All Together Now has announced a string of new acts for this summer's sold-out music festival, whose headliners include The National, Patti Smith, and Damon Albarn's The Good, The Bad & The Queen.
They will now be joined at Curraghmore Estate, in Co Waterford, over the bank-holiday weekend of August 2nd-4th by:
- Bombay Bicycle Club, who last played in Ireland seven years ago (and who will also be performing at Cork Opera House on Saturday, August 3rd; tickets, which cost €30 plus booking fee, go on sale at 9am on Friday, April 5th);
- John Grant, the endlessly creative singer who has become one of indie rock's marquee names;
- The Wailers, who will also play Vicar St in Dublin on Tuesday, July 23rd;
- Moodymann (aka Kenny Dixon jnr), who will be making his Irish festival debut;
- Anna Calvi, the Brit- and Mercury-nominated songwriter and guitarist;
- Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk collective;
- Gus Dapperton, whose viral hits Prune, You Talk Funny and I'm Just Snacking have helped him sell out recent shows, including two at the Button Factory in Dublin;
- Tourist (William Phillips), who released his second album, Everyday, in February;
- Kokoko!, a dance-music collective from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
- Black Midi, who will also be making their Irish festival debut;
- Rimon, an Eritrean-born, Amsterdam-based singer who fuses neosoul and hip hop;
- and The Claque, a Dublin trio who have just released their debut single, Hush.
