Oxegen 2013

Kerplunk124

fewtinsoffroth wrote: »

Oh I'm not doubting the festival is happening. Depends what you consider it is that 'rockers' listen to.

You know what i mean

Joe95

Oxegen 2013
‎***BREAKING NEWS***

MCD chief Denis Desmond revealed the news that Oxegen will return to the Irish festival line-up this summer, after a one-year hiatus.

The festival is taking place in its usual home of Punchestown Racecourse in Kildare, however it will be a two-day affair instead of three days, and is taking place on August 3 and 4 instead of the earlier July date of previous years.

The new date means that Oxegen will clash with other smaller festivals Castlepalooza and Indiependence.

Oxegen last took place in 2011, when a host of A-list acts including the Foo Fighters, Beyonce, Coldplay and The Black Eyed Peas all took to the stage.

The line-up for Oxegen 2013 is expected to be revealed in late February, with Elton John and Eminem among the acts rumoured to be featuring on the bill.

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Joe95 wrote: »

Oxegen 2013
The new date means that Oxegen will clash with other smaller festivals Castlepalooza and Indiependence.

Not great for the promoters pockets but good news for the crowds at the smaller festivals in fairness.

Joe95 wrote: »

Oxegen 2013
The line-up for Oxegen 2013 is expected to be revealed in late February, with Elton John and Eminem among the acts rumoured to be featuring on the bill.

Where do they get this **** from? Eminem is going to do both Slane and Oxegen this summer.. really?

Toast

A dance festival on the August bank holiday? Didn't MCD try this before in 2006 with Hi-Fi?

ghostdancer

Toast wrote: »

A dance festival on the August bank holiday? Didn't MCD try this before in 2006 with Hi-Fi?

i doubt Oxegen will be much like Hi-Fi, or a "dance" festival as such. by "dance" i'm guessing some chart-dance acts (Guetta, Deadmau5, similar ****e), as well as pop acts and guitar-pop type bands like Royseven etc.

can't imagine many techno, dubstep or DnB being there :pac:

Furious-Red

If its gonna be a dance festival i shall def be still going to INDIE again

Toast

ghostdancer wrote: »

can't imagine many techno, dubstep or DnB being there :pac:

Oxegen is infamous for getting unsuitable acts for their one Irish appearance that year. They had Aphex Twin doing an hour before. I'd put money on at least one "Why is X playing? I love X hate everything else." posting here whenever the lineup is announced.

Niamh_101

Somebody told me, Beyonce, Rihanna, Mumford and Sons and The Killers. I know Rihanna will be doing AVIVA Stadium but MCD probably want her for Oxegen too? Only a rumour though.

Bowlardo

If daft punk end up playing ****ty oxegen i'll be livid

bennyl10

Niamh_101 wrote: »

Somebody told me, Beyonce, Rihanna, Mumford and Sons and The Killers. I know Rihanna will be doing AVIVA Stadium but MCD probably want her for Oxegen too? Only a rumour though.

'dance hiphop festival'... havent a hope of any of them! maybe for the other supposed festival.

ghostdancer

Toast wrote: »

Oxegen is infamous for getting unsuitable acts for their one Irish appearance that year. They had Aphex Twin doing an hour before. I'd put money on at least one "Why is X playing? I love X hate everything else." posting here whenever the lineup is announced.

ah yeah, i'm sure there'll be a couple of "actually i'd love to see them" acts, but overall i don't think it will be a "dance" festival per se, in the same way something like Life or Sonar is, or even Hi-Fi was.
i'd guess it will be a few chart "superstar" DJs, and a few commercially succesful dance acts, and plenty of general pop/chart RnB type acts in there.
i can't imagine a few tents with half the Subject/POGO/Lunar Disko/etc rosters on there or anything!

Joeys94

Bowlardo wrote: »

If daft punk end up playing ****ty oxegen i'll be livid

Pretty sure the Daft Punk comeback hopes were shattered a month or two ago?
If your into Daft Punk you should check out Creamfields...

bennyl10

Joeys94 wrote: »

Pretty sure the Daft Punk comeback hopes were shattered a month or two ago?
If your into Daft Punk you should check out Creamfields...

They've a new album in May so never know

thesultan

Thought Oxegen would keep away from this hip hop, pop dance headliners. Terrible poor if you ask me. Slane is as bad

bren2001

thesultan wrote: »

Thought Oxegen would keep away from this hip hop, pop dance headliners. Terrible poor if you ask me. Slane is as bad

Why would they? There is a big market for it. No reason they can't run a dance/hip hop festival (one I will NOT attend) and an Indie/Rock festival over the summer. If they are both small enough 50k (?) they should sell well enough.

nocoverart

Some of these posts are confusing me, are they planning a Dance Festival as well as the two day Oxegen event?

ghostdancer

nocoverart wrote: »

Some of these posts are confusing me, are they planning a Dance Festival as well as the two day Oxegen event?

they're planning a 2-day Oxegen festival, which according to several music journalists, will be more of a dance/pop lineup than before.

they're also seemingly planning a new "boutique" festival called Longitude which will be in July, and twinned with Latitude in the UK which will be the same weekend.
last year's Latitude lineup: http://forums.latitudefestival.co.uk/m132989.aspx

SteelyDanJalapeno

Bowlardo wrote: »

If daft punk end up playing ****ty oxegen i'll be livid

bennyl10 wrote: »

They've a new album in May so never know

Daft punk aren't touring this year.

melekalikimaka

fewtinsoffroth wrote: »

Oh I'm not doubting the festival is happening. Depends what you consider it is that 'rockers' listen to.

hopefully it will mirror Latitude, great line up and a line up that would really keep the trouble out i imagine too, Latitude is possibly the most chilled festival on the planet

Lollipop95

My Dream Line Up:

Swedish House Mafia(know they've broken up but they could reform just for this!)
David Guetta
Calvin Harris
Rihanna
Beyonce
The Killers
Coldplay
Rita Ora

callmepetardu

I think that Elton John and Eminem should just do a set together, that'd be interesting...

Joeys94

I think the idea of having more than one smaller (50k+) festival has its up's and downs for both the organiser and those attending..

Easy Rod

callmepetardu wrote: »

I think that Elton John and Eminem should just do a set together, that'd be interesting...

I'm pretty sure they have before?

Problem123456

Possible lineup?
David Guetta
Skrillex
Calvin Harris
Snoop dog
If promoters are reading this please get these:
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
Afrojack

Ghostbusthat

Really hope Green Day aren't playing this.

nocoverart

Problem123456 wrote: »

Possible lineup?
David Guetta
Skrillex
Calvin Harris
Snoop dog
If promoters are reading this please get these:
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
Afrojack

I'm feeling nauseous just reading that, HORRIBLE!

Problem123456

nocoverart wrote: »

I'm feeling nauseous just reading that, HORRIBLE!

Yeah I did not say I would like to see that lol
but they are the ''superstar djs''

MattHelders

Nicky Romero, Snoop and Dre.

That'd get me excited

Jacob T

MattHelders wrote: »

Nicky Romero, Snoop and Dre.

That'd get me excited

I sincerely hope not! Swedish house mafia in the phoenix park round 2! Never gonna happen but I think they should have separate dance festival (e.g creamfields) , one for the indie rockers, and another with hip-hop/pop (rihanna, lady gaga, snoop, etc)

Synode

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Daft punk aren't touring this year.

Source?