New Music Festival Planned in Waterford for Summer 2018

Deiseen

Looks like it will be on the grounds of Curraghmore House on the weekend of 3/4/5 August and will be organised by POD. Interesting stuff.
https://www.alltogethernow.ie/

longshanks

I was reading about that yesterday, could be brilliant if done properly.

Flow Motion

Given the organisers of the event are POD I'd expect the line-up to be of a high calibre and a step up from Daytriper.

sevenshades

Sounds interesting, hoping for a good lineup (all subjective of course!) Wonder would this have an impact on Daytripper (need to offer something different) and Spraoi (given the dates)?

longshanks

Anyone know what capacity this will have? One of the lads heard it'll be 5000 a day which could affect who will be playing.

Deiseen

longshanks wrote: »

Anyone know what capacity this will have? One of the lads heard it'll be 5000 a day which could affect who will be playing.

Doesn't seem to be much info at all on this. Cant imagine it being huge due to distance from Dublin/Cork but Curraghmore Estate is absolutely huge...

Jamie2k9

Deiseen wrote: »

Doesn't seem to be much info at all on this. Cant imagine it being huge due to distance from Dublin/Cork but Curraghmore Estate is absolutely huge...

What has Dublin/Cork got to do with it, if the right acts are there then people will travel, E Picnic, Slane etc...

PTH2009

possibly indie bands will be playing at it

if so and it's a decent line up I'll give it go

be very nice not having to travel to places hours away to see a band

Deiseen

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Deiseen wrote: »

Doesn't seem to be much info at all on this. Cant imagine it being huge due to distance from Dublin/Cork but Curraghmore Estate is absolutely huge...

What has Dublin/Cork got to do with it, if the right acts are there then people will travel, E Picnic, Slane etc...

Ehhhhhhhhhhh.. Electric Picnic and Slane are near dublin.....

Of course people will travel, never said they wouldn't, but distance could swing it for many hence it making more sense to have it as near to the largest population centres as possible.

savic04

Deiseen wrote: »

Ehhhhhhhhhhh.. Electric Picnic and Slane are near dublin.....

Of course people will travel, never said they wouldn't, but distance could swing it for many hence it making more sense to have it as near to the largest population centres as possible.

Groove Armada
Chemical Brothers
Underworld

Electronic live acts booked or requested apparently

mooseknunkle

savic04 wrote: »

Groove Armada
Chemical Brothers
Underworld

Electronic live acts booked or requested apparently

Heard Groove Armada mentioned myself,is it camping do you know?

greenspurs

savic04 wrote: »

Groove Armada
Chemical Brothers
Underworld

Electronic live acts booked or requested apparently

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

:(

Are they not booked up for their annual stints at Electric Picnic .....
Jaysus , theres more music around than bloody dance (dj's) music ... :rolleyes:

greenspurs

Same weekend as Castlepalooza, Beatyard & Indiependence ...... ?

zurbfoundation

savic04 wrote: »

Groove Armada
Chemical Brothers
Underworld

Electronic live acts booked or requested apparently

requested being the word theresure look if they got one of those, then pad it out with the usual local Irish acts, 2 hour set from GDE, King Kong Co are bound to show up, a few of these lads with acoustic guitars singing about losing women - thats your gig sold. That's the usual formula for these kinds of festivals these days

Smell the glove

mooseknunkle wrote: »

Heard Groove Armada mentioned myself,is it camping do you know?

According to the News & Star it will be camping. 10,000 people it says will attend, don't know if that's every day or over the weekend. No details on how many will be camping either.

dlnv27

Listening to Rick Whelan on wlr tonight he said groove armada and chic are confirmed.

Bowlardo

mooseknunkle wrote: »

Heard Groove Armada mentioned myself,is it camping do you know?

Groove armada were at the first picnic so maybe they are getting them again a s a good look charm

Hoffmans

Prodigy booked for this???

mooseknunkle

Hoffmans wrote: »

Prodigy booked for this???

Nope they are playing a festival in Spain the same weekend

Hoffmans

mooseknunkle wrote: »

Nope they are playing a festival in Spain the same weekend

They'd hardly fly over for the 5th
What about the Charlatans

Harry Palmr

They need to get the balance of acts right - don't want the place to be a skanger weekend.

zurbfoundation

Harry Palmr wrote: »

They need to get the balance of acts right - don't want the place to be a skanger weekend.

The Prodigy's day was over 25 years ago - i think the skangers would have mellowed as they approach their 50th birthday.

Harry Palmr

zurbfoundation wrote: »

The Prodigy's day was over 25 years ago - i think the skangers would have mellowed as they approach their 50th birthday.

Swedish House Mafia.

zurbfoundation

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Swedish House Mafia.

ah yes that big 90's act

greenspurs

https://www.jimmycliff.com/tour/

Jimmy Cliff for August 5th ?

greenspurs

Early Bird weekend tickets on sale next week 150 quid, no line up yet, so no idea if that's good value or not.
some more details : 10k capacity, kids under 12 free with families, strictly over 21s otherwise, 10 stages and an outside crystal ballroom.
More announcements due in days to weeks

Adyx

greenspurs wrote: »

Early Bird weekend tickets on sale next week 150 quid, no line up yet, so no idea if that's good value or not.
some more details : 10k capacity, kids under 12 free with families, strictly over 21s otherwise, 10 stages and an outside crystal ballroom.
More announcements due in days to weeks

No line up plus early bird tickets screams "lets see if we can afford anyone decent because we've only the usual ****e booked so far"

mooseknunkle

As this is now being called a family festival with arts and comedy etc i doubt the likes of underworld or the chemical brothers will be playing at it sounds more like its going to be a hipster love fest

Wanderer78

mooseknunkle wrote:

As this is now being called a family festival with arts and comedy etc i doubt the likes of underworld or the chemical brothers will be playing at it sounds more like its going to be a hipster love fest

Electric picnic seems to be popular though and successful

Deiseen

mooseknunkle wrote: »

As this is now being called a family festival with arts and comedy etc i doubt the likes of underworld or the chemical brothers will be playing at it sounds more like its going to be a hipster love fest

Loads of kids at Electric Picnic and they've had acts that make underworld and chemical brothers look like the telly tubbies

zurbfoundation

Arts and comedy often get mentioned in festival descriptions because they are probably getting some Arts Council funding

mooseknunkle

Deiseen wrote: »

Loads of kids at Electric Picnic and they've had acts that make underworld and chemical brothers look like the telly tubbies

Acts like who?

PTH2009

prob be ub40 and smash hits playing at this

no mention of Daytripper going ahead this summer

Smell the glove

PTH2009 wrote: »

prob be ub40 and smash hits playing at this

no mention of Daytripper going ahead this summer

Do you really think that? Seriously? Aitken Promotions?

Deisegodeo

First list of acts being announced tomorrow, ticket sales start next Friday so hopefully some good acts will be confirmed and lots of media exposure this week.

zurbfoundation

PTH2009 wrote: »

prob be ub40 and smash hits playing at this

no mention of Daytripper going ahead this summer

UB40 are in the US that weekend, and Smash Hits are a wedding band aren't they?

bullpost

zurbfoundation wrote: »

UB40 are in the US that weekend, and Smash Hits are a wedding band aren't they?

Which version of UB40 though ?

PTH2009

bullpost wrote: »

Which version of UB40 though ?

The **** one lol, apparently Ali Campbell's brother is murdering the songs

any news on the actual line up for the festival ??

reni10

Deisegodeo wrote: »

First list of acts being announced tomorrow, ticket sales start next Friday so hopefully some good acts will be confirmed and lots of media exposure this week.

Have not heard anything anywhere about acts announced today?

SweetCaliber

reni10 wrote: »

Have not heard anything anywhere about acts announced today?

Here you go.

greenspurs

Website.
Fleet Foxes, Underworld...

longshanks

Looks good so far, I imagine they'll fill out the line up a bit more in the next few weeks
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thomasm

That's an impressive line up so far

soiseztomabel

Jaysus

zurbfoundation

very decent lineup

PTH2009

zurbfoundation wrote: »

very decent lineup

haven't heard of a lot of the names on the list but decent line up. might go for the fleet foxes headline day

not into dance music like Underworld or groove armada

Max Powers

PTH2009 wrote: »

haven't heard of a lot of the names on the list but decent line up. might go for the fleet foxes headline day

not into dance music like Underworld or groove armada

Can u buy one day tickets?

PTH2009

Max Powers wrote: »

Can u buy one day tickets?

not at the moment but hopefully they will add that feature closer to the day

greenspurs

I don't think theywill.

It was E.P's way of keeping out the unruly/messers that would come to see a band by buying a one day ticket .
Great idea imo

mooseknunkle

I only know a handful of the acts but it looks a good line up by all accounts,i take it chapter 1 is the Friday and we still have Saturday and Sunday to be announced?

Ferris_Bueller

mooseknunkle wrote: »

I only know a handful of the acts but it looks a good line up by all accounts,i take it chapter 1 is the Friday and we still have Saturday and Sunday to be announced?

I'd be surprised if all the acts announced so far were playing on the one day but you could be right! I'd say it's just a first announcement with more to come in a few weeks time.