Life Festival 2013

ghostdancer

http://www.life-festival.com/

first lineup announcement:


tickets:
http://www.tickets.ie/event.aspx/life-festival-2013-belvedere-house-mullingar-24-May-2013/26XVH

electrobanana

Nice lineup so far gonna hit this again this year if im around its a great spot for a festival and if the weather is anything like last year it will be brilliant..i got a serious sun tan last year:cool:

ghostdancer

electrobanana

Big announcement for this at 5pm according to festival twitter page..any ideas?

ghostdancer

Scuba said he's playing a festival in Ireland and it would be announced soon, so this would be the most likely one. no ideas after that, so many acts it could be really!

electrobanana

ghostdancer wrote: »

Scuba said he's playing a festival in Ireland and it would be announced soon, so this would be the most likely one. no ideas after that, so many acts it could be really!

He would be a nice addition similar to Klock & Dettmann last year and they rocked the place on the Sunday..we'll find out soon enough

ghostdancer

Laurent Garnier, thought there'd be more than 1 addition tbh....

Pace2008

Meh.

electrobanana

A big fat meh

ghostdancer

RBMA Stage, don't think Krystal Klear or Toby Kaar were announced previously....
it says on FB that the sets on here will be recorded and available to stream afterwards too

Rastadoyle

are there 1 day tickets for this?

bodhrandude

Rastadoyle wrote: »

are there 1 day tickets for this?

It seems to be just weekend camping tickets available on their website anyway.
http://www.life-festival.com/index.php/tickets/

ILIKEFOOD

bold question but am going to ask it anyway: I love my tunes but have always avoided Life because of the alleged amount of boys n girls who aren't afraid to start a scrap, rob someones tent and cause general misery. However with 16 festivals under my belt and countless nights on the tiles I have bought a ticket. I'm going to find out what the buzz is like either way! Is there an unprecedented number of head wreckers down at this or would the likes of oxegen be worse or just as bad????

Rastadoyle

was there in 2009 and 2010 and thought it was grand but no idea how its been last few years

ghostdancer

pretty much all the reports from the last few years have been that it's fine. still a few heads around, so just keep your wits about you and don't bring anything expensive, same as any festival really.
from the photos and videos it seems fine anyway, and people i know who've gone (who certainly wouldn't be scumbags) go every year, so must be fairly ok!

bodhrandude

Here is reviews I done of Life Festival 2011, 2012. Life festival is an immensely laid back festival with a nice mix of electronica, reggae and dance music, go for it, you'll not regret it. http://niallmcquaid.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/life-festival-2011/ http://niallmcquaid.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/life-festival-2012-mullingar-ireland-25th-27th-may-2/

electrobanana

Iv been to most of the life festivals over the years and iv never had a bit of bother at any of them..the only time i saw hassle was the year they had John Digweed playing, other than that its a fairly relaxed festival with a really good vibe and a great way to start the festival season.

ams

electrobanana wrote: »

A big fat meh

Garnier was super at Timewarp and I was totally meh about him as well!

ghostdancer

ams wrote: »

Garnier was super at Timewarp and I was totally meh about him as well!

i was watching this just now, and it's pretty good tbf. presume it's a DJ set and not live at Life

bodhrandude

Was at the Galway briefing for volunteers today and the word from the organisers is that Life is on its way to selling out, so get out there and snap them up before its too late. Probably one of the nicest festival line ups in Ireland this summer.

WoollyRedHat

bodhrandude wrote: »

Was at the Galway briefing for volunteers today and the word from the organisers is that Life is on its way to selling out, so get out there and snap them up before its too late. Probably one of the nicest festival line ups in Ireland this summer.

As much as I wouldn't be surprised that that is true, is there not a possibility that they are doing that as a marketing ploy to drum up sales?

Anyway, anyone know where's a good place to get tents, not too expensive but will do the job? What are Lidl tents like?

bodhrandude

Is there day splits for this yet, will do some checking around on the net and try and come up with some day splits.

electrobanana

bodhrandude wrote: »

Is there day splits for this yet, will do some checking around on the net and try and come up with some day splits.

I came up with this so far.

Friday

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Saturday

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Sunday
Groove Armada

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Laurent Garnier

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Modeselektor
Seth Troxler
Booka Shade
Kerri Chandler
Mmoths

Fridays looking pretty sweet so far if im right with the dates

bodhrandude

Getting excited now, I hope the Groove Armada DJs play this track, will go ape**** if they do, one of the best.

cup of tea

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Anyway, anyone know where's a good place to get tents, not too expensive but will do the job? What are Lidl tents like?

I got a 3 man in Dunnes for around 10-15e when I went to Creamfields, was just for myself but I didn't mind a bit of extra room!. It poured down from the heavens but I didn't see a drop of rain on the inside of it so I'd thoroughly recommend one from there!.

ILIKEFOOD

cup of tea wrote: »

I got a 3 man in Dunnes for around 10-15e when I went to Creamfields, was just for myself but I didn't mind a bit of extra room!. It poured down from the heavens but I didn't see a drop of rain on the inside of it so I'd thoroughly recommend one from there!.

Oddly got a great 4 man of seriously quality on sale at 53degrees north for 50 - probably just a once off to be honest - you just missed a lidl outdoor sale 2 weeks ago - dont know if they keep older stuff on the floor - worth a look - wouldn't go near the dunnes tents if they dot have an outer and inner sheet - better of looking at Argos ones or some of the army stores if ur in Dublin city around capel st area

Magnetics

Anyone know what the capacity is this year??

Getting excited now!

bodhrandude

Magnetics wrote: »

Anyone know what the capacity is this year??

Getting excited now!

The same as Body & Soul festival, about 5,000 capacity.

ILIKEFOOD

Hey lads what's the story with bars and bringing booze down? Is it campsite only?

BananaR

Officially, it's the same as any other festival re:bringing cans from campsite into music arena which has bars etc. Not very strictly enforced in my experience but that can still vary from year to year/different times of day/night

In the same vein, anyone remember if there was an off-license on site last year and did they do pre-orders?

Have to bus it this year, and carrying a slab of beer won't be an option....

JamesMcAteer93

Is there anyone looking to organise a bus from the Cork area to life festival? We already have seven people. The more people we find the cheaper it will be.

electrobanana

If anyone is heading up from the Limerick area next week and needs a lift iv 2 spare seats going just throw in a few quid for fuel..pm if interested.

sasta le

Whats the skanger ratio like at this?

Lidl have 2 man dome tents for 30 euro pop in things

bodhrandude

Sasta there will be the odd amount of rough pill heads there, but they are easy enough to avoid and the festival is nothing like the Oxegen reputation of yore. Most attendees are fairly easy going and laid back, most are just here to have a good time. I wonder how the tickets are selling for this.

bodhrandude

Well thats my roster set out for next weekend, Friday 10 am - 6 pm and Saturday 8 am - 4 pm. I canna wait, roll on Life fest will be setting up tent next Thursday on the Belvedere house estate woo hoo :D:D

ghostdancer

hopefully the weather for Sunday and early next week keeps up until next weekend

electrobanana

Facebook

Groove Armada pulled out..not a bad replacement

unfortunately today we have some sad news. It's with a heavy heart that we have to announce that Groove Armada will be unable to perform at Life Festival 2013
We received the following statement from the band:

“Due to a medical emergency, Andy Cato from Groove Armada is unable to travel to the forthcoming shows in Ireland & Ibiza while he undergoes surgery for a herniated disc.

Andy commented "Obviously I hate letting down the promoters and ticket buyers but in this situation there really is nothing I can do apart from to hope the operation works so I can at least start walking again."

Tom and Andy hope that more positive news will follow post-surgery (today) and the rest of the summer shows will proceed as planned.”

Here at Life HQ we have been totally overwhelmed with the love and support the festival has had this year. While it would have been a great honor to host Groove Armada at Life Festival 2013, unfortunately now due to circumstances completely out of our control this is not to be.

Life Festival is an experience which is greater than the some of its parts and since every cloud has a silver lining, we are delighted to announce that after a day of hectic phone calls and lots of talk. Life festival has secured a special LEFTFIELD DJ SET to add to the already stellar lineup.
We wish Andy a speedy recovery and look forward to working together in the future.

Life must go on!

ghostdancer

fair play to them getting someone like that at short notice, they could have just said "oh well, he had to pull out, sorry", but they actually bothered to sort something else.
i know it's only a DJ set, but Groove Armada was too, so not much difference really IMO, looking forward to it

bodhrandude

I wonder what a Leftfield DJ set will be like, will they have MCs rapping and stuff or will it just be remixes from the first and second albums.

electrobanana

Have to agree lads its a brilliant replacement at such short notice and if you ask me id rather this than a GA dj set iv loved Leftfield for years so this just made my week...ps id love if they brought the Cheshire cat with them as mc.

ghostdancer

well Leftfield for the last few years is just Neil Barnes on his own, Paul Daley has been working on his own DJ stuff.
so i'd say it will just be one of them playing various techno/dub songs, with probably a few Leftfield songs thrown in there. doubt there'll be any MCs.

bodhrandude

Something to get ya in the mood.

bodhrandude

Jenny Greene apparently said on the radio last night that this has sold out completely, I heard from a mate. So has this actually sold out?

bodhrandude

So, is this sold out then.

electrobanana

bodhrandude wrote: »

So, is this old out then.

Not sure if its sold out yet but id say it will be by friday...just saw this Twitter from Life

Whoa its really starting to heat up. To say we are over excited here in Life HQ would be an understatement. We would like to inform everyone that it is highly unlikely there will be tickets available at the gate this year so if you are planning on coming to Life and dont want to be disappointed we would strongly advise you purchase your ticket very soon. Also remember Sunday only tickets will go on sale tomorrow morning.

wickerman07

Hi just wondering if there are facilities to charge phones at Life Festival?

New phones have terrible batteries and its a pain losing people and having no phone to contact them.

bodhrandude

There is excellent phone charging facilities there, the guy there last year had charging for smart phones, normal mobiles and ipods.

wickerman07

Nice one thanks bodhrandude!

5 more days!!!

Curly_Sue87

JamesMcAteer93 wrote: »

Is there anyone looking to organise a bus from the Cork area to life festival? We already have seven people. The more people we find the cheaper it will be.

Hey guy! I'm going to life festival from cork, did you guys manage to get a bus organized or how're ye getting? else it's just me and I'm very small, if anyone can provide a lift i'd really appreciate it and help with diesel etc.

Lemme know
Fionn

ghostdancer

there was someone on their facebook page organising a bus from Cork today or yesterday, look through the "posts by others" thing.

weekend tickets completely sold out now too.

wickerman07

Does anyone know the number of people going? I've never been but was at body and soul last year and year before....just wondering if it's similar sized crowd