Hands up if you miss Oxegen.
In Ireland, our cup runneth over with high quality music festivals: Electric Picnic, Forbidden Fruit, Body & Soul, Indiependence, Longitude, Other Voices, All Together Now, the list goes on.
But many of us will still have fond memories of the blockbuster Oxegen festival, which was held in Punchestown Racecourse between 2004 and 2013.
The festival boasted some seriously top tier names over the years, the kind of artists you’d be stunned to see playing to a field full of rowdy Irish people these days. One year saw Beyoncé, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Weezer, Arctic Monkeys and The Black Eyed Peas all play over the one weekend.
If you’ve been dying to relive those days, we have good news. Dublin nightclub Fibber Magees (on Parnell Street) is running an Oxegen Appreciation Night on Sunday 19 May. The night promises music from the likes of James Brown, The Prodigy, Rage Against The Machine, The Killers, Muse, Snoop Dogg “and many more.”
There event kicks off at 9m, and there is no entrance fee.
Not that this will necessarily seal the deal, but there will also be bottles of Buckfast on offer for €22. You know, for that real festival feel. You can find more info at the Facebook page here.
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