Oxegen 2007
I’ve just returned from Ireland having been lucky enough to attend the Oxegen Festival 2007, and thought I’d better write a few lines about it. (No, I managed to avoid the various tent-burnings etc that went on)
Highlights were Bloc Party, Maximo Park, Interpol, Muse (easily the best of the bunch), the Killers and the Pigeon Detectives. The Bravery were pretty good too, which surprised me considering I didn’t think much of what I heard of their new album.
The mud was, unsurprisingly, horrendous. The tents managed to cope quite well since we pitched well away from the main paths people were using, but there were several other tents which appeared to be sinking rapidly. The weather was all over the place, and would switch between blue skies and torrential rain within a matter of minutes.
Overall though, awesome. The crowds were great (more than can be said at the Shins concert sadly), to the extent that the Interpol vocals were barely audible above the crowd’s singing. Paul Banks got as far in the opening line of the Heinrich Manoeuvre as “How are things” before everyone else finished the line for him by yelling “on the west coast?” at the top of their lungs.
Not something I’d perhaps do again tomorrow as it was pretty tiring, but very much worth it and generally great.
Anyone else been enjoying the festival season this year?
P.S. Updated last.fm playlist for Oxegen to follow.