Before Metropolis started two years ago in November 2015, an Irish winter festival seemed like a hard sell. By October every year we’re usually done with the festival spamming all through the summer and we’re […]
Category: Festivals
Liam’s big mouth routine is the PR win of the year
Ireland’s newest winter festival was nearly left out in the cold after a group of residents lodged an appeal — but the first ever Samhain festival is going ahead at Weston Airport, 20 minutes west […]
We’re going Dutch: Lowlands 2017 recap
Even as the hype over Irish festival season fades and your wellies are dumped in the cupboard, it’s not that insane to start thinking about next year. After all, Electric Picnic tickets went on sale before […]
Another field trip: here’s who to see at Electric Picnic
I know I know, fuck the begrudgers and all that, but this year’s Electric Picnic line-up is pretty underwhelming. I’ve missed two or three since 2005, but this is my first year of zero fomo. […]
Jeru the Damaja Interview: ‘I thought I could save the world’
For a movement that’s in constant flux there’s still an obsession with marking out hip-hop’s greatest year, and 1994 is a popular choice. The year had some mythical albums – Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die […]
Body & Soul mightn’t be ready for Sleaford Mods just yet
After a week full of sunshine and a hysterical reaction to the heat, it looks like the luck could be running out on Body & Soul, with rain forecast for this weekend. Pitching a music […]
Aphex Twin set for all the brain-wrongs at Forbidden Fruit
After Life Fest broke the festival seal last weekend, we’re ready for another summer of three-day sessions, and Forbidden Fruit still has claims on being the handiest of the lot. On the go since 2011, […]
Here’s 15 European festivals to take your mind off Electric Picnic
Easter has just gone, so it’s time for the daily blitz of festival updates and line-ups in the next few months — a head wreck if you’re not part of the Electric Picnic brigade after it […]
One more festival for the road: Boxed Off’s second edition
If you’re just getting over the hangover of festival PR blitzes bombarding you with every minute detail of their weekenders, Boxed Off seems to have crept up out of nowhere. The all-day dance event at […]
All at Sea: Get the lowdown on Beatyard weekender
The Beatyard crew took a gamble last year with their first weekender festival. For years the Beatyard festival was a ‘conference’ type umbrella event, spread over a week or two in various Dublin venues, with […]
Forbidden Fruit returns for city takeover
We’ve nearly ran out of Irish cliches for the weather this week, but there’ll be plenty more over the weekend as Forbidden Fruit returns or what’ll be a sunny festival at Dublin’s IMMA. All the […]
Snow Solid Crew: Rise Festival in Les Deux Alpes
Hitching a cable car down the French Alps with So Solid Crew at Rise Festival goes down as my most surreal festival moment of 2015 — and that includes Grace Jones hula-hooping her way through […]
Musique non stop: A day at the Red Bull Music Academy in Paris
Imagine you’re in your college canteen and legendary Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance are having coffee at the next table. After skulling your cuppa you rush to lectures past electronic composer Dorian Concept on the […]
One more tune: Boxed Off closes festival season (promise)
AND here’s you thinking festival season had finally been left in Stradbally with all the leftover tents and crumpled cans — but what about one more? Boxed Off is like that extra dessert you don’t really […]
Bumper to Bumper: Electric Picnic 2015
IF you’re not going to Electric Picnic, your head must be wrecked with the biggest hype-machine ever for an Irish festival. And if you’re on your way to Stradbally today, there’s no harm in gloating as you […]
