Forbidden Fruit 2012

ghostdancer

i went to the bar in between acts i wanted to see.
could still hear the music from the mainstage during that time anyway.
had a laugh with friends in the queue, just as i would if i was standing around waiting for acts to come on.
didn't really affect my enjoyment of the day.
Sunday was absolutely fine.

there'll be minimal queues this year presumably, so all of this is really a moot point.

ghostdancer

http://entertainment.ie/music/news/Friendly-Fires-lead-Forbidden-Fruit-additions/114801.htm

Friendly Fires, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Mmoths have been added to the Forbidden Fruit line-up. The trio will play the Kilmainham festival over the course of the June Bank Holiday weekend (2nd - 4th), joining the already announced Leftfield, New Order, Wilco, Death Cab For Cutie, Beirut, Death In Vegas and more.

Friendly Fires will be making their return to Dublin following a sold out (and incredibly well-received) show in The Olympia and their disco funk sound will be a welcome addition to the festival's stable of performers.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are a band getting more and more accustomed to the big time. Forbidden Fruit will be a walk in the park (figuratively and literally?) for the group who have already supported the mighty Prince in Malahide Castle.

Mmoths won't have too far to travel as Newbridge based Jack Colleran takes to the stage on Saturday June 2nd. Tipped to be one of the biggest stars of 2012 Mmoths went global in less than a month of the first two Soundcloud uploads. Putting his Leaving Cert studies to the wayside Jack was quickly picked up and signed.

Tickets are still available for the Festival and will cost you €49.50 for a day ticket, €89.50 for two day tix, while €115 will gain you entry for the whole weekend.

all playing on the Saturday.

thunderdog

Looks like Trinity Orchestra will be playing on the Sunday. Most likely first act on the main stage.

They played Daft Punk at it last year but it looks like they will play Pink Floyd and/or Stevie Wonder at it this time round.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

real estate will be playing as well, as confirmed on EP forum

Furious-Red

Forbidden Fruit announces it's Comedy lineup next week and in preparation, we've got a competition! We want YOU to name our Comedy Tent at the festival, joining the Original Stage, The Undergrowth, The Lighthouse and The Pear-Shaped stages at Forbidden Fruit 2012. The winner will receive a pair of weekend passes to Forbidden Fruit Festival plus some lovely band merch! Take part in our Forbidden Fruit ‘Name Our Comedy Tent Competition’ by giving us your suggestions below or via Twitter using #forbiddenfruitcomedytent. The winner will be selected by one of the comedians we'll be announcing next week! You have until April 15th and our winner will be announced on Monday April 16th. You must be over 18 to enter!

So, what can you come up with? We wanna hear your ideas!

lc180

Furious-Red wrote: »

Forbidden Fruit announces it's Comedy lineup next week

Bernard O'Shea from Republic of Telly self-confirmed himself for FF last week on his twitter page.

It'll be interesting to see the caliber of comedians they will get for such a small festival.

Miguel_Sanchez

lc180 wrote: »

Bernard O'Shea from Republic of Telly self-confirmed himself for FF last week on his twitter page.

It'll be interesting to see the caliber of comedians they will get for such a small festival.

Well considering the Cat Laughs is on the same weekend they might well get some decent comedians to travel up for a spot.

electronic

Furious-Red wrote: »

Forbidden Fruit announces it's Comedy lineup next week and in preparation, we've got a competition! We want YOU to name our Comedy Tent at the festival, joining the Original Stage, The Undergrowth, The Lighthouse and The Pear-Shaped stages at Forbidden Fruit 2012. The winner will receive a pair of weekend passes to Forbidden Fruit Festival plus some lovely band merch! Take part in our Forbidden Fruit ‘Name Our Comedy Tent Competition’ by giving us your suggestions below or via Twitter using #forbiddenfruitcomedytent. The winner will be selected by one of the comedians we'll be announcing next week! You have until April 15th and our winner will be announced on Monday April 16th. You must be over 18 to enter!

So, what can you come up with? We wanna hear your ideas!

The sh*ts and giggles stage

ghostdancer

Sunday additions:

Peaking Lights
The Cast of Cheers
Lower Dens
The Magician
Daithí

Furious-Red

The Comedy Line-Up has been announced for Forbidden Fruit, and a stellar one it is too. Making sure those rock ‘n’ roll-types don’t have it all their own way in Kilmainham from June 2 to 4 are:

Saturday – MC Danny Dowling, Colm McDonnell, Michael Downey, Carol Tobin, Tom O Mahony, Willa White, Aidan Bishop, John Colleary, Patrick McDonnell & Late Night Gimp Fight

Sunday – MC Gerry Mallon, Brendan Burke, Tomie James, James Goldsbury, Damon Blake, Paddy Cullivan, Kevin Gildea, Bernard O’Shea, Joe Rooney & Ardal O’Hanlon

Monday – MC Steve Cummins, Eleanor Tiernan, Gerry McBride, Tommy Nicolson, Trevor Browne, Sue Collins, Jarlath Regan, Foil, Arms and Hog & Dead Cat Bounce

BrianD

IHateMondays wrote: »

Hey there, I don't think you get it... I didn't know all the bands up in Forbidden Fruit (I don't mind admitting that) so on the ones that weren't my cup of tea (pint of beer) I used this time to go and buy some drink. I like to drink. But the organisers of FF got it a bit wrong last year (and they will admit this themselves..) and only had 2 bars open which were swamped. We did have to wait ages and it annoyed a lot of people, but it wasn't the publics fault that a huge drinks companies like Bulmers couldn't work out how many bars were needed from their ticket sales. Of from their past experience in running similar events. After we secured our drinks I did hear that they ran out of beer on night one. But, and here's the best bit, I love music so much that I'm willing to give this music (and drinking...Bulmers anyone?!) festival a go again. We all make errors. But yep, I'd find it very hard to support them again if they make the same mistake this year.
Enjoy it if you go :-)

The number and size of bars is set out in the event licence application which is lodged in advance (think it's three for this one). The only variable would be staff and the promoter should be able to advise the concessions as to expected attendance.

From what I read the problems at last years festival were down to some sort of technical fault with the supply chain on the day (refrigeration?). Drinks brands will not serve their product unless it's exactly the right temperature. This is a product sampling opportunity for them.

Miguel_Sanchez

IHateMondays wrote: »

Hey there, I don't think you get it... I didn't know all the bands up in Forbidden Fruit (I don't mind admitting that) so on the ones that weren't my cup of tea (pint of beer) I used this time to go and buy some drink. I like to drink. But the organisers of FF got it a bit wrong last year (and they will admit this themselves..) and only had 2 bars open which were swamped. We did have to wait ages and it annoyed a lot of people, but it wasn't the publics fault that a huge drinks companies like Bulmers couldn't work out how many bars were needed from their ticket sales. Of from their past experience in running similar events. After we secured our drinks I did hear that they ran out of beer on night one. But, and here's the best bit, I love music so much that I'm willing to give this music (and drinking...Bulmers anyone?!) festival a go again. We all make errors. But yep, I'd find it very hard to support them again if they make the same mistake this year.
Enjoy it if you go :-)

The queues at the bar on the Saturday last year were caused by the Beer Dispenser thingie breaking. It was sorted on Sunday.

I doubt they'll make the same mistake this year.

Eggonyerface

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

The queues at the bar on the Saturday last year were caused by the Beer Dispenser thingie breaking. It was sorted on Sunday.

I doubt they'll make the same mistake this year.

Fingers crossed...

What drinks were available last year apart from bulmers?

Toast

I think the beer was Becks.

red face dave

Was there Paulaner beer also?

Eggonyerface

Toast wrote: »

I think the beer was Becks.

Jaysus...

red face dave wrote: »

Was there Paulaner beer also?

Now that I'd be into

ghostdancer

Bulmers (Original and Berry), Becks, and Wine was all there was from what i remember.

ghostdancer

BrianD wrote: »

The number and size of bars is set out in the event licence application which is lodged in advance (think it's three for this one). The only variable would be staff and the promoter should be able to advise the concessions as to expected attendance.

From what I read the problems at last years festival were down to some sort of technical fault with the supply chain on the day (refrigeration?). Drinks brands will not serve their product unless it's exactly the right temperature. This is a product sampling opportunity for them.

while that may generally be true, last year on the Sunday there were a few extra "bars" compared to the previous day handing out fairly luke-warm cans of Bulmers. i remember being handed 2 cans straight out of the tray which hadn't been refrigerated at all.

Obviously they'll want to serve it at the right temp etc. if possible, but they didn't seem to care too much on the Sunday last year, even with the bars running properly again....

seamey beag84

BrianD wrote: »

Drinks brands will not serve their product unless it's exactly the right temperature. This is a product sampling opportunity for them.

I bought cans of Bulmers from the back of a van that was reveresed up to the fencing on the left hand side of the main stage.. The cans wern't cold but they did have plastic pints full of ice which I've never seen at a festival before. The Bulmers Promo defo worked on me considering i hated Cider before i went to there, now could drink it all day, no problem!

BrianD

seamey beag84 wrote: »

I bought cans of Bulmers from the back of a van that was reveresed up to the fencing on the left hand side of the main stage.. The cans wern't cold but they did have plastic pints full of ice which I've never seen at a festival before. The Bulmers Promo defo worked on me considering i hated Cider before i went to there, now could drink it all day, no problem!

Jeez... I suppose needs must. Anytime I've ever done a drinks promo the brewery insisted in delivering the product 24 hours in advance into the venue cellar. Even doing OBs down at festivals you'd get some crates of beer for guests and the arrival of a fridge that would barely fit through the door.

I suppose last year with FF it was a case of needs must.

IHateMondays

ghostdancer wrote: »

while that may generally be true, last year on the Sunday there were a few extra "bars" compared to the previous day handing out fairly luke-warm cans of Bulmers. i remember being handed 2 cans straight out of the tray which hadn't been refrigerated at all.

Obviously they'll want to serve it at the right temp etc. if possible, but they didn't seem to care too much on the Sunday last year, even with the bars running properly again....

They ran out of all alcohol drinks last year on the saturday..

Miguel_Sanchez

IHateMondays wrote: »

They ran out of all alcohol drinks last year on the saturday..

Did they? I just remember the queues being ridiculous.

indiewindy

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Did they? I just remember the queues being ridiculous.

They didnt run out of booze,they suffered a breakdown in the bar equipment on the Saturday. They sold cans on the Sunday to ease the pressure on the bars and also to cover for any more breakdowns.Queues on the Sunday were very short. This year there should be no problems for us getting our alcohol:)

seamey beag84

Ya, there was hardly any que's on Sunday, except for the toilets.. Lot of women moanin about it. It was a bit crazy tho, they que'd for at least a half hour.. That will all be sorted this year hopefully.. Lookin forward to it!

ghostdancer

Chromatics, Real Estate and Liars added to the Monday lineup

http://www.state.ie/40504-news/chromatics-real-estate-liars-added-to-forbidden-fruit-line-up?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StateMagazineNews+%28State.ie+-+News%29

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

ghostdancer wrote: »

Chromatics, Real Estate and Liars added to the Monday lineup

http://www.state.ie/40504-news/chromatics-real-estate-liars-added-to-forbidden-fruit-line-up?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StateMagazineNews+%28State.ie+-+News%29

:eek:

this is shaping up to be the premier 'indie', or whatever you want to call it, summer festival.

ghostdancer

http://www.facebook.com/Nialler9Blog/posts/373308592714981

Sweet. Purity Ring are playing Forbidden Fruit on June 3rd - and all.

Thundercats Ho

ghostdancer wrote: »

http://www.facebook.com/Nialler9Blog/posts/373308592714981

Deadly.

I see Trinity Orchestra are playing the Sunday too. Looks like they're playing dark side of the moon and some arcade fire. nice.
http://trinityorchestra.com/?cat=5
Sunday 3rd JuneTrinity Orchestra plays at Forbidden Fruit Festival 2012TBCGrounds of Royal Hospital, Kilmainham

take everything

(Recently re-formed) Mazzy Star playing at this IIRC.

grudgehugger

The line-up for this is just getting better and better all the time...

What next? They announce that Radiohead have been added to Saturday?!

I assume stage times will only come out the week of the festival? I'm starting to get worried about stage clashes as it'll be difficult to get all of the acts I want to see playing on the Sunday onto the main stage between 2 and 10.45....

There's no word about who plays what stage yet, right?

bodhrandude

grudgehugger wrote: »

The line-up for this is just getting better and better all the time...

What next? They announce that Radiohead have been added to Saturday?!

I assume stage times will only come out the week of the festival? I'm starting to get worried about stage clashes as it'll be difficult to get all of the acts I want to see playing on the Sunday onto the main stage between 2 and 10.45....

There's no word about who plays what stage yet, right?

Thats the thing about festivals mate, you just have to do the eeny, meany, miney, more, choose what you want to see and hope you have made the right decision.

ghostdancer

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2012/04/30/the-pointyheaded-post-about-this-years-festivals-before-the-season-begins/

....
POD have Body & Soul, Forbidden Fruit (more names for the bill to be announced early this week),
....

JJ

Purity Ring's label, 4AD, have them down to play Forbidden Fruit on 3rd June:

http://4ad.com/live/8922

The Nal

grudgehugger wrote: »

The line-up for this is just getting better and better all the time...

What next? They announce that Radiohead have been added to Saturday?!

Why would that be a good thing?

So we can watch some moany arsehole bobbing his head around for 90 minutes?

AnonoBoy

The Nal wrote: »

Why would that be a good thing?

So we can watch some moany arsehole bobbing his head around for 90 minutes?

Ah diddums. Does somebody not like Radiohead?

The Nal

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Ah diddums. Does somebody not like Radiohead?

I do. Just think they're comically overrated .

ghostdancer

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2012/05/01/forbidden-fruit-books-some-more-acts/

More acts heading to Dublin 8 over the June bank holiday weekend for this year’s Forbidden Fruit festival.

Saturday

Holy Fu*k
Republic of Loose
Actress (new album “R.I.P” is stunning)
Reid
White Collar Boy

Sunday

Purity Ring
Cloud Nothings
We Cut Corners
To Kill A King

Monday

Chairlift
Autumn Owls (looking forward to hearing if the rest of their new material is as intriguing as “Acrobatics of A Patchwork Heart”)

Tickets are €49.50 (day ticket), €89.50 (two day tickets – any two days) and €115 (weekend tickets) plus those dastardly Ticketmaster charges.

The Nal

ghostdancer wrote: »

Actress (new album “R.I.P” is stunning)

It sounds like someone pouring boiling water over an Atari 2600.

Pace2008

The Nal wrote: »

It sounds like someone pouring boiling water over an Atari 2600.

In a good or a bad way?

The Nal

Pace2008 wrote: »

In a good or a bad way?

In a good way believe it or not! Who would've thought?!

red face dave

Overall the Forbidden Fruit have done a pretty good job on the lineup. By far the best lineup of any festival in Ireland this year. All we need now is a bar with plenty of drink and no cues:D:D:D

Easy Rod

red face dave wrote: »

Overall the Forbidden Fruit have done a pretty good job on the lineup. By far the best lineup of any festival in Ireland this year. All we need now is a bar with plenty of drink and no cues:D:D:D

I reckon they've organised the festival so as not to have the same bar issues as last year- Saturday is the 'Dance' night so people will only be drinking water! Sunday is the beer night so they'll be still well stocked then Monday is the 'chilled out' night so people won't be drinking much...genius.

ghostdancer

Easy Rod wrote: »

I reckon they've organised the festival so as not to have the same bar issues as last year- Saturday is the 'Dance' night so people will only be drinking water! Sunday is the beer night so they'll be still well stocked then Monday is the 'chilled out' night so people won't be drinking much...genius.

last year a cooling system for the taps broke in the main bar. it could just as easily happen on the sunday night this year. it had nothing to do with stock. if everything works as it's supposed to this year, stock won't be a problem.
besides, 95% of people won't be touching 'other stuff' on the Saturday, and i'm sure people that are will still have a few drinks, so i don't think it would make any difference....
you're definitely right though about Saturday being the dance night, and Monday being the chillout night though.

ghostdancer

presume the Monday isn't selling very well, lots of radio ads at the moment just for that day.
they could realy do with announcing more acts for that day, only 13 so far, and according to the press release, there'll be 5 stages, so 4 music ones and a comedy one it would seem....

thunderdog

Easy Rod wrote: »

I reckon they've organised the festival so as not to have the same bar issues as last year- Saturday is the 'Dance' night so people will only be drinking water! Sunday is the beer night so they'll be still well stocked then Monday is the 'chilled out' night so people won't be drinking much...genius.

Is it meant to be very hot that day??????;)

AnonoBoy

Easy Rod wrote: »

I reckon they've organised the festival so as not to have the same bar issues as last year- Saturday is the 'Dance' night so people will only be drinking water! Sunday is the beer night so they'll be still well stocked then Monday is the 'chilled out' night so people won't be drinking much...genius.

Yeah, if it was 1992 maybe. :rolleyes:

Toast

ghostdancer wrote: »

presume the Monday isn't selling very well, lots of radio ads at the moment just for that day.
they could realy do with announcing more acts for that day

No one wants to go to work on Tuesday with 3 days of festival on them. I'd have thought they'd be better getting a permit to go late on the Friday and maybe start at 6pm and go with a half days worth of acts.

Doinker

Easy Rod wrote: »

I reckon they've organised the festival so as not to have the same bar issues as last year- Saturday is the 'Dance' night so people will only be drinking water! Sunday is the beer night so they'll be still well stocked then Monday is the 'chilled out' night so people won't be drinking much...genius.

Read the Daily Mail much?

Lemsiper

thunderdog wrote: »

Is it meant to be very hot that day??????;)

Nah, they're probably making the point that people are more likely to consume stimulants, therefore increasing the desire to consume water as apposed to alcohol.

thunderdog

Lemsiper wrote: »

Nah, they're probably making the point that people are more likely to consume stimulants, therefore increasing the desire to consume water as apposed to alcohol.

Like a cappucino?