With the likes of The War on Drugs, Grizzly Bear and Thundercat already announced, Forbidden Fruit has revealed eight new acts set to play its 2018 outing. With more still to be announced, Justice (above), Bonobo, Vince Staples, Glass Animals, Bicep (Live), Denis Sulta, Hunee and Ross from Friends have all been added. Forbidden Fruit 2018 takes place at The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham in Dublin 8 across the June Bank Holiday (June 2-4). Ranging from €64.50 to €162.50, tickets are on sale now.
Although they’ve always delivered in the past, the line-up for next year’s Beatyard is shaping up to be something rather special. Set to return to Dun Laoghaire Harbour across the Bank Holiday Weekend of August 4 and 5, the festival has revealed Kamasi Washington, Little Dragon, The Sugarhill Gang, The Skatalites, John Talabot, Joy Orbison, Modeselektor (DJ Set), Le Boom, I Am The Cosmos, Bad Bones and Bodytonic DJs have joined the bill. With more acts still to be announced, see the full current line-up below. Go here to buy tickets.
For all the country has to offer in the way of festivals, Ireland has largely lacked one properly centred around its non-camping accommodation. That’s where new festival It Takes a Village comes in. Set for its inaugural outing in Trabolgan in East Cork across April 13-15, the Good Room-curated festival offers an ATP-esque alternative in the form of 150 self-catering houses and apartments, as well as 35 fully-serviced campervan sites in Trabolgan Holiday Village. Better still, with the village featuring three main venues, as well as a multitude of pop-stages across a 120 acre site, the festival’s first line-up announcement…
With the likes of Aine Cahill, Perfume Genius, and Songhoy Blues already announced, three new acts have been added to the bill for this year’s eir Other Voices in Dingle. Set to return to return across December 1-3, the annual Wild Atlantic Way festival has revealed that Django Django (pictured), Lankum, Loyle Carner and Booka Brass Band will make an appearance at St. James’ Church at this year’s outing. With many more acts to be announced, here is the current line-up:
Promising yet another weekend-long blitz of “pop-up concerts and performances in various different shops and outdoors spaces between Barrack Street and Shandon Street, presented by some of the most exciting and essential artists in music, theatre and dance” the first acts have been revealed to perform at Cork’s Quarter Block Party next year. Returning to various venues in North and South Main Street for its fourth outing across Friday, February 2 to Sunday, February 4, TTA favourites Dublin three-piece Percolator (below), Waterford five-pice O Emperor and comedian Alison Spittle are amongst the first names confirmed to make an appearance. With many more…
Returning for its fifth year, Hit The North will return to the streets of Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter across September 21 and 22. Established by Seedhead Arts and the Community Arts partnership back in 203 as a response to vacant spaces along North Street, the free street art festival has been the biggest event of its kind on the island, bringing together some of the biggest and best names in the field from home and much further afield. This year is no different: from Manchester duo Nomad Clan, Dan Kitchener and Irony to KVLR, Friz and JMK, amongst many others, this year’s…
With the likes of TLC, Leftfield and Mount Kimbie already announced, several new acts have been added to the bill for this year’s Metropolis Festival. Set to present 60 acts on 6 stages across 2 days at Dublin’s RDS this October Bank Holiday Weekend (Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th) the festival has added KARYYN, New Jackson, Hubie Davison, Adian Coker, Le Boom, Mathman & Mango, Mount Alaska, ELLLL, Trinity Orchestra, Nialler 9, Lakerama, Mix & Fairbanks, Long Island Sound, Tara Stewart, Jack Thompson, Daire Carolan (All City Records), Papa Lou, Seany B, Dan Stritch, Hidden Flux and Sarah Mooney to…
With its aim of “providing a programme of events that catches the imagination of the public, while also giving artists and emerging talent a platform to engage with along the river” Dublin Quays Festival will make its inaugural outing across August 17-20. Taking place in The Workmans Club, The Sound House, The Liquor Rooms, The Grand Social, The Wiley Fox, Sin E and Bagots Hutton, the free, four-day music, art and spoken word festival will host the likes of Squarehead, Old Hannah, Cat Dowling, Birds Of Olympus, Maria Kelly, Fiction Peaks, Kelly-Anne Byrne, Super Silly and Orchid Collective in the aforementioned…
Presented by Happenings and Homebeat, Another Love Story have added the final acts for its fourth annual outing at Killyon Manor in Co. Meath next weekend (August 18-20) With the likes of Katie Kim, Bantum, Tomorrows, ELLLL, Replete, Beach, I Am The Cosmos, Hilary Woods and Overhead, The Albatross already confirmed, David Kitt with Margie Jean Lewis and Jape, Love Olympics, Ships, Seen Your Video, Floor Staff, Vanishing Lakes, MKAI, as well as a host of talks and happenings also round off the bill for 2017. With weekend tickets sold out, some Sunday tickets are still available to buy here. Here’s the full line-up. We’ll be DJing in the Big Stretchy from 14.15-15.00…
Always something of a hugely reliable draw at the annual Stradbally Festival, Body & Soul have revealed the acts set to play its area at Electric Picnic across September 1-3. With Public Service Broadcasting, New Jackson, Donal Dineen’s This Ain’t No Disco, ELLLL (pictured above), Oh Boland, Shookrah, Soulè, Everything Shook and SlowPlaceLikeHome instantly grabbing our eye, here’s the full line-up: The acts will perform at various stages in the Body & Soul village, including the Body & Soul stage, the Peace Pagoda, The Bandstand and The Haunt. Plan ahead below. Body&Soul Stage Line-up Public Service Broadcasting / Moses Sumney / Aldous Harding…