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• The annual On The Record outdoor shows and festivals census

  August 6, 2008 @ 12:06 pm | by Jim Carroll

  We did this last year with huge help from Nialler and Pedro so it’s time to do it again.

  The aim is simple - to keep track of all the outdoor summer shows and festivals (or shows in tents - no solid structures please) which take place in Ireland every “summer” from April/May to September.

  The list is blow the fold and the count now stands at 74.

  Add any ones I’ve left out in the comments and I’ll update the list as they come in.
  

  Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (RDS, Dublin) (OK, OK, I somehow forgot to include this in the first draft - go ahead, shoot me)
  Electric Picnic (Stradbally, Co Laois)
  Castle Palooza (Tullamore, Co Offaly)
  Mantua Project (Co Roscommon)
  Oxegen (Punchestown Racecourse, Co Kildare)
  Cois Fharraige (Kikee, Co Clare)
  Irish Green Gathering (Enniscorthy, Co Wexford)
  Farmleigh Affair (Phoenix Park, Dublin)
  Analog Festival (Grand Canal Square, Dublin)
  CorkXSW (Skibereen, Co Cork)
  Big Bang Festival of Rhythm (various venues, Dublin)
  Festival of World Cultures (Fun Laoghaire, Co Dublin)
  Knockanstock (Blessington, Co Wicklow)
  Lovebox (Marlay Park, Dublin)
  Day of Darkness (Co Laois)
  Beach Party with Chemical Brothers (Portrush, Co Antrim)
  Life (Gort, Co Galway)
  Live at the Marquee (Cork) (yes, I know there were loads of shows here but lets leave it as one for now)
  Neil Young (Malahide Castle, Dublin)
  Eric Clapton (Malahide Castle, Dublin)
  Tiesto (Ballinlough Castle, Co Meath)
  Leonard Cohen (IMMA, Dublin)
  Tom Waits (Phoenix Park, Dublin)
  Eurocultured (Smithfield Plaza, Dublin)
  Green Energy (Dublin Castle)
  Westlife (Croke Park, Dublin)
  Celine Dion (Croke Park, Dublin)
  Neil Diamond (Croke Park, Dublin)
  Dysart Festival (Kilkenny - still going ahead albeit in a different venue with a completely downsized line-up)
  Radiohead (Malahide Castle, Dublin)
  Bon Jovi (Punchestown Racecourse, Co Kildare)
  Iggy Pop (IMMA, Dublin)
  Morrissey (IMMA, Dublin)
  Future Days Festival (Various venues, Dublin)
  Glasgowbury (Moneyneena, Co Derry)
  Solas (Clonegal, Co Carlow)
  The Police (Stormont Castle, Belfast)
  Planetlove (Fairyhouse Racecourse, Co Meath - June)
  Planetlove (Shane’s Castle, Co Antrim - September)
  Linkin Park (RDS, Dublin)
  Dolly Parton (Nowlan Park, Kilkenny)
  Summerfest (Killarney, Co Kerry)
  Dublin City Soul Festival (Dublin)
  Northside Music Festival (Dublin)
  Kraftwerk (Luggala, Co Wicklow)
  IndiePendence Festival (Mitchelstown, Co Cork)
  Boyzone (RDS, Dublin)
  World Fleadh (Portlaoise, Co Laois)
  Muse (Marlay Park, Dublin)
  The Killers (Marlay Park, Dublin)
  Metallica (Marlay Park, Dublin)
  Lenny Kravitz (Marlay Park, Dublin (You don’t think we’d have forgotten Lenny)
  Belsonic Festival (Belfast)
  Hard Working Class Heroes (Temple Bar, Dublin)
  Kings Of Concrete (Wood Quay, Dublin)
  Le Cheile (Oldcastle, Co Meath)
  Rory Gallagher festival (Ballyshannon, Co Donegal)
  Music Revolution (Lisburn)
  The Big Top at the Galway Arts Festival (Galway, obviously)
  Inisfox (Co Mayo)

  LATEST ADDITIONS

  Spiegeltent (Cork)
  Spiegeltent (Dublin)
  Techfest (Tullamore, Co Offaly)
  Trans Festival (Belfast)
  Westlife (Pearse Stadium, Galway)
  Bundoran Live (Co Donegal)
  Junction Festival (Clonmel, Co Tipperary)
  Carrick Water Festival (Carrick-On-Shannon, Co Leitrim)
  Michael Buble (Donnybrook, Dublin)
  Bray Summer Festival (Bray, Co Wicklow)
  Sea Sessions (Bundoran, Co Donegal)
  Dolan’s D-10 Festival (Limerick)
  Flatlake Festival (Clones, Co Monaghan)
  Timoleague Festival (Timoleague, Co Cork)
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1.
August 6, 2008
12:14 pm
Jim,
How could you forget the E Street Band’s 3 night stand in May? Shame.
Comment by TS Ed
2.
August 6, 2008
12:17 pm
Aaaaaaaaargggggggghhhhhhhhhhh. Amended. (Hangs head in shame)
Comment by Jim Carroll
3.
August 6, 2008
12:20 pm
Jim,
How could you spell ‘Springsteen’ wrong? Shame.
Comment by TS Ed
4.
August 6, 2008
12:22 pm
How could you forget Princ…oh no wait, he forgot about us.
Looks pretty extensive so far, I can’t recall anything else.
Comment by Ronan Hunt-Murphy
5.
August 6, 2008
12:22 pm
Stendahl Festival in Limavady is coming up (in it’s first year) and features Jape, Delorentos and TOM MCSHANE
Comment by Nick
6.
August 6, 2008
12:24 pm
Spiegeltent in cork - Faust, Fall, Franks.
Mundy at Puck Fair.
Comment by Ivor
7.
August 6, 2008
12:26 pm
TS Ed - I was hanging my head in shame and couldn’t see the keyboard, OK?
Nick & Ivor - thanks for the adds
Comment by Jim Carroll
8.
August 6, 2008
12:26 pm
all the Live at the Marquee gigs in Cork :
Neil Young
Paul Simon
Morrissey
Massive Attack
Paul Weller etc
Comment by Gary
9.
August 6, 2008
12:27 pm
oops just saw it on the list now
Comment by Gary
10.
August 6, 2008
12:29 pm
Techfest - Offaly May Bank Holiday weekend
Comment by fill3rup
11.
August 6, 2008
12:30 pm
Midlands Music Festical (Belvedere House, Co Westmeath) is a sad omission this year
Comment by Gary
12.
August 6, 2008
12:30 pm
Future Days Festival was indoor!!!
Also add Speigeltent/Fringe Fest - Dublin
Comment by aaarrrggghh
13.
August 6, 2008
12:30 pm
Prince- Croke Park.. oh..yeah..
Comment by fill3rup
14.
August 6, 2008
12:32 pm
fill3up - Ta for Techfest!
Aaaaaarrrrrggghhh - Future Days involved multiple venues so it stays on the list. And have added Fringe fest
Comment by Jim Carroll
15.
August 6, 2008
1:01 pm
Jim, is Tennents Vital not on in Belfast this year?
Also Belfast-related, Flaming Lips are playing outdoors on Monday 11 August supported by Jape, Oppenheimer and Mogwai (is it part of that Belsonic thing?)
And I believe there were some outdoor events as part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival which was a few months ago - May, June maybe? I know The Fall played in a tent and probably a few more.
Comment by Neill
16.
August 6, 2008
1:09 pm
Looks like the Stendahl festival is gone the way of the Dodo,,
http://www.ulstermusic.com/
another one bites the dust,,,
Comment by enda
17.
August 6, 2008
1:51 pm
Neil - Vital festival is now called BELSONIC - check out http://www.belsonic.com
Enda - That happened in the last hour! I looked at their website - http://www.myspace.com/stendhalfestivalireland - earlier and it was still on. Blimey, they’ve done a Dysart on it
Comment by Jim Carroll
18.
August 6, 2008
1:54 pm
Westlife played Pease Stadium in Galway too
Bundoran Live had Shane Ward, Meatlof (just about) and Chris De Burgh
Comment by Sean D
19.
August 6, 2008
1:57 pm
Clonmel Junction Festival (July)
Comment by Sean D
20.
August 6, 2008
1:57 pm
I heart open-source blogging - thanks sean!
Comment by Jim Carroll
21.
August 6, 2008
1:59 pm
Also the Carrick Water Music Festival is starting this weekend
http://www.carrickwatermusic.com/index.html
Comment by Sean D
22.
August 6, 2008
2:07 pm
Bray Summer Festival.
Yeah that’s right, its a music festival, goddamit!
Comment by P&M
23.
August 6, 2008
2:11 pm
I vote for Radiohead! Yeah!
Comment by Brock Landers
24.
August 6, 2008
2:16 pm
Chemical Brothers in Portrush
Michael Buble in Donnybrook
Belsonic is a new festival, Vital isn’t happening this year.
Comment by knwd
25.
August 6, 2008
2:19 pm
Sean D - ta
P&M - ta
Brock - get back in your box
knwd - Chemical Brothers listed, Michael Buble added (I bet not one On The Record reader went to that one)
Comment by Jim Carroll
26.
August 6, 2008
2:24 pm
Mick Flavin was doing one in Longford… but it got cancelled.
Comment by B'dum
27.
August 6, 2008
2:25 pm
Mick Flavin was doing one in Longford… but it got cancelled.
Your supervisor took an extra-long weekend, right?
Comment by Jim Carroll
28.
August 6, 2008
2:29 pm
Mantua put the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble on in Battlebridge a few weeks ago. Its a pity I only found out about it the day afterthe gig.
Comment by Matt Vinyl
29.
August 6, 2008
3:00 pm
Jim, does the Rose of Tralee count? They have something with Sharon Shannon and Shane MacGowan this year in the Dome afaik.
Comment by Ivor
30.
August 6, 2008
3:04 pm
Ivor - The jury’s out on that one
Comment by Jim Carroll
31.
August 6, 2008
3:04 pm
I presume by Bundoran live you mean the Meatloaf, Chris De Burgh fiasco! If so here’s a new one…
http://www.seasessions.com/
Comment by Simon
32.
August 6, 2008
3:11 pm
Apparently the Jigs & Reels festival on Rathlin Island was cancelled. Haven’t been to it but have heard nothing but great things about it.
Comment by Simon
33.
August 6, 2008
3:13 pm
Simon - Ta, Sea Sessions is a new one on me. And when I checked earlier, I couldn’t find a listing for the Jigs & Reels fest so that’s why it is not on the list
Comment by Jim Carroll
34.
August 6, 2008
3:33 pm
Sligo Live Festival (October in Sligo town). Is comedy included? The Carlsberg Comedy Festival… Belfast Related - Marquee at Féile an Phobail in August and earlier in the year at Féile an Earraigh in February. The Mill Marquee at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy
Comment by Aisling Ryan
35.
August 6, 2008
4:05 pm
Dolans D10 festival
…the docklands limerick(Zutons,Dolerentos,Shane McGowan….)
Comment by davemor
36.
August 6, 2008
4:42 pm
“Sea Sessions is a new one on me”
Shite, I forgot about that and its a mate of mine who’s putting it on. I reckon I’ll go to that. The weather is bound to be good once the kids are back at school.
On a related tip, did anyone see that ‘Silver Surfari’ documentary on RTE last night. It followed the original Irish surfers up the west coast of Ireland ending in Bundoran and Rossnowlagh. Great craic.
Comment by Matt Vinyl
37.
August 6, 2008
4:50 pm
the flatlake festival…(which im looking forward to immensely)
and there was also a second festival on on the same weekend as knockenstocken..i don’t know it’s name though…
Comment by ciaran
38.
August 6, 2008
4:56 pm
The Docklands Weekend thingie, with the sea shantys, Lou Reed, Tim Robbins etc, is that there? If it is I missed it.
Comment by sarah
39.
August 6, 2008
4:59 pm
There’s Timoleague in West Cork -http://www.timoleague.ie/timoleague_festival.html
Features such Irish gems as Republic or Loose and Brendan Grace…
Comment by Sinead
40.
August 6, 2008
4:59 pm
Aisling - it’s just summer fests so Sligo Live misses the cut. And we’ll leave out comedy - though that Carnival was great fun and so well organised.
davemor - thanks for that
matt - that seasessions thing has a v good line-up
ciaran - let me know when you remember the other fest
sarah - that was called Analog and it is listed above
sinead - thanks!
Comment by Jim Carroll
41.
August 6, 2008
5:55 pm
it appears to just be the ballyknockan festival..and i’d like to apologise for my terrible spelling and punctuation..*cough*
Comment by ciaran
42.
August 6, 2008
6:26 pm
*ahem* my source (not sammy unfortunately, just my sis who was at knockanstock) informs me that the ballyknockan festival was merged with knockanstock due to the pub that was behind it had to pull out…
Comment by ciaran
43.
August 6, 2008
8:18 pm
Saw the surfer programme last night. What a great bunch of (relatively) auld fellas. Some nice comments from the kids in Rossnowlagh thinking that they were in their 80s. It was a great route that they took. Some nice breaks along the way. The mixing of the old footage and the new worked very well- seems to be the same waves on the go.
Comment by paub
44.
August 7, 2008
10:44 am
‘Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Park,’ takes places on August 17th at Marley Park featuring Slovak Festival Orchestra and some tenors.
http://www.dlrevents.ie/family.htm#orchestra
Comment by nerraw
45.
August 7, 2008
10:47 am
nerraw - I’ll leaving out the classical stuff. There’s dozens and dozens of outdoor classical gigs - there was a report on Morning Ireland earlier about one of them which happens today in the park behind the council offices on Wood Quay - so lets stick with rock/pop/etc for now.
Comment by Jim Carroll
46.
August 7, 2008
1:28 pm
Yeah every Thursday afternoon there is free opera at Wood Quay!! Opera in the Open starting today. I dind’t think to include it as it’s more of a series than a festival even though it’s outdoors…
Comment by Aisling Ryan
47.
August 7, 2008
2:54 pm
Talking of outdoor gigs, I am really dumbfounded by the lack of hubbub surrounding the Flaming Lips show in Belfast next week. The promoters really have done them a dis-service.
I can appreciate that the band are pretty much between albums, nothing to promote and playing one-off shows at the moment but there has been zero fanfare for what should be a great gig (every lips gig is great).
Am I the only one making the trek up north (well apart from me missus and two of our friends)? More importantly who do I need to bribe to get on stage with them as a Santa?
Comment by James D
48.
August 14, 2009
10:39 pm
Summersound festival 2009 in clontarf
http://www.myspace.com/summersoundfest
with the Fade Street Bums
http://www.myspace.com/fadestreetbums
Comment by adrian

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