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Irish Independent
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Beyond The Pale 2025: All you need to know about Wicklow's eclectic arts festival
After a cancellation scare last weekend, the Glendalough Estate will swing open its gates this Friday and welcome back revellers for one of Ireland's most eclectic and family-friendly festivals. Here is everything you need to know if you are heading to Beyond the Pale 2025. How can I get there? Marathon Coaches are providing buses to Beyond the Pale, including return buses from Dublin City Centre to the Glendalough Estate on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Direct bus tickets to the festival site are available for holders of single-day tickets and weekend ticket holders, with the buses running from and to Northwall Quay and Bray Dart Station. On Friday, buses will begin departing from Dublin at 11 am (until 5 pm), with a service from Bray at 3 pm, with buses leaving the capital at 10 am and 11 am on Saturday and an 11 am service from Bray. On Sunday, a service will depart from Northwall Quay at 10.30 am and Bray at 11.30 am, with homebound buses to Dublin departing at 9 am and 10 am, and to Bray at 11 am. Homebound services are also available on Saturday and Sunday. Full details are available at What parking space is available? Parking for the festival is approximately a 10-minute walk from the campsite. Parking is free, and attendees are strongly encouraged to carpool where possible. Who is playing? This year's weekend headliners include John Hopkins and Berlioz on Friday. Wicklow's own disco queen Róisín Murphy and Boney M will take to the stage on Saturday, while TV On The Radio and the energetic and unpredictable Marc Rebillet will feature on Sunday. Plenty of other big names are set to perform, including Ezra Collective, Soda Blonde and King Kong Company on Friday, and The Sugarhill Gang, Booka Shade and Kiasmos on Saturday, with Death in Vegas, Broken Social Scene and Samantha Mumba wrapping up the festival on Sunday. What else is there to do? There will be plenty of entertainment for all the family, including a Tailteann Tournaments games area, high-flying acrobats, face painting, hip-hop workshops, hula hooping and an antique funfair, while 11-year-old DJ Sean M will make his festival debut at the 'Baby Rave' in the forest. ADVERTISEMENT This year's BTP arts programme is more daring, delicious and defiant than ever before, featuring Meow Meow, the international cabaret icon and queen of post-post-modern performance, and a literary trip down the rabbit hole of masculinity and disco with Irvine Welsh. In a serene glade by the river, Acushla is the home for reconnection and restoration at BTP. From rejuvenating in Ireland's first mobile sauna, Bosca Beatha, to unwinding with transformative yoga and soothing massages in the enchanting yurt, the festival's wellbeing programme will refresh your spirit. What are the campsite opening times? The Beyond the Pale campsite and car parks will open on Friday at 11 am, closing at 4 pm on Monday. The arena will open at 4.30 pm on Friday, and 11.45 am on Saturday and Sunday. Small bell tents up to 4m are allowed in the campsite, but tents should not exceed a size that would accommodate six to eight people. Teepees and larger structures like gazebos are not permitted. Vehicles are not permitted into any of the campsites or the camper van area for health and safety reasons, and pets are not allowed on site. What food and drink will be available? Alongside a selection of vendors selling a delicious assortment of food and refreshing drinks as part of a 'Beyond The Plate' programme curated by food writer Ali Dunworth, BTP 2025 will celebrate storytelling around food and drinks with a stellar line-up of names showcasing the best of Irish food, drink and hospitality, including Cassie Stokes, Christina Wade and Facundo Rodulfo and Pamela Neumann from Tango Street Food. Festival goers can bring their own food, but no open fires, naked flames or disposable BBQs are allowed on campsites or the festival grounds. There will be public drinking water points throughout the site, with attendees encouraged to bring a reusable water bottle. Weekend camping ticket holders can bring their own alcohol (at the time of first entry only), with a max allocation for drinks at 24 cans, one litre of spirits or 1.5 litres of wine per person. Day ticket holders are not permitted to bring alcohol. No glass containers are permitted on site, with attendees asked to decant their alcohol into a reusable bottle before arriving at the festival. All containers must be open when entering the main arena.
Perth Now
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Clairo pulls out of Primavera Sound 2025
Clairo has pulled out of Primavera Sound 2025 due to 'logistical issues'. The 26-year-old singer/songwriter had been due to perform at the festival in Barcelona on June 6 but has now axed her appearance completely. She said in a statement on Instagram: 'Unfortunately, I'm not able to make it to Primavera this year and I'm so sad about it, because Primavera is iconic and returning to the fest is something I've been looking forward to for ages. 'There are some logistical issues with getting my show to/from Primavera that have forced my hand here. I never want to give my fans anything but the absolute best set I can do, and that won't be possible at this time. I'm so sorry again and I hope to be able to make it up to you sooner than later.' A message from Primavera stated: 'We are deeply saddened by this news and share the fans' frustration. We, too, were very much looking forward to welcoming her again at Primavera Sound Barcelona.' Sabrina Carpenter, HAIM, Beach House, TV On The Radio, Wet Leg and others will still perform on June 6, while Charli XCX and Chappell Roan will headline on the other days. Meanwhile, Clairo previously revealed that Charli XCX helped her to learn to appreciate her old songs, after they performed her song 'Sofia' from her debut album 'Immunity' during a joint appearance at the Laneway festival. She told Seventeen magazine: 'It's so funny—I didn't think people would mind that I didn't play it, but it became a problem. I got myself into a pickle. 'We were doing this festival in Australia and New Zealand called Laneway, and Charli was headlining. We played a few shows, and she told me she watched my set the day before. But she was like, 'Where's 'Sofia'?' and I said, 'I don't play it. Don't you have any songs where you're just like, Man, we've done it a lot'?' Then we came up with the idea to play it together. I was like, 'Well, if anyone can make me sing it again, I think it would be you, Miss Charli.' So we planned on it and had no sound check. We sort of winged it and it was awesome.'
Forbes
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Q&A: TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe On His Debut Solo Album
Tunde Adebimpe at A24's "Opus" Los Angeles Premiere held at The Egyptian Theatre on February 19, ... More 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by JC Olivera/Variety via Getty Images) With beloved indie band TV On The Radio, frontman Tunde Adebimpe has made some of the most adventurous and acclaimed music of the twenty-first century. The Brooklyn band's first three albums alone won the 2004 Shortlist Prize and Album of the Year honors from the likes of Spin, Rolling Stone, The Guardian and more. The band collaborated with David Bowie, Trent Reznor and more. TV On The Radio remain a highly active touring band, with a run of dates this summer. But the band has not released new music since 2014. So, Adebimpe has released his debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, a brilliant collection that covers his many diverse influences. I spoke to him about the album. Steve Baltin: What was the span these songs were written? Was it a concentrated period or was it over time? Because that mood swing from "I Love You" to "God Knows" is pretty gigantic. Tunde Adebimpe: It was definitely a long time. I think I started it without knowing I was starting a record. In 2019 TV on the Radio took a bit of a break. We were going to take a break that we didn't really know when it was going to shore itself up. And I started working with some old demos that I found. But then the pandemic hit, and we had a longer period of time to take that break. So, a lot of the songs started then and we worked in fits and starts from 2019 until the middle of 2024 or the beginning of 2024. So, a long while, the bulk of it though, like the sewing things up and finishing happened from probably spring of 2023 to 2024. Baltin: When you go back and look at it after such a long period do you find that your mood and your interpretation of the lyrics changed quite a bit? Adebimpe: Yeah, always. Especially now that I've sat with the songs for such a long time and I'm far away from when we finished it. I will say that It's the record that, of anything I've worked on, that I've been able to listen to the soonest after it's been done. I should say the soonest after it's done without feeling incredibly uncomfortable. And I think that's because we did sit with the songs for such a long time and we're cool enough with them to be not too attached and not too detached to them now, which lends itself to going back in. Sometimes you're writing something and you don't exactly know what it applies to or you think it applies to one thing and then you're mapping it onto your life and world events in the present and you're like, 'Oh, that also works in this new way.' But yeah, I feel like they're pretty multi -purpose. I feel like anybody can use them for whatever you feel like using them for. Baltin: How do you use them then? Do you find that they've shifted quite a bit? Adebimpe: That's hard for me to answer because I feel like they shift for me. I have the ground floor of what I feel and think about the songs, that was pretty established when we were done and turned it in to the label. But yeah, in the months after, I feel like I have the consciousness of the intention and can also hear that detachment from it to feel like it's a document of internal events that now can soundtrack a bunch of external events. I can feel like the song 'I Love You,' I wrote it for my sister who passed away. But it can be applied to any expression of affection in the face of perhaps certain doom. It can be used for that. 'God Knows,' like you were saying, is a breakup song. It wasn't my breakup, but it was me interpreting what a friend had gone through. And again, I feel like that's a good multipurpose breakup and makeup song. That's what I like. I like the message in a bottle connection that a record or a piece of art makes for someone where they can find themselves in this thing that someone else made. Baltin: On your Instagram, when you shared 'God Knows,' which I love that song, you asked the question, 'What's the worst thing you ever loved?' I started thinking about it last night and I was just thinking about it and it's an unintentionally deep question. Because first, you have to determine how many things you truly loved then decide if you regret it or not. Do you have an answer to that question? The worst thing I've ever loved? Adebimpe: It's open ended, but that applied to this friend who was very much expressing they were so deeply in love with this person who did not give a f**k about anybody else, and was a very manipulative, self-destructive person. She expressed a lot of like, 'I'm gonna save you.' And this person doesn't want to be saved. Ultimately that person isn't here anymore. And she was left with the guilt of that, but also this feeling of, 'You suck.' Realizing that person flat out fell for all the affection and the little kernels of probably very true and mutual love. That person didn't hold up their end of the deal and they also weren't strong enough to say, 'I don't want to lead you on. I'm gonna use you as a support system for my narcissism. But I'm sorry, some risk coming through.' What's the worst thing I've ever loved? I also don't know. I feel like everything I've truly loved has been pretty. I don't have that many regrets about relationships. It's an interesting question because you're kind of like, 'What is that? What's the sliding scale?' Baltin: I love the fact that it's called 'God Knows' because I think "God Only Knows" is the greatest pop song of all time. You have the most loving, wonderful pop song of all time and you have the total antithesis called "God Knows." Was that intentional? Adebimpe: No, definitely not, but I so appreciate it cause I agree with you about that song. Baltin: On a solo album, it's, I've talked about this with someone recently and it's very different because in a band everybody has their opinion, whereas a solo album, it's, it's all on you. So, when you hear this record do you hear influences like Fugai and The Flamingoes come together? Adebimpe: There's a Fugazi element to 'Magnetic.' In 'Ate the 'Moon, there's a moment from 'Another one Bites the Dust' that's in between the intro and the main part. There's a reversed piano key and a weird flange on it before it goes into the rest of 'Ate the Moon.' I feel like a lot of acapella stuff that I will do or that harmonizing is definitely from doo-wop things I heard my parents listen to, definitely from the Beatles, all of that stuff pops up. I feel like how couldn't it? There are so many times where I've written this song and I have to call a friend and say like, "Is this a Pixies song that I am like ripping off?" Something sticks with you in that way. Absolutely it's part of your musical and social vocabulary in a lot of ways. So it's all a homage and no biting.
