Thank you everyone!

After four wonderful festival days it is time for us to start packing down the festival site. We have enjoyed ourselves watching great concerts every day and woken up each morning to stunning reviews. Our volunteers have done an incredible job, and as we say every year we could not have managed...

Q-TIP CANCELS - WE ARE WORKING ON FINDING A REPLACEMENT

Q-Tip was supposed to come to the medieval park next week to make up for cancelling last year. As it turns out, he will not be able to come this time either. This is very sad for everyone who was looking forward to his show. We are still waiting for an official statement about the cancellation....

TAKING OSLO BACK

The last few days have been heavy and unreal. Our thoughts go out to everyone who has lost someone or in some other way has been affected by the tragedy in the centre of Oslo and at Utøya. We send our condolences and compassion to the people who are struggling right now. These are times...

Sebadoh confirmed

We recently received the unfortunate news that Fang Island are not able to come to the festival after all. One of their members have quit and the band will not be able to play any concerts this summer. Despite this disappointment we were very pleased to announce that the indie rock legends...

More Nighttime Øya hiphop

Tornado Booking threw a great party at Living Room last year and now they’re ready to repeat the success. On Wednesday, they’re taking over Dattera til Hagen with American DJ Young Guru, Swedish duo Mohammed Ali and Silje and Christine of the DJ duo Hoetell. On Thursday, there will...

HOTEL DEAL WITH FESTIVAL PASS FOR ØYA!

Do you need a festival ticket and a place to stay during Øya? Here is our best solution, with great accommodation in the middle of the city (In Møllergata). As our only hotel-partner Comfort Hotel Xpress offer accommodation from the 9th to the 14th of August including a festival...

Nighttime Øya at Gamla

Gamla is a venue with great tradition, offering three nights of concerts during Øya. Swedish Dipper takes to the stage on the Wednesday, while the weekend is packed with sweaty rock’n’roll in various forms. British King Salami is playing together with Norwegian Teddy Trigger...

Øya-program complete

We have now completed the program for the four days in the park, and the other Øya-events are also coming together nicely. This year’s program is extensive, varied and insanely cool. We know there are many out there who are just as excited as us. The Øya booking group are...

PURO INSTINCT, WOLFRAM, HOW TO DRESS WELL AND CHAD VALLEY AT NIGHTTIME ØYA

Smug takes over Sukkerbiten to introduce four days of dancing fun. In addition to the artists already mentioned, you can also experience DJ sets by festival acts James Blake and Andy Butler from Hercules And Love Affair.
We will continue to release Nighttime Øya artists, so stay...

NIGHTTIME ØYA with Endless Boogie and more

We continue releasing artists for the Nighttime Øya Program. Today, it’s all about The Crossroad Club, Oslo’s spanking new blues bistro. The program is made up of classic rock revivalists Endless Boogie from the U.S., Swedish Daniel Norgren and our own Navigators.
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NIGHTTIME ØYA WITH JUICY AT STRATOS: DJ CASSIDY, Q-TIP (DJ), MAYER HAWTHORNE (DJ) AND 6TH BOROUGH PROJECT

We are putting the final touches to The Nighttime Øya program. We have previously released Okkervil River at Rockefeller, Low at Parkteatret and Glasser and The Antlers at John Dee.
Today , the time has come to present the Juicy crew’s strong and hiphop-heavy lineup at...

Panta Rhei Project pres. Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory

Panta Rhei Project and The Øya Festival are proud to present the world premiere of The Bell Laboratory, a new piece of work composed by the renowned electronic producer Pantha Du Prince and composer Lars Petter Hagen.

After last year’s success with Brandt Brauer Frick and...

Maria Mena and Envy in the park, Glasser and the Antlers to Nighttime Øya

This year’s Øya program is filling up slowly but surely. Both Maria Mena and the promising hip-hop group Envy are now ready to spread good vibes at our outdoor festival.

In addition to more great names confirmed for our festival in the Medieval park, the program for Nighttime...

Guided By Voices play their only European show at Øya

Last fall, we were quite curious and excited when we read that Guided By Voices’s classic lineup was to play their first concert in six years on the Matador label’s birthday party in Las Vegas in October. At the same time, it was said that the band would not be playing outside the...

Low plays Nighttime Øya gig at Parkteatret 10/8

On Wednesday the 10th of August, the American band Low is playing an evocative late night concert at Parkteatret after the concerts in the Medieval Park are finished. The concert is presented in collaboration with Goldstar.

GRAVEYARD TO ØYA

We are now in the final stages of putting together this year’s festival program. There are still some open spots, but we’ll be filling them over these next few weeks. Today, we can confirm that Graveyard from Gothenburg are coming to the Medieval Park on Thursday the 11th of August,...

Okkervil River at Nighttime Øya 10th. of August

This year’s first Nighttime Øya concert is set! On Wednesday the 10th of August, Okkervil River will play a nighttime concert at Rockefeller after we finish the program in the park.

ABOUT NIGHTTIME ØYA
Nighttime Øya are concerts and club concepts around...

Noah And The Whale + Rumble In Rhodos at Øya

The Øya Program is to be completed in a few weeks, but there are still a lot of spots to be filled. It is now confirmed that the British favorites Noah And The Whale are coming to the Medieval Park on Friday the 12th of August. The band recently released their third album, and we look...

Hurra Torpedo is opening the last day of this year's festival

It is a tradition for the opening concert at the festival’s last day to be somewhat special. Thousands of people have been showing up at 13.00 to kick off our longest and fullest festival day. This year, Hurra Torpedo will give us a special performance in the mid-day sunlight. Expect to...

Dance Party with Hercules And Love Affair and The Budo Band 11 August

Hercules And Love Affair and The Budo Band are two New York bands that will get you dancing with abandon at the festival Thursday 11th of August. On the very same day, you can also see Aphex Twin, Janelle Monae, Kaizers Orchestra, Fleet Foxes, Q-Tip, Explosion In The Sky, Honningbarna and Wiz...