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Life Festival
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The promoters should have been upfront about all this really. How hard would that have been? People are bound to get pissed off when acts they were looking forward to disappear without a noise.
Still, its gonna be a great weekend.
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the lads over on the weather forum have some potentially great news for next weekend.. :cool:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055571309
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Well yeh Rob and the lads are from Galway, but pedal your gig in Cork and you're from Cork[cm]tyranny wrote: »The Cork Dub Culture crowd?
The Galway DubCulture crowd you mean?
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Yeah weather looks like its gonna be good :cool: Fingers crossed
Bummer about FSOL, but fcuk it lets not let it ruin our weekend. The organisers let us down twice with that one, but on the other hand it is a cheap festival, with a laid back policy. It seems like Neutronxy don't rape us like so many other nightclubs and organisers do so I'm going to let them away with this one.0 -
is there any town or shop near this place, incase need to get smokes or cheap food or something.
Its only about 3 miles from the village of Clonmellon or 5 from Delvin if thats close enough? Not walking distance though, unless you have a couple of hours to spare or you're one of those mad slightly chubby middle aged women that wear Lidl track suits and swing their arms wildly on town bypasses in the evenings
BTW, forget about it being advertised as being close to Athboy. Its on the N52 between Mullingar and Kells or to be exact, between Delvin and Clonmellon. If you know the area then fine, take the back roads and you'll get there but the easiest way is stick to the N52 which connects Nenagh to Dundalk via Birr, Tullamore, Mullingar, Kells and Ardee so you should be able to get there from whatever side handy enough0 -
Its only about 3 miles from the village of Clonmellon or 5 from Delvin if thats close enough? Not walking distance though, unless you have a couple of hours to spare or you're one of those mad slightly chubby middle aged women that wear Lidl track suits and swing their arms wildly on town bypasses in the evenings
BTW, forget about it being advertised as being close to Athboy. Its on the N52 between Mullingar and Kells or to be exact, between Delvin and Clonmellon. If you know the area then fine, take the back roads and you'll get there but the easiest way is stick to the N52 which connects Nenagh to Dundalk via Birr, Tullamore, Mullingar, Kells and Ardee so you should be able to get there from whatever side handy enough
According to Google maps, and a receptionist at a hotel in Athboy that I spoke to, Athboy is only 5/10 mins from the castle??0 -
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WOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
http://www.yournight.ie/play.php?vid=989
hope no one from ^^ends up here by mistake.....
http://www.bluejeanfest.com/
also on in athboy this weekend
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hope no one from ^^ends up here by mistake.....
http://www.bluejeanfest.com/
also on in athboy this weekend
then again it could be fun
hmmmmm tough call that. I'm leaning towards cancelling my set and heading on down to the blue jean fest for some good ole **** kicking line dancing fun. there's nothing like the shine off a room full of cowboy boots when the yokes start kicking in 0 -
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So who here is actually playing at Life? When and Where? I'll do my best to catch your gigs if you let us all know!
yep, I'm interested in catching as many fellow boards folks as possible even if only to tap some drum n' bass guy on the shoulder in the middle of his set and ask him to play 'stairway to heaven' cos I can't hear myself think with all that boomblee boom music
I'm playing anyway under the name miXile. I was originally told that I'd be on Sunday at 12:00 noon (my prefered time) but the Life site lineup posted today shows me as being Saturday afternoon at 17:30, dunno ya gotta love the ruthless efficiancy of the Life folks 0 -
yep, I'm interested in catching as many fellow boards folks as possible even if only to tap some drum n' bass guy on the shoulder in the middle of his set and ask him to play 'stairway to heaven' cos I can't hear myself think with all that boomblee boom music
I'm playing anyway under the name miXile. I was originally told that I'd be on Sunday at 12:00 noon (my prefered time) but the Life site lineup posted today shows me as being Saturday afternoon at 17:30, dunno ya gotta love the ruthless efficiancy of the Life folks
hahaha - well i'm playing at ten on saturday night, was told originally i'd be playing on the sunday with caspa and goldie but they seem to have had a change of heart - +1 on the ruthless efficiency anyway! 0 -
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I LOVED the layout. It was awesome, like being in a medieval psychedelic village.
For whatever reason, however, I was shattered by 2am on the Friday, and proceeded to be very tired all through Saturday. I blame a combination of the heat, alcohol and below average substances. By Saturday night I was grand, but our mate having to leave early because of a family issue put a dampener on the rest of our weekend. We weren't really up for another night, so we headed home yesterday evening.
It was quite different to last year for a number of reasons, I still really enjoyed it though. Carl Craig was really good. Highlight was probably Astrix. The Neutronyx stage was frickin awesome, as usual.
One big disappointment was the lack of a Chillout Zone on the first day, and the fact that it didn't go on all night on the Saturday like last year....
Tents were robbed and Gardaí were everywhere, that wasn't so good either.
All in all, some elements of last year were better, and some elements of this year were better. It was a very enjoyable weekend regardless.0 -
I was delayed late getting into Dublin on Friday so stayed there and did not get up to the Life Fest till Saturday morning.
When I'm playing an event I tend to be far more critical of organisation than if it's something I'm there solely to party at. It would therefore be unfair of me to be too critical here of how the Life fest is organised when I'm only just back and have yet to decide whether I care enough to email the organisers about my not too large quibbles. At the same time, from an performer's perspective I prefer festivals where the artists are treated as a valued part of the event and not an afterthought. Enough said on that aspect.
The setting was the best yet, the weather perfect, the vagueness as to when/where some things were happening was a little tedious at times. Instances of scheduled artists not even being included on the programme was shocking.
I sort of tend to gravitate to the chill area at festivals largely 'cos I enjoy the music and pertly 'cos it's where I'll be playing so I'm going to spend loads of time chatting with folks doing similar stuff to myself. Excellent setting though if it had been raining then I'd imagine it would have had to be moved/cancelled.
Anyway, Sunday at noon I played a performance of completely new music based on field recordings from Sydney. The crowd was bigger *gulp* than I'd expected but on a perfect Sunday morning in a natural little amphitheatre with the lake behind where else would you want to be.
Feedback was great after my performance and it was the first time I'd ever had groups of strangers coming up to say how much the music had touched them. No ego thing here, just a real thrill to stand around chatting music with new friends.
So who else did I see? Golly loads of acts almost all of whom I'd never heard of before but almost all of whom were great.
We were staying in the camp site for folks working at the festival so most of the people around us were working on stands or other musicians and stuff. On the one hand it placed us much closer to the music so sleep was not an option but there were no problems with lowlifes playing crappy (deeply subjective statement) sounds all night.
Almost all of the security people I met during the weekend were friendly and courteous which is a joy when we've all been to festivals where you feel like the security folks would rather see you exterminated. Full marks for that aspect of things. Nice also to have a slightly wider range of beverages on offer too.
That's the story from my perspective. Glad I went, delighted to catch up with old and new friends and enjoy some great music. In a few weeks my performance will be aired on Fluid Radio so I'll post a link to the download if that's OK. It's heads down time now cos I have to start writing a new series of works for the Transylvania Calling festival in August. The pain of it all 0 -
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Well,
To be honest, going there, I was expecting something along the lines of the whole campsite being a bunch of friendly festival heads, but couldnt stop counting knackers all over the place. It pissed me off a good bit seein them dancing away to psytrance, knowing that none of them had any clue about anything going on except all the ****ty cocaine they were shoving up their noses. The sheer amount of them pissed me off...
Away from the hoards of Knackers, the music on the friday was great, Carl Craig was brilliant, one of my personal best gigs ive ever been to, Green Velvet after him was also brilliant, although for some reason or another, I ended up down at the psytrance arena with my mates, gutted I walked away from him....
My friends tent got robbed by knackers, our CD player was taken, plus a good bit of his clothes - t-shirts, jacket - and when we asked our neighbours, a number of them were also done.... Myself and my mate told two bangardai who honestly said to us 'would you bring good clothes to oxegen?' - this shows what esteem the establishment holds the festival in.
I caught the end of Equinox, who was solid, and chatted to him for a bit afterwards, nice fella, was headin off for some badly needed sleep he told us
So,
I cant fault the music, but for anyone thinking of going next year, there's a loada tinkers at it, and when they start going to festivals, the numbers of them only rise. Im really considering not going at all, because I go to small festivals to get away from the image of dirty good for nothing ***** in dublin jerseys shouting woop woop woop at acts....
Knackers (hoards) / Tents Robbed / Music over at 12am on a bank holiday sunday....
all my bad points
good points,
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