I’m off to Oxegen for the day on Saturday July 11th. Why only a day? I have had my fill of skanky, rainy campsites and until I can afford the little hobbit houses, I’ll be limiting my time spent in Punchestown.
The line-up for Saturday is immense but I am severely lacking in knowledge about the bands playing that day.
The line-up can be found at Oxegen’s Fantastically Up to Date and User Friendly Website (wait, what?) and I will also post it here. I’m good at referencing things like that.
Kings of Leon, Pet Shop Boys, Bloc Party, Elbow, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Doves, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Pete Doherty, The Mars Volta, The Game, The Saturdays, Squeeze, Hockey, Tiga, Digitalism, Gary Go, James Morrison, Regina Spektor, Maximo Park, Crystal Castles, The Blizzards
A veritable mish-mash of popular music. And that’s just the start. It will probably be double that amount in ten weeks time.
The main band I’m going to see is Kings of Leon – my favourite group of instrument playing Americans. I’ve only seen them once – in 2003, while heavily under the influence of some cheap supermarket vodka – so I can’t quite remember what they were like. Hairy. They were hairy and young. And now my love for them is burning bright in my soul and I must see them at (P)Oxegen.
But who else to see? Who should I trek across the mud for, or should I hang in the pit at the main stage and guard my front row place from other fans?
I’ve just bought the two Yeah Yeah Yeahs records. Loving the first one, which is bringing me back to my student days. Their new record, It’s Blitz, seems to be quite the jewel too. I haven’t listened to that much yet, but we do have ten weeks for me to learn all the words to the songs.
As evidenced by the above video and this post’s title, I do not know the words to their songs just yet.
James Morrison is quite MOR but he would do for a nice chill out on the grass mid-evening. That is if he’s playing mid-evening, near the grass. The Saturdays seem slightly out of place on this line-up. I wonder if they’ll be bottled? I’ve always wanted to see a band be bottled at a festival.
Regina Spektor – amazing. Will definitely be trying to catch a bit of her show. I do wish the Oxegen people would release a timetable of who’s playing where and when. I need to plan my day with military precision. My day and my outfit. Both will be organised to the nth degree.
Let me know if there’s someone else on this list I should definitely check out.
Wellie hunting, off I go.
