Irish Festival Guide – Dublin City Block Party – 2nd & 3rd of July

By No More Workhorse on May 5, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

A New Festival for Dublin? Well, ok, not exactly new as it happened in 2014 also, but on a much smaller scale. This one is gonna be HUGE! With Matthew Herbert, Kelis and a few others that really shouldn’t be missed.

The Dublin City Block Party, originally a one-off, one-day event held in 2014, was one of our most unique, most talked about events of the past couple of years. With a lineup featuring Daphni, Kerri Chandler, Dj Harvey, Kormac & many more, it sold out two weeks in advance.

We return this year bigger and better with a great lineup across three indoor & outdoor stages, an expanded festival site with top of the range sound and visuals and lots more to be revealed! With two days of great music, food and games, all right in the heart of Dublin’s City Centre, this is the perfect summer gathering.

Hidden Agenda, Subject & Archetype Present:

Dublin City Block Party 2016

SATURDAY 2 nd JULY
Dusky, Matthew Herbert, Leon Vynehall, Huxley, Danny L Harle, Harvey Sutherland (Live), DJ Deece, Jack Thompson, Dorian James

SUNDAY 3 rd JULY
Todd Terje & The Olsens (Full Live Band – Irish Debut), Kelis, Late Nite Tuff Guy // Jape (DJ Set), Get Down Edits // Kelly-Anne Byrne, Nialler9 & Stevie G Present VINYL LOVE
+ Opening Night with Robert Hood & Marcellus Pittman on Friday 1 st July – Doors 9pm (TICKETS SOLD SEPARATELY)
+ After Party on Saturday 2 nd July with Erol Alkan – Doors 11.30pm (TICKETS SOLD SEPARATELY)

Festival Guide –

May

Bealtaine – All through May

Dublin Dance Festival – May 17th-28th –

International Literature Festival, Dublin – May 21st-29th

Life – May 27th-29th – Belvedere House and Gardens, in Mullingar – Paul Kalkbrenner. 2ManyDjs. Jamie Jones. Laurent Garnier. Jeff Mills. Hot Since 82. Mano le Tough. Ben Klock. John Talabot

June

Listowel Writers’ Week – June 1st-5th

Vantastival – Fri 3rd – Sat 4th June – Beaulieu House, Drogheda – Badly Drawn Boy, The Hot Sprockets, The Young Folk, Jinx Lennon, Elephant, Sample Answer…

Forbidden Fruit 2016 – Fri 3rd – Sun 5th June – The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham – Tame Impala, Young Fathers, Steve Mason, Mmoths, The Field (Live), Underworld, Flume, Jungle, Kiasmos Live, Battles, Groove Armada and many more…

Cork Midsummer – June 7th-19th, 21st, 24th-26th

Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas – June 10th-12th- Borris House, Carlow – Martin Amis, Chrissie Hynde, Kate Tempest, Michael Chabon, Joseph O’Neill, Lenny Abrahamson, Stephen Frears, Simon Callow, Martin Hayes…

Carlow Arts Festival – June 10th-19th

Bloomsday – June 15th-19th- Dublin

Dublin Pride – June 15th-25th

Body and Soul – 17th – 19th June – The Gloaming , Santigold, St Germain, Hudson Mohawke, Floating Points (live), Mercury Rev, Neon Indian, BadBadNotGood, Wolf Parade, Sun Kil Moon, Santigold, St. Germain, Mercury Rev, Sun Kil Moon, Wolf Parade

Hay Festival Kells – June 19th-26th – Kells, Meath

Sea Sessions – 24th – 26th June – Bundoran in Donegal – Primal Scream, Tinie Tempah, Ham Sandwich, Bad Manners, Pleasure Beach, Raglans…

Interlude – RHA Gallery & Ely Place – 24 – 26 June 2016 – Lisa Hannigan, Dimitri from Paris, The Sugarhill Gang, Crazy P Soundsystem, Booka Brass Band, Alison Limerick, Billy Scurry, Donal Dineen, David Kitt, exmagician, Ships, Sample Answer

Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Sun 26/06/16 – Sigur Ros with support James Vincent McMorrow
Tue 28/06/16 – Disclosure with support Vince Staples
Thu 30/06/16 – Stereophonics, The Vaccines

July

Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Sat 2/07/16 – Faithless, Le Galaxie

Dublin City Block Party – Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd July – Dusky, Matthew Herbert, Todd Terje (Full Band), Kelis

Groove – Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd July – Killruddery House, Bray, Co Wicklow – The Academic, The 4 of Us, Ocean Colour Scene, The Blades, Aslan and Jupe…

Castlepalooza – Fri 1st – Sun 3rd July – Charleville Castle, Tullamore – Caribou, Jurassic 5, Villagers, Cat Power, Romare, Tiger & Woods and many more…

Live at Iveagh Gardens – Through July
Jul 8 Fri – Bell X1
Jul 9 Sat – John Grant
Jul 10 Sun Wilco
Jul 14 Thu – Pixies
Jul 16 Sat – Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Jul 22 Fri – Richard Hawley
Jul 23 Sat – Little Green Cars

Laya City Spectacular – July 8th-10th and 16th-17th – Merrion Square, Dublin, before moving to Fitzgerald Park in Cork

Longitude – Fri 15th – Sun 17th July – Kendrick Lamar, Major Lazer, The National, Róisín Murphy, Father John Misty, Jamie xx, Tyler the Creator, Action Bronson, Courtney Barnett, CHVRCHES, Mo, ASAP Ferg and more! ‪

Happy Days – July 21st-August 1st – Enniskillen lakelands – Samuel Beckett

Knockanstockan – July 22nd-24th – Blessington Lakes –

Indie Pendence – 29th – 31st July – Deer Farm, Cork – Editors, Bell X1, The Kooks, Ash, The Strypes, Hudson Taylor, The Blizzards, Idlewild…

the Beatyard – 30-31 July – Dun Laoghaire Harbour – George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic, Snarky Puppy, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Roy Ayers, Lee Scratch Perry, Tensnake

August

Kilkenny Arts Festival – August 5th-14th

September

Electric Picnic – Fri 2nd – Sun 4th Sept – LCD Soundsystem, Lana Del Rey, New Order, HAIM, Super Furry Animals, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Wolf Alice, Animal Collective, Wild Beasts, Broken Social Scene, Phosphorescent, Ezra Furman, Girls Names – Sold Out

Tiger Dublin Fringe – September 5th-18th

Culture Night – September 16th

Dublin Theatre Festival – September 29th-October 16th- Don Giovanni