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Event Information:
Oxegen
is scheduled to be the eighth
Oxegen festival to take place since
2004. It is scheduled to place on
the weekend of Friday 8 July,
Saturday, 9 July and Sunday, 10 July
at Punchestown Racecourse near Naas
in County Kildare, Ireland. Black
Eyed Peas, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay,
Foo Fighters and The Strokes are
among the headlining acts. On 13
December 2010, Foo Fighters was
announced as one of the headline
acts of the festival, the first
act to be announced. The band's
album is scheduled to be released
prior to the performance. On 14
December, Arctic Monkeys became the
second headline act to be announced.
It is scheduled to be their first
performance at Oxegen since 2006
On 15 December, Blink-182 was
announced to play the festival for
the first time. It had seldom
performed in Ireland in the previous
15 years. On 16 December, Paolo
Nutini was announced, having
performed at the festival in 2010 On
22 December, The Black Eyed Peas was
announced, having also performed at
the festival in 2010.
On 8
March , the festival was
officially launched, with Coldplay
announced as the bill-toppers in
what would be their first appearance
at Oxegen. Dave Grohl hosted the
presentation of the announcement on
the festival's official website.
Other artists to be added included
Bruno Mars, All Time Low, Brandon
Flowers, Beady Eye, Swedish House
Mafia, My Chemical Romance, Weezer,
Plan B, Tinie Tempah, Primal Scream,
Two Door Cinema Club, Eels, Calvin
Harris, Jimmy Eat World, Hurts, Ryan
Sheridan, Bipolar Empire. Bright
Eyes, The Bloody Beetroots, Paolo
Nutini, The National, Deadmau5,
Pendulum, Leftfield, Imelda May,
Eels, The Vaccines, Noah and the
Whale, Tiga, Sven Väth, Friendly
Fires, Crystal Castles, Afrojack,
Chase & Status, Ocean Colour Scene,
Fight Like Apes, The Naked and
Famous, Mona, Fun Lovin' Criminals,
Royseven, Fenech-Soler, Bipolar
Empire, Madisun, Consumer Love
Affair.
Oxegen
is an annual music festival in
Ireland held since 2004, sponsored
by Heineken. As of 2007, 2008, 2009,
the festival has been cited as
Ireland's biggest music festival.
And by 2009, the festival is cited
as the greenest festival, being a
100% carbon neutral event in Ireland
It was previously called Witnness,
which ran from 2000 and was
sponsored by Guinness. The event is
promoted by MCD. Oxegen was
originally a three-day festival but
for 2008 was expanded to four days.
It takes place at the Punchestown
Racecourse in County Kildare,
Ireland and has an average
attendance of around 90,000 a day,
with around 80,000 of these camping
on site for the duration, and the
rest travelling to the site each
day. It takes place on the same
weekend as T in the Park in Scotland
and shares a very similar line-up
each year, although Oxegen is
generally regarded as Ireland's
version of the Glastonbury Festival,
with the 2008 festival sharing three
of the same headliners as its
English counterpart.
Punchestown Racecourse is located in
the parish of Eadestown, between the
R410 and R411 regional roads near
Naas, County Kildare, in Ireland. It
is home of the National Hunt
Festival of Ireland. As well as
horse racing, Punchestown hosts
several music events, including the
annual Oxegen, while AC/DC, Bon Jovi
and Eminem are among the artists to
have played concerts on the
racecourse.
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