The Body & Soul Festival has announced its first lineup for June 21st-23rd, 2013 Ballinlough Castle in Co.Westmeath today and it’s really starting to feel like Electric Picnic is not going ahead now. The lineup is:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Public Image Ltd (PiL), Solange (more on her later), Kurt Vile and the Violators, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Breton, Willy Mason, Pantha Du Prince, Iron Curtis, Jon Hopkins, Almighty Sion, George FitzGerald, ADULTROCK, Monto, RSAG, Ryan Vail, Fish Go Deep with more TBA.
Tickets for three-day camping for Body & Soul are €139 (up from last year but a full extra day’s programming is included FYI) with bus for €168. Sunday day tickets are €55 with bus for €84. Family campsite tickets are €139 includes 1 adult and two children under 12. Campervan tickets are €50. All the above plus fees of course.

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