Wild Roots 2024

Also line up -

Im sure there is financial and other logistics to consider when it comes to a festival, but why they dont make this a 2 day festival and try and make a better line up with all those acts.

There is so much scope for a brilliant west of ireland weekend festival, had hoped that wildroots would have finally been the one but currently way off that

What do you want to know about it?

I've been to both the 2022 and 2023 event. The first year was by far the better of the two, fist festival after COVID, big enough crowds about 12k or so with some decent acts. I was camping and the area for that was fine, decent selection of food vendors. Security was very lax if you were camping so could bring your own cans into the stage areas, bars must have lost out on a fortune. Nice family vibe during the day and good craic at night.

The second year wasn't as good, quite a poor line-up (better than this years) and the toilets were a disaster, half hour queues for builders toilets. Security a bit stricter on bringing drink in, some were grand with it, some made you pour it into a plastic cup instead of the can and some let nothing in.

The weather really saved it last year, scorching on all 3 days which led to a much better atmosphere, would have been completely different place in the rain.

Line-Up is quite poor but Damien Dempsey is always good, Hermitage Green were a success 2 years ago at it. The Barley Mob and Ham Sandwich are good for chilling during the day and the trad church is always lively with decent sessions going.

I'm not going this year, as mortgage saving, but the Bring your friend for free offer is on again and a brilliant deal. Two tickets for a 3 day camping for essentially €105 each is a no brainer if the weather is good regardless of the acts that are playing.

I had a completely different experience to your friends in 2023.

im not sure what you mean by shoddy facilities?

it’s beautiful location. Good size and chilled crowd and family campsite was spacious . Lots of good quality food on offer.

The only real negative was there could have been more shaded areas but it was absolutely scorching weather that weekend.

We are going again next week with a bigger tent with shade and really looking forward to it

agree completely, the toilet situation was absolutely awful. About 10 portaloos for the whole site, hopefully the organisers recognise the issue and and extra facilities this year

Not too much of a mission, probably half hour 45 mins walk into the town, grand on a sunny day.

Ye it’s up on their Instagram now too.

Oh no 😭

Hopefully people get their money back.

I know festivals are expensive to run but that line up doesn't match the price on the ticket for me so its no surprise to see it fail, it was probably destined to at some stage after this years. The ticket cost about 40 quid more than my Electric Picnic ticket and while people are criticising that line up this one is mostly just radio presenters, random DJs and tribute acts. Piss poor for €210 like.

I'd be worried about this one. Refunds not till June 22nd is bizarre unusual and worrying

Moving it out of the town last year did it no favours whatsoever

it was never in the town…