Oxegen 2005

Oxegen 2005
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong at Oxegen 2005.
Genre	Rock
Dates	9–10 July 2005
Location(s)	Punchestown Racecourse, County Kildare, Ireland
Years active	2005
Website
www.OXEGEN.ie

Oxegen 2005 was the second Oxegen festival to take place, following the dissolution of its predecessor Witnness in 2004. It took place on the weekend of Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July at Punchestown Racecourse near Naas in County Kildare, Ireland.

70,000 attended the festival, with 60,000 camping for the weekend. The headliners were Foo Fighters on the Sunday and Green Day on the Saturday.

A limited number of tickets went on sale in December 2004 at a discount price and quickly sold out, the main bulk of tickets went on sale on Friday 18 February, costing €150 for the weekend with a camping pass, €125 for the weekend without a camping pass and €67 for a day pass for either day. The tickets sold out in record time on 3 June, six weeks prior to the event. Promoter Denis Desmond was chuffed:

"For Oxegen to sell out so far in advance in its short history is an incredible achievement. It goes to show that the event has already established itself as one of the most important events in the Irish music calendar."

There were five stages on which over eighty acts performed during the course of the two-day event. Sunday night headliners Foo Fighters, as well as Ian Brown,The Prodigy,The Frames,Keane, and The Killers were some of the first acts to be announced for the festival. Also playing were Saturday night headliners Green Day,New Order,James Brown, Queens of the Stone Age,Feeder, Kasabian,Nine Black Alps, The Departure, Razorlight, LCD Soundsystem,Echo & the Bunnymen, The La's, The Revs, Snoop Dogg and The Futureheads are some of the acts that performed at the festival.