Fatboy Slim, Bicep, Horsegiirl and more for Belfast’s Emerge Festival

Emerge is the Belfast dance festival that happens at Boucher Road Playing Fields in Belfast in late August.

Emerge has just announced its first acts for the bank Holiday weekend August 23rd and 24th 2025.

Playing the festival are:

• Fatboy Slim
• Bicep Pres. Chroma
• Sonny Fodera
• Hannah Laing
• Horsegiirl
• I Hate Models
• Marlon Hoffstadt
• Plus Special Guest Dj 2Qwik2Gruv (AKA blk.)
• Sarah Story
• Sim0ne
• Yasmin Gardezi
• Azyr
• Dyen
• Fantasm
• Holy Priest
• Jazzy
• Meltx
• Sikoti B2B Alex Farell
• Hotline
• KAD
• Kristian Woods
• Reboot DJs
• Tara Casey

80 acts, across 4 stages and two days, with a full A/V set up is promised.

Tickets

Pre-sale tickets 12pm Thursday 5th December here.

Tickets go on-sale general sale Friday 6th December at 9am from ticketmaster.ie

emergebelfast.com

Niall Byrne

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.

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