Ireland’s Oxegen Festival will not take place this year due to an apparent dearth of headline acts.
“It is with regret that MCD announce that Oxegen will not take place this year due to lack of suitable headline acts which, combined with the financial demands by local agencies, make it no longer viable to stage the festival in its current form,” organisers have said in a statement on the festival’s official website.
It’s not the first time Oxegen has withdrawn from the summer calendar having been cancelled in 2012. The event returned last year with a new focus on dance-orientated music, when it was also reduced from three to two-and-a-half days.
The festival began as a close relative to T In The Park in 2004, and at its height played host to around 80,000 fans. Plenty of big names have topped the bill during the past decade such as Blur, Arctic Monkeys, The Who, Muse, The Strokes and The Killers.
