There's plenty of huge concerts taking place over the coming days for music fans to get excited about, including the return of one of the first big festivals of the summer, and a huge open-air gig from one of Ireland's biggest pop acts.
There’s plenty to keep electronic fans front left, with Barry Can’t Swim’s live, the techno pairing of Daniel Avery and IMOGEN, DJ Boring, DJ Gigola, and DJ Seinfeld, covering everything from lo-fi house to deep techno. And even though the party at Kilmainham finishes at 10.30pm, an early night isn’t mandatory. After-parties featuring the likes of Barry Can’t Swim, DJ Seinfeld, Interplanetary Criminal, Sally C are taking over Centre Point, Wigwam, Grand Social and Tengu.
Tidal Memory Exo is another concept album he concocted while “living in a rust-ridden flooded squat in a weird UK seaside town”. There’s elements of glitchy hip-hop covered in “oceanic scum”, cold wave, electro, techno, dub hallucinations and twisted maximalist Brainfeeder funk, with his abstract vocals always out of reach.
They don’t do big headliners, but there’s no stage clashes all weekend, and gigs covering the whole island, so technically you could tick off every act on the line-up. In 2015, Kildare duo Ryan Hennessy and Jimmy Rainsford formed Picture This when Ryan put a demo of the song Take My Hand on Facebook and it caught Jimmy’s attention.
Headlining tomorrow, Detroit house star MK will blast big room global dance hits like Push the Feeling On, Look Right Through, and 17. Before MK, guest DJs Dom Dolla, NewEra, Conor Coates and Jen Payne will be warming up.