Marlay Park festival 2013,
Marlay Park music, Accommodation near Marlay Park, Dublin Hotels, Dublin
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Marlay Park / Marley Park is
located in Rathfarnham which is a short distance from and an easy commute to
Dublin Central Hotels and Guesthouses, this means you can enjoy the best of
both worlds, party in the country during the day and evening and return for
some city living at night.
Longitude Festival:
19th-21st July:
This un-believable event
features Kraftwerk, Pheonix, Vampire Weekend, HotChip, Villagers, Yeah Yeah
Yeahs, Foals, Jake Bugg, Tom Odell to name but a few!
The five stages of Longitude
– and August shows for Marlay Park?
The licence application for
the capital’s newest festival reveals more details of what to expect in Marlay
Park in July.
Those heading to Longitude
in Dunlin’s Marlay Park in July can look forward to spending their time
wandering around five stages, according to the licence application lodged by
Festival Republic, on behalf of MCD, with Dún Laoghaire Rathdown
County Council.
According to the application
and event management plan, we can expect “three music stages and two multi arts
stages”, with all the stages bar the main stage to be tented. There is also a
“children’s area” per the site drawings attached to the application. The site
capacity is 9,999 people and they’re expecting a 50/50 male/female breakdown.
Music will run each day from 2pm to 11pm and there will be no re-admission to
the site. Security contracts have been awarded to UK-based companies SLS and
Specialized Security and the security guidelines are very much in keeping with
the post-Swedish House Mafia shows at Marlay Park last year.
The letter of consent
included with the application from Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to
MCD, giving them permission to apply for the licence, refers to a contract
agreement from May 2006. It would be interesting to see that document and the
terms, conditions and duration of that agreement.
It’s also interesting to
note the existence of another licence application from MCD for “concert
consisting of music performance” at Marlay Park on August 3 and 4. Application
OEL 02/13 was lodged on May 24 and the relevant application is not currently
online. Again, as has become the norm this summer, it’s Festival Republic who
are taking the lead, a further sign of the Live Nation takeover of the Irish
live music business.
Thanks to its investment in
Festival Republic, Live Nation now has a hand, act and part in the Phoenix Park
shows, Longitude, Oxegen and, most famously, the Electric Picnic. There is also
the not insignificant matter of Dublin’s O2 and it’s believed that the company
are the front-runners to buy Harry Crosbie’s stake in the venue from NAMA. It’s
been a long time coming and they’ve done so with great stealth, but Live Nation
are now very significant players in the Irish live music market.