The festival has issued a low ticket warning of less than 20% of tickets left as they announce new acts, Forbidden Fruit Night afterparties and stage breakdowns.
8 acts not to miss at Forbidden Fruit Festival
New acts added today include:
Bricknasty, Zaska, Ahmed, With Love; and successful Emerging Talent Applicants VaticanJail, Kayleigh Noble, MENACE and Sarah Crean are among the new acts added to Forbidden Fruit.
Forbidden Fruit Champions Emerging Irish Artists:
This year, Forbidden Fruit continued its commitment to championing homegrown talent by launching a nationwide open call, offering emerging artists the chance to perform at the festival and its official afterparties.
The initiative spotlighted three key areas:
Live/Electronic acts across Ireland: VaticanJail, Kayleigh Noble, Spooklet, DiebyVeg, Sahana
Female-identifying, trans, and non-binary artists in partnership with Skin&Blister: MENACE, Acushla
Dublin 8 Local Spotlight Artists: Sarah Crean
Jimbo Jones, Jake Fitz and Puzzy Wranger, were also added.
Stage Breakdowns
Forbidden Fruit Night After-Parties
Forbidden Fruit After-Parties take place in a variety of official locations around the city and running up until 3am. Festival-goers can look forward to an expanded lineup of DJ sets with major international talent sharing the stage with some of Dublin’s most exciting collectives.
All festival afterparties go on sale this Friday at 10AM at forbiddenfruit.ie.
Standing out so far are a Daphni set at Fidelity, Brooklyn Trumpeter, producer, and sonic explorer Takuya Nakamura playing Tengu on Sunday with Yaeji and Fcukers both playing Centre Point on the Sunday.
Tasty.
SATURDAY
- Centre Point | Special Guest (Centre Point)
- Pygmalion | Special Guest (Pygmalion)
- Wigwam | LB aka LABAT + more TBA (The Lounge)
- Tengu | Special Guest
- The Grand Social | Spray (OMNI)
- Fidelity | Daphni (Hidden Agenda)
- Racket | Justin Jay (LOST)
- Cellar | Krl Mx (Influence)
SUNDAY
- Centre Point | Yaeji + Fcukers (Centre Point)
- Wigwam | Juicy Romance + IN PARALLEL (LOST & The Lounge)
- Tengu | Takuya Nakamura (Hidden Agenda)
- Racket | BUNT (Human Error)
- The Grand Social | Special Guest
Remember: FF Night shows are ticket-only events, exclusively for those attending the festival by day. You must have a valid festival ticket in addition to a ticket for the FF night. Ticket checks will be in operation. Line-ups are subject to change; venue entry policies apply.
Forbidden Fruit tickets
Final Tier 4: Weekend (2-Day) tickets are on sale now – €174 + fees.
Final Tier 3: Saturday Day tickets on sale now – €99.50 + fees.
Final Tier 3: Sunday Day tickets are on sale now – €99.50 + fees.
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.
