Solas Festival

fits

This is on next weekend in Clonegal and I think it looks great. Anyone going?

http://www.solas-festival.com/

wheres me jumpa

I had heard a few people talking about this and never got round to viewing the line up, so thanks for the link!

Its a weird mix. Is it a dance festival? It is mostly DJs but Republic of Loose and Ham Sandwich are notable exceptions to this rule.

fits

Theres a world music stage and the main stage is also indie/alternative (republic of loose, autamata, kila etc).

Then two electronic areas as far as I can make out.

ITs right up my street anyway music-wise.

fits

Ok perhaps its 3 electronic stages, I'd imagine one of those is a late night stage.

Looks good to me though.

Solas Main Stage

Saturday
Autamata
God is an Astronaut
Hijack Oscar
Back Doors
Dirty Epics
HyBrasil
Kill City Defectors
Rocket Surgery

Sunday
Kila
Republic of Loose
Preston Reed
Andy McKee
Don Ross
Ham Sandwich
Travega
Stanley Super 800
Different Drums of Ireland






The Spectrum Stage

Saturday
Alex Under [Net 28 Showcase]
Damian Schwartz Live [Net 28 Showcase]
Heart Throb [Minus]
Dinky
Tractile [Live]
Miss Jools A.K.A Sleeper Thief
Eddie Brennan & Dan McElligot [Electric City]
String [Live - Multifunktion]
Timmy Stewart

Sunday
Audiojack
Dusty Kid
Switch
Johnny Moy & Arveene [Clampdown]
Alloy Mental
Noise Control
Produse Live
Dougmore/Multifunktion
Chymera [Live]
Sian






Kettle Events

Saturday
A Guy Called Gerald [3 Hr Set]
Tu Ki [4 Time Irish DMC Champ]
Matjazz & Handsome Paddy [4 Deck Set]
Whitenoise [Human Beatbox]
Synergy [Reach]
Barry Delta [Reach]
MC Julie Dillon [174]
Bonz [174]
Dj Flip & Filthy Rich
Worries Outernational Soundsystem

Sunday
DJ Godfather [Databass]
Detroit Grand Pubahs [DET.ELE.FUNK]
Boxcutter [Planet MU]
Milanese [Planet MU]
Syntheme [Planet MU]
T-Woc [Alphabetset]
Signor Pepe Hernandez [KETTLE]
Big Dish Go Djs - Conor & Gav Feeney
Firehouse Skank [Selector Enda]






Human Music Stage

Saturday
Preston Reed
The Last Tycoons
The Hot Sprockets
Erik Noon
Nicola Williams
Lauren Guillery
Quintessential
DJ Half Dutch

Sunday
Babys Big Ego
Sickboy
The Murder of Crows
The Brothers Movement
More Tiny Giants
Hassle Merchants
Skuzzi Port
Brean Wilson
Christina Quill






The Prism Stage

Saturday
The Urges
Intinn
Gavin Glass & The Holy Shakers
The Red Labels
The Straglers
Grand Casino
Niall Toner Band
The Bovine Frenzy
Brian Meakin Experience
Niwel Tsumbu
Zrazy

Sunday
Grada
Neon Flea Circus
Miracle Bell
The Mighty Stef
Tucan
The Cuban Allstars
The Ceili Allstars
Jester
West African Drum Group






Fusion Stage

Saturday

Peter Breen [electric circus]
Sex Shop Dave [electric circus]
Mike McCoy [electronic Ireland]
Sean Galvin [Schmutzig]
Bad Boy Blast [Strutt / Techfest]
Joe McGrath [Junction]
Jay Galligan [Test / electric city]
Paudi Ahern [Transmission]
Stuey Lyon's [Junction]
Jeff Walters [Winter Beats]
Fran Hartnet [JUNCTION]

Sunday

Cj Fitzs [Transmission]
Barry Donovan [Lunar]
Aron Nolan [Acii disco]
Al Keegan [Acii disco]
Cian Frawley [Strutt / Techfest]
Stam [Junction]
Niall Power [electric circus]
Rian Ryan [electric city]

stick-dan

That Looks deadly, reppubic of loose in clonegal :O:O How does that happen..

SV

Alloy Mental in Carlow! :D

fits

stick-dan wrote: »

That Looks deadly, reppubic of loose in clonegal :O:O How does that happen..

Are you being sarcastic?

stick-dan

No not at all, But like to me republic of loose are good, really good and i was wondering how they could be attracted to a modest location if you will. I'm not bad-mouthing it by any means i think it's great. Is the solas gig big? This is the first i heard of it.

What's the story on tickets?

wheres me jumpa

stick-dan wrote: »

That Looks deadly, reppubic of loose in clonegal :O:O How does that happen..

A few weeks ago, I went to the see The Republic of Loose....in the Fox and Goose!

RoL are very good, Im a big fan, but they are still very much an Irish band appealing to an Irish market.

Spider_Baby

stick-dan wrote: »

No not at all, But like to me republic of loose are good, really good and i was wondering how they could be attracted to a modest location if you will. I'm not bad-mouthing it by any means i think it's great. Is the solas gig big? This is the first i heard of it.

What's the story on tickets?

Tickets are still on sale on www.tickets.ie and www.ticketmaster.ie

They work out about €8 cheaper on tickets.ie as their booking fees aren't as extortionate.
There's a max of 3000 or 4000 tickets being sold apparently.

Should be a good festival

fits

stick-dan wrote: »

No not at all, But like to me republic of loose are good, really good and i was wondering how they could be attracted to a modest location if you will. I'm not bad-mouthing it by any means i think it's great. Is the solas gig big? This is the first i heard of it.

What's the story on tickets?

Oh I dont think they're bad at all.

But they're playing every backwater in the country this summer. Thats why I wondered if you were joking.

I also dont think this is a modest location or gig. Its a pretty good line-up. More attractive to me (and a lot of others) than the picnic.

Will be skipping RoL, Kila etc. and sticking to the dance tents.

They look great!

stick-dan

fits wrote: »

Oh I dont think they're bad at all.

But they're playing every backwater in the country this summer. Thats why I wondered if you were joking.

I also dont think this is a modest location or gig. Its a pretty good line-up. More attractive to me (and a lot of others) than the picnic.

Ah it looks cool all right but the picnic is still the pick for me

So cool there is such a big festival so close to us.

boopy

is this a wellie event????

sweettooth

Just a quick question, might be silly.

If you get just a day ticket, I want to go on saturday, can you use the camp site that night?

Cheers.

Spider_Baby

boopy wrote: »

is this a wellie event????

Check out these photos...

http://www.solas-festival.com/gallery.html

They only appeared on the website yesterday so I'm assuming they were taken yesterday.
If it hasn't rained in Carlow today...it mightn't be all that muddy...hopefully

ShayK1

erdinger tent?? thats it i'm goin!!!

Mud mud mud mud, no signs, no schedule, some tents not running at all, power problems at some stages, more mud mud mud, bad lighting between venues, poor crowd, mud mud mud, Kettle tent located at the end of long dark walk, mud mud mud.

Had a laugh Saturday night mind. And Paidi Ahern and Alex Under very good. But Sunday was bleak there.

fits

I had a bleak Sunday. A 'never again' sort of Sunday tbh.

Saturday night was good craic though.

JimmyO

The most disorganised sham of an event I have ever had the misfortune to attend.

Couldn't have been more than 400 people on site.
No contingency for bad weather other than the occasional bit of straw
Zero lighting at night
No attention paid to health and safety
Camp Site was a ridiculously long hike from the entrance
Mud was 1ft deep in places - INSIDE the tents!!
Staff were clearly out it and no one seemed to be in charge

That's not to say it didn't have the potential to be a great festival. The tents themselve were perfectly sized and the wooded pathways were cool and the lineup was great.

I think it was a case of the lunatics taking over the asylum.

JimmyO

JimmyO wrote: »

That's not to say it didn't have the potential to be a great festival. The tents themselve were perfectly sized and the wooded pathways were cool and the lineup was great.

That was the most upsetting thing. For a brief moment on Saturday evening the sun came out and the crowd was trickling in and the music was thumping and I thought this was going to be Life Mk II - though the setting not half as good as Life.

fits

but the line-up was twice as good...