Féile na Gréine from the artists who played this year’s Limerick festival

Féile Na Gréine is special because of the people behind it. When we first went down to Limerick in 2019 to play a DIYLK show with Post Punk and the Technohippies, it was obvious something great was brewing up.

We met a bunch of sound people helping each other make music and art for the right reasons. It’s these same sound heads who are now organising and running Féile Na Gréine.

They’ve spent years building a fantastic community, and Féile Na Gréine’s success is the culmination of all their hard work.

At this year’s festival, one of the many highlights was catching a full band set from Tandem Felix outside Mother Macs. Badhands Dan was on keys and Neil Dexter’s drums sounded tight.

Féile na Gréine is the most special festival for me, and this was my second time as a DJ. Whenever I head to Limerick, so delighted to be back and it feels like a second home to me. The crowds in Limerick are so nice, warm, and super.

Also, there are many cool events in Tokyo, but I’ve never participated in a festival like this before, It was a kind of culture shock in a good way.

What makes Féile na Gréine fabulous is the lovely people there and the community that connects them. It’s wonderful and exciting to meet great artists, grab a pint with everyone here, and go to various cool spots in Limerick while moving around with new pals because there is not just one venue.

I hope there’ll be more events like this in Ireland. I’m really looking forward to next year’s Féile.

Féile this year was really humbling and fun. I was playing after a lot of really cool folk acts, but I obviously brought a completely different vibe, a load of crazy heavy dance music.

The rain started coming down, and the sound was a bit fuzzy for a minute but the ravers came through, all the soggy ravers in the front row, it was a big massive dance, everyone had it together.

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It was super nice to play my own weird stuff away from some of my regular collaborators and still feel some of the same love in my hometown, I love that.

I feel lucky having been able to play Féile twice behind Citrus Fresh and then got to do my own thing this year. We are lucky to have something like this festival in Limerick that can show weird art and obscure artists.

Big ups to the Féile crew and everyone involved, as well as all the venues in and around it. It’s a special little thing.

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Féile is such a beautiful experience, you don’t even have to recognise a single name on the line-up to know there is not an act worth missing.

It feels genuinely curated, like we felt so at home on that line-up, there’s such a genuine energy about everything, and everyone is there for the music. If you walk into Féile feeling like there’s nothing interesting going on in the Irish scene it genuinely doesn’t let you leave feeling that way, every act plays without compromise.

It’s homegrown, baked with love, and you’re on a first-name basis with everyone running the show, it’s just so real. Our manic sound of shrieking through a whole song just to play a dream pop track after doesn’t feel weird at Féile, it’s really at home.