Global Gathering / Hi:Fi - Éire 2006 Ireland

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The HiFi Festival Ireland, the sister festival to the UK’s Hi:Fi North and Hi:Fi South festivals, will take place in Ireland on August 5 and 6 (Tickets are 130 euros.)

Headliners at the festival include The Streets, The Prodigy, Ian Brown, Mylo, Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, Deep Dish, Carl Cox, Vitalic, Audio Bullys, Sh*t Disco, John Digweed, Judge Jules, Armin Van Burren, Art Brut and Ferry Corsten.

HiFi Festival Ireland takes place at Belvedere House, Mullingar, Ireland on the 5 & 6th August 2006

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HI:FI Ireland

Global Gathering Present: HI:FI IRELAND

“It’s About The Music”

August Bank Holiday Weekend

Early Bird Weekend Tickets including Camping Only €130. Offer Ends 1 June Weekend Tickets including Camping €150 After 1 June

Tickets On Sale Friday 21 April at 8am

Hi:Fi Ireland explodes in jaw dropping style with the announcement that The Prodigy, The Streets, DJ Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Ian Brown, Razorlight, Mylo, Deep Dish, Carl Cox, Roger Sanchez, Sasha & Digweed, Audio Bullys, Cagedbaby, Tiga, Vitalic plus many more are set to headline a new style of festival on 5 & 6 August Bank Holiday weekend 2006 at the crossroads of Ireland at Belvedere House, Mullingar, Westmeath subject to licence. Strictly over 18’s. ID required.

Hi:Fi Ireland is a sister festival to the UK’s breakthrough Hi:Fi North and South festivals which take place on the weekend of 27 and 28 May in Newcastle Upon Tyne and Winchester near London, embracing the new movement of style and taste whereby the audience is more concerned with listening to quality music than being pigeon holed and being told what to listen to. Hi:Fi Irelands line up reflects the diversity and tastes of the iPod generation.

The marriage of Hi:Fi’s musical talent with the spectacular setting of Belvedere House’s landscaped gardens and lakeside setting is going to mean a very special weekend for 25,000 people!

The HI:FI Line Up Joining The Prodigy, The Streets, DJ Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Ian Brown, Razorlight, Mylo, Deep Dish, Carl Cox, Roger Sanchez, Sasha & Digweed, Audio Bullys, Cagedbaby, Tiga, Vitalic are bands including Sh*t Disco, Art Brut, The Presets, My Robot Friend, Infadels, New Young Pony Club, Mainline, Channel One and Porn Trauma. Plus Superstar DJ’s Judge Jules, Armin Van Burrin, Ferry Corsten, James Zabiela, Steve Lawler, Alecko, Infadels, Above and Beyond, Marco V, Danny Howells, James Lavelle, Col Hamilton, MYNC Project, Eddie Halliwell, Eric Prydz, Shapeshifters, Nic Fancuilli. Plus much more to be announced!


http://www.mtv.co.uk/mtvuk/news/article.jh...icleId=65132860

http://www.belvedere-house.ie/

http://www.mcd.ie/festivals/fullfestivals....2622&xname=hifi

http://www.mullingar-chamber.ie/faq_answer.asp?id=20

HI:FI Ireland Announced
News last updated: 05-04-2006

[JamieG]

Global Gathering Present: HI:FI IRELAND

"It's About The Music"

August Bank Holiday Weekend

Early Bird Weekend Tickets including Camping Only €130. Offer Ends 1 June
Weekend Tickets including Camping €150 After 1 June

Tickets On Sale Friday 21 April at 8am

Hi:Fi Ireland explodes in jaw dropping style with the announcement that The Prodigy, The Streets, DJ Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Ian Brown, Razorlight, Mylo, Deep Dish, Carl Cox, Roger Sanchez, Sasha & Digweed, Audio Bullys, Cagedbaby, Tiga, Vitalic plus many more are set to headline a new style of festival on 5 & 6 August Bank Holiday weekend 2006 at the crossroads of Ireland at Belvedere House, Mullingar, Westmeath subject to licence. Strictly over 18's. ID required.

Hi:Fi Ireland is a sister festival to the UK's breakthrough Hi:Fi North and South festivals which take place on the weekend of 27 and 28 May in Newcastle Upon Tyne and Winchester near London, embracing the new movement of style and taste whereby the audience is more concerned with listening to quality music than being pigeon holed and being told what to listen to. Hi:Fi Irelands line up reflects the diversity and tastes of the iPod generation.

The marriage of Hi:Fi's musical talent with the spectacular setting of Belvedere House's landscaped gardens and lakeside setting is going to mean a very special weekend for 25,000 people!

The HI:FI Line Up
Joining The Prodigy, The Streets, DJ Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Ian Brown, Razorlight, Mylo, Deep Dish, Carl Cox, Roger Sanchez, Sasha & Digweed, Audio Bullys, Cagedbaby, Tiga, Vitalic are bands including Sh*t Disco, Art Brut, The Presets, My Robot Friend, Infadels, New Young Pony Club, Mainline, Channel One and Porn Trauma. Plus Superstar DJ's Judge Jules, Armin Van Burrin, Ferry Corsten, James Zabiela, Steve Lawler, Alecko, Infadels, Above and Beyond, Marco V, Danny Howells, James Lavelle, Col Hamilton, MYNC Project, Eddie Halliwell, Eric Prydz, Shapeshifters, Nic Fancuilli. Plus much more to be announced!

LIVE!

Last November THE PRODIGY performed to 20,000 fans at their sold out shows at the Point, Millstreet and Belfast so fans who missed out can catch them live at Hi:Fi Ireland. Their greatest hits album "Their Law – The Singles 1990 – 2005" topped the UK charts and sold over 50,000 copies alone in Ireland. Voted one of the most exciting live acts ever, The Prodigy's live show is simply unmissable!

DJ!

He's the biggest DJ in the world, he produced and played the opening of the Olympics and now DJ TIESTO is coming to Hi:Fi Ireland! Tiesto scooped the international poll for Best International DJ for the second time last year! Currently on his "In Search of Sunrise 5, North American Tour", tickets for his sold out Vancouver shows were snapped up within three hours of going on sale! Catch some new tunes from Tiesto this summer!

LIVE!

Hi:Fi brings THE STREETS to Ireland for their first and only festival appearance of the summer! With new album "The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living", Mike Skinner, continues his rise to superstardom! His debut album "Original Pirate Material" won the Mercury Prize, his second album"A Grand Don't Come For Free" sold in excess of 3 million copies and delivered a number One album and single "Dry Your Eyes".

DJ!

The remixer and tour DJ for U2 and Madonna, PAUL OAKENFOLD held the title of world's biggest DJ for over 10 years. Currently living in Los Angeles this will be his first trip to Ireland since his show stopping appearance at Global Gathering last summer!

LIVE!

IAN BROWN has just been crowned with the NME Godlike Genius Award for his huge influence on British rock music so it's a great honour that he will be performing at Hi:Fi Ireland in its first year. The former Stone Roses front man has made the change to a pre-eminent solo career with ease and his live performances never fail to impress. Lucky fans, who missed out on tickets to see him live at his sold out concert in Dublin Castle, can now catch him at Hi:Fi Ireland!

DJ!

Since the release of his staggering debut 'Destroy Rock and Roll', MYLO and his band have gone on to take the electronic world by storm! He's the biggest thing in dance music for the last 5 years and has found worldwide fame, international kudos and invitations to Elton John's parties! Prepare for a ground shaking DJ headline slot at this year's Hi:Fi Ireland Festival.

LIVE!

RAZORLIGHT will be performing exclusively at one Irish festival this year – Hi:Fi Ireland! Their intimate show at the Olympia Theatre is totally sold out so the Irish festival performance is great news for fans! One of the best live acts last year, the band's performance at Hi:Fi will make it one of the essential festivals of the summer. Don't miss the chance to hear tracks from their second album released this summer and "Up All Night.

DJ!

As American leaders in the international dance music arena, Grammy-Award winners DEEP DISH have become one of the most revered names in the genre. They play hundreds of DJ gigs a year from Los Angeles to Lebanon and are the remixers of choice for The Rolling Stones, Madonna, P Diddy, and Justin Timberlake, just to name a few!

LIVE!

Daft Punk's favourire act, VITALIC has been heralded as the new Vangelis or Georgio Moroder and as well as producing amazing soundscapes himself he remixes for Royksopp, Daft Punk and Bjork! Don't miss the enigmatic Frenchman in action at Hi:Fi Ireland!

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DJ!

TIGA - the hottest act in the world officially! TIGA recently remixed Depeche Mode's "Suffer Well" and he's the man behind some of the most distinctive dance floor hits in recent years including the cover of Nelly's "Hot in Herre", the public enemy's homage "Louder Than A Bomb" and "You Gonna Want Me" featuring Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears!

LIVE!

Audio Bullys have lifted Nancy Sinatra's original song Bang Bang (my baby shot me down), from the Kill Bill Vol 1 soundtrack, and have used its fearsome atmosphere to play host to one of their most unashamedly dancefloor friendly cuts to date, creating undoubtedly one of the finest-crafted bootlegs to have emerged in the past few years.

DJ!

One of the greatest DJ's in the world, CARL COX has rocked dance floors the world over and has conquered corners of the globe previously left untouched. Maintaining a constant tour schedule, playing throughout the UK and Europe, he recently mesmerized thousands in Israel, South Africa, Japan and Australia. Cox appeared at the legendary Love Parade (one of the world's largest raves) in Berlin playing to over 80,000 people. He is the featured DJ this year at T In The Park, and continues to play the UK's biggest clubs including Slam, Cream, Lakota and Minstry Of Sound.

LIVE!

Heralded as the next big thing, CAGEDBABY's playful mix of seductive electro pop, techno rhythms, laidback party music and snippets of 80's power are irresistible to eager dancefloor pleasure seekers! Cagedbaby's remixes for The Presets and Sugababes have stormed the pop charts, and their remix of Armand Van Helden's "My My My" is played in every club in the world every night and is the stuff of legend!

DJ!

Irish music fans are familiar with ROGER SANCHEZ through both his dates in Sprit and his legendary Pascha Ibiza residency on a Monday night to 5000 people which sells out everytime!

The HI:FI Setting
The site itself, Belvedere House, was built in 1740 by German-born Architect Richard Castle, as a hunting and fishing lodge for Lord Belfield - Robert Rochfort - who later became the First Earl of Belvedere. Located on high ground at the heart of the magnificent 160 acre estate, the house enjoys spectacular views of Lough Ennell and its islands and the largest collection of follies in Ireland including a secret garden and a gothic arch! The festival site is situated on Georgian landscaped gardens which give a 'rolling' effect and make the site a series of natural amphitheatres. It is also the site of the Walt Disney Licensed " Narnia World" for the movie of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , which should give you some idea of how special the site is.

The HI:FI Experience
Hi:Fi Ireland is an incredible, new music festival and Ireland's first ever to boast a line up of both block-rocking bands and super star DJ's. Featuring 5 arenas set in a series of natural amphitheatres including an Outdoor live Stage and 4 massive arenas armed with a mighty sound systems. The new festival will have a limited capacity of 25,000 music lovers for the most unforgettable weekend of their lives on the Bank holiday weekend. Get ready for Hi:Fi Ireland and enjoy the Bank Holiday Weekend with spectacular sounds and style!

Hi:Fi Ireland will feature a quality bill of non-musical entertainment! Go back in time and take a journey with the ghosts of Belvedere past or visit the modern day exhibition by Irelands finest graffiti artists!

The HI:FI Festival Innovator
Brian Spollen, festival promoter for Hi:Fi Ireland and the UK's Hi:Fi North and Hi:Fi South says, "Hi:Fi is the festival for the iPod generation. It's all about the music – breaking new acts and bringing super-cool talent to Ireland! Young people aren't interested in being pigeon holed into one genre any longer so the line up reads like a playlist where a little bit of everything is good for the soul! The event will offer something for everyone musically by bridging the gap between out and out dance and live shows. We want to give our guests the opportunity to see their indie and dance heroes performing side by side for the first time. This is something that we believe will suit the more eclectic music tastes of the 21st century perfectly."

Hi:FI Ireland is brought to you by Mean Fiddler, Live Nation and Angel Music.

Early Bird Ticket Offer
Early bird ticket offer: Full Weekend tickets including camping can be bought for only 130 euro (including booking fee) for a limited time only. Offer ends 1 June. Weekend tickets including camping 150 euro (including booking fee) after 1 June.

Tickets go on sale Friday 21 April at 8am from the following outlets:
In person: from 99 Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
24hr hotlines: Tel: (ROI) 0818 719 300 (NI) 0870 243 4455
Buy online: www.ticketmaster.ie

Free On Site Car Parking
Free on site car parking for the weekend will be provided for Hi:Fi ticket holders. The car parking site will be clearly signposted and opens Friday 4 August at 12 noon.

Transport
Located at the crossroads of Ireland, the festival is easily accessible and serviced by train, bus routes and motorway. Additional train and bus services will run across the weekend to cater for the festival goers.

There are regular train and Bus Eireann coach services to Mullingar. Belvedere is 4 miles from Mullingar on the N52 Mullingar to Tullamore road.
Traffic from Dublin and North use M50 to N4 / M4 to Mullingar then N52 Traffic from west use N6 to N52 site is 6 miles from froim N6 / N52 junction. Traffic from south use N8 to Portlaoise then N80 to Tullamore N52 to site.

Camping
Campsite opens: Bank holiday Friday 4 August at 12 noon