Longitude has revealed the first acts set to perform this summer. When it returns to Marlay Park in Dublin across July 1st-3rd, the festival will host headliners Tyler, The Creator, Dave, Megan Thee Stallion, A$AP Rocky, Doja Cat and The Kid Laroi among others. Check out the full first line-up announcement below. Priced at €99.50 for day passes and €239.50 for the weekend, tickets for Longitude 2022 go on sale this Friday, 4th February at 9am.
Any artist that enjoys strong commercial success in their teens will, to a degree, grow up in public, and this is especially true for Tyler, the Creator. As the de-facto leader of the anarchic rap collective turned media empire Odd Future, he’s been baiting, and duly receiving worldwide media attention for the best part of a decade, both positively for his growing sophistication as a rapper and producer, and negatively for, well, just about everything. Odd Future were truly an exercise in controversy, and while their punk-inspired, stage-diving live shows may have had them banned from New Zealand, it was…
‘None of you are Muslim, are ya?’ says the taxi driver coolly. It’s a remarkably, calmly delivered piece of xenophobia, proving that the sun even has a good effect on bigots. So though it may have made for a frosty entrance it provides a good talking point in the slow moving traffic as we make our way to the start of the flat-footed, full-blooded, bloated, banter-filled beginning of festival season proper. Because today is day one of Longitude 2016 a festival with a good reputation, an impressive line-up and the most important headliner of this year. So while sitting in…