Body&Soul Festival have revealed its first music act names for this year at Ballinlough Castle for the Summer Solstice from June 19th to 21st this year.
The names are:
- Metronomy
- Róisín Murphy
- King Kong Company
- Princess Nokia
- Kojaque
- Marc Rebillet
- Khruangbin
- Sampa The Great
- Kneecap
- Soda Blonde
- Mango x Mathman
- TPM
- Jape
- God Knows
- Thumper
- Hare Squead
- Somebody’s Child
- Aoife Nessa Frances
- Daithí
- Clockworks
- ELM
- Alex Gough
- Denise Chaila
- Kitt Philippa
- Kynsy
- Nealo
- Powpig
- Aimée
- Conchúr White
It’s the festival’s eleventh year, which they are billing as “going back to where it all began” and promising to be “smaller, smarter, cosier, shinier, glitzier”.
That also means a new festival layout and the addition of a 35-Foot Temple as a centrepiece on site designed Burning Man Temple Builder Geordie Van Der Bosch.
As part of its brand new Ideas Programme, The Temple will be a place to bring together performers, thinkers, writers and public figures from the world of music, innovation and the arts: an immersive art piece and speaker stage by day and an exclusively programmed neon disco-beam dancefloor by night.
2FM Rising returns this year with acts including Aimée, Alex Gough, Somebody’s Child, Kynsy, Nealo, Thumper, SodaBlonde, PowPig and Kitt Philippa.
Weekend tickets for the festival start at €195 from Ticketbooth and are available in3 and 5-part instalments. Family and sustainability camping options are also available.
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, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
