Oya Festival Announces 2019 Lineup Featuring The Cure, Mitski and Robyn

Erin Vierra November 25th, 2018 - 11:01 PM

Oya festival, the Norwegian event is celebrating its 20th year with the announcement of its 2019 lineup. The first list of artists confirmed include The Cure, Sigrid, Robyn, Karpe, Mitski, Hollywood, Fay Wildhagen and girl in red. The five day event will take place during August 6-10 at Toyen Park in Oslo, Norway.

The organizers behind the festival went on their official Twitter page and announced the new lineup. In the post, there is a picture of one of the artists taking the stage and if you don’t know who The Cure is, go open up your Spotify app and start streaming. The post punk/glam band that was all the rave during the late 70s and 80s and is still rocking it out. 2019 has the band in multiple festivals including Oya, Firenze Rocks, Roskilde Festival, and Nova Rock to just to name a few.

Onsdag 7. august headliner @thecure Øya med et fullt konsertsett! Billetter i salg nå https://t.co/Q0Aouc0R8p #øyaslipp pic.twitter.com/hQXflZ61xV

— Øyafestivalen (@oyafestival) November 5, 2018

Another artist making her way to the Oya stage is the Swedish pop singer Robyn. She recently announced her brand new tour starting winter of 2019 and also released her new album Honey which followed her acclaimed album Body Talk.

Tickets for the festival are available and can be purchased here. Those who wish to attend next year’s festival have a few options in regards to tickets. There are day passes that can get you in for one of the days as well as festival passes that will give ticketholders free entrance to any festival area during the week as well as most Club Night concerts. Single tickets are sold at each venue for those nighttime specific events.

It was back in 2014 when Oya’s first festival happened in Tøyen Park for the first time, where fans in attendance heard from bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age, Outkast, Röyksopp & Robyn, Bryan Ferry and many more. The festival first took over from the Kalvoya Festival which occurred from 1971 to 1997 and came to be known as Oya in 1999 which means “island.”

The Øya Festival took over from the Kalvøya Festival, which was held on the island Kalvøya from 1971 to 1997, with legends like Frank Zappa, Jackson Browne and Nirvana on stage. The new festival appeared in 1999 under the name Øya, which means “island”, and the name was kept when the festival moved off the island and into the city in 2001. Artists who performed at this past festival, which was sold out, included the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Kendrick Lamar, Arcade Fire, Lykki Li and St Vincent.