Body & Soul 2022

MJohnston wrote: »

I got the Facebook event notification last weekend "Body&Soul 2020 is happening soon" and nearly cried. God I'd love to be there.

On the flip side, the weather for the weekend looks nasty so maybe it's a relief.

Its coming up to this time of the year again, hopefully we might hear an announcement soon.

Well Endainoz its two years later and applications have went live again, just applied there about 15 minutes ago.

Endainoz where the hell are ya?

Not much activity on the Body&Soul Facebook page yet, it seems their last post was January 1st. Dying for some more festival announcements to help me through the last throes of winter and the flat hunting madness.

Just to add to that bodhrandude, they said the following in an email I received today:

"After a 2-year hiatus and some proper time out to rethink and reimagine - the pioneering Body&Soul Festival of music and arts is flipping its usual format on its head - halving its numbers and doubling its curatorial commitment.

With just 5,500 tickets available, the 3-day, meticulously curated event will see a complete reimagining vision of its stunning festival grounds and unique programme, which transforms the woodland, lakes and medieval walled gardens across Ballinlough Castle Estate, Co.Meath.

The surprise-filled weekend unfolds under an annual theme on the Summer Solstice - which this year will be ‘Betwixt & Between’ a nod to the concept of Liminality and the place in which we find ourselves after the last two years.

Throughout the magical festival grounds, groundbreaking music artists, theatrical interludes, beautiful art installations, gastronomic experiences, fragrant cocktails, masquerade balls and indulgent wellbeing areas come together to provide a weekend of sensory exploration. 

With sustainability behind everything they do, in 2022, Body&Soul plans on being the first circular festival in Ireland, through a programme of recycling, reusing and repurposing all elements of the Festival’s production."

Pre-sale tickets were €200 but are sold out already. Hopefully it works out for them, one of the best festivals in the country consistently over the past 10 years.

No harm in subscribing to their website for email update as there is probably a link through that for tickets too. Actually there is a presale link there too.

https://bit.ly/PreSaleSignUp_?fbclid=IwAR1sCngIkQN31lwA_f80NOv6zWw8NnhOOdOVQqojySNkcU2T6gfHeca2FB0

Cheers brother Bodhran, you’re a gent.

I like this approach - the early B+S were absolute belters and were never about the big acts. Its mad to think that the main stage used to be INSIDE the garden! Hopefully this means the return of reckless in love to it's proper home in the woods, it was never the same since it was moved out to the big field.

Looking forward to this :)

Yeah, fair play to them. If that's a sustainable model, it'll be very welcome.

Keep getting some error message the length of the screen right at the end of the checkout for payment plan tickets.

Whatever happened to Alo Wala, they played Body&Soul in 2015 and blew everyone away and then they just disappeared into the ether, which is a pity I thought they would go on to bigger things, maybe they need to be rebooked for B&S so people remember them again.

To follow up on this, they got back to me and they’re looking into it. Hopefully it’s not something on my end but I can’t see what it could be. Shame they’re not just on ticketmaster.

This Nialler article suggests that B&S are changing their format and will not name the headliners for their bill, so surprises more for the 5,500 punters who converge this year, hopefully they sell all the tickets then with the brave decision not to name their festival guests.

True, I think its quite an interesting concept, the festival is saying 'Trust Us' and its all about surprises, although I've heard others say maybe they've just scimped on the line up. But I don't care now as B&S is always a wonderful experience. Thinking fantasy here but I'm imagining stumbling into one of their surprise stages and finding Richard, D. James spinning the decks under the alias Polygon Window and doing his Surfing on Sine Waves special, that would be gob smackingly good. :)