Forbidden Fruit 2015 : May 30-31

lc180

According to the FF Facebook page they will be announcing some acts in "the next few days".

Looks like there could be a festival ticket war next Friday!

Birneybau

Jim Carroll saying that some of the acts he's heard are playing are far more interesting than those playing Longitude.

Furious-Red

Ah i really hope its not that great now ha. If there is someone good on the Sunday ill prob drop in on the way back from Slane. Could see Interpol turning up unless they are down for EP again. Strokes look more likely they will turn up as well

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When is this due to actually get announced?

lc180

nm wrote: »

When is this due to actually get announced?

I read somewhere that it's supposed to be today but it wasn't from FF HQ.

I've got a feeling Chic will be one of the headliners, would be a lazy booking by POD as they've played here a million times but would prob go down well enough. They are playing London in June so should be on tour around then.

RolandGoose

I reckon Morrissey could make an appearance at Forbidden Fruit this year!

roll

lc180 wrote: »

I read somewhere that it's supposed to be today but it wasn't from FF HQ.

I've got a feeling Chic will be one of the headliners, would be a lazy booking by POD as they've played here a million times but would prob go down well enough. They are playing London in June so should be on tour around then.

Ah jaysus, not chic AGAIN?!! Yes Nile, i know that you've worked with all those great musicians, but its starting to wear a bit thin at this stage!

lc180

roll wrote: »

Ah jaysus, not chic AGAIN?!! Yes Nile, i know that you've worked with all those great musicians, but its starting to wear a bit thin at this stage!

Complete guess by me but I can see it happen. POD use a lot of the same bands over and over again, switching them between EP, FF and Body & Soul.

ghostdancer

announcement is on Wednesday.

ghostdancer

lc180 wrote: »

Complete guess by me but I can see it happen. POD use a lot of the same bands over and over again, switching them between EP, FF and Body & Soul.

POD don't run B&S as far as i know.
pretty sure MCD/FR/LN basically book EP now too.

lc180

The National announced their first European festival of the summer today, they are playing in Murcia Spain at the start of May. Could be a possible headliner for FF.

exilec

The National would be amazing ...

Easy Rod

lc180 wrote: »

The National announced their first European festival of the summer today, they are playing in Murcia Spain at the start of May. Could be a possible headliner for FF.

I would've thought too big at this stage but maybe wrong. Im all over it if it happens.

lc180

Easy Rod wrote: »

I would've thought too big at this stage but maybe wrong. Im all over it if it happens.

They probably are but it's either FF or EP If they make an Irish festival stop this summer and I can't see them sticking around Europe until September. I've been wrong more times than right, i really should shut up....

ghostdancer

I don't think they're too big, Kasabian headlined after all.
would love to see them play it.

Laurel_Patente

These are all the names mentioned in the thread as possibly playing, wonder how many of these will be showing up on the lineup tomorrow!

Placebo
Interpol
Caribou
Django Django
Counting Crows
The Prodigy
Modest Mouse
The Strokes
Flaming Lips
Gold Panda
Damon Albarn
Ride
Todd Terje
Run The Jewels
James Blake
Panda Bear
Black Keys
Underworld
Chic
The National

Ferris_Bueller

A friend said to me he heard that the line up was going to be very electronic this year, don't know where he heard it and with Life festival almost entirely an electronic music festival it's hard to see it happening, but we will see tomorrow! Last year on the Sunday there were quite a few electronic acts. Of all the festivals in Ireland I find this one the hardest to call, hope we are in for a nice surprise!

MattD

Laurel_Patente wrote: »

These are all the names mentioned in the thread as possibly playing, wonder how many of these will be showing up on the lineup tomorrow!

Placebo
Interpol
Caribou
Django Django
Counting Crows
The Prodigy
Modest Mouse
The Strokes
Flaming Lips
Gold Panda
Damon Albarn
Ride
Todd Terje
Run The Jewels
James Blake
Panda Bear
Black Keys
Underworld
Chic
The National

All of those please, thank you!

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Fingers crossed for The Strokes.. come on.. come on..

They're at Primavera on the Saturday so could do this on the Friday or Sunday.

Easy Rod

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

A friend said to me he heard that the line up was going to be very electronic this year, don't know where he heard it and with Life festival almost entirely an electronic music festival it's hard to see it happening, but we will see tomorrow! Last year on the Sunday there were quite a few electronic acts. Of all the festivals in Ireland I find this one the hardest to call, hope we are in for a nice surprise!

Ff tweeted something along the lines of "we've had some of the best electronic acts play here the last few years and we have even more this year"

I'll try and find the tweet....Facebook actually.

https://www.facebook.com/forbiddenfruitfestival/posts/824572940922966

Furious-Red

nm wrote: »

Fingers crossed for The Strokes.. come on.. come on..

They're at Primavera on the Saturday so could do this on the Friday or Sunday.

Sunday please ha. Flaming Lips wont be there since they did last year.
The National need to stay away from Ireland for awhile since they played here a lot over the last few years ( i think every year since 2011?) even though i really like them.

lc180

Furious-Red wrote: »

Sunday please ha. Flaming Lips wont be there since they did last year.
The National need to stay away from Ireland for awhile since they played here a lot over the last few years ( i think every year since 2011?) even though i really like them.

Two of the fellas from the Strokes have side projects playing the Thursday & Friday of Primavera so it's Sunday at FF or nothing at all!

RolandGoose

If it's gonna be an electronic band, one would have to think it's Underworld?

ghostdancer

it will be:

Fatboy Slim
Richie Hawtin
Wu-Tang Clan
Earl Sweatshirt
Run The Jewels
Booka Shade live
Joey Badass
Cyril Hahn
Dusky
Mr Scruff

a few more too.

early bird tickets: day €39.50/€49.50, weekend €99.50
general sale: €49.50/€59.50, weekend €129.50

JJ

Dan Deacon is a possibility as he's at Primavera this year and he's an electronic artist.

lc180

Found on twitter:

http://t.co/MqUbATRYI1

Not a guitar in sight by the looks of it.

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lc180 wrote: »

Found on twitter:

http://t.co/MqUbATRYI1

Not a guitar in sight by the looks of it.

Fatboy Slim, We Tang Clan, Mr Scruff.. Okay.


I wonder is that going to be the full announcement for today?
Is that one headliner or two? No mention of which days either

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Hawtin too

Laurel_Patente

To paraphrase Fatboy Slim, if he's playing I'll be f**king in heaven!

JJ

Wow, there's nothing that interests me there. You'd think they'd announce more than that with their 1st announcement considering it's a 3 day festival.

ghostdancer

nm wrote: »

Hawtin too

sure didn't i say that at the top of the page

grudgehugger

If they are moving to a largely electronic focus, it'll be a pity having the only two medium/big festivals in the country of that type on the same weekend.

I'll be @ Primavera this year but will be hoping this is a success for Pod as I definitely see a gap in the market for a high quality electronic music festival that fits somewhere between the underground (which Life kind of is I guess?) and the more mainstream.

Can't see Life booking Fatboy Slim for example...

bodhrandude

The difference with Life of course is that its a camping festival with late nights till 4 or 5 am on Friday and Saturday nights, main stage closing up about 3 am compared to FF quarter to eleven pm lark, although you are in Dublin and there would be lots of interesting after parties possibly.

Ferris_Bueller

Not sure what to make of that line up, thought we would get more than 12 acts announced. Saw Fatboy Slim at Oxegen in 2010 and again at EP 2013 and he was disappointing both times, Ejeca, Dusky & Cyril Hahn have played a good bit in Ireland over the last year or two although thought all 3 were pretty good whenever I've seen them. Booka Shade should be good too. Not a huge hip hop fan so some of them acts do nothing for me although I suspect if you are then the likes of Run the Jewels, Wu Tang, Joey Badass & Earl Sweatshirt will be very appealing.

Hopefully they will do the same as last year and kind of break up the days by genre, it could work if they had one day for example for all of the big hip hop acts and another for the more electronic acts. €40 for an earlybird day ticket is good value but will anyone buy one before the day breakdown is announced? Going to wait and see what else FF and Life have up their sleeves before making a decision. Overall impression is that Forbidden Fruit are playing it very safe with the acts announced so far.

ghostdancer

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Hopefully they will do the same as last year and kind of break up the days by genre, it could work if they had one day for example for all of the big hip hop acts and another for the more electronic acts. €40 for an earlybird day ticket is good value but will anyone buy one before the day breakdown is announced?

the day ticket price is actually €39.50/€49.50 for early birds, which seems more like one of the days (presumably Friday) will be a slightly scaled back one with a cheaper ticket.
Saturday and Sunday day tickets are presumably €49.50 for early birds, then €59.50 for general.


i don't know why they're not doing Sat,Sun,Mon as that would have far more people off work and able to go....

grudgehugger

ghostdancer wrote: »

i don't know why they're not doing Sat,Sun,Mon as that would have far more people off work and able to go....

I'd say Friday will be scaled back as you suggest so that Dubs can head in straight from work without missing much, and those travelling would only need to take a half day at most.

Finishing on Sunday rather than Monday might mean stronger interest as people don't have work to worry about next day, particularly when it comes to afterparties in town etc.

Would be great to see the FF guys get more ambitious with the late-night afterparty bit - make it a more formal part of the festival perhaps with some big names playing only in those slots

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Announcement bit of a dud, not that it's bad or anything but I thought the 3 headliners would be announced at least.

I wonder when we'll were more, this is practically the only festival I'm interested in at this stage (screw camping)

grudgehugger

nm wrote: »

Announcement bit of a dud, not that it's bad or anything but I thought the 3 headliners would be announced at least...

Could Wu-Tang, Hawtin and Fatboy not be the 3 headliners?

All big enough names I would have thought if FF have decided to go full gun on the hip hop/electronic angle.

ghostdancer

can't see Hawtin as a headliner at all.
headlining the 2nd stage like Flying Lotus last year is far more likely.

flasher0030

grudgehugger wrote: »

Could Wu-Tang, Hawtin and Fatboy not be the 3 headliners?

All big enough names I would have thought if FF have decided to go full gun on the hip hop/electronic angle.

??????????

ghostdancer

also, with Wu-Tang Clan underneath and in smaller font than FBS, i wonder if they're necessarily headliners?

hopefully that poster is the lineup for one of the days, and Hawtin (and others) are on a different poster.

MattD

If RTJ and Joey Bada$$ are on the same day I might consider a day ticket... Seems a strange option to go for, a very hip-hop/DJ centric lineup, considering LIFE is the same weekend.

I would have thought that even most hip-hop diehards might be a bit reluctant to go to an outdoor festival to see some of these guys. Sometimes it's just not a genre that translates well to open-air stages.

Bit disappointing for me anyways

grudgehugger

Penny dropping that the poster is not the official announcement and is just a leak...

That being the case, the most sensible explanation is that this could be one of the day line-ups I guess?

lc180

grudgehugger wrote: »

Penny dropping that the poster is not the official announcement and is just a leak...

That being the case, the most sensible explanation is that this could be one of the day line-ups I guess?

The poster is from the official website though. The site just hasn't gone live yet.

If this is just one day then it would be a complete game changer. I doubt it is though.

Laurel_Patente

Official Announcement at approx. 4 PM.

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ghostdancer wrote: »

can't see Hawtin as a headliner at all.
headlining the 2nd stage like Flying Lotus last year is far more likely.

Same for Wu Tang as headliners, Fat Boy Slim yea but the other two surely not. They play nightclubs here when they come, bit of a leap from that to headlining a festival.

ghostdancer

well it's official now. up on their fb page.

https://www.facebook.com/forbiddenfruitfestival/photos/a.181773508536249.37150.156564297723837/827076617339265/?type=1

no sign of Hawtin, maybe he's being held back for later, or has cancelled. he was up on the site when they tested it last week, which google managed to cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mv8BeAfYJJUJ:forbiddenfruit.ie/category/lineup/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ie

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Tickets on sale tomorrow, are they selling day tickets before announcing which days the acts are on?

lc180

Most importantly on Facebook they say tuned for the initial "Indie and Comedy" lineup in coming weeks.

So not completely Electronic and Hip Hop. Phew

cruhoortwunk

lc180 wrote: »

Most importantly on Facebook they say tuned for the initial "Indie and Comedy" lineup in coming weeks.

So not completely Electronic and Hip Hop. Phew

Doesnt seem to be that well organised. No proper website, only acts of 2 genres announced and tickets on sale tomorrow.
I dont think they have the kind of followers Body n Soul has to be able to sell tickets without a proper lineup