First acts announced for Forest Fest
This year's event takes place from Friday to Sunday 25 to 27 July
FOREST FEST has just announced the first of the lineup for next year’s highly anticipated summer festival in Emo.
Top acts such as The Stranglers, Franz Ferdinand, Orbital, Travis, The Dandy Warhols, Billy Bragg, The Pillow Queens and Kula Shaker with take to the stages over the festival weekend from Friday to Sunday 25 to 27 July.
Kula Shaker’s shows are renowned for their live performances of retro freakery and spiritual sonics to the top most of the pop scene during the heady days of Britpop.
The four piece Dublin based Pillow Queens Pillow Queens have recently just played two sold out Vicar Street shows off the back of a successful campaign for their sophomore album ‘Leave the Light On’ and have played to crowds across North America and Europe over what has been a busy yet fruitful 2022.
The legendary campaigning recording artist Billy Bragg has been performing his political messages for the past 40-years and seen him play in major venues around the world.
The Stranglers no bullsh*t attitude was embraced by the punk movement of the late 70s. They scored hits with such iconic songs as ‘No More Heroes’ and ‘Walk On By’ and the mercurial ‘Golden Brown’, Since starting out on the road the group has amassed 24 Top 40 singles and 19 Top 40 albums.
The Dandy Warhols were once labelled America’s answer to Brit-pop. Combining psych-rock, shoegaze, power pop, synth pop and more with the cheeky detachment of their pop-art namesake, they are equally skilled at heady reveries and satirical pop.
The Scottish alternative Rock band Travis has performed as almost every major festival across Europe as well as China and Mexico. The multi-platinum and BRIT award winning band will be performing their classic songs, and fan favourites from throughout their storied career to include ‘Sing’, ‘Why Does It Always Rain On Me’, ‘Driftwood, and ‘Turn’.
Brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll who make up Orbital. They have crafted a vast catalogue of ambitious yet accessible electronic music, informed by a wide range of genres such as ambient, electro, punk, and film scores. They became one of the biggest names in music during the mid-’90s by completely reinventing the notion of what a dance act could do live, turning multitudes of rock fans on to the limitless pleasures of electronic music.
Ever since Franz Ferdinand beginnings, throwing illegal parties in condemned Glasgow buildings, the band has been defined by a fresh, unfading, forward-facing outlook. A transgressive art-school perspective, but with a love of a big song. A big riff. A big idea. Somewhat contrary. Unafraid to dance. Unafraid to think. Unafraid to fear.
More acts are to be announced in the coming months.
Early Bird, Weekend and Day tickets are now on sale and available by logging onto https://forestfest.ie/tickets/
