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Irish Examiner
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
All Together Now FAQ: Access roads, timings, lineup, weather, cash or card, alcohol allowance....
Ahead of time Who's performing at All Together Now? Festivalgoers are spoiled for choice at All Together Now, with a whole host of international and Irish acts taking to stages across Curraghmore Estate this weekend. Headliners this year include Fontaines DC, London Grammar, CMAT, Wet Leg, Bob Vylan, and Primal Scream. Michael Kiwanuka was due to play the festival, but his performance has been cancelled on the advice of doctors due to illness. On Thursday, Zaska, Marcus O'Laoire and Le Boom will play the Bandstand Arena. Friday will see the Trinity Orchestra take to the main stage at 5pm, followed by Lisa O'Neill at 7pm, Wet Leg at 8.45pm and Fontaines D.C at 10.30pm. Conor O'Brien of Villagers at All Together Now. Picture: Glen Bollard On Saturday, Sing Along Social will kick off the festivities at the main stage at 4pm, followed by Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 at 6.15pm, CMAT at 8.30pm, London Grammar at 10.15pm and BICEP at 12 midnight. Sunday will see Buena Vista All Stars take to the main stage at 4.15pm, followed by BIIRD at 6.30pm, Primal Scream at 8.15pm and Nelly Furtado at 10.15pm. Other highlights on Sunday include Villagers, Blindboy, Boola Boom, and the Boomtown Rats. Tommy Tiernan, Kevin McGahern, Peter McGann, The Wild Geeze, and Tony Cantwell are just some of the comedians performing over the three days. Are tickets still available? All tickets and campervan passes for All Together Now are completely sold out and there are no day tickets available. Organisers have advised people to avoid purchasing tickets or campervan passes from unauthorised sellers. Festival opening times Early entry to the site is open to all ticketholders, and festivalgoers are encouraged to beat the rush by arriving on Thursday evening. The car park will open from 2pm, the campsite will open from 4pm and last entry will be 10pm. From Friday to Sunday, the car park and campsites will open from 9am daily. The site will close at 12 noon on Monday. Céilí fun at All Together Now 2024 in Co Waterford. Getting there Bus Éireann are running services to and from the festival site, leaving from Custom House Quay in Dublin, Parnell Place Bus Station in Cork and Waterford Bus Station. There is also the option of the train for any routes that stop in Waterford Plunkett. The festival is in a rural area serviced by country roads and has had issues in the past with major traffic jams, so organisers are urging those driving to follow recommended routes. They urge attendees not to follow Sat Nav or Google Maps directions, and to follow signs for All Together Now instead. If travelling by road, no matter where you're coming from, these directions should get you to where you need to be: From Cork & Southwest via N25 east: Motorists coming from the southwest will be directed left off the N25 at Lemybrien. Motorists will use the R676 road, traveling north, then joining the event traffic at Crehana Junction of R676 - R677, then entering to event via Gate 5. From Dublin & North & East via M9 and N25 West: Travel the M9 to its end at Grannagh. Proceed towards the N25 (west towards Cork) via the N25 Interchange. At the N25 Kilmeaden Interchange (Carrick Road Roundabout) motorists will be directed right at the roundabout towards the R680 through the town of Portlaw. In Portlaw, you will be directed out the Clonegam Road and enter via Gate 6 for access to the car park. From Waterford City via N25 West: Travel the M9 to its end at Grannagh. Proceed towards the N25 (west towards Cork) via the N25 Interchange. At the N25 Kilmeaden Interchange (Carrick Road roundabout) motorists will be directed right at the roundabout towards the R680 through the town of Portlaw. In Portlaw, you will be directed out the Clonegam Road and enter via Gate 6 for access to the car park. From the West & Midlands via M7/M8/N24: Travel East along the N24. You will then turn right at Kilsheelan onto the R680. At the end of the R680, south of Carrick-on-Suir, turn right at the T-Junction with the R676. You will then continue along this regional road and be directed left to the R677 towards Gate 5 (General). There are no drop-offs permitted on the event site on Thursday, Friday, and Monday. There will be a designated drop-off zone in Highfield Business Park, Portlaw, which is accessed from the N25 Kilmeaden Interchange. Organisers have said: 'Ticket holders arriving to the festival on Thursday and Friday by taxi or getting dropped off by private vehicles will be directed to the designated drop-off zone in Highfield Business Park, Portlaw; accessed from the N25 Kilmeaden Interchange. 'Ticket holders will then get the free shuttle bus to the festival – operating Thursday (3pm to 9pm), Friday (9am to 9.30pm) and returning Monday (8am to 1pm only).' A bike rack will be available for anyone who chooses to cycle to the festival, located next to Car Park 4. All Together Now. Photo: Joe Evans Once you're there What's the weather looking like? Overall, it's looking like festivalgoers could be in for a weekend of mild weather and relatively high temperatures. Thursday is forecast to bring scattered showers and sunny spells, which will turn to sunshine by evening with temperatures of 16 to 21 degrees. A good deal of dry weather is expected on Friday, with sunny spells, isolated showers and highest temperatures of 15 to 19 degrees. Saturday will start as a dry day with sunny spells and isolated showers, and cloud will build through the day with patches of light rain and drizzle developing. Highest temperatures of 18 to 22 degrees are forecast. A wet start is expected on Sunday with widespread rain. The rain will clear to the east in the afternoon, followed by sunny spells and isolated showers with highest temperatures of 16 to 22 degrees. What can I bring? What many people will probably be most concerned about is how much alcohol they can bring with them. All Together Now has a limit of either 24 cans, one litre of spirits or 1.5 litre of wine for personal consumption. Pre-packaged and precooked food is allowed on-site. The festival organisers strongly recommend bringing necessities for any weather event - think waterproofs, wellies, hats, scarves, sun cream and sunglasses. Most importantly, you will need to bring your ticket, as well as photo ID, a reusable water bottle, a sleeping bag, tent, toilet roll, bank card and toiletries. What can I not bring? No glass bottles are permitted, with the All Together Now team also asking festival-goers to leave any single-use plastic bottles behind and to decant their alcohol into reusable containers. Festival-goers are not permitted to cook onsite or bring any BBQ or gas cookers. Organisers have warned that gazebos are banned and will be removed by staff. Professional photography equipment is also not permitted. The festival is a fully cashless event, so don't bring coins or notes with you as they will not be accepted. For the full list of what you can and can't bring, visit the All Together Now website. What facilities are available? There will be phone charging facilities available on site throughout the weekend, but a powerbank is often an essential item. Toilets will be located throughout the campsites and festival arenas, and showers will be located in the campsites. A varied selection of food stalls will be on-site, as well as a supermarket.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Regina Spektor tells pro-Palestine protesters at concert: ‘You're just yelling at a Jew'
Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor's concert in Portland, Oregon, was interrupted by pro-Palestine protesters at the weekend, prompting her to tell them they were 'just yelling at a Jew'. Spektor, who is Jewish and emigrated with her family to New York from the Soviet Union as a child, was filmed by a fan as she addressed an audience member who started shouting 'free f***ing Palestine' during her performance at Revolution Hall on Saturday (26 July). After the first audience member interrupted the show, another fan apparently began repeating: 'Free, free Palestine'. Other pro-Israel fans shouted 'am Israel Chai' – Hebrew for 'the people of Israel live' – according to The Hollywood Reporter. Spektor, 45, has voiced her support of Israel in the past, including two days after the 7 October 2023 attack at Nova Music Festival. She wrote, in part: 'If you've devalued Jewish life so much that mourning murdered Jewish children at a festival, raped women, and the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust has offended you – leave.' Stereogum reported that one protester had charged the stage while shouting 'free Palestine', prompting Spektor to say: 'I don't know what he thinks he's doing. I really appreciate the security.' Spektor encouraged the pro-Palestine protesters to leave the show, remarking: 'This is not an internet comment section… I'm a real person who came here to play music.' 'If anybody wants to walk out, this is your chance. Does anybody else want to take a walk? You can.' In the fan video, some more attendees can be seen leaving the concert. Spektor told her audience: 'The only reason I even speak English is because I came here to escape this s***. I only speak English because I came from a country where people treated Jews as othered, and I'm being othered here and it sucks. 'It'd be nice if one of my family's generation didn't have to go to a new country and learn a new language and just stay put. Have nice lives, you guys.' The Independent has contacted Spektor's representative for comment. The incident at her concert comes amid growing tensions in the music industry surrounding artists' stances on the Israel-Gaza conflict. In October last year, Radiohead's Thom Yorke walked offstage after being confronted by a pro-Palestine protester, whom he branded a 'coward'. Last month, punk group Bob Vylan sparked controversy as they led Glastonbury crowds in chants of 'death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]', a moment that was broadcast live by the BBC. The duo denied allegations of antisemitism, stating that their words were aimed at the Israeli government, not Jewish people. 'We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs, or any other race or group of people,' Bob Vylan said in a statement to Instagram. 'We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine.' Earlier this month, on 24 July, Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap were banned from Hungary for three years, forcing the band to cancel their scheduled performance at the country's Sziget Festival. Government spokesman Zoltán Kovács wrote on social media platform X that the decision to ban Kneecap was due to 'antisemitic hate speech and open praise for Hamas and Hezbollah'. In a statement on their social media channels, Kneecap blamed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for the ban, calling his government 'authoritarian' and criticising him for welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hungary in April this year, despite a warrant for his arrest from the International Criminal Court over accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity. 'We stand against all hate crimes and Kneecap champions love and solidarity as well as calling out injustices where we see it,' the band said. This week, humanitarian organisations said that starvation and malnutrition have reached a critical point in Gaza as Israel continues to block essential humanitarian aid from entering the area.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bob Vylan Frontman Slams Politicians And Mainstream Media's Stark U-Turn On Gaza
The frontman of the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan has admitted that seeing certain politicians' stance on the conflict in the Middle East change has left him feeling 'like I've truly gone crazy'. Last month, Bob Vylan delivered one of the most talked-about sets at this year's Glastonbury festival, where they made headlines after leading the crowd in chants of 'free Palestine' and 'death to the IDF', referring to Israel's army. At the time, the group faced condemnation from Glastonbury's organisers, the BBC – who broadcast the set live on its iPlayer service – and prime minister Keir Starmer. Meanwhile, local police said shortly afterwards that they were opening a criminal investigation based on both Bob Vylan and Kneecap's Glastonbury sets, though this has since been confirmed to have been dropped. In the last few weeks, after more photos and news from Gaza have become further shared on social media and in the mainstream media, many have taken a firmer stance against Israel and in solidarity with Palestine. This includes Starmer himself, who issued a statement on Thursday taking issue with the 'suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza', which he described as 'unspeakable and indefensible'. The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible. — Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) July 24, 2025 Posting on X on Monday morning, musician Bobby Vylan wrote: 'Watching politicians and mainstream media suddenly change their rhetoric on the genocide makes me feel like I've truly gone crazy. 'Can someone please confirm that a few weeks ago they villainised us on the front pages for being against this while they were very much pro-genocide?' He added: 'I beg, we must never let them forget the stance they took and the damage they could have prevented, the lives they could have saved. We have to remind them every time they cross our path.' Watching politicians and mainstream media suddenly change their rhetoric on the genocide makes me feel like I've truly gone crazy. Can someone please confirm that a few weeks ago they villainized us on the front pages for being against this while they were very much pro-genocide. — Bob Vylan (@BobbyVylan) July 28, 2025 I beg, we must never let them forget the stance they took and the damage they could have prevented, the lives they could have saved. We have to remind them every time they cross our path. — Bob Vylan (@BobbyVylan) July 28, 2025 Reacting to the media furore surrounding their Glastonbury set last month, Bob Vylan members Bobby and Bobbie Vylan insisted in a joint statement: 'We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to use 'unnecessary lethal force' against innocent civilians waiting for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza.' 'The government doesn't want us to ask why they remain silent in the face of this atrocity. To ask why they aren't doing more to stop the killing. To feed the starving,' the pair continued. 'The more they talk about Bob Vylan, the less they spend answering for their criminal inaction.' READ MORE: 'We Are Not The Story': Bob Vylan Speak Out After Glastonbury Set Sparks Criminal Investigation Bob Vylan Share Defiant Message At First Live Show Since Glastonbury Controversy BBC Announces Immediate Changes After Glastonbury Controversy
Spectator
6 days ago
- Politics
- Spectator
The BBC has finally done something right
This isn't a sentiment you'll have read much in recent weeks, given the BBC's series of appalling misjudgements and editorial disasters. But here goes: Three cheers for the BBC. Its critics are completely wrong and its decision making is spot on. To be clear, I'm not referring to its coverage of Bob Vylan at Glastonbury, the Gaza documentary narrated by the son of a Hamas minister or the BBC's sacking of the two Masterchef presenters. I'm talking about something it has actually got right – but for which it is nonetheless being lambasted: the decision not to decamp its entire political team, and all its political programmes, to this year's party conferences. Previously the lunchtime Politics Live programme has been broadcast from what we used to call the two main party conferences – Labour and the Conservatives – along with Newsnight and much of the news channel's output. To do that, the BBC has taken around 80 journalists and technicians. That compares with three for ITV and eight for Channel 4. Bloated, you say? In years gone by, it was possible to see the validity of such largesse in staffing and coverage. The party conferences used to matter. For hacks, they provided an invaluable opportunity to take 'the feel' of party members and to speak to politicians in a less guarded environment – especially in the bars late at night. For Labour, the proceedings in the hall also mattered, with its jargon of composites, motions and references back all feeding into an atmosphere where votes counted for something. I spent too many years having to attend them, first as a policy wonk and later as a hack. You really did have to be there. There was the Bennite wars of the 1980s, the Militant years and John Smith's 1993 OMOV (one member, one vote) fight. There was Tony Blair's first conference speech in 1994, when he argued for the abolition of Clause IV (Labour's constitutional commitment to 'the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange') and almost no one in the hall realised what he was saying. Labour conference was the arena in which the party's future was played out, with fringe meeting battles and – literally – smoke-filled rooms. Although the conferences mattered, I hated them. All the people I wanted to spend time with I could do so in London. I never got to grips with being forced to spend time with people I had no wish to spend time with, but in a secure area. Add to that the permanent stench of stale air and the annual conference cold, and I was thrilled when I no longer had to go. Party conferences now are just stage shows, like the US conventions, which exist solely to provide fodder for social media clips of Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch's speeches and to give the mainstream news broadcasters something to talk about. For the party faithful they're a fun – each to their own – few days of political self-indulgence and a chance to get drunk with people you've seen on telly. For everyone else, they are meaningless for anything other than the set piece speeches – which could equally be broadcast, like Keir Starmer's first as Labour leader during covid in 2020, online from an empty room. The BBC is quite right to call out the emperor's new clothes. The conferences don't need – and don't deserve – the broadcast army of hacks they've always had. Not least because now they're not even necessarily the most relevant gatherings, with Reform increasingly solid ahead in the polls. Caroline Dinenage, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, told PoliticsHome, which broke the story: 'It's a surprising move by the BBC, who took over 500 of their staff to Glastonbury.' She has a point – but the point isn't that the BBC should take its usual army to the conferences, it's that it took an absurd number to Glastonbury. PoliticsHome also quotes a BBC source: 'We're really upset about it.' Chacun à son goût.
Vancouver Sun
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
Toronto police open hate-crime investigation after ArtHouseTO shares 'Death to the IDF!' image
The Toronto police have opened a hate-crime investigation into an art group after they shared a graphic on Instagram proclaiming: 'Death, Death to the IDF!' The refrain, chanted by British rap duo Bob Vylan during a performance at the Glastonbury Festival in June, was reshared on the social media account of ArtHouseTO alongside a cartoon of a skeleton wearing a military helmet with the Israeli flag and a bullet hole dripping with blood. 'Hell yeah! From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free, will be, Inshallah, it will be free!' says the original post, which was published on June 29 by @ryanazak and then reshared by ArtHouseTO. Toronto, CA 🇨🇦 ArtHouseTO is not just a controversial "art" space, it's a hub for dangerous, pro-Hamas propaganda. In addition to their disturbing and potentially criminal promotion of 'DEATH DEATH TO THE IDF', targeting Israeli soldiers in the only Jewish state with mandatory… On June 30, Facts Matter, an antisemitism watchdog group, reported the matter to the Toronto Police Service (TPS). On July 16, Facts Matter issued a press release announcing a hate-crime investigation had been opened. TPS independently verified the development this week, telling National Post in a brief written statement 'that the Hate Crime Unit is investigating' the matter. Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. 'We applaud the Toronto Police for acting swiftly and taking this matter seriously,' Canadian journalist and Facts Matter founder Warren Kinsella said in the press release. 'Hate has no place in Toronto, and no amount of artistic expression can disguise the promotion of violence and bigotry.' ArtHouseTO co-creator Geoff Doner told the Post in an email on Tuesday that the artwork 'was another artist's (not our work) creative rendering of a chant heard at Glastonbury Festival, artwork we felt culturally relevant at the time. 'Because we take responses to our content seriously, we chose to take down the artwork as it was deemed offensive by some,' Doner said. Although the graphic has been deleted, ArtHouseTO has left several messages of support for the statement on their Instagram feed. On July 2, the communal art group reposted another message defending Bob Vylan's call. 'Chanting 'Death, Death to the IDF' is a morally required rallying cry against a genocidal army that continues to mass murder, starve, torture, rape, displace and maim Palestinians at an unprecedented rate,' reads the post from @jewssaynotogenocide . Two days later, ArtHouseTO reposted a social media message from an Australian commentator bemoaning how 'people opposing genocide are called hateful Nazis, where genocidal soldiers are a protected group and chanting for their death is a hate crime.' Other controversial posts ArtHouseTO has reportedly reshared on Instagram include one from @cakes_stencils, which shows a cartoon stick figure throwing the flag of Israel in the garbage above the caption: 'Zionism will be thrown in same garbage dump of history of exploitative and racist ethno-nationalist ideologies,' listing white supremacy, Nazism and Apartheid South Africa. Doner called Facts Matter's police report a form of 'harassment (which) has made it unsafe for my family and for my neighbours.' 'We were never contacted directly or invited for dialogue by anyone in regards to hearing our perspective and have since been subjected to doxxing and harassment online and in person at our Cultural Hub,' he said, adding that he has also 'initiated a police investigation into the individuals harassing us online and in person at our Cultural Hub.' Corey Herscu, a senior advisor with Facts Matter, expressed no interest in speaking with ArtHouseTO. 'As our name implies, we only deal in facts. And the fact is that group posted, 'Death to the IDF.' They are the author of their own misfortune,' he told the Post in a written statement. Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here .
