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Oxegen Festival - Ireland Music Festival, 2012

Dublin's Best Summer Concert

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Unbelievably to most, the Oxygen Festival is taking 2012 off. That's right, the Dublin stages will be dark: no Oxegen Festival 2012. Check back next year!

Ireland's Oxegen Festival is always one of the can't-be-beat best concerts in Northern Europe, and 2010's lineup isn't set yet, but you can bet it'll be set to sizzle Dublin with over 100 acts and 80,000 rockers at this sells-out-fast event featuring confirmed concerts from Jay Z, Muze, Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, Kasabian, Florence and the Machine, Stereophonics, Paolo Nutini and Faithless. Last year's lineup included Bloc Party, Elbow, Razorlight, Kings of Leon, TV on the Radio (love 'em), Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Manic Street Preachers, oldies but greaties like Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails and the Pet Shop Boys (the latter two were also at other European concerts last summer, and you'll see similar duplication this year) and there will be, as they say, so much more.

Oxegen Festival Camping and Dates

The Oxegen Festival is July 9-11 in 2010. Overnight camping at Punchestown Racecourse, Naas, County Kildare for those doing the entire weekend of the Oxegen Festival (and everyone does) opens at noon on Thursday, July 8, and closes at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, July 12. Oxegen Festival ticket prices haven't changed since 2008 and are €224.50 total for three days of music *and* overnight camping (yes, camping is included). For €20 more, buy a four-day ticket to start the music festival fun on Thursday and camp that night, too.

Oxegen Festival tickets go quickly as the countdown to craziness commences, and scalpers thrive here: may the force be with you if you forge on to Dublin ticketless (you can always commiserate with other hopes-dashed travelers in Temple Bar, Dublin's downtown pub-hopping place to be).

Enjoy the shows!

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