Forbidden Fruit Festival is only a few weeks away when it takes over the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham on Saturday May 31st and Sunday June 1st.
The music lineup looks like this so far (comedy lineup), with a bit more to be announced:
Saturday:
The Flaming Lips, Bell X1, Flying Lotus 3D show, Fuck Buttons, Nils Frahm, The Young Knives, Vann Music.
Sunday
2ManyDJs, Warpaint, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Public Enemy, Little Dragon, Gold Panda, Klangkarussell (live), Brian Deady
Here’s a Spotify playlist of most of the acts playing for your preview listening and perusal.
Nialler9 x Forbidden Fruit Spotify Playlist
- Little Dragon – ‘Paris’
- Thundercat – ‘Oh Sheit It’s X’
- Public Enemy – ‘Public Enemy No. 1’
- Flying Lotus – ‘Stonecutters’
- Metronomy – ‘Love Letters’ (Soulwax remix)
- Dillon Francis feat. TEED – ‘Without You’
- Gold Panda – ‘We Work Nights’
- The Flaming Lips – ‘Free Radicals’
- Fuck Buttons – ‘Olympians’
- Klangkarussell – ‘Sonnentanz’
- Brian Deady – ‘Actually’
- Warpaint – ‘Keep It Healthy’
- Wild Beasts – ‘A Simple Beautiful Truth’
- Bell X1 – ‘I Will Follow You’
- Kid Karate – ‘This City’
- The Range – ‘Metal Swing’
- Vann Music – ‘Life In Real Time’
- Nils Frahm – ‘You’

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.