Body & Soul Festival 2019

grudgehugger · 26-02-2019 8:55pm

Arne_Saknussem wrote: »

https://twitter.com/BodyandSoulIrl/status/1100484064329502720

Now this is one to be excited about.

Never seen them live - great booking

johnnyskeleton · 26-02-2019 8:56pm

pedrozeno wrote: »

This is extremely underwhelming!

Is it possible that these are just a random 10 and they will announce the headliners afterwards?

Arne_Saknussem · 26-02-2019 8:57pm

https://twitter.com/BodyandSoulIrl/status/1100484936178507776

Peesh89 · 26-02-2019 8:57pm

Who called the blaze earlier?? I love you. Thank you for making our dreams come true.

grudgehugger · 26-02-2019 8:57pm

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Is it possible that these are just a random 10 and they will announce the headliners afterwards?

Eh... sadly no I would say. Holding out hope for 2 names as good as Modeselektor

johnnyskeleton · 26-02-2019 8:58pm

whelzer wrote: »

The Blaze

Huzzah!

BadTurtle · 26-02-2019 8:59pm

Oof. The Blaze is a cracking booking. One of the best gigs at EP18.

Funkfield · 26-02-2019 8:59pm

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Is it possible that these are just a random 10 and they will announce the headliners afterwards?

From their Twitter

BODYNSOUL wrote:

We've got 10 acts that we'll be sharing on the CRISP sound system here at an exclusive live party in the @BigRomanceBar - we'll tweet a video for each but there's many more on the full first line-up which will be live at 8pm. #bodysoul19

Peesh89 · 26-02-2019 9:00pm

Santigold on the lnstagram video they just posted, wyvern lingo, Mano le tough, murder capital, the drifter, Baikal..

pedrozeno · 26-02-2019 9:02pm

Peesh89 wrote: »

Santigold on the lnstagram video they just posted, wyvern lingo, Mano le tough, murder capital, the drifter, Baikal..

Now you're talking!

Arne_Saknussem · 26-02-2019 9:02pm

https://twitter.com/BodyandSoulIrl/status/1100486030753492994

BadTurtle · 26-02-2019 9:03pm

Guess it wasnt in any order. Santigold, Murder Capital, Mano Le Tough all good bookings. First year in a while im half considering going now

pedrozeno · 26-02-2019 9:04pm

pedrozeno wrote: »

This is extremely underwhelming!

Ok, I'm now much happier.

Ferris_Bueller · 26-02-2019 9:06pm

More acts than I would usually recognise I suppose but if it wasn't for the Blaze there wouldn't be anyone there I would go out of my way to see. Won't be rushing out to buy a ticket anyway.

Effects · 26-02-2019 9:07pm

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Is it possible that these are just a random 10 and they will announce the headliners afterwards?

Yeah, that makes sense. Start your announcements with random acts and announce the big acts when everyone is saying, "is that it, that's sh!t".

pedrozeno · 26-02-2019 9:10pm

Anytime I've seen Santigold live she's been fantastic. Def my pick of the bunch so far.

Arne_Saknussem · 26-02-2019 9:14pm

https://twitter.com/BodyandSoulIrl/status/1100488427659841539

bodhrandude · 26-02-2019 9:21pm

https://www.goldenplec.com/festivals/body-and-soul-2019/?fbclid=IwAR1pFn9-wDxc84B1jiFYNqUveBPsQnDna4UkLWXPKVRJ49PIhT2-8z3vOHs

Lotus Flower · 26-02-2019 9:22pm

That's pretty poor overall

bodhrandude · 26-02-2019 9:23pm

Kruder & Dorfmeister should be amazing, I've always wanted to see them.

purple hands · 26-02-2019 9:24pm

The fomo is diminished

johnnyskeleton · 26-02-2019 9:25pm

At the moment, this is how I would rank the linup:

The Blaze
Wyvern Lingo
The Murder Capital
Whenyoung
Thumper
Talos
Dream Wife
Laoise
Modeselektor
Santigold
Soak
Bakil
The Drfoter
Oshun
Coely
Tulla Ceili Band
Niamh Regan
The Clockworks
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Princess Nokia
Kate Tempest
Mano Le Tough
Kiddie Smile
Monolink
Lil'Dave
Meltybrains?

Basically, the bands I most want to see are the Irish bands who are not normally announced in the first lineup, most of whom I've seen before, and all of whom play several Irish gigs for c. €15-20 a year.

MadYaker · 26-02-2019 9:26pm

Underwhelming in my opinion. I was thinking they’d pull out all the stops for the ten year anniversary. I don’t really mind missing it now! Modeselector are good live but the lineup lacks any real star power. That said I went knowing only Jon Hopkins and one or two other names last year and it was still a belter of a weekend, though the weather helped I suppose.

Effects · 26-02-2019 9:28pm

pedrozeno wrote: »

Anytime I've seen Santigold live she's been fantastic. Def my pick of the bunch so far.

I'd have preferred a smaller venue gig from her but I guess I'm going to Body and Soul now.

bodhrandude · 26-02-2019 9:34pm

bodhrandude · 26-02-2019 9:35pm

phantom_lord · 26-02-2019 9:36pm

BadTurtle wrote: »

Guess it wasnt in any order. Santigold, Murder Capital, Mano Le Tough all good bookings. First year in a while im half considering going now

They've had santigold, and you don't need to go to a festival to see mano le tough.

Pretty meh overall.

phantom_lord · 26-02-2019 9:43pm

phantom_lord wrote: »

If you look at the line up over the years it's been on a steady decline. There was an excuse either last year or the year before that they cut the budget for acts to buy the main stage, and it'll mean more money for acts in the future, but I wouldn't be holding my breath.

Wonder what this years excuse is.

Eod100 · 26-02-2019 9:57pm

Santigold and a few decent Irish acts , bar that seems a bit underwhelming. Thought they'd go a bit bigger with the 10 year anniversary. Guess there's more acts to come too

bodhrandude · 26-02-2019 10:32pm

Probably not the most mind blowing announcement but I'll take Modeselektor, The Blaze, Santigold, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Mano le Tough, Talos, The Murder Capital, Meltybrains and the Tulla Ceili Band from that lot, I know I'm gonna be there as I love working at it and there is still a few more names to join the lineup.

Heiser · 26-02-2019 10:37pm

That's a terrible line up. I know B&S is about more than the music, but how can they justify the ticket price with that line up? ATN is the same price and look at the acts they booked.

charlietully · 26-02-2019 11:00pm

Hard to believe nick cave played this just a couple of years back. Piss poor line up. **** i.g pathetic really for the price

MJohnston · 26-02-2019 11:10pm

One of those lineups that is objectively under average in terms of star power, but in terms of personal interest I love it. Might be my favourite initial announcement since 2015.

I dunno, I found Body and Soul lineups almost impossible to judge in hindsight, you look back at 2013 with Solange and at the time that was a really weird, leftfield (possibly even underwhelming) choice. Now she's a megastar.

callaway92 · 27-02-2019 12:03am

Santigold is great.

Do Body and Soul do day tickets?

She’s the only one that interests me there but would happily make a day of it. Don’t want to do weekend camping etc

MJohnston · 27-02-2019 12:22am

callaway92 wrote: »

Santigold is great.

Do Body and Soul do day tickets?

She’s the only one that interests me there but would happily make a day of it. Don’t want to do weekend camping etc

They've had Sunday tickets in the past

keithkk16 · 27-02-2019 4:37am

I think the lineup is pretty good so far(going by previous years), lots of stuff I want to see and lots that I haven't seen before. Have to have a wee laugh at the people that were expecting them to book acts like Weezer and Tame Impala, those acts aren't suited for Body n Soul at all, your more likely to see them on at the 3 arena or EP headliners.

Anyway I made a spotify playlist if anyone is interested. About 4 or 5 songs for each act

https://open.spotify.com/user/1159545637/playlist/153M5vvru1GMPk6JxOM9X2?si=uPp6RFEUS7mxBIDDbTm6SA

I didn't include anyone playing DJ sets like Mano Le Tough, The Drifter, Baikal or Kruger & Dorfmesiter, check there DJ sets on Soundcloud or Youtube

phantom_lord · 27-02-2019 9:58am

I just think people are getting swindled, look at the size of the acts other festivals here and abroad put on with cheaper prices.

ghostdancer · 27-02-2019 10:55am

thought there might be a one or two bigger names, but it's in line with previous years I suppose.
like others said, would have preferred Moderat but they don't appear to be touring it this summer and doing solo Modeselektor/Apparat gigs instead.
heard The Blaze were brilliant at EP last year.

not really enough to get me to go again this year yet, but might change my mind with a sunny weather forecast on the week of it and a cheap ticket on toutless.

showpony1 · 27-02-2019 11:07am

Weighing up whether to do this or Sea Sessions.

Not much i like there in the line-up compared to Sea Sessios - but from previous years B&S appear to have things like Mother DJs etc around at night that would keep you going if didn't like the bands on?

is the B&S crowd very much mid-30s/40s or was a mix of mid 20s there.
i am guessing that Sea Sessions could be more a teenage vibe?

MJohnston · 27-02-2019 11:36am

phantom_lord wrote: »

I just think people are getting swindled, look at the size of the acts other festivals here and abroad put on with cheaper prices.

Swindling would assume that people (a) haven't looked at the past lineups and seen that they're of comparable scope and (b) bought their tickets before a lineup announcement.

I'd say it's extremely unlikely anyone who bought a ticket prior to this announcement cared about the lineup. And anyone who buys from now on is fully informed!

MJohnston · 27-02-2019 11:37am

ghostdancer wrote: »

thought there might be a one or two bigger names, but it's in line with previous years I suppose.
like others said, would have preferred Moderat but they don't appear to be touring it this summer and doing solo Modeselektor/Apparat gigs instead.
heard The Blaze were brilliant at EP last year.

not really enough to get me to go again this year yet, but might change my mind with a sunny weather forecast on the week of it and a cheap ticket on toutless.

Modeselektor are in a new album touring phase, wouldn't really make sense to tour as Moderat as there's no new material from that moniker.

MJohnston · 27-02-2019 11:39am

showpony1 wrote: »

Weighing up whether to do this or Sea Sessions.

Not much i like there in the line-up compared to Sea Sessios - but from previous years B&S appear to have things like Mother DJs etc around at night that would keep you going if didn't like the bands on?

is the B&S crowd very much mid-30s/40s or was a mix of mid 20s there.
i am guessing that Sea Sessions could be more a teenage vibe?

B&S is arguably the most mature crowd of the Irish field festival scene, I'd say. And yeah, there's plenty going on at night, the Mother stage last year was pretty epic in scale, though I'm too old and broken to be staying up that late.

keithkk16 · 27-02-2019 2:30pm

showpony1 wrote: »

Weighing up whether to do this or Sea Sessions.

Not much i like there in the line-up compared to Sea Sessios - but from previous years B&S appear to have things like Mother DJs etc around at night that would keep you going if didn't like the bands on?

is the B&S crowd very much mid-30s/40s or was a mix of mid 20s there.
i am guessing that Sea Sessions could be more a teenage vibe?

Yeah Sea Sessions has a young crowd vibe. I use to go to it when I was younger then started going to B&S and noticed a big difference and the free flow.

BananaR · 27-02-2019 7:27pm

MJohnston wrote: »

Modeselektor are in a new album touring phase, wouldn't really make sense to tour as Moderat as there's no new material from that moniker.

Moderat announced hiatus for the foreseeable last year as far as I remember

SteelyDanJalapeno · 27-02-2019 7:34pm

Didn't Santigold only play like 2 years ago?

Quite poor to repeat big artists at small festivals so soon,

sally cinnamon89 · 27-02-2019 8:18pm

SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »

Didn't Santigold only play like 2 years ago?

Quite poor to repeat big artists at small festivals so soon,

Yes in 2016 if I recall

bodhrandude · 27-02-2019 9:31pm

SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »

Didn't Santigold only play like 2 years ago?

Quite poor to repeat big artists at small festivals so soon,

Wasn't really a gig though was it, downpour on Sunday that year, Santigold had airport trouble as I recall travelling to B&S and half her group and equipment couldn't make it. I missed her myself but caught her at EP in 2011 and she was pretty amazing.

keithkk16 · 28-02-2019 12:36am

bodhrandude wrote: »

Wasn't really a gig though was it, downpour on Sunday that year, Santigold had airport trouble as I recall travelling to B&S and half her group and equipment couldn't make it. I missed her myself but caught her at EP in 2011 and she was pretty amazing.

Yeah that was horrible, fair play to them for still playing for a bit, but yeah that's why she's back again and she even said at the end of her set that she would be back at b&s to play a proper set

MJohnston · 28-02-2019 12:38am

The thing I like about the Body and Soul lineups recently is that they're really well thematically paired at the top of the docket. Last year, I didn't like any of the artists, but they were all very well curated if you're into that Fever Ray kind of sound. This year it's definitely a dancehall or just raucus electronica vibe. It'll be a GREAT feel for a party.

bodhrandude · 28-02-2019 1:40am

I'm absolutely delighted with Kruder & Dorfmeister, have always loved their music, ice chill ambient with great use of DnB, jazz, trip hop and downtempo same sorta vibe as Boards of Canada, Thievery Corporation, Nightmares in Wax. Always wondered why they have eluded the Picnic for so long.

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