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Guest post – Joey Cullen-Tinley – Oxegen’s 180 degree turn

• Electric Picnic Festivals Guest post Oxegen
• April 29, 2013, 14:00

The view on Oxegen’s line-up from one of those teens who is supposed to be the festival’s target audience.

10 things we’ve learned about Oxegen

• Electric Picnic Festivals Live music Oxegen
• April 24, 2013, 09:44

What last night’s Oxegen announcement tells us about the Punchestown event – and the rest of the Irish festival sector

• Festivals Live music Oxegen
• February 23, 2010, 12:41

As predicted by OTR, the first names for Oxegen 2010 include Eminem (good to know that both sides haven’t let this little matter stand in their way), Muse, Kasabian, Faithless, Broken Social Scene and Florence & The Machine. Also making …

• Oxegen
• July 13, 2009, 09:50

If you want the reviews, please scroll down the page. If you want the analysis from 60 hours in the mud, please keep reading.

• Oxegen
• July 12, 2009, 22:59

Here come the sharp-dressed men. If you required any additional proof that we’re reliving the 1980s at the moment, the sight of a reformed Specials near the top of the bill as well as the miserable rain pelting down as …

• Oxegen
• July 12, 2009, 18:27

HudMo arrived in Dublin airport at lunchtime and was onstage kicking out the bass bumpers an hour later. He may have been playing to a tiny crowd but that doesn’t stop Hud from some accomplished grandstanding. This is the real-deal …

• Oxegen
• July 12, 2009, 18:18

It’s a schtick which never fails to get a crowd pumped. On the stage, RSAG’s Jeremy Hickey is playing the drums and singing away like a man possessed. On a screen behind him, you can see the outlines of a …

• Oxegen
• July 12, 2009, 14:09

If it’s Sunday, it must be (still) Punchestown. The mud report: it’s not raining, the car parks are in pretty good nick (the blue carpark, anyway) and the arena is OK. Like, I wouldn’t like to spend a week’s holiday …