Oxegen
Oxegen is an annual music festival held since 2004, sponsored by Heineken and is Ireland's biggest festival.[1][2] The event is promoted by MCD. Oxegen was originally a two-day festival but for 2008 was increased to four days. It takes place at the Punchestown Racecourse in County Kildare, Ireland and has an average attendance of around 80,000 a day, with around 70,000 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 world-renowned Glastonbury Festival, with the 2008 festival sharing three of the same headliners.[3] The festival has attracted attention from outside Ireland, with many of those there travelling from overseas.[4]
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- ↑ "Snow Patrol steal the limelight from top acts". Irish Independent. 2007-02-02. http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/snow-patrol-steal-the-limelight-from-top-acts-52787.html. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
- ↑ "OXEGEN 08: THE LINE-UP". The Irish Times. 2008-07-04. http://www.irishtimes.com/theticket/articles/2008/0704/1215054782218.html. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
- ↑ "Goodbye Glasto... Hello Oxegen". Sunday Tribune. 2008-07-06. http://www.tribune.ie/article/2008/jul/06/goodbye-glasto-hello-oxegen/. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
- ↑ "Multinational audience joins rite of passage for Irish teens". Sunday Tribune. 2008-07-13. http://www.tribune.ie/news/article/2008/jul/13/multinational-audience-joins-rite-of-passage-for-i/. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
