How did they sneak this upon me?! i didn't even notice the first few bands being announced!
a next to a band means i want to see them 8 days to go, and stage times are now up, and there aren't too many clashes for me thankfully:

Friday 10th July
Main Stage
23:10 Blur
21:10 Snow Patrol
19:35 The Script (whos up for throwing frozen oranges at them? or frozen knives, as suggested by Casey )
18:05 Lily Allen
16:35 James
15:00 The Coronas
14:00 The Artane Boys Band & The Brilliant Things (the what now? how'd they get on the main stage?)

Oxegen Stage 2
23:35 Keane
21:50 Pendulum
20:15 Fun Lovin' Criminals
18:40 Duke Special
17:10 Therapy?
15:40 The Answer (i'll go if i'm feeling outdated enough)
14:00 Telegraphs

Heineken Green Spheres
23:15 2 Many DJs (they clash with Blur though, so its no contest: Blur it shall be)
21:25 Republic Of Loose
19:50 Mogwai
19:20 Fight Like Apes
16:50 Dreadzone
15:20 God is an Astronaut
14:00 Dirty Epics (they should have renamed this the 'Cyprus Avenue Stage'...)

Red Bull Music Academy
00:10 Arveene
23:20 Dacid Holmes / DJ
22:20 Chloe / DJ
21:00 Ladyhawke
19:30 M83
18:00 Johnny Moy / DJ
16:45 Special Guest (sounds entriguing)
15:15 Lukid / DJ
14:00 202's

Oxegen Dance Arena
23:30 DeadMau5
21:30 Swedish House Mafia
20:00 Crookers
19:00 Aeroplane DJ set
18:05 Frankmusik live
17:10 Evil 9
16:20 Japanese Popstars live
15:30 Burns
15:00 Gordo
14:00 Tom Middleton

Hot Press New Bands Stage
00:00 O Emperor
23:00 Pulled Apart by Horses
22:00 Spinnerette
21:00 Metronomy
20:00 Iain Archer
19:00 The Hours
18:00 Dinosaur Pile-Up
17:00 Mumford & Sons
16:00 Carolina Liar
15:00 Priscilla Ahn
14:00 The Truffle Shuffles (officially the worst band ever to play Oxegen)

IMRO Stage
00:25 The Mighty Stef
23:25 Yes Cadets
22:30 The Flaws
21:30 David Kitt
20:30 Heathers
19:30 The Joy Formidable
18:30 Cashier No. 9
17:35 Ruth Anne Cunnigham
16:40 The Brilliant Things
15:45 Home Star Runner (ah why not?! )
14:50 Stone Motion
14:00 Prowler

Bicardi B-Live Arena
20:30 Krafty Kuts
20:00 Beardyman
17:30 Disco Bloodbath
16:00 Dublin Streets (....oh dear)

Saturday 11th July
Main Stage
23:30 Kings of Leon
21:55 Bloc Party
20:25 Elbow
18:55 Yeah Yeah Yeahs
17:30 James Morrison
16:20 The Blizzards
15:10 Squeeze
14:00 The Saw Doctors

Oxegen Stage 2
23:25 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
22:05 Doves
20:35 The Mars Volta
19:05 Maximo Park
17:35 Eagles of Death Metal
16:15 The Game
15:00 The Gaslight Anthem
14:00 Red Light Company

Heineken Green Spheres
23:50 Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club
21:45 Pet Shop Boys
20:25 TV on the Radio
19:15 Peter Doherty (Peter?!)
18:00 Regina Spektor
16:50 The Saturdays
15:45 Daniel Merriweather
14:50 Gary Go
14:00 Fred

Red Bull Music Academy
23:45 DJ Tu-Ki
22:45 Mano Le Tough
21:15 Crystal Castles
19:50 Tinchy Stryder BRAP!!!!
18:35 Colm K DJ set
17:25 Messiah J & The Expert
15:55 Defcon
15:00 Rizm DJ set
14:00 Jamie Woon

Oxegen Dance Arena
23:00 Tiga
21:30 Boys Noize
20:30 Annie Mac
19:30 Digitalism (their name suggests awesome, might check them out based on it
18:30 Dr Lektroluv
17:30 Popof
16:30 Don Rimini
15:30 DJ Philth
14:45 Bitches With Wolves live
14:00 Louis Osbourne

Hot Press New Bands Stage
00:00 The Airborne Toxic Event
23:00 Go Audio
22:00 Patrick Wolf
21:00 Sneaky Soundsystem
20:00 Little Boots
19:00 Hockey
18:00 Passion Pit
17:00 In Case Of Fire
16:00 Howling Bells
15:00 Will and the People
14:00 Seven Days

IMRO Stage
00:25 Cap Pas Cap
23:25 And So I Watched You From Afar
22:25 Codes
21:25 Director
20:25 General Fiasco
19:30 St. Vincent
18:35 Joe Echo
17:40 Nightbox
16:45 Angel Pier
15:50 Carosel
14:55 Jenna Toro
14:00 Distractors

This was the last date of the tour, and was technically part of the Unholy Alliance, (as was Mastodon last tuesday) but slayer were too cheap/expensive to come over to ireland so the other bands came separately.

The order of the songs is almost definately wrong...

Kirsute Gomen
Becoming The Dragon
Insurrection
Into The Mouth Of Hell We March
A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation
Pillars Of Serpants
Broken One
Like Light To The Flies
Throes Of Perdition
Ember To Inferno

...and so began the screwing about session:
a verse and chorus of The Scientist by Coldplay
For Whom The Bell Tolls \
King Nothing bit ¦- Metallica
Cyanide chorus /

...upon realising they had fuck all time left:
Down From The Sky
Rain
Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr (w/lead guitarist and vocalist from Rise To Remain for 1st half of song)



points of note:

- The volleyball game in the Q before the gig was a great laugh, til i got served into the balls That wasn't a great laugh at all.
- The banter and atmosphere in the hours outside the savoy beforehand was generally quite excellent.
- I consumed a personal record of 5 hamburgers, as i had to make use of the eurosaver menu like i never have done before.

- the vocalist from Rise To Remain is Bruce Dickinson's son, but he screams, and leaves what little singing there is (the odd chorus in between the breakdowns...) to the lead guitarist. He also appears to have yoinked a few of his dad's moves, which combined with the tacky metalcore skipping around the stage makes for amusing viewing.
- i will never forgive the vocalist for screaming "Are you guys here to see some sherrrrEEEEEEEEEEHD?!" to the crowd before one of the songs. what a tool...
- the Rise To Remain lead guitarist is a phenominal player.
- this doesn't stop Rise To Remain from being an extremely average metalcore band who sum up everything that is bad about the genre.
- I met their rhythm guitarist and drummer before the show and they were pretty nice guys.


- The Haunted were brilliant!
- Their vocalist had the crowd in the palm of his hand from start to finish.
- It felt like a Haunted gig during their set opposed to the set of a support band.
- Casey got their autographs.
- The rhythm guitarist had class hair, and a camo-finish esp explorer
- They didn't play Hollow Ground unfortunately, which is my favourite song by them.
- they began their set in a really cool way, where they appeared to be tuning up and stuff but it kind of played itself into a song, and appeared to be very spontaneous (although it was rehearsed of course). so before everyone knew it, they were into the first song.
- my highlight of their set was All Against All.


- i think Travis Smith was a bit on the drunk side for the first few songs, cos some of the double pedal and snare hits were a bit dodgy timing wise.
- Matt had a pair of big massive gleaming white thrash metal runners.
- Matt spat approximately 97 times during the show (not actually at the crowd, but i think one of them hit me). It was not that cool.
- I noticed Corey was wearing a black spandex vest thing under his t-shirt, which was pretty gay haha!
- Paulo injured some young wan with his bass while crowd surfing.
- the bearded old guy who barged in front of me half way through was a twat, as Mr. Heafy pointed out.
- most people don't know how to pronounce Heafy (its HAY-FEE dammit, not HEE-FEE!), despite it being a lot of peoples 4th time seeing them apparently.
- the one crowd surfer i encountered got absoloutely pwned by the security, much to my delight, as they pulled him down from behind and he landed quite painfully, and lost his phone. it sounds harsh, but the bastard was wearing boots and bate about 9 of us in the face. good times.
- i "touched" 3 members of Trivium...
- i missed actually meeting them on 2 occasions throughout the day by a couple of minutes, much to my sadness, and i also was only a finger

...for an ugly bastard!