Oxegen is Ireland's biggest festival
If you want to be first to get your hands on tickets for Oxegen, 2010 read on. Early Bird tickets are now on sale at 2007 prices from 9am Friday 4th December until Thursday 31st December, so grab your wellies and your Leprechaun hat and cloak and get on down to Ireland’s biggest festival.
Taking place from Friday 9th July to Sunday 11th July at Punchestown Racecourse, Naas, Co. Kildare, Eire, the festival is now officially Europe’s favourite rock’n’roll weekend. Winner of the Best Overseas Festival category in 2009 in the Festival Awards, the three-day event fought off competition from prestigious festivals all over the world, like Spain’s Benicassim and Coachella in the US.
According to the Belfast Telegraph, who sum up each Oxegen Festival in meteorological terms, year 2005 was “the sunny” one, 2006 was “the torrentially rainy one,”2 007 was “the muddy one” and 2008, “the so-so one” (obviously not in terms of performance with the likes of the Kings of Leon playing). What will 2010 bring we wonder?
But in the end, it doesn’t really matter because Oxegen is one of the best festivals you can go to, whatever the weather.
Receiving its inauguration in 2000 under the name of Witnness Festival, Oxegen has grown to epic proportions with five main stages and at least 80k visitors attending every day. Bands like Snow Patrol, Kings of Leon and Muse have headlined and eulogised about their experiences there. The Killers who headlined in 2007 and 2009 described Oxegen as the “highlight of our year” and REM member Michael Stipe stated it was his backstage visit to Oxegen in 2007 that made him want to go on tour again; “I saw all these great bands and the next day after the festival we went into the studio,” he said.
With three large areas for camping, there is a store located in each, a funfair including a Magic Carpet ride and roller coaster, a circus, silent disco and, best of all folks… the toilet facilities “have improved.”
The line-up hasn’t yet been announced but Early Bird ticket prices are as follow: 3 Day (Fri-Sun)/No camping: €179, 3 Day (Fri-Sun)/with camping: €199, 4 Day (Thurs-Sun)/Camping €219.50. Campervan must be purchased with 3 or 4 day ticket: €60.