Barcelona’s Primavera Sound plans 11 days’ worth of music for summer 2022 edition
Having been forced to postpone both its 2020 and 2021 editions, Primavera Sound 2022 was…
Having been forced to postpone both its 2020 and 2021 editions, Primavera Sound 2022 was…
A selection of top artists both new and established have been lined up for the…
Let’s face it, the start of next year isn’t exactly going to be a walk…
Having set the template for dance music festivals in Ireland with the first and second…
If 2020 were a music festival, it would be a forgettable, rain-soaked mudfest with no…
Homelands Ireland 2000 was 20 years ago – no, we don’t know where the time went…
The second (and final) Homelands Ireland took place on 29 April 2000, with a lineup…
Last week, Awakenings Festival made the unfortunate, but sensible, announcement that its Easter edition, scheduled…
The growing coronavirus epidemic cpmtomues to impact the music festival industry, with some of the…
Techno and house legends including Nina Kraviz, Sven Väth, Len Faki, Carl Craig, Secret Cinema,…
Sasha, Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, Solomun, Rødhåd and Dave Clarke are among the heavy hitters…
There are festival lineups, and then there’s the lineup for this year’s Awakenings, which has…
On an otherwise gloomy autumn day at the end of the last century, a small…
Last weekend was a bumper one for Irish music festivals, with artists such as Kelis…
This weekend marks marks the 50th anniversary of Woodstock – the legendary festival that welcomed 500,000…
Beatyard 2019 takes place at Dun Laoghaire Harbour this Saturday and Sunday, with Groove Armada,…
For those of us unlucky not to get a ticket to this year’s Glastonbury Festival,…
Following its inaugural jaunt across the Irish Sea in June 2000, Creamfields Ireland 2001, which…
It’s been said that in this era of Trump, Brexit et al, that politics is…
Homelands Ireland 1999, which took place in September of that year, in many ways changed…
The great Feargal Quinn, arguably Ireland’s finest retailer, calls it the ‘Boomerang Principle’. It’s a…
Ok, I admit it, I was a bit apprehensive going into this year’s Electric Picnic…
I’ve written in the past on this blog about how the EDM scene (the hyper-commercialised,…
There are just days to go until the World Cup kicks off in Russia this…
Think your day is going well? Not as well, I would argue, as it was…
While the first Homelands Ireland (click here for more) was a landmark moment for the…
The Ultra Music Festival, the 2018 edition of which closed in Miami last night, is…
Today, 25 September, marks 18 years to the day since the Homelands Ireland 1999, a…