands?

Best festival in Europe? How ingratiating...

James R · 19-02-2004 09:28AM

As far as I know the Reading Ireland festival isn't/wasn't planned to be multi-stage anyway!

Just one big stage or something! Besides they'll see that anyway because lets face it nothing has happened with Reading yet so at the min this is the only multi-stage concert. And also MCD won't be promoting Reading Ireland if it goes ahead, Aiken Promotions will be!

Dermo · 19-02-2004 10:39AM

Originally posted by James R
As far as I know the Reading Ireland festival isn't/wasn't planned to be multi-stage anyway!

Just one big stage or something! Besides they'll see that anyway because lets face it nothing has happened with Reading yet so at the min this is the only multi-stage concert. And also MCD won't be promoting Reading Ireland if it goes ahead, Aiken Promotions will be!

the plans for Reading Ireland is to have a full 2 day multi stage festival weekend for this year(they never applied for 3 day afaik) and have a seperate one day concert involving some of the bands from the third day at the carling weekend.
now that MCD own a significant portion of mean fiddler(the crowd that own and promote carling festival) it will probably be under the mcd banner unless aiken already had a deal drawn up

Stoodgy · 19-02-2004 01:19PM

The Cure would be great to see at Oxegen.

MrJoeSoap · 19-02-2004 04:59PM

Its going to take a bit of getting used to calling it OXEGEN. Still, they seem to manage to pull the big names to headline. Hopefully now they can get Muse and everybody (well, just me) will be happy.

comet · 19-02-2004 05:20PM

www.oxegen.com is already gone anyway, I thought that might have been the reason for the spelling, i suppose they'll go for .ie

RichyX · 19-02-2004 08:12PM

Doesn't sound great so far.
Bowie is grand but there's no chance i'm gonna watch those spandex clad muppets.
Just gotta hope the rest are better, I didn't go last year cus I thought the overall line-up was pretty weak.

healy001 · 20-02-2004 03:25PM

according to hot press, N.E.R.D. have also been confirmed

although i dont like them they are a pretty big name. looks like oxegen will have a big name lineup this year as opposed to all that crap last year

Ro: maaan! · 20-02-2004 09:20PM

Christ! N.E.R.D. and The Chemical Brothers. Chilli Peppers are starting to sound appealing...

Qs · 20-02-2004 09:44PM

Who the hell are OXEGEN? and why have guinness dropped out. Oxegen.ie oxegenfestival.ie/.com are all still available to buy. This shower dont seem to organised although the line ups not looking too bad considering theres only 4 bands so far. Last year was great hoping oxegen can keep the witnness spirit going. Still would like to see an oicial site up and running.

Mr. Fancypants · 21-02-2004 11:53PM

Outkast will be playing too aparantly.

Evil_Bilbo · 23-02-2004 04:52PM

Pixies are playing @ T in the park in scotland. So is bowie. So are the darkness.

Maybe the pixies might grace us with thier presence twice in the one summer?

smelly girl · 23-02-2004 08:30PM

Originally posted by Qs
Who the hell are OXEGEN? and why have guinness dropped out. Oxegen.ie oxegenfestival.ie/.com are all still available to buy. This shower dont seem to organised although the line ups not looking too bad considering theres only 4 bands so far. Last year was great hoping oxegen can keep the witnness spirit going. Still would like to see an oicial site up and running.

me thinks its o2. somethin to do with lovely alco-ma-hol sponserin while the EU thingy is goin on.

Mr. Fancypants · 23-02-2004 08:52PM

I Belive it is Heineken who are sponsering it. Dunno how the thought of Oxygen...does seem very 02ish.

RichyX · 23-02-2004 09:51PM

It's definitly Heineken since they announced in the newspapers that they were taking over as sponsors. O2 already have their pop party in the park thing so doubt they'd be involved in another event like that.

conZ · 24-02-2004 12:08AM

The Pixies wont be confirmed until a couple of weeks before Oxegen.

MCD or whoever are trying to get better numbers for the Chili Peppers gig as they have played here three years running.

They wont be announced until close to the Festival as a lot of people bought Chili Peppers tickets just to see The Pixies, and will most likely sell up or just not go.

comet · 24-02-2004 11:10AM

Originally posted by XCRichard
It's definitly Heineken since they announced in the newspapers that they were taking over as sponsors. O2 already have their pop party in the park thing so doubt they'd be involved in another event like that.

If so, Hydrogen would have been a much more fitting name for the festival!!

With regard to the Pixies, I seem to remember Promoters last summer announcing David Gray playing Killarney as his only appearance live in Ireland that year yet once enough tickets had sold sure enough he was headlining witnness, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Pixies do end up playing Oxegen.

comet · 24-02-2004 07:39PM

bit of a website up now as well http://www.oxegen.ie

...nothing on it yet really.....

honru · 25-02-2004 06:55PM

The Strokes have been added to the lineup, day to be confirmed. Looking very good so far.

comet · 25-02-2004 07:23PM

Originally posted by f®eak s©enery
The Strokes have been added to the lineup, day to be confirmed. Looking very good so far.

Cool!!

wiped · 25-02-2004 07:35PM

Super cool ... c'mon , all i need now is Doves to be added

RichyX · 25-02-2004 11:02PM

Originally posted by f®eak s©enery
The Strokes have been added to the lineup, day to be confirmed. Looking very good so far.

Looking less likely I'll be going by the day...

conZ · 26-02-2004 12:30AM

****in Quality! The Strokes! Delighted

Looks like the guy that posted the list on the 'ol Witnness thread was fairly accurate (after freaky scenery saying he was only pulling them out of his arse

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"Oxegen" Festival confirmed for 10/11 July, Bowie and The Darkness to headline

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