The Mantua Festival has announced some more headline additions to the three day event taking place in Ballinagare, Co.Roscommon from the 1st – 3rd of August for the fourth time. Múm, Daedelus, Poets Of Rhythm, Infomatics, Jinx Lennon, Bats, Terrordactyl, Gravenhurst, Clark, Shackleton have been added with a full line-up after the jump.
Main Stage
Múm / Gravenhurst / Daedelus / Build An Ark / Poets Of Rhythm
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club / BLK JKS + Much More TBC
Alphabet Set Stage
Clark (Warp, UK) / Taskforce (MFTC, UK) / Shackleton(skull disco, de)
Clouds (live) (nopa, 2nd drop, FL) / Cotti(soul jazz, bassface, UK )
ItalTek(planet mu, uk) / Datasette (AI, UK) / Super Extra Bonus Party
Colz&Grizzle / Sunken Foal (planet mu) / Filaria (bugklinik, acroplane)/ Solen
Sarsparilla / The Wax Ensemble (be) / Infomatics / Ed Devane / Fringe / cignol
Prince Kong fet Jah Balance / Nouveau Noise / Fran Hartnett / Bluefood
16hz&Joanny Oakley / Vince McMahon / Worries Outernational / P77 + More TBC
Rootical Reggae
Festus Coxsone / Levi Roots / Rod Taylor / Tena Stelin / Word Sound & Power
Jimmy Ranks / Conscious sounds / Culture Freeman / Vibronics / Madu Messenger
Jah Marnyah / Universal Rockers / Firehouse Skank / Revelation
Dionysus Stage
Blood or whiskey / Killnaboy / The Dubtones / The Blame / Roosky
Estel / Droppin Bombs / The Offenders / Bats / DEAD PLANTS / El Bastardo
Green Monitor / Hightown Crows / Ilya K / Jinx Lennon / Jung turks
Leonard And Bubbas Delicous Goo-Goo Cluster / Los Langeros / Spank
Rarely Seen Above Ground / Spellbound / Ten Past Seven / Terrordactyl
The Lowend
FRIDAY with REACH
Barry Delta / Ricky Force / Safetyboy / Ernie
Stacks / Code / Source / Jet Li / Bonz / Synergy
Impact Djs / Beckett / Shopen / Gallifari
SATURDAY with WOBBLE
Naphta / Don Rosco / 2-Bit / Major Grave
Redmonk / Nez / Miles Iwes / A-Force
Radikal guru / Noid the Droid / Get Low
Roots Factory Crew
SUNDAY with !KABOOGIE
Sixfoot Apprentice / The Nihilist / Thatboytim / Nedule
Rodney / The Geek / PCP / Dj Class A / Oshroom+Nippoman
Kalpol / Subone / Deeboh / Rickie K! / Halfdutch / Baz
Fukrewindz / Alienhand / Pastamasta / Ste Noor / Assquake Djs
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Mum, Gravenhurst, Daedelus, Sarsparilla, Datasette? It’s turning into quite the little highlight isn’t it?
Looks like they could ‘nic’ a few festival goers this summer..(ahem, see what i did there? Erk.)
I’ll go again this year if it isnt pissing rain the entire week beforehand.
mum should be good, enjoyed their set at coachella
Múm is pretty amazing considering the size of Mantua.. Roll on Ballaghadreen!
let’s hope they bother to pick everyone up from the airport this year…
[quote post=”1194″]let’s hope they bother to pick everyone up from the airport this year…[/quote]
Actually, that was a rumour and was untrue.
Here’s a full statement I received from the organisers regarding last year:
Rest assured last years problems will be rectified and to clarify re:07 seperate carparks for punters and artists were inaccessible due to inclement weather despite having been assessed in days previous by safety staff and emergency personel incl guards, firemen, security. A last minute carpark was set-up in the town with local bus company cleaning up financially despite organisers offers and requests to subsidise or reduce fare. The resulting chaos caused by folk parking on the road, blocking entrances and exits stretched staff and security who dealt as well as possible. Likewise the build up was hampered with each piece of equipment, generator fencing etc delivered on site in limited transport capable of manouvering in the rising mud-adding to time constraints to set up other infrastructure. Toilets were delivered on site and taken away by wanker delivery folk who refused to drive on site and left fully loaded. Mantua project is a non-profit organisation and recieves unlike other festivals no corporate sponsorship with the massive costs and workload covered by a small group of dedicated people.
Anyway, looking forward to next year which will again feature areas curated by the ever excellent rootical and alphabetset crews and new areas curated by some very special guests. Again- all efforts will be made to bring a top quality and diverse line-up, the same informal happy atmosphere with better environmentally friendly facilities- all without paying extortionate prices and having corporate cocksucking advertising slapping you in the face at every turn.
savage la! Flying Lotus been added to the line up – joy 🙂
BTW… just read that statement above fully… all very formal until the last line “cocksucking advertising slapping you in the face at every turn.” hilarious!
T’was really good. Mum, all the reggae tent, Nouveau Noise (the guy on two kaoss3’s a guy on a Roland 606 and a drummer all hammering away like octopuses, they were Nouveau Noise right?) ilya K , Eygyptian Lover were all highlights for me. I was hyped all weekend for Shackleton, thought I was watching him, tribaly bassline bizniz then the music drifted into average acid techno??? Its very very possible I got confused with playing times or there was some changes maybe?? hats off to the organisers, loads of toilets, all the sound systems (bar the punk one perhaps) were top notch. Weather held up well too.