Body & Soul 2022

keithkk16 · 11-02-2020 9:39am #1

Just seen on there instagram story that the line-up is out this evening. Think it'll be similar to what they did last year and announce them very slowly one by one on there socials

Ferris_Bueller · 11-02-2020 11:13am

Hopefully they have a decent lineup this year, they have been very active on social media but have felt their lineups gradually get worse each year for the past few years. Great festival all the same but rarely does the lineup give me an urge to buy a ticket.

dav09 · 11-02-2020 12:59pm

Last year was still very enjoyable, hard lineup to predict each year. Loved more of the hip hop approach last year and found many new very enjoyable alternate acts at it (as usual)! Really hoping it's a good announcement, I feel there might be 1 big headliner this year and probably some changes coming with less focus on EP now, although hopefully not too many changes.

PabloAndRoy · 11-02-2020 5:00pm

Always enjoy the B&S announcement...

"Is this really a headliner" type act
Odd act you never heard of.
Irish Hip Hop act.
Left of centre dance act.
Americana act you never heard of.
One massive pleasant surprise act.
Well known among trad fans act
Weird theatrical act you never heard of.
Another left of centre dance act
Afro beat act you never heard of.
Mother DJs
Irish Hip Hop act you never heard of.
Quirky weird out singer songwriter
African Reggae act you never heard of
Irish DJ
Irish DJ
Irish DJ
Irish DJ

...and then its always one of the best weekends of the year.

DanielSwords · 11-02-2020 5:08pm

Always look forward to the announcement, followed by my bemusement at much of the lineup followed by discovering some fantastic acts I'd have never discovered otherwise.

Suspect RÜFÜS DU SOL are returning this year. My girlfriend tweeted a while ago saying she hoped they'd appear on the lineup. They liked the tweet at a time where they hadn't liked any other tweets in a good while prior.

Personal wish list would include Slaves and Fontaines DC.

whelzer · 11-02-2020 5:15pm

Have been the last two years and really enjoyed it...not going this year

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If the age profile was slightly younger I would consider going again. Felt a bit ould fellaish last year.....probably just me.

DanielSwords · 11-02-2020 6:54pm

lineup

Pudsy33 · 11-02-2020 7:02pm

Well I'm sold

bodhrandude · 11-02-2020 7:03pm

Looks like some of the lineup from a few years ago.

Ferris_Bueller · 11-02-2020 7:20pm

Decent headliners, bit heavy on Irish hip hop which I'm not big on and light on electronic music which I am big on. I'm sure there will be more added but like I said earlier.. Doesn't make me want to take out the bank card and spend €200.

Ricosruffneck · 11-02-2020 7:34pm

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Decent headliners, bit heavy on Irish hip hop which I'm not big on and light on electronic music which I am big on. I'm sure there will be more added but like I said earlier.. Doesn't make me want to take out the bank card and spend €200.

What I really like

Marc Rebillet (best act)
Metronomy
Sampa The Great
Khruangbin

endainoz · 11-02-2020 7:36pm

I wasn't expecting to know many acts there but very impressed with that!

Funkfield · 11-02-2020 7:38pm

Mango x mathman
Thumper
Marc Ribillet
Metronomy
Thumper

And of course

KING KONG COMPANY

Ferris_Bueller · 11-02-2020 8:27pm

Watching the stream here (just before it cut!) and they said that they are turning the festival on it's head this year and it will be completely different than in previous years.

Edit: soda blonde there too, dont think they are listed on the website.

BadTurtle · 11-02-2020 8:28pm

Not much there I'm bothered about, bar a few decent irish acts. Will give it a miss I think.

Ricosruffneck · 11-02-2020 9:00pm

+soda blonde (instagram vid)

Peterd66 · 11-02-2020 9:25pm

If last few years are anything to go by, big acts will "cancel' and line up will be less impressive. Never saw a festival like it for cancellations!

IspeakcozIcan · 11-02-2020 9:52pm

Absolutely delighted with this announcement. So many acts I want to see. Honestly much better than I expected.

Got the early bird already as I don't go to B&S for the line-up, but this has me really excited.

Kojaque was the performance of ATN last year.

Ferris_Bueller · 11-02-2020 9:57pm

Nialler9 posted an article here, had a couple more acts that weren't originally included like Aoife Nessa Frances, Daithí, Kitt Philippa Kynsy, Nealo, Powpig. Also says in the article that "It’s the festival’s eleventh year, which they are billing as “going back to where it all began” and promising to be “smaller, smarter, cosier, shinier, glitzier”. Would be a bit skeptical about that last bit.

What was it like last year compared to previous years for anyone who went? The Absolut stage was gone which is usually somewhere I spend a bit of time. Any other changes?

fillup · 11-02-2020 10:27pm

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Nialler9 posted an article here, had a couple more acts that weren't originally included like Aoife Nessa Frances, Daithí, Kitt Philippa Kynsy, Nealo, Powpig. Also says in the article that "It’s the festival’s eleventh year, which they are billing as “going back to where it all began” and promising to be “smaller, smarter, cosier, shinier, glitzier”. Would be a bit skeptical about that last bit.

What was it like last year compared to previous years for anyone who went? The Absolut stage was gone which is usually somewhere I spend a bit of time. Any other changes?

Reckless In Love was brought back into the arena
Worked better in the arena for me...

Ferris_Bueller · 11-02-2020 10:49pm

Eve Fat Wimp wrote: »

Reckless in love inside. Absolute gone. Dancewise it was fairly soft I have to say. Good but nothing to write home about.

Place was empty. Good because you had space to walk around in and space and space and more space to camp. I would love to know if they took a massive loss.

ATN absolutely battered it regards dance music.

Where was Reckless in Love moved to if ye don't mind me asking? I saw Mother DJs tweet they will be taking over the Woodlands stage on the Saturday this year, wonder if thats a hint that Reckless in Love will be gone?

What was the Hennessy bar like that replaced Absolut? Was it a similar type of idea? Heard it was packed to the brim one night and they stopped letting people in, maybe the night it rained.

ATN definitely gets better dance acts than B&S no doubt about it, but something about B&S is more fun or something, very light on electronic acts in the announcement tonight mind.

endainoz · 11-02-2020 10:51pm

Well you'd imagine they would need to get a good crowd this year seen as they are by themselves having gone from EP.

MJohnston · 11-02-2020 11:30pm

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Where was Reckless in Love moved to if ye don't mind me asking? I saw Mother DJs tweet they will be taking over the Woodlands stage on the Saturday this year, wonder if thats a hint that Reckless in Love will be gone?

What was the Hennessy bar like that replaced Absolut? Was it a similar type of idea? Heard it was packed to the brim one night and they stopped letting people in, maybe the night it rained.

ATN definitely gets better dance acts than B&S no doubt about it, but something about B&S is more fun or something, very light on electronic acts in the announcement tonight mind.

Reckless in Love was basically in the same spot as where Absolut used to be, except a bit further down the clearing and kind of on the other side of it, if that makes sense.

If they’re moving back into the woodlands, that would be great because I loved the years they were in there.

MJohnston · 11-02-2020 11:30pm

Eve Fat Wimp wrote: »

curious if they left themselves or weren't wanted?

The announcements at the time were very much that they didn’t see themselves fitting into that festival anymore.

Peterd66 · 11-02-2020 11:49pm

Eve Fat Wimp wrote:

Examples please?

Santigold, princess Nokia , songbhoy blues, off the top of my head.

keithkk16 · 12-02-2020 3:28am

Peterd66 wrote: »

Santigold, princess Nokia , songbhoy blues, off the top of my head.

Both Santigold and Princess Nokia cancelled because of a family bereavements. You can't really complain about that.

I'm happy with the line up so far, it's better than I expected and I'm glad that we got the early bird tickets this year

PabloAndRoy · 12-02-2020 10:44am

Interesting lineup. Marc Ribillet really caught my eye. Metronomy always good live. A fair few in there that I don't know as usual. Will probably go for Marc Ribillet alone. Sure its always a good weekend*.

Apart from the year it rained badly.

Korvanica · 12-02-2020 5:02pm

Eve Fat Wimp wrote: »

Reckless in love inside. Absolute gone. Dancewise it was fairly soft I have to say. Good but nothing to write home about.

Place was empty. Good because you had space to walk around in and space and space and more space to camp. I would love to know if they took a massive loss.

ATN absolutely battered it regards dance music.

Yea it was very empty last year. It was short a few thousand people from capacity.

This years lineup is looking soft on dance music too. **** ton of hip hop :mad:

llatsni · 12-02-2020 7:42pm

Lineup looks great! Best in years.
But I’d also like to see some full-fat electronic acts added.

Tourist, Christian Loffler, Maribou State, Bicep, Gidge, Rival Consoles, Max Cooper, Parra for Cuva, Sohn, Forest Swords, Leon Vynehall... any of those would fit in real nice methinks.

Edit: quick scan of RA says they’re all free that weekend too!!!

keithkk16 · 13-02-2020 7:26am

llatsni wrote: »

Lineup looks great! Best in years.
But I’d also like to see some full-fat electronic acts added.

Tourist, Christian Loffler, Maribou State, Bicep, Gidge, Rival Consoles, Max Cooper, Parra for Cuva, Sohn, Forest Swords, Leon Vynehall... any of those would fit in real nice methinks.

Edit: quick scan of RA says they’re all free that weekend too!!!

I really hope they're holding back on electronic stuff an announcing a collab with AVA or someone similar like ATN do.

Bicep are too big for B&S these days unfortunately, they have sold out shows in Belfast(2 nights) and Dublin(2 nights) close to the summer.
Max cooper and Leon Vynehall playing AvA festival at the start of June as well.

Reckless in Love stage still has be announced as well in May and it's pretty much all electronic acts so that's still to look forward to.

Peesh89 · 13-02-2020 1:12pm

llatsni wrote: »

Lineup looks great! Best in years.
But I’d also like to see some full-fat electronic acts added.

Tourist, Christian Loffler, Maribou State, Bicep, Gidge, Rival Consoles, Max Cooper, Parra for Cuva, Sohn, Forest Swords, Leon Vynehall... any of those would fit in real nice methinks.

Edit: quick scan of RA says they’re all free that weekend too!!!

I've put Tourist, Gidge and Maribou State on every one of those after festival surveys they email out asking what acts you'd like to see.

It's the first year in 5 years I haven't bought a ticket the second they went on sale but any of those bookings would prob make me buy a ticket.

There's a group of us that go every year but by Sunday afternoon last year we all wanted to go home because we genuinely felt unsafe. Saw too many fights, the fences from us and you were down, so many people robbed around us etc.
I know some people didn't experience anything like this but just by Sunday the security didn't seem to care at all.
Would definitely like to know how much smaller they're making it and what glitzier newness they plan on bringing, I'm sad it's not in my calendar (yet.) !

AdamD · 13-02-2020 2:06pm

Can't say I saw a single fight last year or ever felt unsafe

MJohnston · 13-02-2020 2:19pm

Same - although we were in the campervan site, but with the smaller crowd last year just felt very much safe and friendly. Not saying there weren't individual incidents, but on a whole I'd say that the festival is miles away from ever feeling threatening (bear in mind we were there with a 3 year old and would be extra aware of that kind of stuff)

johnnyskeleton · 13-02-2020 5:46pm

Didn't feel unsafe last year, but had to watch my change with all the vendors!

Peesh89 · 13-02-2020 6:13pm

That's mad, we may have just been camped in a bad spot but it was really grim at times with people fighting etc witnessed lads trying to open my friends tent and they just loitered around thinking we'd leave.

And post-festival the amount of posts on FB about people being robbed too - there was a car robbed and a camper van had to get their locks changed as someone had stolen the keys.

I'd never felt like that before at any body&soul so hopefully was a once off.

Ferris_Bueller · 13-02-2020 6:59pm

I didn't go last year but remembering reading a lot of posts on one of the facebook groups at the time. Body & Soul has always had a problem with people sneaking in on the Sunday, hope the trouble was a once off though as the atmosphere at B&S is definitely it's best quality.

endainoz · 14-02-2020 6:58pm

Applications for volunteers are open today folks. I applied myself, hopefully will be in early enough.

bodhrandude · 14-02-2020 8:32pm

I did too Endainoz, I chose being steward working Tues, Wed and Thurs before festival.

endainoz · 14-02-2020 9:12pm

bodhrandude wrote: »

I did too Endainoz, I chose being steward working Tues, Wed and Thurs before festival.

I put down general volunteer for Thursday thru to Monday. Putting in preference for earlier shifts, hopefully it'll work, sur you can put in a good word for me BD!

bodhrandude · 14-02-2020 11:22pm

endainoz wrote: »

I put down general volunteer for Thursday thru to Monday. Putting in preference for earlier shifts, hopefully it'll work, sur you can put in a good word for me BD!

Bring your mandolin and tin whistle to B&S too, I always bring my bodhran as you never know if there's a session around the corner.

RINO87 · 16-02-2020 8:56pm

Was at every b+s up to 2017, but missed the last few, gave ATN a shot instead.

I'm liking how it's shaping up this year, if reckless in love was back in the woods, and they scale it back just a little that would be fantastic!!

I think it really peaked layout and atmosphere wise for me in 2014... It was the sunniest and best atmosphere of any festival I've ever been at, if the changes work towards that again then I'm all for it.... Would love to return and do both this and ATN this year

hugeglobe · 17-02-2020 5:12pm

Just after catching up on this thread!

Electronic acts have traditionally been announced after the main announcement, so I'd expect the lineup to bulk up a good bit with those types.

Will be interesting to see where the Reckless in Love ends up this year. If they're paring things back like they said I think the woods would be a lot better for it. Would also like to see someone new being given the Sunday slot. As much as I've enjoyed Mano and Co over the years I think it could do with being shaken up with something new.

For those asking about the Hennessey area - It was by a long shot my favourite area last year. The programming was insanely good (that being said, it was very much down my alley music-wise). Hope to see it doing back this year doing something similar!

After going to both B&S and ATN this year, I'd still say B&S wins as a festival in terms of layout and atmosphere - I will definitely be going this year.

I'd also love to see them bring the mainstage a bit closer to the hill like they had in earlier years to make better use of the natural ampitheatre. There just hasn't been an atmosphere there since they've moved it. I understand it was initially moved for increased capacity reasons, but considering they're scaling back perhaps this is now a possibility.

Onwards to B&S 2020!

fillup · 17-02-2020 5:36pm

hugeglobe wrote: »

I'd also love to see them bring the mainstage a bit closer to the hill like they had in earlier years to make better use of the natural ampitheatre. There just hasn't been an atmosphere there since they've moved it. I understand it was initially moved for increased capacity reasons, but considering they're scaling back perhaps this is now a possibility.

Onwards to B&S 2020!

That stage is a permanent erection (no sniggering down the back) so unless they tear it down n rebuild it it ain't moving.

endainoz · 17-02-2020 6:12pm

fillup wrote: »

That stage is a permanent erection (no sniggering down the back) so unless they tear it down n rebuild it it ain't moving.

I was totally sniggering

llatsni · 24-02-2020 11:24am

ATN got Christian Loffler... and quite a few other nice dance-y acts. Come on B&S don't leave us short

johnnyskeleton · 24-02-2020 3:29pm

Eve Fat Wimp wrote: »

They really need to beef it up regards techno acts. Place was empty last year and dance was very "soft". Losing out on major crowds and ticket sales not doing so. What is that about?

I get the impression that they are going for a smaller more intimate vibe, perhaps because they expanded too much in recent years and want to bring it back down in size a bit

MJohnston · 24-02-2020 3:54pm

They definitely seem to be scaling back, and given how many Irish festivals don't do the necessary and end up crashing, it's probably a wise choice. I'm sure there will be plenty of electronica at the festival, it's never really the kind of thing you announce early on, but it'll be local acts or reasonably priced international acts.

johnnyskeleton · 24-02-2020 8:07pm

MJohnston wrote: »

They definitely seem to be scaling back, and given how many Irish festivals don't do the necessary and end up crashing, it's probably a wise choice. I'm sure there will be plenty of electronica at the festival, it's never really the kind of thing you announce early on, but it'll be local acts or reasonably priced international acts.

The more I read about stuff like insurance, waste, electricity costs etc Im amazed that any of these festivals can afford to book any bands. Hopefully B&S pull through, but there is a vicious circle where they reduce the lineup for a smaller crowd but keep the same ticket price and people feel like its bad value, or else they expand and risk losing what made it special

keithkk16 · 25-02-2020 9:38am

Mano Le Tough is more than likely doing an all dayer on the Sunday with a couple of artists from his label Meave. It happens every year at the Wreckless in love stage. The Homebeat guys still have to announce their lineup too for the Friday night and it's all house & techno. Not sure what's happening on the Saturday night cause it's usually Mother DJs, but someone mentioned on here they are playing in the woods this year.
Edit:Hennessy are sponsoring again this year so that means more djs too if they do the same Dj stage set up thing as last year.

llatsni · 25-02-2020 9:29pm

keithkk16 wrote: »

Mano Le Tough is more than likely doing an all dayer on the Sunday with a couple of artists from his label Meave.

He’s playing ATN. Do you think he’ll be able to do both?? (Fingers crossed!)

keithkk16 · 26-02-2020 4:44am

llatsni wrote: »

He’s playing ATN. Do you think he’ll be able to do both?? (Fingers crossed!)

Yeah fingers crossed, he usually plays a dj set every Sunday at B&S. He's doing a Live set at ATN

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