Boygenius, Blur, Pusha T, Susanne Sundfør are a few of the newest names to affix Øya pageant’s stacked 2023 line-up.
The acts will carry out between August 8 and August 12 at Oslo’s Tøyenparken for the Norwegian pageant’s twenty third version.
Additionally introduced in Øya’s newest wave of acts are: Ayra Starr, Dry Cleansing, Uncle Waffles, Liv.e, Boldy James & The Alchemist, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Oxlade, Billy Strings, Snail Mail, Domi & JD Beck, Balming Tiger, Lars Vaular, Dina Ögon, Fangst, Tigerstate, Bigbang, Malin Pettersen, and Valkyrien Allstars.
Sigrid, Devo, FKA Twigs, Caroline Polachek, Shygirl, Amyl And The Sniffers, Obongjayar and TV GIRL had been final 12 months introduced for this 12 months’s pageant.
Wizkid will headline Wednesday, August 9, whereas Blur will high the invoice on Thursday, August 10. Swedish singer-songwriter Håkan Hellström is about to headline on Friday, August 11, whereas Sigrid will shut the pageant on Saturday, August 12.
Øya will once more characteristic a 50/50 break up between female and male artists whereas additionally supporting an “environmentally pleasant and sustainable ethos that’s utilized to each ingredient of its organisation”. The occasion first achieved the gender-balanced line-up in 2017 and has maintained it ever since.
Tickets are on sale now and might be bought right here.
In December final 12 months Øya acquired the 2022 nationwide award for finest Eco-Lighthouse within the SMB-market in Norway, throughout all industries.
Per a press launch, the Eco-Lighthouse (Miljøfyrtårnet in Norwegian) certification is “Norway’s most generally recognized environmental administration system for the final 20 years, with practically 9000 companies licensed”.
“They’ve had the certification since 2004, with yearly reporting and a recertification course of each third 12 months. The award is given to Øya for its lengthy standing work inside sustainability, and for persevering with to push boundaries, discover new options and collaborate to make the pageant trade extra round.”
The Norwegian occasion has established itself as one of many world’s greenest festivals, resulting in accolades from the European Pageant Awards and the AGF (A Greener Pageant) Awards.
The positioning operates freed from fossil fuels, with 98 per cent of its energy being renewable and all development equipment being run on biofuel. The progressive strategy can also be utilized to every little thing from recycling (75 per cent of all waste is recycled, having been sorted by hand) to journey (98 per cent of attendees arrive by bike, foot or public transport).
Reviewing the 2022 version Øya Pageant, NME‘s Andrew Trendell described it as “the fest of the longer term” and a “summer season occasion of inexperienced points and inclusivity” in a five-star assessment.
The assessment continued to say that closing headliner Aurora did “precisely what it says on the tin, ending a set that displays the celebration of mom nature, variety, inclusivity, togetherness and homegrown expertise felt all through the week. If solely each pageant might be somewhat extra like this”.
