Oxegen

horrific when was oxygen

do you remember Luke it was definitely during the summer yeah but I don't think it was late in the summer maybe it

was August as well because EP took over from it but yes I actually have photos of me at Oxygen in I want to say 2012 like Oxygen was carnage like July yeah I remember in 2012 going and it was the literally the wellest year like I remember having a pint in one of the photos I'm in and like you can see the pint is full of rain like it's just like it's like such a diluted cider but I have this massive red poncho on and it's like the size of my whole body and I'm still drenched in it but I remember being like lol like I was 22 maybe 22 I'm not young that is young I suppose but yeah I used my first time at Oxygen I was 16 and I all sorts of weather happened that year and I was just like when you're younger like it's gas and even somber I saw people down in the mosh pit and I was like that was me at Arctic Monkeys like when I was 16 I'm

surprised your parents let

you go well i wasn't allowed to camp or anything though so i went with the crillies circa oh and went home and like their mom their mom collected me like i was home every day little little did you know what went on down there i don't think she doesn't the podcast but definitely had my with that my tequila disaster that i had there vomiting everywhere um but you know what they didn't know and the mom didn't know i was like can i get wash my jeans and the washing remember she was like you can wash your jeans and you go back and I was like please because there was just like such a vomit stain on them and I remember getting the bus back to Limerick the next day just being like I'm literally going to die yeah so

I think if you had a camper van... and you parked in the campervan area that is basically a family spot like there's no like random lads drinking in the caravan area not really like we walked past it like and it was very family orientated and again there's so much to do during the day but i wouldn't have them at the gigs at night time like for the crushing crowd stuff yeah first of all so i don't know for the day time

stuff

but you know EP back in the day like when Oxygen was the main gig EP was like a family quiet daytime thing that had like one or two big acts like it wasn't really like it was kind of like an

My first career path was I'm going to move to the States and I'm going to tour with artists and dance and do all that.

But when I came across like him and all the other DJs, I kind of fell in love with DJing and I just remember going to Oxygen Festival with him and I was side stage watching it and it was just in that moment I said no that's what I want to do and as soon as he got off stage I said if I'm going to DJ he's like I'll teach you and I was like okay so in that moment I said I'm gonna be good at this so I'm gonna be a plan B I'm just gonna go with this And I said to myself, there's so many dancers in LA, but back then it wasn't female DJs.

So I thought it was a smarter move to do.

I'm still in music.

Bigger and bigger every year.

Like, I remember when I first started going to festivals, it was Oxegen.

Yeah.

I don't know if you remember that.

[laughs]

Yeah.

Oxegen was the main one, and Electric Picnic was kind of the more smaller one, arty one.

But over the past few years, it's become the biggest one in, in the country now and the main one, and like you said, keeps getting bigger and bigger.