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Oxegen Line-up ‘11 All rights reserved. Any unauthorised reproduction and publication strictly prohibited.
Whilst every effort has been made to ensure all information contained in listings is correct,
MCD cannot take responsibility for errors or omissions. Line up may be subject to change.
Friday 8th July Saturday 9th July Sunday 10th July
Main Stage The Black Eyed Peas, The Script, Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Beyoncé, Slash,
My Chemical Romance, Weezer, Beady Eye, Plan B, Manic Street Preachers,
All Time Low, The Blackout, Two Door Cinema Club, Ke$ha, Ryan Sheridan,
Fun Lovin’ Criminals Jessie J, Big Country The Rubber Bandits
Vodafone Stage The Strokes, Swedish House Mafia, Deadmau5, Paolo Nutini, Pendulum, The National,
Tinie Tempah, The Saw Doctors, Imelda May, Bruno Mars, Hurts, Jimmy Eat World, Friendly Fires,
House Of Pain, The Original Rude Boys, British Sea Power, The Minutes Fight Like Apes, Royseven,
The Plea, Glen Call Alice Gold Kanyu Tree
Heineken Leftfield, Calvin Harris, Example, Brandon Flowers, The Vaccines, Primal Scream, Chase and Status
Whipping Boy, Peter Hook & The Light, Professor Green, The Pretty Crystal Castles, Odd Future
Green Spheres
Her Majesty & The Wolves, Reckless, Bressie, Cashier No.9, Wolf Gang Kill Them All, Ocean
The Riptide Movement, Fox Avenue, Little Green Cars, Colour Scene, The Saturdays,
Gypsies On The Autobahn Propaganda DJs GROUPLOVE, Neon Trees
2fm Hot Press Glasvegas, Noah & The Whale, Eels, City And Colour, Mona, Bright Eyes, The Airborne Toxic
The Naked & Famous, Metronomy, Miles Kane, Eliza Doolittle, Event, Jenny & Johnny, Patrick
Academy
Clare Maguire, Tame Impala,Keywest, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, Wolf, The Twilight Singers,
Cherri Bomb, Readers Wives, Madisun Frankie & The Heartstrings, The Pierces, Bipolar Empire,
Braids, Sweet Jane, Brother, The Kapitals
Consumer Love Affair
Red Bull Sven Vath, Tiga, The Shit Robot Show The Bloody Beetroots live, Philth, Afrojack, Crookers,
live, Justin Robertson, Maverick Sabre Diplo, Steve Aoki, Retro/Grade, Fake Blood live, Alex Metric,
Electric Ballroom
live, Bitches With Wolves, Fenech-Soler Psycatron, Anthony Remedy, Al Gibbs, TEED live
live, Colin Perkins, David Byrne Freaks From Dublin,
Church + GordoBecause You Never Know What
s t i val You Might Forget...
Fe ival
Surv de • Loo Roll. The best festival • Toothbrush, Toothpaste
Gui currency: the truly and Deodorant.
desperate will trade just A dodgy set of chops and
about anything for a few the smell of stale sweat
clean sheets. will make condoms totally
redundant.
• Baby Wipes and Hand
Cleansing Gel. • Sun Block. The sun can
A good festival should be one of the best experiences of Baby wipes are the festival turn a crowd into a human
your life, but get it wrong and it can turn into a nightmare. equivalent of a bath but for barbecue, so bring plenty
you hygienic types there are of sun cream and keep
Fionn Davenport, music DJ, radio presenter and travel writer, FREE showers at Oxegen! lashing it on unless you like
has some tips to get you through, whether you’re a day tripper being a human lobster.
or a happy camper… • Plasters. In case you trip
over a tent rope or those • Tickets. You’d be surprised.
bargain wellies pinch at
• Don’t bring... Umbrellas
the heels.
into the arena, gas, glass
• Condoms. If you want bottles, medication in
to avoid life-changing unmarked containers,
conversations three months gazebos, marquees or
after the festival when the animals, even if your kitty
special love you made is but can headbang!
a lingering memory.
Insider Tip I always keep a cool little torch
around my neck. You never
conversation starter if you
meet some people in need
Sinister Pete
Phantom FM
# 1 know when it’ll come in handy
and it’s a particularly good
of light!Looking Good? Transport
Dressing for festival high- • Socks. Bring plenty. Wet Keep your weekend hassle- • Taking the Car. If you can’t
fashion will only give you feet are crap. free; ditch the car and hop live without your wheels
grief! This is no place for on a bus. Fewer cars on the for the weekend, car
your best clobber – think • Sun Hat. Sunstroke is like
roads means everyone gets to parking is available at the
less catwalk and more a really bad hangover and
the festival faster and starts concert site. Check out
weatherproof. the worst flu you’ll ever
the weekend sooner! Oxegen.ie for car park
get... at the same time.
details and directions.
• Shades. To avoid squinting Anything’ll do. (Except for a
• Busing it? Dublin Bus and
at the stage if it’s sunny and jester’s hat, which will just • Park ‘n’ Ride. There will
Bus Éireann will be running
to disguise the fact you look stupid.) be a Park ‘n’ Ride facility at
a return transfer service to
haven’t slept in 24 hours. Goffs (off Junction 8, N7).
• Ladies – The Essentials: Punchestown from Dublin
Drive there or get dropped
dry shampoo, waterproof City Centre, check out www.
• Rain Poncho. Better than off and you can get a FREE
makeup or go barefaced, dublinbus.ie or www.cie.ie
the glorified bin liner they shuttle bus to Oxegen!
a bag that goes across for details. And don’t forget
(sometimes) give out at
your body and a sense of to book them in advance. • Car Pool. You can pick
the festival.
humour, you’re not gonna up a parking pass for
• If you’re travelling from
• Something Warm. You look your best so relax free when you show four
outside Dublin, Kelly
might be hot during the day, and enjoy! weekend camping tickets
Travel and JJ Kavanagh
but those nights can get at any Ticketmaster
will be running direct bus
pretty chilly. outlet. So do your bit for
services to Oxegen from
• Wellies. Regardless of the environment and save
Cork, Tipperary, Limerick,
weather reports these are yourself 30 quid.
Galway and more. Check
essential festival footwear. out www.kellytravel.ie and • Exhaustion. Fatigue can
Flip flops are just flops www.jjkavanagh.ie for pick- seriously affect your ability
when it’s raining. up points and booking info. to drive safely. Car parks
Insider Tip To blag your way backstage,
carry a bag of oranges and
the hell can you get fresh
oranges on a festival site at a
Fionn Davenport
# 2 a hassled look: tell security
that you should have gotten
moment’s notice? Or be really
good-looking and nonchalant.
them hours before but where I generally go with the oranges.Hungry?
will be open until 3pm on hot shower and four walls. Long gone are the days when • 24 Hours. This year loads
Monday this year, so go And while you might feel festival-goers’ only option of food outlets will be open
back to your tent for a nap fine you could still be over was a burger and chips. around the clock including
if you need it. the legal limit to drive. Your Whether you’re a fan of two 24 hour Centras.
body gets rid of roughly traditional Irish fare or have Nothing makes drinking
• Behind the Wheel. If you’re
one standard drink – that’s more exotic tastes, you’ll a disaster more than an
used to a car, then a busy
half a pint or a small glass be spoilt for choice. Even empty stomach so stock up.
road isn’t the best place
of wine or a pub measure veggies and sweet teeth
to try driving a campervan • Dry Foods. Better
of spirits – per hour. No are catered for.
for the first time. Get some something that won’t go
matter how badly you need
practice first! off, get mushy or grow
your duvet, do the maths Whether bringing your own
green stuff; so no meats,
• Breath-testing. Random and if in doubt – wait it out. food or indulging in festival
bananas or cheese.
tests are commonplace fare remember to keep it
• Special Needs. The special
along the festival routes; green and recycle your • Cleaning Up. In a green-
needs campsite has nearby
failing one isn’t really a rubbish. field site? Help keep
parking available. For
good way of celebrating it that way. Clean up
more information on the
the weekend. after yourself and take
facilities available contact
everything with you –
• The Morning After the specialneeds@oxegen.ie
including your rubbish.
Night Before. By festival or call the Ticketmaster
end you’ll be looking Special Needs Hotline on
forward to your own bed, a 0818 715 658.
Insider Tip Beaut.ie’s best festival tip
picked up over the past couple
# 3 of years is really simple, but
so clever! Before you pitch
bit: your dark mani will hide Kirstie McDermot
any dirt so no one will know
your tent, paint your nails a Beaut.ie
that you could happily grow a
dark shade. It’ll look chic,
sack of spuds in the furrows
sure, but here’s the smart
beneath your nails.Thirsty?
Of course most people will • Pace Yourself. Drink water • Hair of the Dog. It won’t • Beer Goggles. Want a
have a drink – it’s all part of or a soft drink every few beat your hangover, it just weekend to regret? Then
the festival atmosphere and drinks. you’ll feel better, prolongs the agony. let the booze do the
alcohol can add to the fun by look better and have a chatting up for you.
• The Secret to Sobering Up?
helping you relax. better chance of lasting
Time. Yeah, time! Whether • No Strange Mixers!
the course!
sitting in a tent or standing Don’t accept a drink from
• Water. Bring as much of
• Eat Something. Nothing in a field, it’ll take roughly a stranger or leave yours
it as you can. Alcohol will
will make drinking two hours for your body unattended – you never
seriously dehydrate you
a disaster more than an to break down one pint of know what you’re getting
and even a clouded sun will
empty stomach. booze. Nothing – not tea, or what could have been
make it worse.
Eat before you drink. energy drinks, burgers and put in it.
• Drink at Least One Litre chips or an ice cold shower
• Wrecked? Getting drunk • Go Online. There’s plenty
Per Day. There are plenty – can speed up this process.
isn’t pretty or smart. You’ll of info about drinking and
of free top up taps, but do
just wreck the weekend for alcohol consumption at
so at night – there can be
your mates if they have drinkaware.ie
queues in the morning.
to look after you when
• No Glass. The amount of you’re the worse for wear.
liquids confiscated at the Remember: over-doing
gates could quench the it will do nothing for your
thirst of a small town. looks either – you’re drop- = or or
Bring plastic containers dead gorgeous until you
and bottles (without lids). drop down drunk. A glass of stout / lager / cider (284ml)
A small glass of wine (100ml)
A pub measure of spirits (35.5ml)
Insider Tip … Earplugs are a must – at
some festivals security men
speakers, but you’ll need them
most when that clever man
Hotpress Magazine
# 4 hand them out free to punters
who get too close to the
starts blasting Fatboy Slim’s
‘Renegade Master’ at 8am in
the morning.Happy Campers
The ‘wherever I lay my hat’ • Pitch it when you arrive. • Snuggle up. A black bin • Flag it. That’s right, a
approach to a good night’s You don’t want to test liner may have limited uses flag: “it’s a green pup
kip will seem a bad idea your tent-pitching skills at home, but it’s the perfect tent” just isn’t enough
halfway through the first rainy in the dark so peg it down ready-made waterproof of a description when
night, so plan your sleeping before you start dancing cover for your sleeping bag. looking for your tent at
arrangements with care. A and drinking. day’s end, so why not
• Plastic bags and tape.
good tip: turn up early to pick mark it with something
• Bring a torch. Here’s a fun Plastic bags make the best
your spot. distinctive (and there’ll be
game: try finding your tent shoes and seats around.
lots of tricolours, so go for
amongst thousands like
• Tent. So long as it’s • Home time. You don’t something else).
it in the dark. If you have
waterproof, any old tent have to leave the campsite
an iPhone download the
will do. There’s a chance it until 3pm on Monday. If
Oxegen app for the handy
may get damaged, so don’t you think you’re not
torch feature.
bother with a fancy one. fit to drive on Monday
• Tag it. iPhone users can morning, go back to
• Location, Location,
also tag their tent with your tent for a snooze.
Location. Pitch it in open
the Oxegen app, and let it Check out how long
ground, at the top of a hill
guide them safely back to it takes your body to
and far, far away from the
bed at night. process alcohol under
communal toilets.
the ‘Thirsty’ section.
Insider Tip BEWARE THE MUDPERSON
The legends of a mythical
verbal babblings. May be
observed safely from a
Vinny
Adebisi Shank
# 5 creature constructed entirely
of mud are true. Known to
distance but never under
any circumstances attempt
terrorize festivalgoers with to engage the beast in
strange, erratic dancing conversation.
motions and indecipherableStay Safe, Stay Free Competitions
Festival security is usually • Valuables. Why bring Log onto drinkaware.ie for your chance to win;
pretty tight, with a huge any? Cash and a mobile
number of undercover Gardaí phone are the only things • A summer wardrobe from A-wear,
around. Don’t give them a you’ll need. Leave the rest
• A holiday in Crete from Club 18-30,
reason to interfere with at home or book yourself a
your weekend. locker on Oxegen.ie. • Tickets to loads of top acts in Marlay Park this summer,
including The Coronas, Joanna Newsom, 2 Many DJs,
• Cash. Bring enough but
• Drugs. Even aside from Rodrigo y Gabriela, and Bell X1,
spread it about your body.
the health risks, just don’t
Back and shallow front • Funky festival t-shirts from Freshmilk Clothing.
bother – the Gardaí will
pockets are useless – you
happily bust you for even All competition entrants must be over 18.
may as well give it away.
the slightest infraction.
A money pouch or cash
• Human Pyramids, Moshing bound in a small plastic Don’t forget to drop by and see us...
and Stage Diving. They bag stuffed in the toe of We’ll be on-site at Oxegen again this year, sharing a tent
sound like a great idea, but your shoe is good. with our good friends from Hotpress. As well as the usual
they’re not, and can end up bevy of superstars willing to sign just about anything, the
• Minding Your Stuff. drinkaware.ie area will have loads of on-site competitions
with you hurt or arrested
Make friends with the and giveaways. So drop by and say hi! We’d love to see you,
and the event being more
occupants of the tents and you might leave with something nice.
heavily policed next year.
around you and they’ll
And that will be all thanks
keep an eye on your gear.
to you, you free-flying fool.
Don’t walk alone, you came
with your friends, stay with
your friends.
Festivals are all about sharing
Don’t hit other people with and mucking in, and I’m not
inflatable items, not everyone really like that, so my advice
Insider Tip loves your hammer as much Insider Tip would be to get your own
corner and don’t interact with
as you do!
# 6 # 7 anyone whatsoever.
Alison Curtis
LoneLady
Phantom FM
SingerDid you know? Checklist
The resident music heads in • 2011 will be the eighth Festival Tickets (no, really, you’d be surprised)
Hot Press have put together Oxegen festival, and the Travel tickets (book them in advance)
their top facts about Oxegen fourth year it’s been a
and this year’s headliners. Quiz three-day event. The Cash and somewhere smart to keep it
your mates on the journey up – Strokes, who are back Mobile (and don’t forget to download the
loser has to pitch the tents! again this year, were one Oxegen iPhone app)
• Beyoncé used to claim that of the headline acts at the Extra layers for warming up and cooling down
her alter-ego, Sasha Fierce, very first Oxegen in 2004,
Rain poncho, sunblock & sunhat
was the one performing on along with The Cure, Ash,
(it’s Ireland in July – you never know)
stage during her concerts. and The Darkness who
were drafted in as eleventh I.D. (and they do check – if you’re under 17, you
“I’m not like her in real life
hour replacements for need to be with a guardian or relative who’s
at all,” Ms. Knowles said.
David Bowie. over 25)
“What I feel onstage I don’t
feel anywhere else. It’s an • The name Deadmau5 And if you’re staying over.....
out-of-body experience.” came about when Joel
These days, however, she’s Tent (make sure you’ve got all the bits before
Zimmerman was replacing you leave)
a bit more confident and the video card in his
says it’s all Beyoncé that Plastic bags, tape and bin liners
computer, and found a dead
you’re seeing! mouse inside. He became Clothes and footwear for every kind of weather
known as “that dead (yes, we’re going to keep saying this)
• The Arctic Monkeys’ first
album was the fastest- mouse guy” in a chatroom A flag to mark your tent
selling debut in British he visited, but ‘Dead A torch and spare batteries
music history, surpassing Mouse’ was too long for a
Loo roll
Oasis’ Definitely Maybe. username. He shortened it
to ‘Deadmau5’, and the rest Baby wipes and hand gel
• When Coldplay first is history. Toothbrush and toothpaste
formed, they were called
Remember to visit the Hot Deodorant
Pectoralz. They changed
their name to Starfish a bit Press Signing Tent this year. Grub and water
later, before finally settling Your favourite bands will be Condoms (once again, you never know)
on Coldplay in 1998. We signing pretty much anything
think you made the right you thrust in front of them! Oh yeah, and one last thing we should probably
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