Body and Soul 2013

leakyboots

Early Bird tickets on Sale now

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/promo/9tf2tn

Lineup TBA

CorkClaire82

Are the early bird and installment tickets sold out? Bugger it anyway if they are.

ghostdancer

still on sale at the link above. ticketmaster might have been having a fit earlier if they weren't showing up......

CorkClaire82

ghostdancer wrote: »

still on sale at the link above. ticketmaster might have been having a fit earlier if they weren't showing up......

Thank you! I swear I wasn't going mad earlier, they definitely were showing unavailable

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

maybe a stupid question but what's the price after the early bird? weren't weekend tickets €100 last year at the regular price?

Robyn_14

georgiecasey wrote: »

maybe a stupid question but what's the price after the early bird? weren't weekend tickets €100 last year at the regular price?

Yeah I noticed that too,I take it the full price ones must be going up to 120

Evil Sausage

georgiecasey wrote: »

maybe a stupid question but what's the price after the early bird? weren't weekend tickets €100 last year at the regular price?

Robyn_14 wrote: »

Yeah I noticed that too,I take it the full price ones must be going up to 120

Also, if you look at the listing on Ticketmaster, it states 3 day weekend camping tickets. Last years early bird tickets were 2 day camping with an option to add a Friday camping ticket at extra cost.

It appears B&S is moving to an official 3-day festival this year.

grudgehugger

This may sound a bit "bah humbug" but I must say I really liked the Friday night vibe last year with only the woods open and less people around.

So I say "boo" to a full 3 day fest.

grudgehugger

... and while I'm moaning about a generally fab festival (that I bought my 2013 earlybird for straight away), what is with having headline acts like Spiritualised only play for one hour?

That really p!ssed me off last year - should be at least a 90 minute slot for the bigger name acts (especially when they have a 20 year back catalogue of gold, largely consisting of songs lasting 10 minutes or so...)

Evil Sausage

Looks like the Early Bird tickets are all gone.

Full price tickets on sale shortly at €139

Ticketmaster

kormak

Balls to that... price hike to €140?!
Just went online this morning (payday) to buy wifey's birthday present and they're not available anymore! :mad:

ghostdancer

would want to see the lineup before paying that tbh.
although it's only a €15 increase on last year if you went down on the Friday, so it isn't too bad really.

kormak

ghostdancer wrote: »

would want to see the lineup before paying that tbh.
although it's only a €15 increase on last year if you went down on the Friday, so it isn't too bad really.

I couldn't make it last year... were the ticket prices €124 for the full wknd?
I thought it was 99 regardless. That's a perfect price in these times. I was kinda hoping B&S didn't go down the Picnic road and start jacking up prices once popularity set in!!

ghostdancer

it was 2-day for €99, and then there was a Friday camping add-on available for €25 if people wanted. as Evil Sausage pointed out earlier in the thread, it seems to be now a 3-day festival, so presumably there'll be a few established acts on the Friday. from what i can remember last year it was mostly smaller Irish acts/DJs on the Friday, and then the bigger names on Sat/Sun.

ghostdancer

actually, seemingly not any big acts on the Friday, looks like the same as last year really...
http://entertainment.ie/music/news/Body-and-Soul-promise-more-grown-up-experience-for-2013-festival/161571.htm

2013's incarnation of one of our favourite summer festivals, Body & Soul, will see the Friday add-on ticket idea abandoned and instead a new three-day ticket will be in place, to what we've been told will be a more "grown-up" environment in the idyllic surrounds of Ballinlough Castle in Co. Meath.

The opening day of the festival will see the festival's guests treated to an exclusive programme of events in the woodlands surrounding the festival site and the Stone Walled Gardens. The main stage will open for business on the Saturday afternoon.

2013's festival will take place across the June Summer Solstice Weekend, just as the inaugural festival did in 2010, and the there will be a bevy of activities to take part in from the moment you arrive, such as yoga in the Zen Gardens, arts trails, artisan food stalls and much more. If you're pulling around a couple of kiddies in tow, there will be a dedicated Soul Kid's Garden to ease the burden.

Now, there isn't yet any information about who'll be on the bill this summer but we're expecting a line-up announcement sometime in mid-March. Tickets for the festival are on sale now, from usual outlets.

Weekend tickets are available for purchase in easy instalments. An initial payment of €69.50 is payable before and up to Tues 30th April and a second and final instalment of €69.50 + €6.35 service charge payable on Fri 7th June. If opting for the Combined Event & Bus ticket, the instalments are €84 each plus service charge.

grudgehugger

If memory serves, the walled gardens were not open on the Friday last year.

Last year, all that was open on the Friday was the woodlands.

Sounds to me like potentially all that will be closed this year could be the Main Stage, depending on how you interpret things...

So it mean a lot more small areas open this year like the Casa Habana, Dance Tent (whatever that was called...) and numerous other little spots banging out tunes around the gardens...

I don't think they could sell 3 day tickets and then have as little on the Friday as they did last year.

Woodlands doesn't have the space for the full crowd...

Eroticplants

When do full priced tickets go on sale?
Will in coincide with the line up release?

grudgehugger

And anyone know when we'll get a line-up?

Soon I guess?

ghostdancer

just googled it, and last year it was 20th March, so should hopefully be within the next few weeks.
busy month for the festival announcements....

bodhrandude

Well seeing that there is not a squawk from EP as yet, the line up for this should be cropping up over the next few days, should be interesting.

ghostdancer

released next Thursday i think.

kormak

It's released for the Spring equinox... in lieu of the actual festival occurring over the Summer equinox! Peace!

grudgehugger

So is the line-up announcement tomorrow?

Hope so....

Can we have Mount Kimbie and/or Nico Jaar please!

ghostdancer

would love to see Mount Kimbie there, heard a new song of theirs last week and it sounds great.

yep, tomorrow is what B&S have been saying anyway, although today is the Equinox, so maybe it's today...

here's one that jumped the gun...

http://djoystick.com/events/pantha-du-prince-13/

Pantha DU Prince at Body & Soul Festival in Dublin
Sat Jun 22 2013 - Sun Jun 23 2013 - 20:00 - 0:00
@ Body & Soul Festival in Dublin

https://twitter.com/panthaduprince/status/304219421231169536

Come to "pantha du prince @ Body & Soul Festival" Sunday, June 23 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. http://fb.me/EFl7SK7q
1:22 PM - 20 Feb 13

Evil Sausage

Mount Kimbie owe us one at B&S, as it is

grudgehugger

Pantha du Prince - good start!

lc180

Sea Sessions is happening the same weekend and also announcing its line-up tomorrow.

Quite different festivals but might be a little lineup overlap. Fat Freddies Drop, Bastille and Soak already confirmed for SS.

shed head

grudgehugger wrote: »

Pantha du Prince - good start!

eh fcuking great start - i'll be going just for this, hopefully another few great acts to follow

rainbowdrop

lc180 wrote: »

Sea Sessions is happening the same weekend and also announcing its line-up tomorrow.

Quite different festivals but might be a little lineup overlap. Fat Freddies Drop, Bastille and Soak already confirmed for SS.

Hoping and praying Fat Freddies Drop will be announced for Body & Soul.....

Visualise.... A warm sunny evening, a cold pint of cider and Fat Freddies Drop to get ya in the mood for the night ahead..... Roll on festival season!!!

ghostdancer

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2013/03/21/solange-nick-cave-pil-and-many-more-for-body-soul-festival/

Acts who will be playing the Body & Soul festival at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath on June 21 to 23 include:

Solange (our favourite act at last week’s SXSW festvial)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (yes, we predicted Aul Nick and his likely lads would play an Irish date this summer)
PiL
Kurt Vile & The Violators
Pantha Du Prince
Charles Bradley (soul power!)
Jon Hopkins
Willy Mason
Mmoths
Iron Curtis
George Fitzgerald (“Thinking Of You” is a killer tune)
Almighty Scion
Adultrock
Monto
RSAG
Ryan Vail (one of the stars at the Banter Salon in Derry last month)
Fish Go Deep

Weekend camping tickets for the festival are €139 a pop (plus TM countryside tax) and go on sale later this morning. More acts to be announced in due course.

Evil Sausage

ghostdancer wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2013/03/21/solange-nick-cave-pil-and-many-more-for-body-soul-festival/

Acts who will be playing the Body & Soul festival at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath on June 21 to 23 include:

Solange (our favourite act at last week’s SXSW festvial)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (yes, we predicted Aul Nick and his likely lads would play an Irish date this summer)
PiL
Kurt Vile & The Violators
Pantha Du Prince
Charles Bradley (soul power!)
Jon Hopkins
Willy Mason
Mmoths
Iron Curtis
George Fitzgerald (“Thinking Of You” is a killer tune)
Almighty Scion
Adultrock
Monto
RSAG
Ryan Vail (one of the stars at the Banter Salon in Derry last month)
Fish Go Deep

Weekend camping tickets for the festival are €139 a pop (plus TM countryside tax) and go on sale later this morning. More acts to be announced in due course.

Wow......just, wow

grudgehugger

Really interesting looking collection of acts here.

The "wow" factor of the Nick Cave booking is tempered by the fact that I'll be seeing him @ Primavera but I reckon seeing him at Ballinlough will be a more special occasion than the Parc del Forum. Plus my better half will now actually be genuinely looking forward to one of the musical acts rather than just looking forward to a hot tub in the woods

Delighted to see Mmoths on here - also Solange, Charles Bradley, Willy Mason, George Fitzgerald, Iron Curtis all sounding good to me

Also will be kind of legendary to see Johnny Rotten live!

What a line up.
Another Wow..

kormak

Wow! is right... I'd like to think I know a fair bit about music and I only recognise 2 acts in that lineup?!
Both of which I wouldn't go see in my back yard...

lordgoat

kormak wrote: »

Wow! is right... I'd like to think I know a fair bit about music and I only recognise 2 acts in that lineup?!
Both of which I wouldn't go see in my back yard...

Wow! You think you know a fair bit about music!!😜😜

Super line up!

kormak

lordgoat wrote: »

Wow! You think you know a fair bit about music!!😜😜

Super line up!

I do yeah! but obv not to your tastes...
I doubt I'd be alone in calling that a poor lineup for it's price.

draiochtanois

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kormak

draiochtanois wrote: »

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That's why I held off till I saw the lineup. Horses for courses I guess...
Think Longitude is the way forward this year. :cool:

Eroticplants

Are there more acts to be announced or is this it?
Nick Cave, PiL and Solange are strong for me, must do some investigating into the other names.

homerun_homer

I was hoping to go this year but once again can't Plenty of other festivals to make up for it but I really want to experience Body & Soul.

grudgehugger

Definitely a case of "horses for courses" on the line-up.

If you like Nick Cave, you will be going "wow" - he's one of the best live performers I've ever seen, and the new album is his best in ages. I predict an epic show - as long as the organisers don't have an epic fail moment and only give him a one-hour slot (i'm still bitter about how short the Spiritualised slot was last year...). His gig at Liss Ard in the 90s is in my personal "Best 5 gigs ever" list, and BnS is well capable of providing an atmosphere to match it.

If my music taste was as guitar focussed as it used to be, then most likely this line-up wouldn't do a lot for me.

Aside from Nick Cave, all the stuff that grabbed my eye is either pop/soul acts like Solange or Charles Bradley, or the electronic acts like Mmoths, George Fitzgerald etc.

And also, most of the above I know very little about. I just feel like I will enjoy them a lot at Ballinlough.

Another reason to be excited (and to shell out the cash for the weekend) is that I feel like BnS is about a lot more than the music. I had a great time there last year, but most of it was enjoying the woodlands, the random DJ's that weren't even worthy of being listed on the official line-up, the food stalls, the hot tubs etc.

So for me, with my tastes, and with the potential absence of EP, going to this feels like a no brainer. Longitude says it's going to be more than just a music festival - I know BnS is.

Tree Scape

Will Nick et Al do the Sunday I wonder.
V tempted to bring the missus and kids on a day trip!

kormak

I agree totally. Body & Soul is an amazing wee festival, love it to bits.
More than just the music... the setup, the atmosphere, the quirkyness of it all!!!
Just not feeling this year's lineup one single bit, as opposed to previous years.
It's funny how blinkered people are becoming with the Nick Cave announcement and nothing else.
Take him away and it's a very weak festival lineup so far.

ghostdancer

preferred last year's tbh.
don't like PiL at all, and Nick Cave never did much for me.

Pantha Du Prince and George Fitzgerald would be the only 2 that i'd be especially happy about, although GF is in Dublin next month anyway...
like bits of Solange, Charles Bradley, Kurt Vile and John Hopkins, so should probably check them out properly.

as grudgehugger says above though, it's definitely a festival that is about a lot more than the music, so not having to race from stage to stage allows you time to enjoy the other things and general vibe at it. every year at EP for example, i never get to see any of the "other" stuff really, because from 3pm onwards there's always an act i want to see.

cruhoortwunk

Adultrock, Willy Mason, MMoths and RSAG will be worth a look. I got an early bird ticket but I wouldn't pay €145 for them

Tree Scape

Nick playing saturday night by whats on his/their website

Billy Mays

grudgehugger wrote: »

Definitely a case of "horses for courses" on the line-up.

If you like Nick Cave, you will be going "wow" - he's one of the best live performers I've ever seen, and the new album is his best in ages. I predict an epic show - as long as the organisers don't have an epic fail moment and only give him a one-hour slot (i'm still bitter about how short the Spiritualised slot was last year...). His gig at Liss Ard in the 90s is in my personal "Best 5 gigs ever" list, and BnS is well capable of providing an atmosphere to match it.

If my music taste was as guitar focussed as it used to be, then most likely this line-up wouldn't do a lot for me.

Aside from Nick Cave, all the stuff that grabbed my eye is either pop/soul acts like Solange or Charles Bradley, or the electronic acts like Mmoths, George Fitzgerald etc.

And also, most of the above I know very little about. I just feel like I will enjoy them a lot at Ballinlough.

Another reason to be excited (and to shell out the cash for the weekend) is that I feel like BnS is about a lot more than the music. I had a great time there last year, but most of it was enjoying the woodlands, the random DJ's that weren't even worthy of being listed on the official line-up, the food stalls, the hot tubs etc.

So for me, with my tastes, and with the potential absence of EP, going to this feels like a no brainer. Longitude says it's going to be more than just a music festival - I know BnS is.

Just out of interest, how long did Spiritualized play for last year. Was gonna head down (they would've been the main reason) but didn't in the end

autotrader

That looks like a fairly rubbish line up compare to last year:o

You'd think with EP not announced yet they may have picked up a few more marquee names. I can't imagine many people would have many of those acts on their must see list

I'm sure it will be great craic anyway but it's a but of a marmite line up

Mickolution

Billy Mays wrote: »

Just out of interest, how long did Spiritualized play for last year. Was gonna head down (they would've been the main reason) but didn't in the end

About an hour, maybe a little less.

Evil Sausage

Some nice additions here from On The Record

Latest additions to the Body & Soul festival which takes place at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath from June 21 to 23:

**** Buttons (hell yeah!)
The Congos (“Fisherman” will sound ace in that setting)
Kate Boy (Stockholm-based band playing as part of their first ever tour)
Forrests (Dublin-based two-piece with a soon-come debut album under their collective oxters)

They join the previously announced Solange, Nick Cave, PiL (featuring sexist numptie John Lydon), Charles Bradley, George Fitzgerald and many more. We hear that more acts will be added to the bill in the coming weeks.

Weekend camping tickets for the festival are €139 a pop (plus TM rebates tax) and are now on sale

grudgehugger

F*ck B*ttons is a great addition

No word on whether they have new material coming out - I assume they do.

Fantastic news.