A STELLAR line up has been announced for this year’s Longitude Music Festival that takes place in Marlay Park in July.
Mumford & Sons, Picture This and Catfish & the Bottlemen are just some of the acts that will grace the Southside venue’s stage from Friday, July 14 to Sunday 16.
On Saturday, July 15 The Weeknd leads the line up. His fourth full-length album shattered records across the world on its release, setting Spotify alight as the ‘The Most Streamed Artist in a Single Day’ with over 40 million streams and ‘The Most Streamed Album First Week’ globally.
Dominating charts around the globe, the album captured the number one spot in 90 countries on iTunes in its first week.
Mumford & Sons will take to the main stage as Sunday night headliners. The Grammy-Award winners will be bringing their Gentlemen of the Road Stopover tour to Marlay Park, where they will be presenting their personally curated Sunday line up of some of today’s biggest new bands, before bringing the night to a close with an unmissable headline performance.
Joining The Weeknd and Mumford & Sons are 2016 Mercury Prize winner Skepta, breakout stars of last year, Picture This, Brit Award winners Catfish & The Bottlemen, and UK singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt.
Festival favorite Kaytranada returns to Longitude, to perform alongside indie rockers Glass Animals, rap star Mac Miller, MC, producer and DJ Wiley, Icelandic rock band Kaleo, dream pop sensation Dua Lipa, and German folk group Milky Chance.
Tom Misch also returns to Ireland following his sold out Workman’s Club show, and he will be on the bill with London hip hop act Loyle Carner, French duo Her, solo singer Raye, Afro-Western group The Very Best, new soul star Jorja Smith, Senegalese singer and guitarist Baaba Maal, folk musician Lucy Rose and teen prodigy Rex Orange County.
Weekend tickets cost €189.50 with two-day tickets costing €129.50. Day tickets are €69.50 and are on sale on Friday (March 10).
Last week Senator Neale Richmond (FG) welcomed confirmation that the popualr music festival was returning this year.
“First staged in 2013, the award winning festival has become very popular on the summer festival scene,” he said.
“Its success has cemented Marlay Park as one of Ireland’s leading music venues.
“Longitude and other stand alone concerts are a huge boost to the area bringing in much needed revenue for local businesses.”
Senator Richmond pointed out that funds raised through the staging of Longitude and other concerts are ring-fenced for local recreational use.
