oh my god whats the deal with oxegen? It gets worse every year, I mean the irish stage is always the f**king same, the frames(didn't they say last year they would NEVER do it again!?), paddy casey and usual suspects. Most of this years acts played last year.

Keane are a f*cking atrocity of a band with no redeeming features what so ever. They make insipid bland music which is totally void of any point or purpose. They should have been drowned at birth. The futureheads how ever are class live (I saw them in Cork on Friday) and have just confirmed themselves for Oxegen. Yay!

nevermind them they're all talkin ballix, music snobbery if ye ask me! Away with the lot o' yis to a World Music festival where the main attractions are Space Jazz and some bloke who does a mean rubben chicken solo

Underworld Mylo (i know he;s playing oxegen too, but f**k it) U2 Common

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Stroller,nothing wrong with the list you provided, all fine bands. However, i doubt they would catch the imagination of the general public, which a music festival of this size has to do to make it a success. If you think of the festival in terms of value for money, i dont think anyone could argue but that the line up that oxegen offers is anything other then great value for money. As for the lineup itself. No line up is going to suit everyone. And even if you dont like some of the bands listed, you should be able to acknowledge that although they might not be your cuppa tea, the festival has lined up a large selection of internationally acclaimed bands to play this year, more then any other year in my opinion, and at the end of the day, they deserve credit for that.

That list wasn't meant to be an alterative line up, it was meant to be a list of possible additions. I realise that you need bland but commercially successful bands in order to shift tickets. However the organisers usually find at least 20 decent international bands to keep the heads happy. This year there seems to be precious few decent bands and a vast excess of lowest common denominator unit shifters. At the moment I'm struggling to find ten bands that I really want to see on this years line up. Last year the following bands kept the five albums a year brigade happy; Scissor Sisters, N*E*R*D, Snow Patrol, The Killers, Razorlight, The Darkness, Faithless, Pink, Black Eyed Peas, Muse, Keane and Ocean Colour Scene. The rednecks were happy and the gig sold out. Yet the organisers still managed to squeeze in the following; The Cure, The Strokes, Kings of Leon, PJ Harvey, Franz Ferdinand, Massive Attack, The Rapture, Orbital, Belle & Sebastian, The Chemical Brothers, Sons & Daughters, The Libertines, Wu-Tang Clan, Jimmy Cliff, Wilco, Felix Da Housecat, Basement Jaxx, Mylo, The Shins and Buck 65. The real music fans were spoilt for choice and everyone was a winner. I’m sorry but last years line up sh*t’s all over this years. So until the organisers sort themselves out and add at least 10-15 decent bands to the bill they don't deserve any credit because they’re failing to match the standards they’ve already set for themselves.

i think stroller's probably right. the fact is the gig is still not sold out - just like coldplay, people are holding back until theyre sure. With coldplay, they want to hear the album and hear for themselves. with oxegen, they want to see what else we're getting besides a blurry photocopy of the T in the Park line-up. T sold out but then theres no competition outdoor festivalwise in scotland. here, its the picnic which might steal Oxegen's thunder this year cos the line-up is class.

Yeah, the picnic is looking pretty enticing...the sat of it anyway ( for me that is ) but its a tad expensive all the same

Stroller, re. the Killers, Oxegen was before it really took of for them last year so they were aimed more at the "in the know" audience and I thought they played a fantastic set. This was before I got bored of them of course. The Killers backlash: They're just crap, they became popular, or it's a patchy album with about 4 super tunes but the rest is weak and as a whole doesn't strand up to repeated listens?

Personally, I havent listened to the album in quite a while, mainly due to overexposure. Dont think they're crap at all, album has some really good songs, several weaker ones. The OC connection is annoying mainly due to the show being so f**king annoying. I reckon if they hadnt blown up like they have, people would be giving them the benefit of the doubt due to the great singles. Now they're "too popular", those weak points leave em prime for slagging. I saw em in Olympia and it was good show.

Pretty good line up there, could really argue with you on the list. Id love to catch a festival like that. I think you hit it right on the nail, Oxegen is closer to Golden discs then Road Recs..and i think it always will if it is to perform well financially. I think the Electric Picnic festival is closer to road then Oxegen