Forbidden Fruit 2012

I'm heading along tomorrow and really looking forward to it

Any idea what the ground is like? It's not due to rain tomorrow but there has been a good bit of rain over the last 2 days...what was it like this evening?

Fewcifur wrote: »

Considering heading on Monday.

How bad were the searches on the way in? Considering a discrete hip flask to lighten the booze bill. Also, anyone get stopped bringing in a DSLR camera?
Always so hard to judge these festival situations, and without a re-entry policy, there's no way to test the defences, so to speak.

searches were minimal, the most brief pat down ever. A hip flask tucked into the sock should be no problem.

New Order... just wow. Fantastic.

Really? Thought they were fairly dull and they murdered love will tear us apart. Grimes and Death in Vegas were fantastic

Bottleopener wrote: »

New Order... just wow. Fantastic.

Love Will Tear Us Apart was very hurried, they didn't even properly go off stage before turning back to play it. They've also been playing Transmission recently and didn't play it last night.

Enjoyed it myself but can understand fussy people saying it was all a bit flat. A combination of the weather and fairly moderate sound setup I would imagine.

Anyone got the full set list?

a quick check of the weather says we are due a shower around dinner time but that's it. I'm not sure how well the ground will have recovered from yesterday though, so if anyone gets there early let us know what it's like!

crackin day folks! let's do this. once more with feeling

AdviceisNice wrote: »

Hi, anyone know for sure if tickets are available at the venue today? Really wanna see Wilco but don't want to travel all the way to Kilmainham to find there's no tickets.

Cheers in advance

There's a ticketmaster outlet onsite, you should have no problem getting tickets, I got tickets on the day for Saturday and yesterday.

Thought New Order were quite good. Played some of their lesser well known songs, but was disappointed they didn't play Transmission. Really enjoyed Death in Vegas though the song I was most looking forward to, "Aisha" sounded almost totally different!

Squelchy wrote: »

Someone oughta be horsewhipped over the sound during that performance.

Was basically unlistenable.

I've heard that from a few people. Didn't think the sound was great for Death Cab but grand for The Rapture and New Order. The Magician DJ set in one of the tents was great fun!

Went Sunday too, weather was bloody awful but had a great time anyway:

Lower Dens: too early in the day to get a good appreciation of them but they were decent.
Grimes: Really excellent performance. Played all the hits from Visions and one or 2 from previous albums.
Purity Ring: Very impressed with them. Had been listening to their material for a while and it came across really well live.
Com Truise: Only OK. He is a fine DJ but he never got the crowd going.
Death in Vegas: Tent was jammed. Good set as per usual from them.
Modeselecktor: My highlight of the day along with Grimes. Great set and crowd interaction. Can't help but dancing along to the duo.

Would go next year for sure if line-up was good. Well laid out except for toilets which were very muddy and could have done with separate entrance/exit.

went sunday and monday

- sunday, weather was bit sh*te obv but great time nonetheless. new order excellent, Grimes v enjoyable. Death in Vegas savage as always. The Magician - was that somebody's 21st or what? good craic for what it was.

- monday - now that's more like it - terrific day on all fronts. Liars well and truly steam-rolled the generally chilled ambience of the day (in a good way)

enjoyed Field Music, Andrew Bird and Real Estate were a joy.

no queues for a beer, nice people. will go again!

nice one FF

Didn't get around to posting about my Sunday at FF...

I was a bit gutted that the Trinity Orchestra weren't playing 1st thing on Sunday so I got there a little later than I originally planned and caught Daithi's last few songs and enjoyed the tunes even if there weren't many people there. I went to see We Cut Corners but only stayed for the first song. I decided to see Lower Dens because they were on the same stage before Grimes and I wanted to make sure I got a good spot.

Anyhoo, I was upfront and centre for Grimes and really enjoyed her set. I remember looking back before she started and people were trickling in and when I looked back at the end, the tent seemed nearly full. Oblivion and Genesis got the biggest reception from the crowd. Fellow Canadians Austra were on next on the main stage so I rushed over there and got there for the start of their set in plenty of time. I last saw them in Crawdaddy so seeing them on the main stage was a little strange but they were just as good if not better than their Crawdaddy gig.

I saw most of Death in Vegas' set, who were very good, though the tent was jammers. They should've been on the main stage. Since Purity Ring were on the same stage after them, I was able to get up front again. I felt sorry for them when they had some technical problems with their electronic-lamp instrument set-up. They got it working eventually and played a great set.

At that point, I was a bit wrecked and just hung out and visited the Phantom area. I enjoyed the Cast of Cheers' set but hung out in the back. They finished a little early so I was able to see New Order do a finale of Love Will Tear Us Apart. I'd have to say my first FF was a great experience. Only negatives were the queues for the jacks at times and people smoking in the tents with the security guards constantly having to tell them they can't smoke. Definite pluses were the handy location and the distinct lack of scobies. Despite the mostly bad weather, I didn't see anyone causing much trouble and there were good vibes all over the place.

I always thought one of the main selling points of Forbidden Fruit was that it was a city centre music festival with no need for camping!

I wonder if this decision to look somewhere else had anything to do with the IMMA. I reckon the grounds took quite a beating with all the weather this year and the folks at the museum aren't happy with the condition of their garden.

I hope it stays were it is, I went Saturday & Sunday this year and thought it was great.

PeterTwo wrote: »

I assume they mean that they'll be expanding to a 3 venue festival, like Primevera did in Porto. Sounds like a great idea to me!

Never thought of it like that, that would be kinda cool actually! Either way I'm looking forward to next year.

sporina wrote: »

cork for 2013 i believe

that would be brilliant...anything to take from the utter shít that's happening in the Marquee:mad:

PeterTwo wrote: »

I assume they mean that they'll be expanding to a 3 venue festival, like Primevera did in Porto. Sounds like a great idea to me!

That's what I thought too, it'd also be a bit like Reading/Leeds. If the acts are already here in Ireland, they can just jet down to Cork for a second gig. I reckon they might be able to pull off two locations if it was Dublin/Cork but not anywhere else.