The Forever Young Festival is just around the corner as 80s music fans are gearing up for a weekend of a lifetime.
The popular music festival is back for a third year with a fantastic line-up of bands. It will be a weekend-long celebration of original music featuring over 30 iconic bands from the late '70s to the early '90s.
Get your camping chairs ready because it's time to reunite the old gang and feel "forever young". There's no better time to get nostalgic, put on leg warmers, skirts, shoulder pads, and mirrored aviator shades, and relive the 80s.
The festival will be raising vital funds for Animal Welfare and Veterinary Care Ireland and ISPCA. Founder and organiser Dr Sharon Alston said: "All the collections and donations on-site benefit ISPCA Ireland, but all sales profits are donated to AWVCI, a new charity providing national low-cost veterinary care as unusually in Ireland there is no national provision for this."
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Here is all you need to know about Forever Young this weekend:
Where and when is Forever Young happening?
The festival will take place at Palmerstown House Estate in Co Kildare from July 14 to 16. The campsite will open on Friday, July 14 at 12pm.
Are tickets still available?
Yes, tickets for the weekend are still available and they can be found on the Forever Young website.
What is the line-up for the weekend?
A number of well-known artists will be playing some of the most iconic music. These include:
- Erasure’s Andy Bell
- Bananarama
- Squeeze
- Billy Ocean
- Tony Hadley
- ABC
- Soul II Soul
- Tom Bailey
- Midge Ure
- Go West
- Jason Donovan
- Hot House Flowers
- Cry Before Dawn
- Cutting Crew
- China Crisis
- John Parr
- Blancmange
- From the Specials – Neville Staples
- From The Jam |
- Jerry Fish
- Stray Cats -Slim Jim Phantom
- Modern Romance
- Heaven 17’s Glen Gregory
- Jaki Graham
- Propaganda’s Claudia Brucken
- Lotus Eaters Peter Coyle
- The Farms Peter Hooton
- M- Robin Scott
- The Doctor
- Qween + more
How do I get there?
Forever Young will be taking place at Palmerstown House Estate near Naas in Co Kildare. The website states that gardai will not allow entry or exit on foot or cycle and patrons are urged to arrange transport.
There will be a shuttle bus running from Naas and Dublin.
The Naas shuttle bus runs from Piper's Hill and with stops at Osprey Hotel, (Post Office), Poplar Square, and Odeon Cinema. The Dublin bus runs from Ulster Bank at George's Quay with a stop at Red Cow. You can find out more on the Forever Young website.
Parking is available at the site but you will need a parking pass to enter. You can find out more about getting to the site on the website.
What items are banned from the site?
You can bring food and drink into the campsite but the following items are banned: single-use plastics, glass, BBQs, camping stoves, etc.
