Spraoi Festival August 2nd - 4th

Max Powers

Got a brochure from inside in the Theatre Royal, looks like another great line up including some great free gigs down in the WVW plaza - solar taxi, o emperor, etc. cant wait.

http://www.spraoi.com/

joni1

Yay, so excited. Really hope this weather holds for it

comeraghs

It's great that the SPRAOI Parade is followed immediately by the fireworks on the Sunday night. Looking forward to the weekend. Always great stuff.

comeraghs

https://www.facebook.com/SpraoiWaterford


Invite your friends to like SPRAOI & let the world know about this great festival.

untouchable

oops didnt realise there was a thread on this already. is the spraoi a family thing or is it a night time thing too??

Max Powers

untouchable wrote: »

oops didnt realise there was a thread on this already. is the spraoi a family thing or is it a night time thing too??

pretty much a family thing yeah, loads of family entertainment on street, parade, acts, music etc and free. There are even various indoor things happening for smaller kids (called Sprog) eg baking cake thing. Id say its up on web page.

Hoffmans

nice to see the parade going through the town centre , michael street will be buzzing for a few hrs at least...

joni1

Anyone have details about the music event going on in the Viking Triangle on Friday night? The details in the programme are fairly sketchy

Sully

Was mentioned on TodayFM this morning, the lady talking about it was saying how Waterford was a beautiful city.

Max Powers

didnt hear that, great stuff Sully. One of the lads was telling me Heath from Home and Away was saying on today fm Waterford was especially brilliant when he was here (being groped by numerous women in Uluru).

Anyway, dont forget Gimme €5 this weekend lads, its easily worth it to keep Spraoi on the road, 21 years of deadly weekends now. Brilliant. I have a big collection of those orange spraoi wrist bands at this stage, Yes i paid for them all and will be giving 5 again this weekend.

0rt

I was up for the rehersals yesterday in the spraoi office.. the floats look amazing lads..
that and its going through town rather than around the park or down the quay.. the streets will be full of life.
I cant wait!

MonkstownHoop

Myself and Herself are heading down on friday morning for the weekend, will there be much on in the evenings & at night in the pubs/clubs?

0rt

Im sure most of the local pubs will have live music..
Murphys:
https://www.facebook.com/events/391753620924420/?ref=ts&fref=ts

The muggins play the three shippes
https://www.facebook.com/events/204797489682936/?fref=ts

Masons:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1396384953912997/

Forum:
https://www.facebook.com/events/363028800490284/

theres a few bits to get you started.

KevIRL

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

Myself and Herself are heading down on friday morning for the weekend, will there be much on in the evenings & at night in the pubs/clubs?

Saturday and Sunday evening on the Plaza have a great line up music wise. If the weather holds will be definitely worth getting down there for that

ikeano29

Looks like heavy rain all weekend.

joni1

ikeano29 wrote: »

Looks like heavy rain all weekend.

Sure it wouldn't be Spraoi without the rain

nkay1985

Has anyone seen brochures anywhere? I know someone mentioned Theatre Royal but I don't know will they be open this evening.

eagerv

ikeano29 wrote: »

Looks like heavy rain all weekend.

I reckon weather is going to be pretty good.:)

Not like a few weeks ago, more normal summer weather. Sunshine and a few showers..

KevIRL

nkay1985 wrote: »

Has anyone seen brochures anywhere? I know someone mentioned Theatre Royal but I don't know will they be open this evening.

Yep , seen a lot of them around the place. Try pubs like the Munster/Downses/Geoffs if you need one this evening.

Should be plenty knocking around the town tomorrow

Pretty cool pic of Delreves rehearsing their show on the Waterford Crystal building on the Mall. Meant to be a great show

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=646903125334690&set=a.125480534143621.17338.110002412358100&type=1&theater

madfcuker

I picked one up in the woodman on Monday.

Max Powers

WLR made a good observation during week; people in Waterford dont refer to august bank hol weekend as such but they call it Spraoi Weekend. Cant wait to get into see a few street acts and definitely a band down on the plaza. that act on the Menapia building looks great.

Dont forget your fivers lads/ladies

AdMMM

Can't wait to see the friends that you only ever see at Spraoi and Christmas.

0rt

theres a homecomming.. loads of people comin to waterford from dublin and cork etc..

KevIRL

AdMMM wrote: »

Can't wait to see the friends that you only ever see at Spraoi and Christmas.

xox

0rt

http://www.spraoi.com/wp-content/uploads/SpraoiProg13grids.pdf
thats the weekends listing!

keep an eye on
https://www.facebook.com/SpraoiWaterford

Laneyh

comeraghs wrote: »

It's great that the SPRAOI Parade is followed immediately by the fireworks on the Sunday night. Looking forward to the weekend. Always great stuff.

Are the parade and fireworks generally good ? I am thinking of heading to Spraoi from Dublin but I need to come back Sunday night. I'm wondering whether its worth sticking around for the parade and fireworks.

luketitz

The Spraoi website is god-awful - should be a crackin' weekend though, loads of cool stuff for the kiddos!

0rt

fireworks are always a larf

Max Powers

Laneyh wrote: »

Are the parade and fireworks generally good ? I am thinking of heading to Spraoi from Dublin but I need to come back Sunday night. I'm wondering whether its worth sticking around for the parade and fireworks.

the parade is usually excellent, im not a major fireworks fan myself but you know nice enough, parade is great though last few years i have seen it

Bluezar

AdMMM wrote: »

Can't wait to see the friends that you only ever see at Spraoi and Christmas.

Leaving you out of Dublin!

moans3536

Was in town earlier today great buzz about. The naked lunch street act was good (kids cover your eyes) and loved the circle of two act. Well worth a fiver, don't forget to drop a fiver .

nkay1985

Just home now having gone in at 16:30. Had a great day.

Saw two brilliant street acts - The Strong Lady and Pangottic. The Strong Lady was especially good.

Saw The Muggins as part of 'A String of Sound'. They were very good.

Then Delereves on the Waterford Crystal building at 10:15. I really enjoyed it. Music and a bit of a story but the highlight is dancing on the building!

Now just home from The Papa Zitas in Shortt's. It was a bit packed but the band were good.

Gave my fiver and will do so another couple of times over the weekend.

Looking forward to two more days.

0rt

https://www.facebook.com/events/212216858936211/

"Bringing you a taste of the harder side this Spraoi Saturday we have Found On The Floor, Noisy Coincidence and Encrypter rockin' Sal's for your pleasure.

Found On The Floor hail from New Ross and play a good time mix of Punk/Metal/New Wave. Expect catchy choruses and fancy dancin'!

http://www.reverbnation.com/foundonthefloor

Noisy Coincidence are a Gorey based outfit playing a mix of Punk/Grunge/Noise. Amazing energy, passionate performance and grade a original material make these lads one not to be missed!

http://noisycoincidence.bandcamp.com/

And rounding off the night we have Waterford's very own Dave Encrypter Jacob playing his special brew of hard dark electronica. Plenty of plenty of kickdrums with an uncommon flare and musicality. All through a lovely big slab of UNTZ rig.

https://soundcloud.com/davejacob

Handling the in between noises will be the infamous local DJ "Underwater Bingo For Teens". Playing a blend of rock, pop, disco, dance, bass, breaks and bingo, UBFT will keep you grooving the whole night through.

All this for only 5 of your euros
Doors 21.00"

old gregg

^ am almost certain to end up at this. Dave Jacob laying down the slow beats

hobo!

old gregg wrote: »

^ am almost certain to end up at this. Dave Jacob laying down the slow beats

Slow if your day is usually at 500bpm!

0rt

ahh theres probably gunna be all sorts of glitches.. how can you count bpm with glitches? :P

Sully

Popped into Spraoi a little late this afternoon. Saw the end of The Magilligans which were good, plus a little bit of Jack Wise but I couldn't see (funny fella, not sure about his magic as I missed it) so I left and went over to The Strong Lady which wasn't really my cup of tea as it was slow, predictable and you couldn't hear her because she was using tiny speakers. She is strong though, and its pretty cool despite being a bit boring at the same time.

Gave my €5r, well worth it and I absolutely love the occasion and I love them for putting it on. Gutted I missed the stuff yesterday, I passed the act at Waterford Crystal but decided I wouldn't park up as I thought it was just music!

Where the hell else would you get this much street fun and only be asked for €5? I'll be giving more. Wonderful work, fair play.

Spotted Laura Dempsey, the wonderful face painter, in Blackfriars. Very talented girl, didn't seem like many queuing but kept busy all the same. Worth bringing the kids up to get their face painted, she does wonderful work. Don't know her, she was part of the Family Fun Day I organised in Tramore but one of the girls working with me knew her and got her, so I barley spoke to her but thought the work she did was impressive. She did the makeup for the girl on the Spraoi poster.

old gregg

0rt wrote: »

ahh theres probably gunna be all sorts of glitches.. how can you count bpm with glitches? :P

Dave loves his glitches Might wait till he gets up to 240bpm and go up and ask him to play some Quo :P

0rt

or some hardcore punk.. hes got a taste for it!

MonkstownHoop

Bloody rain

Sully

Rain saw a few events be cancelled yesterday sadly. Got to see the PullUp Orchestra, very good and got their CD also. Tumble Circus I was a little unsure off as there is a lot of talk about painkillers and at one time someone attempting to hang themselves from the rope. If your a little sensitive, it may not be your cup of tea (or your childrens). A teenager beside me yesterday was asking her friend why they were pushing the painkillers so much, so that says a lot IMO.

Show got cancelled due to the rain but not before a drunken member of audience stormed over and hit one of the performers. There is mess fighting and the drunk appeared to think it was real. Odd.

Heading in again today, hope to see more acts. Good crowd around the day, but quieter at night.

Jambo

Anyone attending today please keep care of you belongings, yesterday we noticed teams of Roma acting suspiciously around the city, and just now while sitting in John Roberts Sq the seem to be at it again, where an older guy is approaching various folk distracting them with the bird whistles hes not intending to sell while a minor with him appears to be looking for an opportunity to dip into a pocket or handbag.

Luckily anyone they have approached so far have had their wits about them. I suspect not everyone will be so lucky.

nkay1985

Jambo wrote: »

Anyone attending today please keep care of you belongings, yesterday we noticed teams of Roma acting suspiciously around the city, and just now while sitting in John Roberts Sq the seem to be at it again, where an older guy is approaching various folk distracting them with the bird whistles hes not intending to sell while a minor with him appears to be looking for an opportunity to dip into a pocket or handbag.

Luckily anyone they have approached so far have had their wits about them. I suspect not everyone will be so lucky.

Yeah I saw the young lads walking around the plaza at various times yesterday with no interest in what was going on, just staring at the ground looking at bags etc.

Old Perry

nkay1985 wrote: »

Yeah I saw the young lads walking around the plaza at various times yesterday with no interest in what was going on, just staring at the ground looking at bags etc.

True, sometimes there is so many it is just blatantly obvious, just be sure to only bring the essentials and have a buddy keep an eye on you while you keep an eye on your buddies stuff. Pick pocketers like that are the scum of the earth.

Having said that, there was a great atmosphere around yesterday, fabulous to see the city in full flight and at its finest.

On another note, would anyone who was there last year or before be able to hazard a guess at where exactly the fireworks will be let off. Specifically, how many detonation points might there be and what distance they might spread roughly?

MitchKoobski

Fireworks are usually let off from a boat on the quay. You can see them from anywhere on the quay or around that general stretch of road.

Old Perry

Goodman Mitch, are these let off from one boat or a number of boats?

MitchKoobski

Couldn't say for sure, think it changes from time to time.

dzilla

Fair disappointed with the amount if cans and bottles being drank in the plaza last night. Its maybe just me but it gives off such a bad image

Dave_Power

Can anyone tell me what time the fire works are on
I ask this because i can hear fireworks and im living in tramore, is it possible that I'm hearing fireworks from 8 miles away!!
ok the noise has finished now at 22.48pm

Green Hornet

That was them.

razor_ryan

Dave_Power wrote: »

Can anyone tell me what time the fire works are on
I ask this because i can hear fireworks and im living in tramore, is it possible that I'm hearing fireworks from 8 miles away!!
ok the noise has finished now at 22.48pm

Fireworks were disappointing this year all 5 minutes of them