Oxegen 2014

[Mokes]

What happened to it?! Is it dead? I can't really find any news about it, it just seems to have vanished quietly.

2010 & 2011 (with the exception of BEP as a main stage headline in 2011) were great line ups! They took a year off in 2012 and came back with the worst line-up of all time, but was that enough to kill the festival? It did pull quite a savage crowd but surely it could still work if they went back to having proper bands play instead of all the all out electro crap they went with in 2013.

It's a shame because I really enjoyed 2010.

Edited February 26, 2014 by Mokes

[pothead pixie]

I think you mean Oxegen 2013. Its basically the Pheonix Park gigs in Dublin that occur around the July period normally alloted to Oxegen, MCD who ran Oxegen seem to make better money it appears by having 3 or 4 standalone gigs pulling in some of the T in the Park acts there. There was a smaller Oxegen last year which focused more on dance and hip hop acts, but they made a loss of about 10,000 tickets so probably just not viable. MCD seem to be more about pushing Longtitude, a 3 single days non camping festival at Marley Park loosely based on some of the line up from the Latitude festival in England.

Here is the boards.ie thread for Pheonix Park, there doesn't seem to be any announcements made as yet. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057086670

Edited February 26, 2014 by pothead pixie

[Mokes]

It's a shame because all the Irish people I met there in 2010 loved it and went every year, they were really proud of it. Apart from the weather it was a great festival and set up. I just got a visa to go work over in Ireland for 12 months and I was hoping to Volunteer for it.

[Paul ™]

It will be back in the dance form

And the gigs are in Marlay park before longitude too.

Edited February 26, 2014 by Paul ™

[MattGregson]

Didn't mean to post here, fuck the Oxegen 2014.

Edited February 26, 2014 by MattGregson

[Mokes]

Didn't mean to post here, fuck the Oxegen 2014.

[Mushy25]

Last years catastrophic sales figures wouldn't entice them to run it again in a rush, even if they are solely aiming for EDM material. Marlay Park has taken over this year, more money in one-day gigs!

[Paul ™]

It wasn't catastrophic, yes it didn't make money but its on this year and back at puncheston.

[Mokes]

It wasn't catastrophic, yes it didn't make money but its on this year and back at puncheston.

[Mushy25]

It wasn't catastrophic, yes it didn't make money but its on this year and back at puncheston.

[Mokes]

Last years catastrophic sales figures wouldn't entice them to run it again in a rush, even if they are solely aiming for EDM material. Marlay Park has taken over this year, more money in one-day gigs!

Edited February 26, 2014 by Mokes

[Gucci Piggy]

They did it to themselves though, When I went the line up was Eminem, Jay Z, Arcade Fire, Muse, Kasabain, Faithless, Florence, Mumford, Calvin, Dizzee, Biffy Clyro, the Black Eyed Peas and 100 other great artists. 2011 was really solid too, by that point they had won a couple of awards of best festival in Europe and it was great. Then they came back with a line up who's headliners were like 30 bands down the list from a few years before hand and thought it would do well.... Idiots

[Mokes]

I think you're confused.

[Gucci Piggy]

Confused about what? won Best European Festival at the UK Festival Awards in both 2008 and 2009. Had a great line up previously mentioned in 2010 and a solid one in 2011 too. Then totally tanked in 1012 with EDM shit..

[the wonderwhy]

I reckon you might be confused will

[Paul ™]

Is it? When? Where is there any info at all about it?

[Gucci Piggy]

I reckon you might be confused will

[gerardfenton18]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oxegen-2014/1429937377251116

have a read at this as.... i suspect its fake though,

it doesn't say anything on the website, but on this facebook page it says that's because of a legal issue or something

[gerardfenton18]

What happened to it?! Is it dead? I can't really find any news about it, it just seems to have vanished quietly.

2010 & 2011 (with the exception of BEP as a main stage headline in 2011) were great line ups! They took a year off in 2012 and came back with the worst line-up of all time, but was that enough to kill the festival? It did pull quite a savage crowd but surely it could still work if they went back to having proper bands play instead of all the all out electro crap they went with in 2013.

It's a shame because I really enjoyed 2010.

[Mokes]

That line up actually looks amazing. I'm almost 100% sure it's fake but Supergrass, Phoenix, Miles Kane, The Vaccines, Eels, Coronas, Paolo Nutini, The Strokes, Linkin Park, The Dandy Warholes and Blink sounds amazing. I hope it goes ahead!

[gerardfenton18]

I have been having a look at tour dates for the artists and trying to find more info to no avail...

as much as it would be good i don't think it is.

One can dream eh?

[Paul ™]

Am pretty sure it's fake, the dates I have for Oxegen is only the Saturday/Sunday not the Friday.

[gerardfenton18]

http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/mcd-records-10-rise-in-ticket-sales-256397.html

if you read through this it is saying oxegen probably will go ahead but may change weekends

also that the DJ's are king.

Make of it what you want

[Paul ™]

Yeah I've read that, until it's confirmed everything is speculation but we have it on our list of events for 2nd/3rd August at Punchestown but obviously that can change.

[Mokes]

It has to be total BS, None of the artists have it in their tour calendars on their individual websites. MCD have nothing about it on their calender either. They have all the Marlay Park things and everything else they're promoting but nothing about their flagship festival?! The Oxegen website is completely unchanged from the 2013 festival. If they were going to launch a new one they would have at least deleted the old one.

The facebook page is elaborate and convincing, but surely it is a hoax.