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Oxegen 2012 & Discussion

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    #572
    O'Doodle
    Registered Users Posts: 233 ✭✭O'Doodle


    Don't know about anyone else but I'm strangely going to miss Oxegen this year. Despite all Oxegens problems and everything it was always exciting going and just the buzz of it.


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    #573
    callaway92
    Registered Users Posts: 14,726 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    O'Doodle wrote: »
    Don't know about anyone else but I'm strangely going to miss Oxegen this year. Despite all Oxegens problems and everything it was always exciting going and just the buzz of it.

    ha same. seeing your bump to the thread made my heart drop a little knowing it isn't on this year :(


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    #574
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    Mr.S wrote: »
    You are assuming scum = poor and the rich are all well behaved :rolleyes:

    --

    Oxegen (if MCD choose to continue it) needs to scale down a bit, make it 2.5 days with no arriving a day or 2 early.

    Get rid of the crap funfair stuff.

    Reduce the number of stages, to many IMO.

    Reduce campsite/area size with properly laid out campsites, none of this free for all camp wherever you want when you arrive thing.

    Organize a good ticket payment plan, the current one is still a bit high for students.

    Get the lineup right. Realize that the oxegen crowd want chart, whats hot on the radio etc. Sunday last year proved that.

    Would be a shame to see Oxegen go, Ireland needs a mainstream festival, EP isn't an alternative.

    i had been reduced in size last year, quite a bit. how do you expect to manage the campsites better? every festival is pretty much free for all, in fact oxegen is stricter than most with the blue red thing. the fun fair? funfairs at every other major festival, but pointless at oxegen? too many stages? so a reduced line up? youd struggle to support the size of the crowd with less stages.

    as for your chart comment... i think the reason it declined and failed was extactly that... it catered to the chart and realised, flavour of the weeking isnt worth the mud bath


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    #575
    O'Doodle
    Registered Users Posts: 233 ✭✭O'Doodle


    Oxegen 2013 needs to have one main stage and a big top tent. Get rid of everything else as it's just pointless.

    I remember last year the Vacines were playing to about 30 people in a tent and I didn't even realise Metronomy were playing because they clashed with somebody else I wanted to see. And Primal Screen and coldplay clashed too.


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    #576
    sissorhands
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭sissorhands


    O'Doodle wrote: »
    Oxegen 2013 needs to have one main stage and a big top tent. Get rid of everything else as it's just pointless.

    I remember last year the Vacines were playing to about 30 people in a tent and I didn't even realise Metronomy were playing because they clashed with somebody else I wanted to see. And Primal Screen and coldplay clashed too.

    You really must not be able to count because there were at least 200 in the tent. And you can't blame it on the clashings because they only clashed with Beady Eye.

    It's a festival, get over it.


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    #577
    O'Doodle
    Registered Users Posts: 233 ✭✭O'Doodle


    sissorhands wrote: »
    You really must not be able to count because there were at least 200 in the tent. And you can't blame it on the clashings because they only clashed with Beady Eye.

    It's a festival, get over it.

    It felt like 30 people. If that had been anywhere else they would have got 3-4 thousand easy.


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    #578
    sissorhands
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭sissorhands


    O'Doodle wrote: »
    It felt like 30 people. If that had been anywhere else they would have got 3-4 thousand easy.

    Yeah now they would have. Back then they weren't exactly massive in Irish mainstream circles. A lot can change it a matter of months.

    At Oxegen they had a small crowd. If they played their Electric Picnic gig, they would have had a bigger audience.

    Like Spector (aka. The Vaccines pt. II) aren't massive here now but they will be probably by the end of the summer.


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    #579
    Penfailed
    Registered Users Posts: 7,595 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    O'Doodle wrote: »
    I remember last year the Vacines were playing to about 30 people in a tent

    I read this and was about to reply...until I read this \/ \/ \/
    sissorhands wrote: »
    You really must not be able to count because there were at least 200 in the tent. And you can't blame it on the clashings because they only clashed with Beady Eye.

    It's a festival, get over it.
    O'Doodle wrote: »
    It felt like 30 people. If that had been anywhere else they would have got 3-4 thousand easy.

    I read this and was about to reply...until I read this \/ \/ \/
    sissorhands wrote: »
    Yeah now they would have. Back then they weren't exactly massive in Irish mainstream circles. A lot can change it a matter of months.

    Regarding the clashes between bands, it's been like that at every festival I've ever been to. That's never going to change.

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Ride, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Public Service Broadcasting, Therapy?, IDLES(x2)



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    #580
    O'Doodle
    Registered Users Posts: 233 ✭✭O'Doodle


    A year ago today :(


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    #581
    Furious-Red
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,953 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    And typical Oxegen weather happening around Kildare today . RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN


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    #582
    O'Doodle
    Registered Users Posts: 233 ✭✭O'Doodle


    Watching T in the Park live on the Beeb (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/events/ehxzp6) and wondering why Scotland can support a festival of this size but not Ireland. Bad times :( It's just not right Oxegen isn't here, Ireland needs a mainstream festival.

    @Furious-Red sounds like last year too.


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    #583
    eldest200
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭eldest200


    Will Oxygen be back @ Punchestown for 2013? Or will it be back @ Phoenix Park, it might be better if it is @ Phoenix Park (I hope they organise better with the security this time) then I wouldn't have to worry about paying €300.00 Euro. PS Can anyone remember the for stone roses or Snow Patrol Tickets last year?


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    #584
    Furious-Red
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,953 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    eldest200 wrote: »
    Will Oxygen be back @ Punchestown for 2013? Or will it be back @ Phoenix Park, it might be better if it is @ Phoenix Park (I hope they organise better with the security this time) then I wouldn't have to worry about paying €300.00 Euro. PS Can anyone remember the for stone roses or Snow Patrol Tickets last year?

    :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:


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    #585
    eldest200
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭eldest200


    Furious-Red wrote: »
    :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

    Sorry I just want to known if Oxygen will be @ Phoenix Park instead


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    #586
    Furious-Red
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,953 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    eldest200 wrote: »
    Sorry I just want to known if Oxygen will be @ Phoenix Park instead

    Id say of its gonna be back it will be back at Punchestown


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    #587
    Furious-Red
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,953 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Nothing wrong with the location, if it does come back i'd say it'l stay at Punchestown.

    A festival in Phoenix Park would be chaotic to organise.

    I can see if MCD want to do big outdoor shows they will do Marlay and go for the bigger end of the Park for about 30,000 capacity instead of the ones they used this year


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    #588
    eldest200
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭eldest200


    I was just wondering, I hope the ticket prices will be less expensive than 2011


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    #589
    Jeden
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭Jeden


    What do you think a fair price would be for a ticket to Oxegen in 2013? Assuming its back to 2 days, which I'd say it would be and that they get a similar standard to the headliners it's had before?

    Not sure how Electric Picnic did in the end, they got a belting day for it which would have helped. Did anyone go and was it as busy as it usually is?

    I think with cheaper air travel and the convenience of booking stuff accommodation and tickets online, the Irish festival organisers will have to try and offer value to compete with some of the similar European alternatives. Many of the same acts tour around the festivals together, so you can quite easily see if you're being ripped off in Ireland.

    Personally I hope Oxegen does make a return in some guise or another next year.


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