Oxegen 2010
Oxegen 2010 in photos by Kieran Frost
Kieran Frost’s photos from the weekend featuring Ash, Vampire Weekend, Mumford & Sons, CODES, Villagers, Jay-Z, Gossip, Biffy Clyro, Kasabian, Kele, Hot Chip and Ocean Colour Scene.
All Oxegen coverage.…
Oxegen 2010: Sunday in photos
Official photos from Oxegen of Eminem, Mumford and Sons, Earth Wind and Fire, Local Natives and Julian Casablancas.…
Oxegen 2010: Eminem
As the arrival of rap’s poster boy approaches, Oxegen is buzzing. With many of the assembled masses having waited since Eminem’s controversial cancellation of his 2005 Slane date to see their hero, the area in front of the main stage is by far the busiest it’s been all weekend. Five years, to be fair, is…
Oxegen 2010: Faithless, We Are Scientists, Jamie T, Ocean Colour Scene & more
Echo And The Bunnymen haven’t changed one bit over the years. Ian McCulloch still performs like a man hiding behind an oversized coat, and his vocals are still perfect. -The Killing Moon’ remains their -these guys wrote this?’ moment, and they’re still propping up festival bills when they could comfortably perform far higher up the…
Oxegen 2010: Broken Social Scene, Local Natives, Jamie Lidell, The Middle East & more
It’s only been about three weeks since State saw The Middle East live and expectations were not completely met that time around due to poor sound and other immeasurable factors. Having caught The Middle East at SXSW, we knew they could do better so we were interested in how their style of folk would go…
Oxegen 2010: Temper Trap, Kate Nash, D12, Professor Green, Awake Young Soldiers
Day three and State returns to the site, delighted to find that things are looking up weather wise and even more delighted to discover yet another new Irish band. Arriving here via a competition, Awake Young Soldiers find themselves on at the usual early slot but are undaunted. With a name like that we expected…
Oxegen 2010: Mumford & Sons
In many ways, it’s fitting that Oxegen 2010 and the World Cup both come to a close within a few hours of each other. Both have had their good and bad moments, seen a few surprises and found some of the big names coming up short. Neither have been a vintage year but while the…
Oxegen 2010: Saturday in photos
Muse, Florence and the Machine, Black Eyed Peas and crowd shots.
Photos by Kyran O’ Brien.…
Oxegen 2010: Muse
It’s hard to image that there’s a better live band doing the world gig circuit right now than Muse. From the moment drummer Dominic steps on to the stage clad in a large spiky Mohican and a pale green undergarment, the front of the Oxegen crowd has turned into a frantic shoving match, and it’s…
Oxegen 2010: Hot Chip, Kele
It would be easy to take Hot Chip for granted. Since 2004, the five musicians in the band have been cooking up dancefloor-friendly, festival-ready hits so there’s always a chance that the audience just wouldn’t turn up for them at Oxegen (see also Glasto).
Well it wasn’t a rammed tent but the Heineken Green Spheres…
Oxegen 2010: Arcade Fire
Friday headliners Arcade Fire prove a disappointing draw, at least in terms of pure numbers. Perhaps it’s the twin attractions of Fatboy Slim and Simian Mobile Disco (or, heaven forbid, David Guetta) scattered across the site, but there can’t be more than 5,000 watching the Canadians tuck into their hits. The campsite rumour that -only…
Oxegen 2010: Florence and the Machine, Kasabian, Dirty Projectors, Two Door Cinema Club and more
Arriving on site for the second day of Ireland’s annual rain fest, State find the conditions have slipped over the edge from mild marshland to full on, inch thick muddy quagmire. In front of the main stage, at least, where The Stranglers are opening proceedings with various oldies but goldies, there are a few areas…
Oxegen 2010: Jay-Z
Last year’s Glastonbury controversy about Jay-Z headlining and the subsequent triumph of his set at the festival has been wheeled out at nearly every mention of this immiment Oxegen set. But Jay-Z was always the venerable hip-hopper, the only rapper alive born to do it. It, being able to headline festivals across the globe with…
Oxegen 2010: Wild Beasts, Hurts, The Minutes, Mayer Hawthorne
Day two and the numbers have swelled considerably. Two Door Cinema Club’s set on the main stage actually sees more people at headliners Arcade Fire the night before at 3pm in the day. The brown sludgy mud has also swelled but with the hope of a sunny Sunday in our hearts we trek on.
The…
