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Another bank-holiday weekend looms large on the horizon, and with it comes a gaggle of festivals, stampeding towards us in a frenzied cloud of white feathers, honkin’ away like attention seeking geese. It’s easy to get spooked by the hissing squawks. May bank-holiday weekend was a mouth watering antipasto, this time round, you are invited … Continue reading
Another bank-holiday weekend looms large on the horizon, and with it comes a gaggle of festivals, stampeding towards us in a frenzied cloud of white feathers, honkin’ away like attention seeking geese. It’s easy to get spooked by the hissing squawks. May bank-holiday weekend was a mouth watering antipasto, this time round, you are invited … Continue reading
The bar for this years’ festival gigs has been set unexpectedly early and unexpectedly high. It’d be easy to be dismissive of Temple Bar Tradfest, writing it off as an exercise in cranked-up-oirishness at a level capable of giving Michael Flatley a whole new horn, but this festival has depth and quality, attracting just as … Continue reading
Trying to compile a comprehensive list of Irish festivals is like trying to herd horse-flies. This time last year I foolhardily began trying to collate the Irish festivals scheduled for 2013. After three months of trawling and trolling, the list stood at 723, and that wasn’t including any of The Gathering shenanigans. Every year in … Continue reading
Life gets a hell of a lot easier when you don’t have too many tough choices to make and in that regard, this weekend is a doddle. There are two really good festivals happening on the Western Seaboard this weekend, the best on offer in the country this week, and to make the selection process … Continue reading
These are the barren months. Not only is everyone skint, a few of us may have exclaimed “I’ll never drink again” as we were hugging a toilet at the turn of the year. Most festival organisers see January as a month to be avoided. But thankfully, where there’s a gap in the market, a few … Continue reading
If you awoke Celine Dion voilently in the middle of the night while wearing a balaclava, making threatening demands that she leave the country with you immeditely, only bringing ten of her 3,000 pairs of shoes, what would happen? Besides redressing a karmic imbalance by torturing her slightly (that was the reason for the balaclava … Continue reading
Culture Night – http://www.culturenight.ie/ Not since the great Yop explosion of ’83 will there have been as much culture in the air as there will be around Ireland for this year’s edition of Culture Night. There are 38 regional centres listed as having a range of free cultural events for you to dip your arty parts … Continue reading
No Place Like Dome – http://www.npld.ie/ Music festivals are as much about the vibe as they are about the line-up, it’s a chicken and egg thing; it’s hard to have one without t’other. The NPLD posse have got both sussed for their one day festival this Saturday at Temple House Estate in Sligo. The campsite does … Continue reading
Irish festivals care not a jot for season, reason or physical well-being. They’re even more relentless than a cage fighter who has caught his wife cheating on him just before he stood on an up-turned plug in his bare feet. All the chatter suggests that Electric Picnic sees the end of something, but as Phil … Continue reading
A Year of Festivals in Ireland 