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Oxegen... Who's going lads?
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6/29/2006 3:09 PM
    Ive me camping gear ready. And im currently stocking up on bog roll. so who else is going ?
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    6/29/2006 3:15 PM
    me! heading down after work early Saturday evening for the weekend. Not camping though. Can't hack that s**t anymore.
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    6/29/2006 3:32 PM
    I'm there! friday evening....i usually go down first thing sat morning but cudn't get a spot in the campsite last year. Lookin forward to the friday night buzz though!!
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    6/29/2006 3:45 PM
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    friday night buzz though!!
    When there is love in the field ... before the night of the long knifes that is the Full Moon on the Sunday
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    6/29/2006 3:48 PM
    heading down for the saturday with a few heads and back that nite i plan on seeing a couple of acts on every stage if i can manage it will probably end up missing some bands i want to see as usual but ultimately so long as i get to see animal collective and manage to avoid bic runga, i'll be happy :)
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    6/29/2006 4:01 PM
    Looking at the map of the site ... the New Band, the NME & Pet Sounds Stages are all located together. The Green room is over the far side of the field, beyond the Main Stage so looks like you'll have to be on your toes to successfully avoid Ms Runga. You could accidently walk in ... Then the shutters come down ... & your trapped in your worst nightmare !!
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    6/29/2006 4:06 PM
    I'm going, will get the bus out and back both days so I can have a proper shower not like you scummy b*stards. :D
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    6/29/2006 4:07 PM
    Oh and I hope the weather's good so I can show off my brand spanking new Foo Fighters tattoo.
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    6/29/2006 4:34 PM
    I hope it rains the whole time. ;)
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    6/29/2006 4:38 PM
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    Oh and I hope the weather's good so I can show off my brand spanking new Foo Fighters tattoo.
    Will you have a viewing booth set up ?
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    6/29/2006 4:41 PM
    After crying myself to sleep listening to bad Oasis covers last time, I've vowed never to camp again. On saying that, I am going, but just for the Saturday. To see whatever bands my girlfriend wants to see... What's the deal with the NME tent? Couldn't an indigenous publication sponsor it instead?
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    6/29/2006 4:57 PM
    Agreed, Security are too worried about drugs getting into the camp, that Acoustic Guitars slip through undetected ...
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    6/29/2006 6:32 PM
    Heading up Friday evening for the full weekend.
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    ........looks like you'll have to be on your toes to successfully avoid Ms Runga........
    why would you want to avoid the lovely Bic?
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    6/29/2006 6:35 PM
    Yeah, Heading for early friday. Havent done the camping thing for about 3/4 years... still remember how wrecked I was at it the last time we did. But should be good fun. Is this the 6th or the 7th year of the whole Witnness/Oxegen thing. Been doing it since it started, but next year I reckon I might give it a miss and head for one of them there foreign festivals
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    6/29/2006 6:53 PM
    yeah, what year is it? I missed the first one, but have been to every Witness / Oxegen since. Missed the first Electric Picnic too, obviously have not been on the ball. Sonar plus Lovebox will complete my quota of international festivals this year.
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    6/29/2006 7:51 PM
    I've heading up to the gig on Friday and staying for the whole weekend. I still haven't organised transport yet though. The first Oxegen/Witnness was in 2000. I've missed two of them so this will be my fifth.
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    6/30/2006 8:15 AM
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    Heading up Friday evening for the full weekend.
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    ........looks like you'll have to be on your toes to successfully avoid Ms Runga........
    why would you want to avoid the lovely Bic?
    lovely she might be but just cannot stomach her music at all went to see tom baxter a coupla years back in the olympia and bic was the main act maybe i'm missing something but i thought it was very inoffensive, very unexciting, very pipe and slippers music - not my thing at all no offence bic fans
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    6/30/2006 9:46 AM
    awh yeah cant wait...raging could not get a camping ticket!, but heading to kasabian on friday nite then i'll be using the lovely dublin bus to ferry me up and down!!! really looking forward to seeing primal scream, eels, sigur ros, go team. none of the headliners are really doing it for me! so dissapointed bright eyes pulled out last year really wanted to see them
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    6/30/2006 11:19 AM
    Yeah, not really pushed too much about the headliners, for me its the delays, the spinto band, the editors, gomez, the artic monkeys, hard fi, the republic of loose, damo, placebo, the charlies, clap your hands amongst others
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    6/30/2006 11:38 AM
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    Yeah, not really pushed too much about the headliners, for me its the delays, the spinto band, the editors, gomez, the artic monkeys, hard fi, the republic of loose, damo, placebo, the charlies, clap your hands amongst others
    awh yeah and i know there's gonna be a conflict of times!!!!...one good thing about "da Loose" being on early wont miss anyone else really interesting! saw the monkeys at the nme show they were very good and tight..but was just like listening to the cd so i'll be giving them a miss this time..plus there will to many 16 year old girls screaming at them ha!, yeah gomez should be interesting
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    6/30/2006 4:20 PM
    I shall see you lovely people there. Now let's pray for nice weather.
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    7/4/2006 3:21 PM
    Tickets back on sale on TM.
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    7/4/2006 3:50 PM
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    Tickets back on sale on TM.
    Saw that, must be shed loads. I've been checking all morning and i'm still able to buy eight. Hopefully it'll be a regular thing with festivals and beat the touts
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    7/4/2006 4:16 PM
    Oh my god... im shocked.. and here was me believing MCDs claim that tickets sold out in just 12 hours.. im just way too naive :)
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    7/4/2006 4:28 PM
    Kloot you old cynic. Still giving oxegen a miss.
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    7/4/2006 4:32 PM
    :) Oh im defo going to oxegen.. but their PR stunt annoys me when it plainly didnt sell out in 12hrs. The thing was on sale for a week before that anyway...
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    7/4/2006 5:15 PM
    Longer than that. It was sale last year and over Christmas. They were only pulled off sale the week before the official release.
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    7/4/2006 5:16 PM
    I think it would have been better if they didn't go with the mis-information ... i.e. Let the punters know that they will deffo be going on sale with a week to go. As Nerraw said, it would undercut the touts. Presales are nothing new in this age. I agree with them, tbh.
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    7/4/2006 5:16 PM
    Wow.. didnt realise it was on sale for that length.. just shows how easy it is to become a cynic
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    7/4/2006 10:05 PM
    thats crazy.i hate to admit it but i paid 230 for my weekend ticket.didnt really want to go coz im goin to the leccy picnic(much nicer buzz round the place) then thought F&^t it i will go.and pay crazy prices when i dont need to.cheers TM
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    7/4/2006 11:27 PM
    Bought 4 tickets tonight.
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    7/5/2006 9:03 AM
    Even before they went back on sale, there were stacks of them on offer on Ebay and Boards.ie.
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    7/5/2006 9:12 AM
    Yeah, stacks of tickets around, but not many punters willing to pay over the odds. & now the availabililty of Guaranteed Face Value from TM, has undercut the folks looking for 200+
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    7/6/2006 1:50 PM
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    New album aint that great but they always put on a good live show. Really looking forward to Manu Chao aswell. Great live act.


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