Forbidden Fruit
The Royal Hospital Kilmainham
May 30th and 31st
Who is playing?
Forbidden Fruit returns for its thirteenth year this June bank holiday weekend, and as one of the few proper city-based festivals, it’s well established attractive place for gig and club goers – any self-respecting music fan is always tempted by names on the lineup every year.
Forbidden Fruit always hosts some big party-starting sets on its main stage and this year’s headliners of Caribou, Jamie xx, Peggy Gou and Underworld reads like a lot of people’s top dance acts – a coup to see all in one weekend.
FF excels at cool underground crossover with acts like Yaeji, Jazzy, Fcukers, Glass Beams and Clara LA San playing alongside dance music’s bleeding edge – Effy, Spray, KILIMANJARO, Juicy Romance, Mall Grab and Irish music’s best up and comers – MOIO, Cliffords, Bricknasty, Ahmed, With Love; Khakikid and Jazzy among them.
More: 8 acts not to miss at Forbidden Fruit Festival
Tickets?
The festival has issued a low ticket warning of less than 20% of tickets left in all tiers so move fast.
Stage Breakdowns
Forbidden Fruit Night After-Parties
In The Meadows
The Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Saturday June 7th
Who is playing?
The one-day festival at IMMA returns with a lineup of guitar and rock-playing artists. We can expect three stages of music across the day, and today we are looking at the big headline acts playing the one-day event.
Among the big acts like Slowdive, Iggy Pop, Gilla Band and Sprints who we’ve previously spotlighted, we are particularly excited at the prospect of catching punk duo Lambrini Girls, the sleazy rock of Warmduscher, Northern English indie rocker Billy No Mates, Irish alt-trio Really Good Time and punk poet Dr. John Cooper Clarke.
More acts to be announced too.
Stage Breakdowns
Tickets?
In The Meadows takes place at IMMA on Saturday June 7th.
Tier 2 – 90% sold – remaining tickets on sale now.
Day tickets cost €82.55 plus fees.
All Together Now
August 1st – 4th
Curraghmore, Waterford
Who is playing?
The most discerning festival of the summer has now truly well-established itself on the Irish festival map. All Together Now is the “heads” choice, you know, the kind of people who go to gigs and festivals on the regular.
Taking place near Portlaw in Waterford, it features 18 stages of programming of music, food, cabaret, talks, DJs, spoken word and much more, and is stacked with music of all kinds.
The big names are big draws as it is – Fontaines D.C., Bicep, Nelly Furtado, CMAT and Wet Leg among them but there’s loads of prospective considered highlights in our book – Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Chloe Qisha, English Teacher, Arooj Aftab, Baxter Dury, Geordie Greep, Nilufer Yanya, Everything Is Recorded to name a few of our recommendations.
Tickets?
All Together Now is sold out, but you register interest in tickets at alltogethernow.ie/tickets
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
