Indie-pendence 2009 line up Announced

Any mention of when they will announce the daily breakdown?

INDIEPENDENCE Music & Arts Festival Gets Camping Green Light
Its been a while coming to fruition but the INDIEPENDENCE Music & Arts Festival has finally been given the green light for an official festival campsite at O'Connell Park, Mitchelstown. This means that festival goers heading along to see headliners Ocean Colour Scene and The Super Furry Animals along with top Irish acts, The Blizzards, Mundy, Fight Like Apes, The Frank & Walters, Director, Delorentos, Fish Go Deep, Wallis Bird, The Chapters and over 50 more top acts and DJ's will now be able to stay on site for the weekend and enjoy the full festival experience!

But here's the best bit, festival organisers in these recessionary times have decided not to charge any extra for the campsite! Anybody with a €59 weekend ticket purchased from ticketmaster even where these tickets state "weekend non-camping" will be given access to the campsite. The site is adjacent to the festival arena and car parking facilities are less than 5 minutes walk away.

The Festival which is sponsored by Bavaria, offers three stages with 10 hours of music on site each day. On top of that, the entire town of Mitchelstown is turned into a festival centre with 2am extensions in all bars and live music and DJ's on offer into the early hours.

All €59 weekend tickets purchased from Ticketmaster will allow access to the campsite. Any festival goers who bought €39 day or special offer early bird tickets will be able to access the campsite by paying a supplement on arrival at the site.

Check out www.indiependencefestival.com for details!

mushypeas30 wrote: »

Any mention of when they will announce the daily breakdown?

INDIE-PENDENCE Stage Times:

Saturday
Bavaria Stage
2200 Ocean Colour Scene
2045 Mundy
1915 The Chapters
1800 Ham Sandwich
1700 The Stone Roses Experience
1615 Vesta Varro
1530 Nicole Maguire
1445 202'2
1400 The Minutes

Cyprus Avenue Stage
2100 Fight Like Apes
1930 Messiah J & The Expert
1815 Rarely Seen Above Ground
1730 Heathers
1645 Panama Kings
1600 Pocket Promise
1515 The Jades
1430 Agbonlahor

Red Bull Village
2200 Mo Kelly (DJ Set)
2100 The Brilliant Things
1945 Sickboy
1830 The Vital Spark
1730 Ollie Cole
1645 Carosel
1600 The Hot Sprockets
1530 Snowman
1500 TBC
1430 TBC

Sunday
Bavaria Stage
2200 Super Furry Animals
2030 The Blizzards
1915 Delorentos
1800 Fred
1700 Wallis Bird
1615 The Aftermath
1530 16 Layers
1445 Elspeth
1400 Travega

Cyprus Avenue Stage
2100 The Frank & Walters
1930 Director
1615 Villagers
1730 Dark Room Notes
1645 Ian Whitty & The Exchange
1600 Setmaker
1515 Cowboy X
1430 Gillian Verrechia

Red Bull Village
2200 Fish Go Deep
2100 Wiggle
1945 The Kinetiks
1830 Le Galaxie
1730 Grand Pocket Orchestra
1645 Joe Echo
1600 Sara Lou
1530 Myp Et Jeep
1500 Reemo
1430 Remy
1400 Killer Chloe

Weekend Camping Tickets €59
Day Tickets €39

Special Offer Weekend Non-Camping Tickets available from The Old Oak €39

Check out www.indiependencefestival.com for further details!

www.ticketmaster.ie

3 Stages / 2 Bars / Gourmet Food & a town turned into a venue!!

NumptyB wrote: »

i'm from the town, actually gutted that this is the first year i will ever miss the festival - esp as it's the first year it's gonna be in this proper festival form. bit sad it's been moved out of the square, a lot of the family feel has gone from it, which is what the heart of it was, but sure it could be a step in the right direction!

It just wasn't feasible to hold it in the square again to be honest and the idea was always to make it bigger & better. Mitchelstown has suffered a lot in recent times with job losses etc and the festival generates money for the town directly or indirectly. I'd love to see the 'brand' take off and turn the town into somewhere like Thurles when Féile used to be there. Fair enough there are always going to be some anti-social aspects to it but there's life breathed into the place for that weekend and I'm sure the people of Thurles would welcome Féile with open arms again because of the business generated by it. I think having it out of the square also takes some of that anti social behaviour away from the town centre and at least if it's going to happen it happens in a controlled environment rather than in an unmanned alleyway.

Anyways, I'm rabbiting on. The idea is to make it bigger and better. None of us take a wage out of it and none of us make money from it. Everything that's made is pumped into making the following year bigger & better. Long may it continue.

D-Generate wrote: »

Have got tickets for this and was just wondering about the drinking situation.

Will the bars only serve Bavaria or will there be other beers on offer? Also is it possible to bring in your own drinks or is that only for those who are staying on the campsite?

Can't bring in your own beer and there's more than Bavaria available.

Not really. How can we allow people to bring in glass bottles etc?

FUNKY LOVER wrote: »

what about cans??recession and all that.

If you can find a festival with a similar line up for €59 including two days camping let me know - I'd like to meet the organisers.

Beer onsite will also be a hell of a lot cheaper than it would be at any other festival in the country.

A big part of what we've done is to try and make the ffestival accessible for everyone, and at €59 for a weekend ticket with camping I think we've done that. One of the main sponsors is Bavaria and part of getting sponsorship from anyone is that the customer base has pretty much exclusive access to their product. There has to be some give & take. Pints won't cost more than €4.50 either.

FUNKY LOVER wrote: »

what i dont get is it says no glass objects allowed in on the webpage,now no cans or anything??

It's not there to hoodwink you, it's standard fare at most festivals that you simply cannot bring alcohol onto the site. As for the camping, I'm not 100% sure on that to be honest; I only volunteer to help out on the weekend itself so I'm only passing on what I know about it.

If you think it's too expensive, if you think that it's unfair that you can't bring any drink onto the festival site and if you're generally unhappy with that I don't think there's much you can do unless you hawk your ticket.

Ella, I can't really advise you on that. The campsite is secure and ample parking out there if you fancy it.