| Oxegen is an annual rock music festival, held since 2004, sponsored by Heineken. It was previously called Witnness, which ran from 2000 and was sponsored by Guinness. It takes place at the Punchestown Racecourse in County Kildare, Ireland and has an average attendance of around 80,000 a day, with around half of these camping on site for the duration, and the rest traveling to the site each day. As well as six stages of music, there are two large areas for camping which are subdivided by number. Stalls and shops are also provided, as well as toilet and shower areas from 2006 onwards. There is also a funfair adjacent to the arena, featuring a big wheel and other rides, such as the "Magic Carpet", the "Big Drop", and the roller coaster. Oxegen '08 will be run from July 11 until July 13 at Punchestown Racecourse in Naas, County Kildare. The festival line-up was widely praised by the print media. The Irish Examiner called it a "fairytale line up for a festival", adding that "the fairytale of Naas will come alive this summer". 2008 Line-up |
| July 11 Friday | July 12 Saturday | July 13 Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| Main Stage: Kings of Leon Interpol Editors Paddy Casey The Coronas Amy Macdonald The O2 Stage: Groove Armada The Go! Team Ben Folds dEUS Sugababes Future Kings of Spain Green Room: Bell X1 Mundy Aslan Captain The Kinetiks The Saw Doctors Pet Sounds: Cat Power Aphex Twin Tricky Battles God Is An Astronaut Dance Tent: Unkle Calvin Harris Annie Mac MSTRKRFT DJ Koze Kosheen Burns New Band Stage/Futures: White Denim Friendly Fires The Metros Noah & The Whale Sparkadia Bryn Christopher Liam Finn Leopold | Main Stage: The Verve R.E.M. Stereophonics Amy Winehouse Counting Crows Newton Faulkner Scouting for Girls Bowling for Soup The O2 Stage: The Prodigy The Zutons Feeder Panic at the Disco The Enemy The Hoosiers The Wombats Powderfinger One Night Only Little Man Tate Green Room: Manic Street Preachers The Charlatans Pendulum Echo & the Bunnymen Vampire Weekend British Sea Power The Ting Tings The Brian Jonestown Massacre Delays Concerto For Constantine Pet Sounds: The National Hot Chip Richard Hawley Seasick Steve Declan O'Rourke Paul Heaton My Morning Jacket Camille O'Sullivan Jack McManus Dance Tent: Justice Boys Noize Mylo Slam Michael Mayer Kavinsky Japanese Popstars Chemistry DJ's New Band Stage/Futures: Elliot Minor Royworld Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong Black Kids Alphabeat Ida Maria Yeasayer Holy Fuck Mindless Self Indulgence Cage the Elephant Seargent IMRO New Sounds Stage: Blood Red Shoes CODES Gary Go Oppenheimer Sons Of Albion New Amusement The Golden Silvers The Cades The Red Labels Future Chaser | Main Stage: Rage Against the Machine Kaiser Chiefs The Fratellis The Kooks The Blizzards The Feeling Eddy Grant The O2 Stage: The Chemical Brothers The Raconteurs Republic of Loose Kate Nash The Pigeon Detectives We Are Scientists The Courteeners The Subways Green Room: Ian Brown The Pogues Tom Baxter Reverend and the Makers Jack Peñate Alabama 3 The Stranglers The Hold Steady The Whigs Pet Sounds Stage: Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová Róisín Murphy Band of Horses MGMT Delorentos Lightspeed Champion David Jordan Ryan Bingham Dance Tent: David Guetta Luciano Kaz James Crookers Radioslave Quiet Village Does It Offend You, Yeah? Carl Craig New Band Stage/Futures: Los Campesinos! Cajun Dance Party Flogging Molly Fight Like Apes Glasvegas The Script Twisted Wheel In Case Of Fire Jaguar Love White Lies IMRO New Sounds Stage: Dry County Team Waterpolo Halves Crayonsmith The Rocket Summer Brothers Movement The Hazy Janes Fighting With Wire Arno Carstens The Television Room |
| Kings of Leon will headline the opening night of the festival. It is a rock band made up of the three Followill brothers (Caleb, Nathan, and Jared), and their cousin (Matthew Followill), based in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, United States. Their influences include Southern rock, garage rock, Hard rock, country and blues. |
Kings of Leon – Fans |
Event: Oxegen 2008 Date: July 11 (Friday) – 13 (Sunday), 2008 Location: Punchestown Racecourse County Kildare, Ireland |
| SOURCE: Oxegen 2008 |
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