Castlepalooza line up revealed
The line up has been revealed for Castlepalooza Festival, which takes place from August 3-5 on the grounds of Charleville Castle in Tullamore. Headliners at the event have been revealed as British rock icons The Charlatans. The band will be joined by a mix of hip acts including Ghostpoet, King Charles, Jape and more. Castlepalooza takes place over the August bank holiday weekend and has fixed itself as a boutique favourite amongst festival goers. For the first time this year the festival has asked Irish acts to apply to perform at the festival, and an original commitment of four performance slots has been increased to 13 due to the number and quality of applications received. The 13 successful Irish acts to perform at Castlepalooza have been confirmd as Benny Smiles, Cars Love Girls, Cry Monster Cry, Grand Pocket Orchestra, Kammerpop, Last Days of 1984, Lights Camera Sundown, Little Xs for Eyes, Mrs Healy's First Class Choir, Owensie, Roisin O, The Statics and White Collar Boy. The festival will also include free workshops, an art contest, a film showcase and a spa. Tickets for the festival are priced at €85 for three days including camping, €65 for three days without camping and €35 for Sunday with no camping. A portion of all ticket sales will go towards the work being carried out to restore Charleville Castle. More information is available at www.castlepalooza.com. The full Castlepalooza lineup is as follows: The Ambience Affair, The Altered Hours, Arman Giorgio, Automatic Tasty, Baz Hickey, Benny Smiles, Big Dish Go, Bouts, Brad Pitt Light Orchestra, Cars Love Girls, Cat Dowling, Cloud Castle Lake, Conal Bailey, Cry Monster Cry, Deaf Joe, Diamond Dagger, DOGS, Donal Dineen's Parish Project, Djs Double Agent 7, Frankie Grimes, Ghostpoet, Grand Pocket Orchestra, HAL, Hush War Cry, Illum Sphere, Jape, In the Willows, John Blek and the Rats, Jon Phonics, J Roots, Kammerpop, Katie Kim, King Charles, Last Days of 1984, Le Galaxie, Lights Camera Sundown, Lil' Dave, Little Green Cars, Little Xs for Eyes, Maria V, Melodica Deathship, MissEalayneous, Mmoths, Monto, Mrs Healys First Class Choir, Nanu Nanu, North Strand Kontra Band, Ocho, Overhead the Albatross, Owensie, Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands, Plaid, REID, Roisin O, SertOne, Shadowplay, Solar Bears, Slow Skies, Tara Stewart and a stage of being, The Casanova Wave, The Charlatans, The Statics, The Viking Project, This Club, Toby Kaar, Trumpets of Jericho, Tu-Ki, The Violet Roadkills, White Collar Boy, Windings and Young Wonder.