Body and soul 2023 (initial line up announced)

Forecast has improved a little, with most of the rain dropping overnight rather in day time. But it will probably change again by the weekend. It does look like a lot of rain will fall though.

Enjoy! Hope Thursday not too hot for ye setting up. Still holding on to the slim chance that I'll make it!

Localized little weather miracles can happen where the rain manages to miss certain areas (fingers crossed for Ballinlough and Glendalough!) but yeah, realistically its looking like a very very wet weekend nationwide. Hopefully it won't get cold with it. I can cope with being drenched as long as it's still reasonably warm! Pack the boots and the waterproofs and don't be camping at the bottom of any hills or anywhere near the portaloos!!

Volumes of rain on Saturday (<5mm in 16 hours) and Sunday (<3mm in 10 hours) are very low on the met forecast for Clonmellon at the moment. It's Sunday night in the early hours of Monday that looks interesting.

They ( Body & Soul) say you have to change it, but no one has ever looked at the names on the ticket since I have been going to the festival. Scan the code and in you go!

Hard luck with the weather folks, but good wet gear can make things so much easier, can be picked up at your local farm co op, if wellies are needed, try to go for the light Dunlop ones, they're also quite cheap.

Looks like pretty light rain Friday and Sat but very heavy at 7pm on Sunday. Right before the pagan rave which is a nuisance. Surprised that they have the pagan rave on Sunday instead of Saturday like last year.

Lads is the capacity at 5k similar to last year? I thought I read it would be 10k this year but can't find anything on it.

Yeah it's interesting as I can see on their site that they bumped up to 15k in 2019 but not sure how close they got to selling out that year, if it was optimistic and what the site was even like.

They definitely haven't sold out this year and with the capacity being 5k, I would've thought they might have with its reputation.

I hope it stays viable as it is a great festival and from what I can tell, well ran.

B&S has always been on the Solstice w/end

BTP are the "johnny come latelys" in this scenario

So the q should be why are BTP targeting same w/end

To me it seems to be a Starbucks type manoeuvre, move in and drive out the competion

Have to disagree, I find the BTP lineup really nice but there's really not much (anything?) on it that I'd be particularly annoyed to miss. B&S has a good few that I'm properly excited about, right down the list. It's just a question of individual tastes. I'd absolutely have gone to BTP if they'd been sensible and put it on in July or stuck to their original date in early June instead of stupidly (pointedly?) going head to head with an established festival. Given how excellent B&S was last year and how poor to middling BTP was, B&S was always going to win out for me when forced to choose between the two.

It looks like BTP's "Starbucks manoeuvre" if that's what it was has failed since B&S sales are going great by all accounts. It looks like Body & Soul is here to stay. A small, really well put together festival in a properly gorgeous location. Hopfully the other crowd will see sense and go with a different date next year...

Did I refer to B&S sales in comparison to BTP's? Isn't it great that BTP is doing well! B&S sales are going great in relation to their capacity. Maybe not a sell out but better than last year. Which is fantastic given that they are up against another potentially brilliant festival.

And come on, you don't honestly think BTP weren't aware which weekend B&S was being planned for when they changed their date? I gave them the benefit of the doubt on that for a long time...

Are you disappointed that BTP hasn't managed to put B&S out of business or something? 😂