Aiken Promotions Festival Announcement - Monday Dec 5th at 11am

Easterly Beasterly

Aiken Promotions are announcing a major new festival for 2017.

The announcement will take place simultaneously at Wesport House, Co. Mayo and Enniskillen Airport on Monday at 11am.

Media have been invited via Gerry Lundberg PR - Any ideas??

PS.. The last time Aiken did this kind of announcement, it was Garth Brooks, just saying!!!

Furious-Red

Easterly Beasterly wrote: »

Aiken Promotions are announcing a major new festival for 2017.

The announcement will take place simultaneously at Wesport House, Co. Mayo and Enniskillen Airport on Monday at 11am.

Media have been invited via Gerry Lundberg PR - Any ideas??

PS.. The last time Aiken did this kind of announcement, it was Garth Brooks, just saying!!!

Id say Bryan Adams will be there (i know he played the old Wesport Music Festival) and he is doing some outdoor shows in the UK during the summer.
Can also see Rod Stewart as well .

nelly17

GNR

The Raptor

Ohh, getting excited at the thought of Garth Brooks.

Can somebody track his plane again?

The Raptor

Would they really have a major announcement of a festival with Bryan Adams playing. He plays here every few years.

Easterly Beasterly

The Raptor wrote: »

Ohh, getting excited at the thought of Garth Brooks.

Can somebody track his plane again?

First thing I thought of was a country music festival.. It sounds like it's something big!

The Raptor

A country festival with Garth.

The Raptor

Easterly Beasterly wrote: »

First thing I thought of was a country music festival.. It sounds like it's something big!

Country music is very big at the moment.

Furious-Red

Good god i hope its not a country festival (although id prob still go to Brooks for the larf)

ghostdancer

is it common to announce something like this at 2 venues?

that would suggest to me that the event will be running concurrently at both over the same weekend, eg. act plays Westport on Saturday, Enniskillen on Sunday.

given that presumably Westport House will the venue (or one of them), I can't see this being that major an announcement really anyway.

corm500

I reckon its a rock festival featuring

GnR
Foo Fighters
Kiss
Metallica
Megadeth
System Of A Down
Plus many more to be announced....

Might as well dream here as in my bed

Easterly Beasterly

ghostdancer wrote: »

is it common to announce something like this at 2 venues?

that would suggest to me that the event will be running concurrently at both over the same weekend, eg. act plays Westport on Saturday, Enniskillen on Sunday.

given that presumably Westport House will the venue (or one of them), I can't see this being that major an announcement really anyway.

I would have thought the same but it's definitely not common practice to hold a press conference and invite media along unless it's something big. In the past they have done it for Garth Brooks in Croke Park, MCD have done it with Robbie Williams, Bon Jovi etc, I work in media and the last time I remember something like this by Aiken, was for Garth Brooks.. could it be a multi city country music festival I wonder?

I was fully expecting the email to be about Adele.

Furious-Red

I always get my hopes up that it will be a Rock festival but not this time :mad:

schemingbohemia

Could be like the Crossing Border festival in Belgium and the Netherlands - bands play one city the Saturday the other the Sunday or like Reading & Leeds.

Reckon it will be country rather than rock though. Mates who went to Westport in previous years loved it but not sure they'd be as into a Country festival.

Technoprisoner

my moneys on the guns

Shedite27

The Pope at Knock

hynesie08

Assuming the festival is at Westport house, how big are we talking? Is it slane sized? Iveagh gardens?

former total

There's an airport in Enniskillen??

Easterly Beasterly

hynesie08 wrote: »

Assuming the festival is at Westport house, how big are we talking? Is it slane sized? Iveagh gardens?

I have just been told that the venue of the press conference is not the venue for the festival. I'm totally confused now.

hynesie08

Easterly Beasterly wrote: »

I have just been told that the venue of the press conference is not the venue for the festival. I'm totally confused now.

If I was to take a guess, I'd say the venues for the announcments are just handy for a helicopter, if the artist is gonna be there.

corm500

hynesie08 wrote: »

If I was to take a guess, I'd say the venues for the announcments are just handy for a helicopter, if the artist is gonna be there.

Its beginning to look a bit Garth Brooksy

hynesie08

corm500 wrote: »

Its beginning to look a bit Garth Brooksy

Or Adele, I'd laugh so hard if it turned out to be a comedy festival.

corm500

Looks like something that's going to take place in the northwest and the west. Can only be country related.

PTH2009

Maybe Garth Brooks is playing that grand tour of Ireland next year featuring dates for this new festival and also Kilkenny, Cork and Dublin ???

sounds like a country festival but it might be an all genre festival too. It might be a replacement for the Punchestown Music festival that was held during the summer ???

andreac

former total wrote: »

There's an airport in Enniskillen??

Yes, just a small one. My friend actually lives beside it

Westernyelp

corm500 wrote:

Looks like something that's going to take place in the northwest and the west. Can only be country related.

What a ridiculous statement

Westernyelp

hynesie08 wrote:

Assuming the festival is at Westport house, how big are we talking? Is it slane sized? Iveagh gardens?

Similar to slane

ahlookit

a quick google gives a link (dead) to a mid west radio (Mayo local station) that obviously broke an embargo, but you can see this on google:

Westport House will host a major two day Country Music Festival this ...
www.midwestradio.ie/.../36214-westport-house-will-host-a-major-two-day-country-m...
5 days ago - Westport House will host a major two day Country Music Festival this Summer ... Harvest 2017, will take place on August 26th and 27th and some of the World's ... The event is being run by Aiken Promotions and Midwest Media ... site and the same weekend Enniskillen is playing host to a similar line-up of ...

Sideshow Cecil

hynesie08 wrote: »

Or Adele, I'd laugh so hard if it turned out to be a comedy festival.

I think that's what the organisers would be hoping for!

poundhound

Harvest 2017?

Its gotta be Neil Young so.

bodhrandude

corm500 wrote: »

Looks like something that's going to take place in the northwest and the west. Can only be country related.

Ehhhh have you heard of Sea Sessions, Rory Gallagher Festival, No Place Like Dome and Lost in Leitrim Festival dude.