• Féile Na Gréine Reveal 2024 Line-Up

    July 23, 2024 - By 

    Féile Na Gréine is back, and the 2024 edition promises to be its most ambitious yet. Running from August 23rd to 25th, this annual, volunteer-run festival will take audiences on a three-day musical trail through the music capital of Ireland, Limerick City, stopping at an array of venues – from art spaces and underground clubs to craft breweries and street parties. It’s there we’re certain it will underscore its status as a supremely curated expression of Ireland’s world-beating DIY community. This year’s perfectly pitched line-up includes TTA favourites The Bonk, known for their song and freeform jazz improvisation led by…

  • Féile na Gréine Announce Dublin and Limerick Fundraisers

    July 17, 2024 - By 

    Very soon we’ll anointed with the knowledge of who all’s playing this year’s Féile na Gréine – the annual, volunteer-run Limerick festival that is right up there with the finest, supremely curated expressions of our world-beating, island-wide DIY community. Ahead of that, organisers have announced details of a couple of fundraiser gigs for this festival, set to take over Dublin and Limerick next week. With money raised at both going into funding this year’s festival, which takes over Limerick City form 23-25th August, Crowbar in Dublin will bring together Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies, Nashpaints and Aoife Wolf on…

  • Féile Na Gréine Announce 2023 Line-up

    July 24, 2023 - By 

    The line-up for this year’s Féile Na Gréine has been announced. Doubling up as the Limerick DIY festival’s biggest programme to date, this year’s outing takes over various venues across 18th-20th August 2023. As ever from one of the island’s most tuned-in – and infinitely sound – creative collective and promoters, it’s another wonderfully eclectic, thoroughly stacked line-up of gigs, site-specific performances no workshops across three days and nights. Among this year’s many highlights are a whole host of TTA favourite including Robocobra Quartet (pictured), FONDA, Eimear Reidy and Natalia Beylis, Jane Deasy, Katie Kim, Naive Ted, Search Results and…

  • Limerick Music Documentary Out Of Place Selected for Irish Film Festival London

    October 18, 2022 - By 

    If you know anything about The Thin Air, you’ll likely know how much time we have for Limerick’s thriving music community. At the beating heart of it are various artists & creative conspirators who, together as Féile na Gréine, organise the city’s – and easily one of the island’s – best independent music & art festivals. But their good work doesn’t stop there. Next month, Out of Place, the debut feature-length documentary from the team behind the festival will feature as part of the official programme of the Irish Film Festival London. Directed by Graham Patterson, and starring Limerick artists Denise Chaila,…

  • Watch: Poor Creature at Féile na Gréine 2022

    August 20, 2022 - By 

    Where on earth would we be without Féile Na Gréine? Currently underway in venues throughout Limerick city, the not-for-profit festival is, without question, one of the purest embodiments of DIY, forward-pushing art & music to be found anywhere on this island. Kicking this year’s festival off in style, organisers nabbed the sublime Poor Creature – the new collaborative project from Ruth Clinton of Landless and Lankum’s Cormac MacDiarmada – for a set as part of their Bring Your Own Lunch (BYOL) series. On perfect par with an unforgettable BYOL set by Naive Ted last year, the pair deliver a wonderfully enthralling set of…

  • Féile Na Gréine Announce 2022 Line-up

    July 21, 2022 - By 

    Without a slither of shadow of a doubt, Féile Na Gréine is the purest representation of what Limerick has to offer in the realm of independent, forward-pushing Irish music (look no further than our review of its thrilling 2019 edition). The brainchild of incalculable volunteers and creative sounders from the city, this year’s line-up is its biggest and best yet. Taking over various venues such as Pharmacia across 19th-21st August, it brings together a whole heap of TTA favourites including Fixity, Girlfriend, Frog of Earth, Junior Brother, Messyng, Natalia Beylis, Son Zept, Post Punk Podge, Zeropunkt, Brigid Mae Power, Banríon, Emmy Shigeta…

  • Watch: Naive Ted at Féile na Gréine

    September 10, 2021 - By 

    Today’s the day. After a whole lot of uncertainty, and profound governmental incompetence, Féile na Gréine returns to Limerick city this weekend. To mark the occasion, the heroes at Piquant Media have unveiled a blistering ‘Bring Your Own Lunch’ set from Limerick native Naive Ted. Shot yesterday, September 9th, the DJ, producer and Unscene main man weaves a heady 40-minute set, doubly confirming his status as one of the island’s most singular talents. Get stuck in below. Curated by local collectives DIY LK and Lower Your Expectations, this year’s sold out Féile na Gréine will feature sets from Jinx Lennon, Eimear Reidy, Bodycam,…

  • Féile Na Gréine Line-Up Announced

    August 26, 2021 - By 

    Féile na Gréine have unveiled the line-up for their highly-anticipated return next month. Curated by local collectives DIY LK and Lower Your Expectations, the Limerick music trail will take place across September 11-12th at The Commercial, Mother Mac’s, Crew and Pharmacia. Set to play across the weekend are Acid Granny (pictured), Aoife Wolf, Bodycam, Eimear Reidy, Elaine Malone, Jinx Lennon, lastminuteman, Macca & JB, Naive Ted and Tom Prendergast. Tickets for this year’s festival, which were free, have already sold out.  If you missed out, a waiting list for pods is here.

  • Féile Na Gréine Announce Film About Limerick Artists in Lockdown

    February 4, 2021 - By 

    2019 saw the inaugural Féile Na Gréine, a three-day, not-for-profit music trail taking place across Limerick. With no choice but to cancel last year’s outing, and a return this year still up in the air, organisers have announced details of a new film titled Out of Place. Posting on social media, organisers said, “We’re happy to announce that we’ve been working on a film. We spent 2020 documenting a number of artists from Limerick, and exploring the connection between music, space, and community. More to share in the coming months.” Among the artists to feature in the film are Narolane’s Denise…