All Together Now 2024

Future islands

Mary Wallopers

Sprints

Newdad

Really good time

Slowdive

KKC

Soda Blonde

The Wailers

And that's before I go researching, happy enough with that.

Very weak, extremely generic. The electronic music is largely inoffensive tripe for people who aren't really into it but are partial to a yoke at a festival a couple times a year. Bands not much better. Only things I'd be excited for there is Sprints, Slowdive and Oxn. Some genuinely awful stuff on there and then a lot of the same acts that get recycled so often that it's impossible to be excited by them. I'll more then likely be there either way but I'd say my time will spent mostly at smaller stages seeing local acts. Whoever gets paid to book acts for this festival is stealing a living. I wouldn't be surprised to hear they just asked ChatGPT to generate an Irish festival line up

yep..

Id agree.

And for the first time since this festival started - Im Out.

For those into it - Have fun 👌

BTP have done very well with their lineup, but with all the single day outdoor shows sweeping up all the big names, this doesn't look too bad. I have a few must sees on the list, and shur most of the craic os the smaller bands on the smaller stages anyway!

No, also kaleidoscope fest

As a few have said, decent but a lot of those acts I would so see I've seen before.

Missing a standout act e.g Nick Cave, Iggy, Fleet Foxes, Patti Smith etc

The National filling that role, albeit they have played all parts of the country post covid though

That's exactly why they are not filling the role of standout act!

I enjoy the National, seen them 4 times and skipped the same amount.

I suppose there just wasn’t someone who has played here recently of that calibre that would play for ATN.

Maybe you should get ATN to swop lineups with Green Man. 😀

My early effort.

It's the first main line-up announcement, I've lost count of the amount of brilliant festivals I've been to over the years, but I'd wager that the first announcement for those festivals (or most festivals actually) was not stellar. The lineups develop and grow over the months leading up to the festivals, some of the better EPs I attended were very average lineup wise starting out. I think it's a very good lineup as is and will only get better. No matter how good an announcement is there's always one or two people who love a good whinge, it's human nature.

Kind of surprised at the reaction here by most, although a few mates in my whatsapp said the same thing about the lineup being fairly repetitive. I'm fairly happy with it though, for me: The National, Future Islands, Roisin Murphy, The Mary Wallopers, Slowdive, Barry Can't Swim, Confidence Man, Kiasmos, Floating Points, The Wailers, Ross from Friends are all acts I'd go and see. James Vincent McMorrow, Paul Kalkbrenner, Natasha Bedingfield, Maribou State, Kolsch, George Fitzgerald and King Kong Company all ones who would semi interest me.

18 acts at this stage is good going for any festival and has more than justified the price of a ticket for me. A good lot on there I'll dig into as well and hopefully find a few more I like. No other festival in the country will give me that many acts I'd be interested in anymore (be shocked if EP produce something I'd prefer in 2024). It's a bit lighter on DJs/electronic artists I really like this year - spoiled last year with Palms Trax, Skatebard, Todd Terje, Overmono, Barry Cant Swim, James Murphy and Chaos in the CBD but sure didn't end up seeing half of them anyway.

It is a bit samey sure but it always has been and POD always seem to recycle acts massively. With more names to come and stages like AVA in the Woods, Arcadia, etc still to announce it will pad out nicely I'm sure. Full steam ahead as far as I'm concerned - going to be a great weekend as it has been every year.

Ah look, it's a gorgeous spot, ye'll have a ball, no doubt. Just feels like some of the promise from that first year has ebbed away a bit. That year had Thundercat, Yasin Bey, Chaka Khan, New Power Generation, Mogwai, that Icelandic post punk crowd, just different, unsual stuff. And a pile of stuff I didn't know and had to research. The hope for me was that ATN would be a place that combined the biggish scale and beautiful staging of EP with an innovative lineup. The innovation levels have dropped a bit is all. I don't think anyone can argue with that.