I got back from Oxegen today, it was my first year and it was pretty awesome. Blur were definately the highlight for me, they were amazing. Eagles of Death Metal were really good as well.
Oxegen 09
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It's so expensive, I went back when I was 16 and tickets were 80 euro or something, now they're 220.
I'm going to Sziget in Hungary instead, 180 quid for 7 days and nights, and it's far bigger and better, and you won't need wellies!
I'm going to Sziget in Hungary instead, 180 quid for 7 days and nights, and it's far bigger and better, and you won't need wellies!
Theres another 7 night festival, i believe its in spain, meant to be amazing. Foreign festivals are they way to go. We honestly cant organise anything properly in Ireland. Although I must say the new O2 impressed me last xmas.
Last year my mate decided to sleep in his car at Oxegen. He woke in the middle of the night to find someone pissing through the half-open window onto him. He didn't go this year.
Oxegen.
Oxegen.
Just heard a lad died down there, drugs related. Story held back as they dont want a mass outcry as alot of punters are still on their way home.
Any e-links to that news Decotron?
No its not being released to the media just yet apprently. No mention of it anywhere as yet.
I went to my first festival in 1991. I'm done a few years now. WP go to Glastonbury next year pal, it's fecking amazing.
I did a few 'folk' type festivals in Spain, both as a punter and with work, highly recommended.
I did a few 'folk' type festivals in Spain, both as a punter and with work, highly recommended.
Very sleepy...no rest last night, had the shakes something terrible.
My next festival is Shakefest in Tullamore in Sept... I love the small independent festivals....
I will be at Moondance in Galway for a bit with the kids ... I'm one of them cnuts now
Bring em down to Tullamore moses...
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=95187892643&ref=mf
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=95187892643&ref=mf
don't have the bacefook popper, any other links handy?
Two day family friendly festival, music & lots of other stuff going on, run by these guys moses,
http://www.myspace.com/peacezoneireland
dont think they've all the details on their myspace site yet...
(get on Facebook ffs!)
http://www.myspace.com/peacezoneireland
dont think they've all the details on their myspace site yet...
(get on Facebook ffs!)
they look like really good folk ... what weekend is the festival? the 3rd sunday i'll be in Croker watchin dublin winning the all ireland, and I'm off deep sea fishing one of the weekends either side of that, but date not settled yet ...
I'm too old for facebook and have too many ex girlfriends ...
I'm too old for facebook and have too many ex girlfriends ...
19th & 20th of Sept. A mate of mine played their last one and said it was an excellent weekend. We're getting a gang to head up to this one for a session.
All Ireland weekend, hopefully I'll be busy!
Cool, there'll be no boggers there 
even better!
even better!Cool, there'll be no boggers there
aye, mammy will be letting them all have the ham and overcooked cabbage in front of the tele that day ... nobody's gonna miss that!
I don't know what Oxegen is, but I can try to summarize my own festival-summer. In Norway.
I worked at Hove festival, which is owned by Festival Republic from England incidentally, and at the Quart festival, which isn't.
Hove was very well organized, almost no lines, beautiful weather, and everything from camping to concerts are in one easily navigated area. 7-8000 campers approximately and a good few locals who travel in to see the concerts.
Program
Concerts:
Franz Ferdinand - cool
Fat Joe - shit. play the songs, not just 20 second snippets of them.
Eagles of Death Metal - very good. I'd never heard of them before, definately checking them out
Fleet Foxes - great stuff, would like to see them again when I'm less drunk
The Killers - okay, quite drunk by now
Lars Vaular - norwegian rap, chill songs and okay beats
Necro - awesome. hard death rap, with moshpit action. shit sound though
All That Remains - missed it. feck.
Slipknot - cool concert, sound a bit lacking. huge fecking drums.
Q-Tip - great! rocked the place
Disturbed - cool enough, I was on duty, so no alcohol and I had to stand way in the back in order to hear the radio
Faith No More - missed it! on duty, got called away to do something anyone with two working limbs could have done. useless cnuts.
Prodigy - fecking awesome. packed to the rafters, great show and a great finish to the festival!
So, Quart. Chaotic organisation, but again great weather and quite a good line-up! Camp on the other side of the fecking city sucks, especially when the free bus-service went from shit to okay depending on your horoscope. Also, I discovered I had been bitten by a tick at Hove, so I had to go on a penicillin cure. Bars were badly run, I had to wait 45 minutes to get a beer at Slash & Friends.
Program (scroll down the page)
Slash & friends - great show! Slash, Ronnie Wood, Fergie (suprisingly good) and Ozzy Osbourne, with "house band" consisting of Frankie Perez (great voice!), Jason Bonham, Chris Cheney and John 5. lovely start to the festival!
Volbeat - "country metal" band from Denmark, inspired by Johnny Cash, Metallica ++. great show, catchy songs and cool, powerful vocals.
Placebo - very good
Marylin Manson - thought it was shit, personally. other opinions I've heard have gone from "fecking awesome" to "horrible", so hard to tell really.
Atmosphere - great show, charismatic rapper and lovely lyrics. a bit short concert though, and he didn't play my favorite song. redeemed himself by coming out and talking to people and having a beer with us in the sun. cool guy!
Immortal Technique - great rapper, cool songs, but as always with him a lot of political stuff in between the tunes. good, nevertheless.
Ludacris - good show, don't really like his music that much, but he definately knew how to fire up the crowd!
Black Eyed Peas - very good concert, Fergie wore an outfit that maybe could have covered up one of my legs, if stretched to the max.
Chris Cornell - seen him before, so I remained in the party tent in order to get sufficiently drunk for Korn. good concert, I heard.
KoRn - awesome! stood all the way in the front, experience a bit marred by the fact that the girl I was there with passed out about 5 songs from the end so I had to carry her to the medic tent and missed the finale.
La Coka Nostra - House of Pain reunion. a few Nonphixion hits, lovely stuff.
RZA and Stone Mecca - Wu Tang Clan ain't nuthin to feck with. Also, it was RZA's birthday and he celebrated by blazing up and drinking vodka on stage. RZA and the band worked very well together, and people were fired up no end before Method Man and Redman
Method Man and Redman - Wherever and whenever you see these two play, they're gonna rock the place. excellent show, lots of old hits, even some Wu Tang stuff. Seemless coordination between them, stage dives and great at firing the crowd up. Also blazed on stage, big shocker. so did everyone else in the crowd, judging by the smell around me.
Young Jeezy - good show, had something to live up to after the Method Man/Redman gig. don't like his music all that well personally, but everyone around me seemed to. combination of penicillin, beer and no food came back to bite me in the arse, so I had to go lie down at the Beach stage.
Afterparty: B.O.B., RZA, Method Man, Redman, Young Jeezy - Awesome way to end the festival, shame I was lying down in the fringe of the stage area waiting for the fecking doctor. Who never showed up.
Quart also had a great Club scene called Salamander, with a shitload of DJs playing and people with huge pupils hopping around. Loads of people loved that stuff, but it really isn't my thing. The camping on Quart was a bit shit though, only 2-300 campers at the most (rough, drunken estimate there). Quart is held in a city, as opposed to Hove which takes place on an island. Both locations have some beautiful scenery though, and are excellent places to spend some of your summer.
All in all, a great summer this has been! My body is worn down from all the drinking, medication, sun and people, but I can tell you it was totally worth it. Sorry for the essay, I was going to make a new thread, but then I saw this one and I thought, what the hell, I'll write it in here.
I worked at Hove festival, which is owned by Festival Republic from England incidentally, and at the Quart festival, which isn't.
Hove was very well organized, almost no lines, beautiful weather, and everything from camping to concerts are in one easily navigated area. 7-8000 campers approximately and a good few locals who travel in to see the concerts.
Program
Concerts:
Franz Ferdinand - cool
Fat Joe - shit. play the songs, not just 20 second snippets of them.
Eagles of Death Metal - very good. I'd never heard of them before, definately checking them out
Fleet Foxes - great stuff, would like to see them again when I'm less drunk
The Killers - okay, quite drunk by now
Lars Vaular - norwegian rap, chill songs and okay beats
Necro - awesome. hard death rap, with moshpit action. shit sound though
All That Remains - missed it. feck.
Slipknot - cool concert, sound a bit lacking. huge fecking drums.
Q-Tip - great! rocked the place
Disturbed - cool enough, I was on duty, so no alcohol and I had to stand way in the back in order to hear the radio
Faith No More - missed it! on duty, got called away to do something anyone with two working limbs could have done. useless cnuts.
Prodigy - fecking awesome. packed to the rafters, great show and a great finish to the festival!
So, Quart. Chaotic organisation, but again great weather and quite a good line-up! Camp on the other side of the fecking city sucks, especially when the free bus-service went from shit to okay depending on your horoscope. Also, I discovered I had been bitten by a tick at Hove, so I had to go on a penicillin cure. Bars were badly run, I had to wait 45 minutes to get a beer at Slash & Friends.
Program (scroll down the page)
Slash & friends - great show! Slash, Ronnie Wood, Fergie (suprisingly good) and Ozzy Osbourne, with "house band" consisting of Frankie Perez (great voice!), Jason Bonham, Chris Cheney and John 5. lovely start to the festival!
Volbeat - "country metal" band from Denmark, inspired by Johnny Cash, Metallica ++. great show, catchy songs and cool, powerful vocals.
Placebo - very good
Marylin Manson - thought it was shit, personally. other opinions I've heard have gone from "fecking awesome" to "horrible", so hard to tell really.
Atmosphere - great show, charismatic rapper and lovely lyrics. a bit short concert though, and he didn't play my favorite song. redeemed himself by coming out and talking to people and having a beer with us in the sun. cool guy!
Immortal Technique - great rapper, cool songs, but as always with him a lot of political stuff in between the tunes. good, nevertheless.
Ludacris - good show, don't really like his music that much, but he definately knew how to fire up the crowd!
Black Eyed Peas - very good concert, Fergie wore an outfit that maybe could have covered up one of my legs, if stretched to the max.
Chris Cornell - seen him before, so I remained in the party tent in order to get sufficiently drunk for Korn. good concert, I heard.
KoRn - awesome! stood all the way in the front, experience a bit marred by the fact that the girl I was there with passed out about 5 songs from the end so I had to carry her to the medic tent and missed the finale.
La Coka Nostra - House of Pain reunion. a few Nonphixion hits, lovely stuff.
RZA and Stone Mecca - Wu Tang Clan ain't nuthin to feck with. Also, it was RZA's birthday and he celebrated by blazing up and drinking vodka on stage. RZA and the band worked very well together, and people were fired up no end before Method Man and Redman
Method Man and Redman - Wherever and whenever you see these two play, they're gonna rock the place. excellent show, lots of old hits, even some Wu Tang stuff. Seemless coordination between them, stage dives and great at firing the crowd up. Also blazed on stage, big shocker. so did everyone else in the crowd, judging by the smell around me.
Young Jeezy - good show, had something to live up to after the Method Man/Redman gig. don't like his music all that well personally, but everyone around me seemed to. combination of penicillin, beer and no food came back to bite me in the arse, so I had to go lie down at the Beach stage.
Afterparty: B.O.B., RZA, Method Man, Redman, Young Jeezy - Awesome way to end the festival, shame I was lying down in the fringe of the stage area waiting for the fecking doctor. Who never showed up.
Quart also had a great Club scene called Salamander, with a shitload of DJs playing and people with huge pupils hopping around. Loads of people loved that stuff, but it really isn't my thing. The camping on Quart was a bit shit though, only 2-300 campers at the most (rough, drunken estimate there). Quart is held in a city, as opposed to Hove which takes place on an island. Both locations have some beautiful scenery though, and are excellent places to spend some of your summer.
All in all, a great summer this has been! My body is worn down from all the drinking, medication, sun and people, but I can tell you it was totally worth it. Sorry for the essay, I was going to make a new thread, but then I saw this one and I thought, what the hell, I'll write it in here.
Ha, really? I'm a local and haven't even heard of that! Is that on in Charleville Castle or what.
If you're determined to get a Tullamore experience in, you should hit the Fleadh Cheoil, around a quarter of a million people do be there. Just hit the streets and drink, lads playing fiddles willy nilly. I love it.
One of the lads we went with got absolutely pissed off his face on Sunday night, none of us have seen or heard from him since.
Was there all the last few years since 2006, but didn't bother this year. It ends up being expensive and not eating every day and just drinking took it out of me too much last year, ended up having to get an injection up the arse and missed the Stereophonics and REM and wasn't able to drink on the Sunday.
I kinda regret missing the great lineup, but at the same time, I don't think I could go through it again. Yes, at the tender age of 20, I'm burnt out for those things.
I kinda regret missing the great lineup, but at the same time, I don't think I could go through it again. Yes, at the tender age of 20, I'm burnt out for those things.
Why have they misspelt the word oxygen?
A trademark dispute with a bin company.