BACARDI B-LIVE BRINGS LATIN SPIRIT TO OXEGEN 

For OXEGEN 09, we’re bringing fans a dedicated phone app that’ll have all the info you need at the touch of a button. 

The Official OXEGEN09 Mobile App is your essential guide to Europe’s Favourite Rock N Roll weekend on your mobile. This year’s version will have a much larger range of official info and features than ever before. 

The app will include a live sitemap and a complete list of stage times including a real-time now and next feature so that you’ll not miss out on any of your favourite bands.   

Fans will also be able to access all the latest OXEGEN news as it happens, travel and safety info, artist profiles, a stage by stage guide and even video highlights across the OXEGEN weekend. 

Other cool features include live games, a handy torch, a special app to help people find each other and a virtual lighter.   The app will also have links to Twitter and Facebook and a YouTube upload facility.   We’ll also be running some great competitions via the app too! 

Fans are encouraged to keep an eye out for more and more features as the festival goes on.   The application will be available from Wednesday by texting OXEGEN to 51000 (Standard text rates apply) and will also be available FREE at all key information points onsite via Bluetooth. In return for your text, you will receive a text message linking you to the download, by following the simple instructions the applications will permanently download to your app/games/downloads folder depending on the type of phone you have. 

Onsite from Thursday the application can be downloaded free of charge from a variety of locations including the information screens throughout the site, most stages, and official information tents.  

The application is live and dynamic and updates every time you use it. So you will always be up-to-the-minute onsite.   The service, provided by iMobile.ie, is the most advanced ever delivered in Ireland and is developed in conjunction with the promoter to help make sure fans have the best time possible. 

Bacardi B-Live Returns to OXEGEN

Beardyman, Filthy Dukes, Krafty Kuts and A Skillz are among the acts on The BACARDI B-LIVE arena as it returns to OXEGEN again this year. 

BACARDI B-LIVE mixes the hottest music with the very best BACARDI cocktails for the ultimate festival experience, with the hugely-talented BACARDI B-LIVE bartenders on hand all weekend demonstrating their flair and serving up the latest and most refreshing cocktails – including the Ireland’s festival favourite – the Bacardi MOJITO. The original.

The BACARDI B-LIVE Arena will kick off on Friday when UK dance act, DISCO BLOODBATH take to the stage and fill the arena with their unique blend of raw disco and vintage house.  They will be followed by BEARDYMAN, the UK beat box champion twice over, who left music fans at last year’s B-LIVE stage shouting for more – his performance really is a MUST SEE.  KRAFTY KUTS is guaranteed to cause a commotion when he takes to the stage on Friday night with his hip-hop and electro sounds.  Enjoying a meteoric rise, his performance will showcase his cutting and scratching moves.  Dancing is all about the drumbeat; percussionists who successfully master the art are few and far between, and Bacardi’s B-LIVE rhythm-king extraordinaire, BASIL is undoubtedly at the top of the food chain, and will be a masterful mainstay throughout the weekend.  Basil will take the helm after Krafty Kuts and entertain all for the rest of the opening night.  

SOUND CHECK bring their weekly Dublin club night to the B-LIVE stage as they get Saturday off to a fine start.  HORSE MEAT DISCO are dedicated to the industry of human happiness and they will pump it out for the rest of the afternoon.  Up next will be UK house act, IDIOT PROOF, who will push the boundaries and keep ‘real house music alive’ over the festival weekend. FILTHY DUKES will then take to the stage and bring us into the night zone.  These guys used to be DJs, now they are in band and for this performance they will be DJs again and their set will be packed with bleeping, popping analogue shakedowns.   

The final day of BACARDI B-LIVE at OXEGEN will be opened by the Irish, when REMEDY IRELAND gets going on the turntables.  They will be followed by THE UNABOMBERS delving into a mystic brew of house, disco, broken beat, techo and northern sulphuric soul – a set of musical dynamite that will transfer energy to all on the final day. THE SLAMMIN BOYS aka Mark Hogg and Jamie Scahill will bring their Manchester residency to the OXEGEN community.  These guys have performed everywhere from Russia to Spain and Denmark to the US that they are well worth checking out.  A SKILLZ will follow, showcasing his deck skills with fusions of funk hip-hop breaks.  His fierce production skills and turntable dexterity have seen him explode onto the global scene and he will be bringing that fiery enthusiasm to the BACARDI B-LIVE arena.  All good things must come to an end, but not before BASIL says so, and closing duties will be left to him – you can be sure he will do it IN STYLE.  For stage times, log on to www.bacardi.com or oxegen.ie.

BACARDI B-LIVE showcases both international and emerging artists, providing a collaborative environment and rousing audio and visual experiences, designed to promote spontaneity through audience participation. No mystery that the 'spirit' behind the B-LIVE series is BACARDI. In 1862 in the city of Santiago de Cuba, Don Facundo Bacardi revolutionized the spirits industry when he began producing BACARDI Rum, the world's best-selling rum brand. Please enjoy Bacardi responsibly.

Important Travel Advice

Fans are encouraged to think ahead and book their bus travel now to help ensure speedier boarding for everyone.  Dublin Bus operate a special return shuttle service from Parnell Sq West, Dublin 1.  Tickets cost €20 and you can purchase in advance through Ticketmaster.ie. Bus Eireann also operate services from Dublin and nationwide – visitwww.buseireann.ie  for more info. 

However you’re travelling to OXEGEN, We strongly recommend you plan your journey in advance allowing AT LEAST an extra 3 hours travel time to and from the venue.

Please be aware that there will be at least a 90 minute delay exiting on site car parks at end of concert as Public Transport, Coaches and Park and Ride Shuttle Buses will be given priority.