[2][3] On Friday 13 June, in what they described as "a move to combat touting", MCD put a limited number of extra weekend tickets on sale for Oxegen 2008.

On 19 February at 16:29, Kaiser Chiefs, The Raconteurs and Ian Brown were announced on the official website,[16][17] followed by The Fratellis, Interpol and Counting Crows the next day.

March: The e-mail sent out with pre-sale ticket information to those registered on the official site confirmed that Bowling for Soup, Kate Nash, Editors, The Hoosiers, Newton Faulkner, Pendulum, Scouting for Girls, The Zutons, Battles, Róisín Murphy, Lightspeed Champion and David Jordan would also be playing.

On Thursday 6 March, Oxegen 2008 was officially launched with the confirmation of appearances by Amy Winehouse,[39] The Pogues, The Charlatans and The Swell Season, featuring Academy Award for Best Original Song winners Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.

Also confirmed for the Dance Stage on the Friday were Calvin Harris and Annie Mac amongst others, for the Saturday were Boys Noize, Mylo, Kavinsky and The Japanese Popstars amongst others and for the Sunday were Luciano, Kaz James, Crookers and Does It Offend You, Yeah?

[50][51] New acts confirmed included Mundy, Aslan, Captain and Sugababes for the Friday and Eddy Grant, Flogging Molly and Fight Like Apes for the Sunday.

[54] On 27 February, there were calls from the Catholic anti-drugs agency, Crosscare, which runs counselling programmes in the Dublin Archdiocese for teenagers caught with weed at Oxegen not to be arrested.

This enormous structure, which comes for the second time to Ireland, has proved daunting to the world's best riders in the past standing 10m high, 15m wide and 14.2m in length, completely covered over with clear 'window' panels and open on both sides for public viewing.

Parsnip crisps, onion rings, energy tablets and "organic ground coffee sourced in Dundalk" were just some of the whimsical desires of the world's biggest music acts, reported the Irish Independent.

Bands such as R.E.M., Kaiser Chiefs and Stereophonics were very precise in listing their requirements down to the finest detail, such as "Wrigley's Extra Blue Menthol eucalyptus chewing gum".

United States bands such as Rage Against the Machine and Interpol had a basket of American-style crisps "specifically New York Cheese flavour" taking up a corner of their changing area.

On the Friday, Amy Macdonald began proceedings with a cover of "When You Were Young"[74] whilst The Saw Doctors performed "About You Now" as seen on The Podge and Rodge Show plus Beastie Boys song "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!

At one point there was some sound difficulty and the show had to be stopped until one of the Sugababes was handed a replacement microphone by someone called Darren from backstage whose name the audience repeatedly chanted for a period.

Opening with "Bones" – a song first performed at Oxegen in 2006 – the band's set also included "An End Has a Start", "Escape the Nest", "The Racing Rats", "All Sparks", "Bullets", "Blood", "Munich", "Fingers in the Factories" and "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors".

The Verve headlined the Main Stage on the Saturday night, opening with "This Is Music" and completing their set with "The Drugs Don't Work", "Lucky Man", "Bitter Sweet Symphony" and "Love Is Noise".

[82] At the end of The Verve's set at Oxegen, The Prodigy were still performing over on the O2 Stage whilst Manic Street Preachers had just finished headlining the Green Room.

They opened with "Motorcycle Emptiness" and "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" and ended with "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" in a set which also included "The Masses Against The Classes", "Autumnsong", "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" and "Nicky Wire's favourite pop song of 2007", "Umbrella".

Little Man Tate were forced to cancel their appearances at T in the Park and Oxegen 2008 after a night out in Brighton on the previous Wednesday left singer Jon Windle with a broken jaw.

Camille O'Sullivan arrived on the Pet Sounds Stage in a kimono and a trilby and stripped down to a saucy dress and Wizard of Oz style sequined stilettos for "In These Shoes", which she performed in an array of pin-up poses.

A burlesque show of epic proportions, Camille ended up stripping down to just a sexy corset and fishnets teamed with a pair of wellies in true festival fashion.

In a final number she cocked her tail and flaunted her sexy curves, winking at lucky audience members and ignoring the "get them off you"s from one eager gentleman in the crowd.

Earlier Kaiser Chiefs took to the Main Stage with frontman Ricky Wilson diving head-first into the crowd before his band had played a single note.

Republic of Loose brought Styles P to Oxegen to assist in their set on the O2 Stage whilst Isobel Reyes-Feeney was also present to provide vocals for "The Steady Song" and "Break".

The Subways made their Oxegen debut by opening the O2 Stage on the Sunday afternoon and delivered a powerful set which ended with a bare-chested Billy Lunn screeching the lyrics to "Rock & Roll Queen".

MGMT finished with the track "Kids" after a twenty-minute delay midset following one errant female punter's decision to scale all 20–25 feet of one of the tent's lattice support towers after "4th Dimensional Transition".

In the midst of the commotion, frontman Andrew VanWyngarden was heard to say: "I guess they're gonna stop the show unless you guys get down, I'm sorry" to widespread booing from audience members.

Taking to the stage with a lone trumpeter playing The Godfather theme, Brown treated the crowd to a version of The Stone Roses song "Waterfall".

Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, on one of his infamous benders, was believed to be at the festival with a 19-year-old Russian waitress he met in a London lap-dancing bar.

Miss World 2003 Rosanna Davison and boyfriend Wesley Quirke were spotted at the Pet Sounds Stage enjoying Camille O'Sullivan's set.

The Union of Students in Ireland warned festival-goers to exercise caution after a quantity of date rape drugs was stolen from a pharmacy in Dublin.