Here’s all you need to know, and who you need to see, at this year’s Castlepalooza Music and Arts Festival.
SOAK aka Bridie Monds-Watson, is one of Ireland’s most exciting, young singer-songwriters and was recently the subject of JOE’s Ready to Burst feature. She’ll be an absolute highlight on stage so you definitely go check her out. Who knows, maybe one of her most famous fans, Brian O’Driscoll will be there, bopping along too… unless that muppet Warren Gatland drops him again. Damn you Warren Gatland.
Anyway, here she is performing the beautiful Sea Creatures:
There must be something in the water up there in Derry as our second act to watch are also from the Maiden City.
(Fluoride. It’s probably fluoride in the water.)
Little Bear are a four piece band who recently seized the opportunity to perform on Other Voices, the brilliant RTE music showcase, after fellow Ulstermen Two Door Cinema Club were unable to take part due to illness. Any rumours that their mystery illness coincidentally came about after spending time with Little Bear are completely unfounded.
Little Bear are undoubtedly destined to be one of country’s most popular bands so that means this is your chance to go and see them before they become massive and you’ll look really cool in front of all your friends because you were there right at the beginning. You’re welcome.
Our next act is Fight Like Apes, a group already well and truly established as one of the best Irish bands touring at the moment.
The Dublin group have already performed at Forbidden Fruit this summer so they’ll be seasoned festival pros and in full fun-time swing by the time Castlepalooza rolls round.
Here’s hoping the band will play one of JOE’s favourites when they take to the stage, Lend Me Your Face:
And finally, just to show that there are actually some other talented acts out there who don’t hail from Ireland (we know, we couldn’t believe it either), we round off the list with CSS. Remember them?
This brilliant Brazilian band haven’t had a massive hit in Ireland in a fair number of years here but they’d be most well-known on these shores for their 2005 hit, Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above.
Check it out here:
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