Sunstroke 2020

scoobydude · 26-11-2019 5:09pm #1

Announcement coming at 7pm today apparently

https://www.sunstrokeireland.com/?fbclid=IwAR2fCcYR08Crf4-wEkwUvSUJLJzKqvvplevUlr1SZJV23ZTuNFDn7x6cv9U

Last one had a banging lineup, let's see what it brings!

https://www.last.fm/event/46963+Sunstroke+1994/lineup

The Nal · 26-11-2019 5:11pm

Time to get the cheap printed band name Fruit of the Loom black tshirts out.

hynesie08 · 26-11-2019 5:12pm

Doubt it will be dalymount though.......

scoobydude · 26-11-2019 5:12pm

I actually got a pretty sweet g'n'r t shirt for a 5er in penny's last year

Mushy · 26-11-2019 5:18pm

I know itll be very unlikely, but Musgrave Park would be very handy for this. For me anyway

JJJJNR · 26-11-2019 5:22pm

First one was savage, actually got very badly sunburnt on the day.. so almost lived up to the name.

bennyineire · 26-11-2019 5:24pm

Was at the one in 94 https://www.setlist.fm/festival/1994/sunstroke-1994-53d69305.html

It rained in the evening but what a lineup :eek:

PTH2009 · 26-11-2019 5:27pm

Venues ???
A field like Marley Park or Malahide Castle

Stadium like RDS or Croke Park (with a ****ing massive lineup)

This is great news l

ollkiller · 26-11-2019 5:31pm

Fella i know has seen the announcement coming out at 7pm. Faith No More and Deftones. If that is true then Holy fcuk!!!

Mushy · 26-11-2019 5:35pm

Saw a list of bands from a poster here on download fest site...if it's true, its be insanely good

Mushy · 26-11-2019 5:40pm

Just saw pic, 13/14 June at punchestown

super_furry · 26-11-2019 5:43pm

Jaysus. Sunstroke 1993 was my first ever gig, shame it's not in Dalymount.

PTH2009 · 26-11-2019 5:47pm

Mushy wrote: »

Just saw pic, 13/14 June at punchestown

Looking at hotels for them dates

Seems cheap atm

Furious-Red · 26-11-2019 5:47pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

Looking at hotels for them dates

Seems cheap atm

http://www.pinkmooncamping.co.uk/accommodation.asp

Furious-Red · 26-11-2019 5:49pm

Mushy wrote: »

Saw a list of bands from a poster here on download fest site...if it's true, its be insanely good

Whose on it?

Jurgen The German · 26-11-2019 5:50pm

Surprised its taken this long for a metal fest to come back here, they are big business and the genre has never been as popular.

Mushy · 26-11-2019 5:51pm

Furious-Red wrote: »

http://www.pinkmooncamping.co.uk/accommodation.asp

Hopefully it's all true then

Furious-Red · 26-11-2019 5:51pm

Also clever doing it in June when there are plenty of big rock/metal festivals in Europe

hynesie08 · 26-11-2019 5:52pm

Hope that's just the initial lineup, cause you're not gonna shift huge tickets with that lineup.

Jurgen The German · 26-11-2019 5:53pm

Mushy wrote: »

Hopefully it's all true then

Aside from 3 or 4 bands I wouldn't be arsed. Hopefully the ones I want to see are all playing same day.

Furious-Red · 26-11-2019 5:54pm

Mushy wrote: »

Hopefully it's all true then

That aint too bad, i wonder what will the capacity be 20k?

super_furry · 26-11-2019 5:56pm

hynesie08 wrote: »

Hope that's just the initial lineup, cause you're not gonna shift huge tickets with that lineup.

You mean you don't want to see Bowling for Soup??!?!?

Some good bands there especially Helmet and Bitch Falcon, but no major ticket sellers outside of Faith No More.

hynesie08 · 26-11-2019 5:57pm

super_furry wrote: »

You mean you don't want to see Bowling for Soup??!?!?

Some good bands there especially Helmet and Bitch Falcon, but no major ticket sellers outside of Faith No More.

It reads like day one of a two day festival, hopefully system and korn for the other night since they're at download that weekend

johnnyskeleton · 26-11-2019 5:58pm

Mushy wrote: »

Saw a list of bands from a poster here on download fest site...if it's true, its be insanely good

Is it the same weekend as Download?

Mushy · 26-11-2019 5:59pm

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Is it the same weekend as Download?

Yeah

Arghus · 26-11-2019 6:01pm

I swore I would never go within an asses roar of Punchestown after AC/DC in 09, but I'd be severely tempted for Faith No More. Add in Deftones and Killing Joke as well...

That being said I think they are being ambitious. How many tickets are they planning to shift.

greenspurs · 26-11-2019 6:04pm

Fn M.... hell yeh !

johnnyskeleton · 26-11-2019 6:05pm

Arghus wrote: »

I swore I would never go within an asses roar of Punchestown after AC/DC in 09, but I'd be severely tempted for Faith No More. Add in Deftones and Killing Joke as well...

Was that the one where traffic was at a standstill miles out of the town, and people had to get off the busses and walk?

God, ten years ago!

PTH2009 · 26-11-2019 6:06pm

I booked the citywest for €129 for the Sat night

Not doing camping bollocks. Surely they will have busses going in and out from different spots in Dublin ?

Arghus · 26-11-2019 6:07pm

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Was that the one where traffic was at a standstill miles out of the town, and people had to get off the busses and walk?

God, ten years ago!

I was nearly crushed to death on the way out and got back to Dublin at 7AM, yes, that one.

johnnyskeleton · 26-11-2019 6:10pm

Arghus wrote: »

I was nearly crushed to death on the way out and got back to Dublin at 7AM, yes, that one.

Jaysus, what happened? I have almost no memory of getting back to Dublin, other than a vague memory of ambling around drunk and finding a bus

Mushy · 26-11-2019 6:10pm

Furious-Red wrote: »

That aint too bad, i wonder what will the capacity be 20k?

I'd say maybe less. Not the bands that will attract the casual ticket seller too much, but a lineup that might get people there for a weekend for the craic.

super_furry · 26-11-2019 6:11pm

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Was that the one where traffic was at a standstill miles out of the town, and people had to get off the busses and walk?

God, ten years ago!

Christ I somehow blacked that part out. Was absolutely ****faced by the time I got into the grounds because we necked all our smuggling vodka on the huge walk in.

ghostdancer · 26-11-2019 6:14pm

if I could get Deftones, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and a couple more on the same day, that's be great. not enough there for me to bother with a whole weekend/camping.

PTH2009 · 26-11-2019 6:15pm

Hopefully that's just the first wave and there will be more added

bodhrandude · 26-11-2019 6:23pm

Why can't it be a camping festival?

Mushy · 26-11-2019 6:24pm

bodhrandude wrote: »

Why can't it be a camping festival?

Pink Moon will be there

DepecheHead101 · 26-11-2019 6:32pm

Got tickets for Download the same weekend, but will be interesting to see how this goes. The line up is certainly underwhelming even by a large metal festival's exhausted inventory's stretch to cover for two nights. Deftones are a cure for insomnia.

Fantasy scenario, here, but chances of it picking up some of Download's Sunday bands? System of a Down, Korn, Disturbed etc. If they nabbed System and Korn it'd turn this thing into quite the happening...

Thrashssacre · 26-11-2019 6:40pm

Its a very odd mix match of everything genre wise i feel like they may try to do too much for everyone and end up falling short, at the gates and gojira will be nice to tick off the old bucket list though.

Ricosruffneck · 26-11-2019 6:42pm

DepecheHead101 wrote: »

Got tickets for Download the same weekend, but will be interesting to see how this goes. The line up is certainly underwhelming even by a large metal festival's exhausted inventory's stretch to cover for two nights. Deftones are a cure for insomnia.

Fantasy scenario, here, but chances of it picking up some of Download's Sunday bands? System of a Down, Korn, Disturbed etc. If they nabbed System and Korn it'd turn this thing into quite the happening...

System busy elsewhere that weekend.

Really wanted system, think only hope is that they are supporting whoever plays Slane.

Mushy · 26-11-2019 6:47pm

DepecheHead101 wrote: »

Got tickets for Download the same weekend, but will be interesting to see how this goes. The line up is certainly underwhelming even by a large metal festival's exhausted inventory's stretch to cover for two nights. Deftones are a cure for insomnia.

Fantasy scenario, here, but chances of it picking up some of Download's Sunday bands? System of a Down, Korn, Disturbed etc. If they nabbed System and Korn it'd turn this thing into quite the happening...

Thought you were talking about Download there. Not like ireland has been inundated with festivals catering to these bands over the last quarter century either.

DepecheHead101 · 26-11-2019 6:59pm

Mushy wrote: »

Thought you were talking about Download there. Not like ireland has been inundated with festivals catering to these bands over the last quarter century either.

No, it hasn't, but by any measure the general feeling amongst the global metal community is that the availability of big, fresh draws for festivals is becoming more and more of a scarce resource, with many of these festivals reluctant to give other newer bands virgin to headlining the bump. That's all I was getting at, pretty much.

whomenonotme · 26-11-2019 7:03pm

Mushy wrote: »

Hopefully it's all true then

Excellent - FNM, the Hu, Frank Carter, Helmet, Thumper

Wrongway1985 · 26-11-2019 7:17pm

DepecheHead101 wrote: »

No, it hasn't, but by any measure the general feeling amongst the global metal community is that the availability of big, fresh draws for festivals is becoming more and more of a scarce resource, with many of these festivals reluctant to give other newer bands virgin to headlining the bump. That's all I was getting at, pretty much.

Think that's more of a Download problem than anywhere else tbh.

DepecheHead101 · 26-11-2019 7:22pm

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

Think that's more of a Download problem than anywhere else tbh.

It's probably the worst example of it, granted, but it has been levelled at plenty of other festivals. It's really no secret that there's a certain amount of public perception regarding metal festivals line ups being the same age old acts. Happens across the board, but metal is notorious for it.

PTH2009 · 26-11-2019 7:24pm

Hoping for a few surprises when they officially announce it at 7pm

Wing126 · 26-11-2019 7:27pm

Seems whoever was in control of the webpages got lazy.

Line Up

bodhrandude wrote: »

Why can't it be a camping festival?

It is a camping festival.

sunstrokeireland.com/tickets

Mushy · 26-11-2019 7:31pm

DepecheHead101 wrote: »

No, it hasn't, but by any measure the general feeling amongst the global metal community is that the availability of big, fresh draws for festivals is becoming more and more of a scarce resource, with many of these festivals reluctant to give other newer bands virgin to headlining the bump. That's all I was getting at, pretty much.

Well that's all true, but for a festival that'll be small, it was never going to push out the boat. The headliners there are better than most sub-headline groups for the big fests

delbertgrady · 26-11-2019 7:36pm

"Refsued".
The webmaster evidently didn't care a lot.

Furious-Red · 26-11-2019 7:40pm

Id rather see them start small and start to build it up a larger festival over the years.
Ill def be going anyways

PTH2009 · 26-11-2019 8:02pm

https://www.sunstrokeireland.com/line-up

Sunstroke 2020

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