Forbidden Fruit

billymitchell · 22-02-2011 3:13pm #1

Anybody else buzzing off the Forbidden Fruit festival that is taking place in Imma on the 5/6 june???
Not officially anounced yet are Flaming Lips, Wild Beasts, Jamie TT, Caribou, Dan Le Sac......

Find out more here

http://www.state.ie/news/26279-new-forbidden-fruit-festival-teaser

Or official announcement at 8pm tonight

ghostdancer · 22-02-2011 3:19pm

sounds brilliant, it's the bank holiday too. Life Festival is the week before, with Body and Soul festival 2 weeks after.

also heard rumours of Battles, Aphex Twin, Erol Alkan, Aeroplane and Jape at it too.

billymitchell · 22-02-2011 3:46pm

ghostdancer wrote: »

sounds brilliant, it's the bank holiday too. Life Festival is the week before, with Body and Soul festival 2 weeks after.

also heard rumours of Battles, Aphex Twin, Erol Alkan, Aeroplane and Jape at it too.

Cant vouch for any of the names yet, but I heard all of them rumoured too.
Primavera is also on the weekend before, then home to this. Giggidy

s8n · 22-02-2011 9:10pm

officially announced....

The Flaming Lips & Aphex Twin to headline Forbidden Fruit
22 Feb 2011
The new boutique festival is taking place on June 4 & 5 in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.

The people behind the Electric Picnic, POD Concerts, have announced details of a juicy looking new event taking place on June 4 and 5 in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, which has previously hosted the likes of Leonard Cohen and Iggy Pop.

Running each day from 2pm to 10.45pm, the three-stage Forbidden Fruit action breaks down as follows:

Saturday – The Flaming Lips, Erol Alkan, Wild Beasts, Aeroplane, Jape, Ham Sandwich, Colour Music and more.

Sunday – Aphex Twin, Battles, Jamie xx, Caribou, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Solar Bears, Kormac’s Big Band and more.

The Lips celebrated Valentine’s Day by making ‘Two Blobs F**king’ – the asterisks are theirs not ours – available for www.youtube.com/flaminglipsfree streaming. It’s the first of 12 individual tracks, which will eventually combine to form a single ‘audio experiment’ piece.

We haven’t a clue what Richard David James has in store for you, but you just know it’ll be interesting.

Sponsored by the good folk at Bulmer’s, the Bank Holiday Weekend bash has limited Early Bird tickets available on Wednesday February 23 for €45 (one-day) and €85 (weekend). After they’re gone, the respective costs will €49.50 and €90.

“IMMA is a fantastic venue for an urban festival with its extensive lawns, and beautiful buildings all set against Dublin’s cityscape and I believe it’s the first time ever that a festival will be contained within the shape of an apple,” enthuses Bulmers M.D Michael Merrins.

See www.forbiddenfruit.ie for more information.

Bottleopener · 22-02-2011 9:50pm

The lineup for this is looking very, very good.

rcaz · 22-02-2011 10:01pm

The Flaming Lips, Aphex Twin and Battles in one weekend? ****ing A.

ghostdancer · 22-02-2011 10:05pm

great lineup.
even if they didn't announce any more acts, it'd be worth it IMO.

lordgoat · 22-02-2011 10:35pm

Lovely little festival, nice venue. Will more than likely be going.

lordgoat · 22-02-2011 10:50pm

http://forbiddenfruit.ie/home

Full line up is here. Tasty.

Jello · 22-02-2011 11:02pm

Aphex Twin wow!!

Rest of the lineup is great too, can't wait!

ghostdancer · 22-02-2011 11:16pm

anyone know what the capacity is?

the Kraftwerk/Day In the Life gig was held there, and probably a few more too.

Pete M. · 22-02-2011 11:19pm

Battles & Aphex Twin :eek:

Tickets on sale from 9am tomorrow morning.

smokedeels · 23-02-2011 11:48am

I'm well out-of-the-loop, I've only seen this today.

I'm not sure I can shell out for the two days and atm Sunday is looking the best.

How big are the grounds, is there an idea on how long it will take for this to sell-out?

penexpers · 23-02-2011 12:53pm

Capacity of around 5,000 I would say.

smokedeels · 23-02-2011 1:21pm

penexpers wrote: »

Capacity of around 5,000 I would say.

cheers, I picked up a Sunday ticket, great line-up for the price.

lordgoat · 23-02-2011 6:29pm

smokedeels wrote: »

I'm well out-of-the-loop, I've only seen this today.
?

Not that far out of it, journo's were whinging today about not getting a press release on twitter.

Personally i love how it was advertised.

smokedeels · 23-02-2011 6:36pm

lordgoat wrote: »

Not that far out of it, journo's were whinging today about not getting a press release on twitter.

Personally i love how it was advertised.

I logged on to facebook today and a few friends had suggested the page to me.... I assumed that it was known about for weeks.

Did they just drop the news yesterday?

lordgoat · 23-02-2011 7:11pm

smokedeels wrote: »

I logged on to facebook today and a few friends had suggested the page to me.... I assumed that it was known about for weeks.

Did they just drop the news yesterday?

That facebook page only went live last week, and there was nothing on it til 2/3 days ago (i think - you can check easily)

It was on phantom yesterday morning saying there was a cool festival taking place and the line up was out at 8pm last night.

Then it was on twitter. State.ie had a trailer with band hints in it. And the line up dropped yesterday evening.

Had been low level rumours of an Aphex twin gig doing the rounds a while ago but everything else was pretty unexpected...

Hesho · 23-02-2011 9:09pm

Just picked up a Sunday ticket. Absolutely delighted about the lineup, should be a great day. It was a nice surprise to only find out about this today

honru · 23-02-2011 11:07pm

Have seen most of the acts playing this before so nothing yet is enticing me. Though I really dig the idea of a festival like this at IMMA, the Kraftwerk "mini festival" there was great.