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Irish Times
3 days ago
- Climate
- Irish Times
The Rewind festival at St Anne's Park: Ticket information, who will play, how to get there and more
Get ready to go back in time to the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s at this year's Rewind Festival this June bank holiday weekend. The line-up includes Billy Ocean, the Boomtown Rats, Jerry Fish. We have everything you need to know about the Dublin festival. When and where is it? The Rewind Festival will take place at St Anne's Park in Clontarf, Dublin on Sunday, June 1st. What time should I arrive? Gates open at 2pm. The festival is scheduled to start at 3pm. A full list of stage times is not yet available, so keep an eye on The Rewind Festival's socials for more information on the day. Concertgoers are advised to arrive half an hour before the show starts. There is no queuing allowed before gates opening, meaning you will be turned away if you arrive too early. Who is playing? Billy Ocean is headlining and will be accompanied by special guests The Boomtown Rats with support from ABC, Matt Goss, Boyzlife, Midge Ure, Tiffany, Toyah, Jerry Fish, Something Happens. More acts are expected to be announced. READ MORE How do I get to and from the gig? People are advised to allow at least an extra two hours travel time to and from the venue. Traffic and parking delays are expected. Travel by bus: Marathon Coaches are among those offering direct, private services, with a return bus operating from Northwall Quay Bus Stop 7623 in Dublin city centre to a range of destinations across the counties Dublin, Meath and Kildare. JJ Kavanagh Event Coaches also pick up from locations in Limerick, Nenagh, Roscrea, Portlaoise, Kildare, Clonmel, Callan, Kilkenny, Waterford and Carlow. Dublin Bus run services near to St Anne's Park. Routes from Abbey St Lower include 6, H1, H2, H3 or 130. Visit for more information. Travel by train: The Dart will run services to and from the concerts each day. You are advised to get off at Harmonstown Dart station. From the station it is a 14-minute walk to the park. Visit for more information. Travel by car: Attendees are advised to use public transport, as there is no public parking at the event. The car parks at St Anne's Park are not open during events, and towing and clamping is in operation for anyone who parks illegally. The final hurdle: When you reach the site, there are two entrances. You may enter through whichever of these is most convenient for you, and organisers advise that both routes require about a 1.3km walk from the park entrance to ticket scan/entry. • Green entrance: Sybil Hill on to main avenue. • Blue entrance: All Saints Road, via Tennis court entry. Are there any tickets left? Yes, there are still tickets available. Each ticket costs €77.45 and can be bought on Ticketmaster . Verified resale tickets are also available. Anyone attending should download tickets to their phone in advance, in case there are issues around internet connection when entering the park. Screenshots will not work on the day as barcodes are live and updating regularly. For festivalgoes who need to collect their tickets there is a box office on the main avenue where the green and blue routes meet. What is security like? Under-16s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian to enter St Anne's Park. Strict security checks will be in operation, and you are advised not to bring a large bag or backpack as you may experience delays or even be refused entry. Prohibited items include glass or cans, umbrellas, alcohol, garden furniture, camping or collapsible chairs, e-scooters and e-bikes, flares, professional cameras and audio recording equipment. A full list can be found here . There are no re-admissions to the concert, so if you leave you cannot get back in. What does the weather look like? Temperatures should get to a high of 18 degrees, but Met Éireann has forecast spells of rain showers over the coming days, with breezier conditions than of late also expected. Given St Anne's Park is a standing venue on a grass surface, you should bring boots or runners as well as layering up. It may help to have a raincoat or poncho alongside your sun cream.
The Guardian
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Hairy Biker Si King's Honest Playlist: ‘Led Zeppelin is perfect for when you're speeding along'
The first single I bought I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats from Sounds Nice on Birtley High Street, when I was in my teens. I know it was about a school shooting, but at the time, I thought: I have a visceral reaction to Mondays as well. The first song I fell in love with Still in Love With You from Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous album. I was learning to play drums and Brian Downey, Thin Lizzy's drummer, used to do this wonderful shuffle beat because it's a relatively slow track, and his playing is beautiful. I still play the drums. I've never stopped being a musician. The song I secretly like There's a couple of Eagles tracks, like Desperado, mainly for that bit where Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski gets in the cab and says: 'I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!' I probably shouldn't say that because as well as sessioning with a band called Groove Train, who are great, I've just been asked to play percussion for the Bootleg Eagles. The song I do karaoke The Royal Mile and Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty and Take the Money and Run by the Steve Miller Band are just about in my range. But I'm not a regular karaoke-er, man. The song I inexplicably know every lyric to I was sat in the park listening to some music and China in Your Hand by T'Pau and I Want to Be Free by Toyah Willcox came on. I mustn't have heard them for 30 years and I still remembered the lyrics. I've just got that sort of brain. I'm the same with telephone numbers. I can still remember my mates' mams and dads' telephone numbers. The song that changed my life John Bonham's drums on When the Levee Breaks by Led Zeppelin are nothing short of epic. Apparently they recorded them in a stairwell. That changed my life because I then wanted to be John Bonham. The song I can no longer listen toThe First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack because it reminds me of lost love. The song that gets me up in the morning Gimme Some Lovin' by the Spencer Davis Group. The best song to play at a partyAin't Nobody by Rufus and Chaka Khan, because it's great. Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion The song that makes me cry On the Wire by Troy Cassar-Daley is a narrative of losing your way, your sense of place and home and just living on the wire. It's about love and comfort and fundamentally a reflection of how lonely the modern world can be. The best song to motorcycle to Kashmir by Led Zeppelin. What a track to have in your head when you're speeding. The Hairy Bikers: Our Family Favourites is available from the Guardian Bookshop.
Daily Mirror
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Bob Geldof vows to carry on 'vital' work as he launches Live Aid musical
As the 40th anniversary of the iconic concert approaches, the Boomtown Rats star announced another exciting project back where it all began Bob Geldof looked back on the legacy of Live Aid 40 years on insisting there was still more work to be done - as he launched a musical telling the remarkable story and a new album. The 73-year-old, who organised the original 1985 event alongside singer Midge Ure, reunited at Wembley Stadium today. It was where it all started, when icons like David Bowie, Queen with Freddie Mercury and Elton John took to the stage to raise funds for the famine in Ethiopia. Bob says the charity still has so much work to do, as he announced the Just for One Day - The Live Aid Musical album. 'We wake up every day with 10 or 12 emails dictating the latest horror from the hungry lands,' he said. 'We couldn't possibly know that 40 years down the track that the issue would be as vital. The world and it's emotional bandwidth with Gaza and Ukraine and Trump and all that evil and accept that in Sudan 2.5m are being forced to starve as an instrument of war because America has decided not to send any grain, then 5 million people in Africa are in peril of their lives from AIDS because Trump has decided that's not fun anymore.' Looking around Wembley Stadium, the Boomtown Rats star quipped to Radio 1 host Jo Whiley: 'Wembley doesn't look any different. I expected it to look shiny and new but it looks as crappy as before.' Speaking at the launch Just For One Day, a musical which tells the story of the Live Aid concerts in the national football stadium in London and Philadelphia in the US, he said he wasn't totally sold on the idea at first but has been blown away by the show. 'I was mortified when I was reading the script,' he admitted. 'You're reading a version of the self.' Midge agreed: 'I went to see the show at the Old Vic. I went in as a jaded old rock star and expecting cheese.' But both told how they have been impressed by what they've seen. 'The musical is extraordinary,' said Bob. 'My main thing is that it's politically pertinent. Forty years ago people understood but these days it's about Freddie and all of that. What the musical does for us is put it in a contemporary perspective. 'When you hear (The Who 's) My Generation sung like that. I took Pete Townshend to see the show. He couldn't imagine his song, which is beyond at anthem… He clutched my knee and I knew he was thinking 'Should I record it like that?'' Midge added: 'One song in particular jumped out for me. Bob Dylan 's Blowing In The Wind. The interpretation was phenomenal and it changed my option of what musicals and theatres could be. Fred and Ginger was all I could conjure up. The passion they have equals the passion of the artists on the day. This is a different way of getting the message out, which is incredibly important.' The musical launched at the Old Vic last year. It's made £600,000 for the Band Aid Charitable Trust so far and is expected to raise more than £1m for the charity by the end of the year. 'The musical brings it to a different generation and the possibility of what individuals can do together,' said Bob. "I read somewhere it's another jukebox musical. Dude, it is! That's what it was called. It was hit and hit. The achievement is to make that sense of 40 years ago vivid and relevant to now. And that's what it's done.' Just For One Day will return at London's Shaftesbury Theatre on May 15, with 10% of all proceeds being donated to the Band Aid Charitable Trust. The album is released on July 11 - ahead of the Live Aid 40th anniversary on July 13.
Perth Now
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Another Live Aid unlikely due to social media: Geldof
Bob Geldof says another Live Aid-style event is "unlikely" because of social media. The 73-year-old singer, who organised the original 1985 event alongside singer Midge Ure, told PA news agency he doubted a similar event could take place in the 2020s, "even though your brain is filled with the horror of Gaza or the horror of Ukraine". The Boomtown Rats frontman said: "I think it's very much of its time, we didn't even expect this to be a thing. "From my point of view, rock and roll turned out to be almost a 50-year pop, which ended, conveniently for us, with the summing up at Live Aid, then that was subsumed by social media, so whatever's going to happen now will happen through social media. "Unfortunately, social media seems to be a sort of isolating type medium. "So could the same thing happen again? Unlikely, in my view unfortunately, when it was mono-media, when you had just essentially two stations in the UK, everyone saw the same thing, which we didn't realise, we saw the newscast, we wrote a song, we thought we'd raise like STG100,000. "Suddenly it becomes the focus of all that rage and disgust and shame, and that has lasted for 40 years, much to our dismay." Geldof was speaking at a Wembley Stadium launch event for Just For One Day, a musical, which tells the story of the Live Aid concerts in the national football stadium in London and Philadelphia in the US, on July 13 1985, which were organised by Geldof and Ure to raise money for the Ethiopian famine. Speaking about the musical, Geldof told PA: "It's amazing that both of us are alive, frankly. But we set out as quickly as we could, I called him (Ure), he was on a rock show, and he said, 'yeah, let's do something'. "We literally cobbled this song together as quickly as we could, and 40 years later, there's musicals, there's celebrations, there's documentaries all geared towards something that happened here 40 years ago. "So it's really odd for us, is it gratifying? No, because can you believe there are starving people in the 21st century, it was unnecessary then, it's totally unnecessary now." Just For One Day will return to London's Shaftesbury Theatre on May 15, with 10 per cet of all proceeds being donated to the Band Aid Charitable Trust.
BreakingNews.ie
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BreakingNews.ie
Bob Geldof says another Live Aid event is ‘unlikely' because of social media
Singer Bob Geldof has said another Live Aid-style event is 'unlikely' because of social media. The 73-year-old, who organised the original 1985 event alongside singer Midge Ure, told the PA news agency he doubted a similar event could take place in the 2020s, 'even though your brain is filled with the horror of Gaza or the horror of Ukraine'. Advertisement The Boomtown Rats frontman said: 'I think it's very much of its time, we didn't even expect this to be a thing. Executive producer John Kennedy, concert promotor Harvey Goldsmith, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure during the launch event for the Live Aid musical Just For One Day, at Wembley Stadium (Ian West/PA) 'From my point of view, rock and roll turned out to be almost a 50-year pop, which ended, conveniently for us, with the summing up at Live Aid, then that was subsumed by social media, so whatever's going to happen now will happen through social media. 'Unfortunately, social media seems to be a sort of isolating type medium. 'So could the same thing happen again? Unlikely, in my view unfortunately, when it was monomedia, when you had just essentially two stations in the UK, everyone saw the same thing, which we didn't realise, we saw the newscast, we wrote a song, we thought we'd raise like £100,000. Advertisement 'Suddenly it becomes the focus of all that rage and disgust and shame, and that has lasted for 40 years, much to our dismay. 'But you can change things, you really can actually change things, not him (Ure), not me, but the individual isn't powerless, and collectively, you really can change things. 'And in today's world of danger and fear, and political inadequacy, it stands still as a lesson, nothing to do with Midge and Bob, but just as something where people decided yeah, this is our thing, and we're staying with it.' Geldof was speaking at a Wembley Stadium launch event for Just For One Day, a musical, which tells the story of the Live Aid concerts in the national football stadium in London and Philadelphia in the US, on July 13 1985, which were organised by Geldof and Ure to raise money for the Ethiopian famine. Advertisement The seminal Live Aid concert took place in July 1985 (PA) Speaking about the musical, Geldof told PA: 'It's amazing that both of us are alive, frankly.'But we set out as quickly as we could, I called him (Ure), he was on a rock show, and he said, 'yeah, let's do something'. 'We literally cobbled this song together as quickly as we could, and 40 years later, there's musicals, there's celebrations, there's documentaries all geared towards something that happened here 40 years ago. 'So it's really odd for us, is it gratifying? No, because can you believe there are starving people in the 21st century, it was unnecessary then, it's totally unnecessary now. 'But the problem is, do people have the bandwidth? They're so exhausted with the horror of Gaza and the terror of Ukraine, and the American political situation that it's hard to draw attention to those who through no fault of their own are dying right now.' Advertisement Ure, 71, added: 'We've done the Band Aid song, 345 different times, different genres, different variations of whoever the current artists are. 'And this as a musical was something way beyond what we could possibly do, we're not very talented, and it takes a lot of talent for people to put this together.' Just For One Day will return at London's Shaftesbury Theatre on May 15, with 10% of all proceeds being donated to the Band Aid Charitable Trust, after it previously ran at the Old Vic last year.
