- Music
- 29 Mar 18
Stendhal Festival has announced the first part of the musical programme for the eighth instalment of the multi-award winning music and arts festival which takes place on August 10 and 11, at Ballymully Cottage Farm, Limavady.
Topping the bill this year is one of the UK best post-brit-pop acts, Embrace.
With 7 top ten UK albums, 3 of which hitting the coveted number 1 spot, Embrace are one of the best-selling bands from the UK of the past 20 years.
With New Album, ‘Love is a basic need’ debuting at number 5 in the UK Album Charts and generally well received after its March 2018 release, the band will also have a whole host of brand new songs to showcase at Stendhal.
Elsewhere, a spectacular wall of pulsating sonic eruptions lies in wait at Stendhal this summer as And So I Watch You From Afar make their long awaited Ballymully Cottage Farm debut.
Easily one of Northern Ireland's best live acts, telling stories without words with an epic, vibrant, vicious and hard hitting sound, ASIWYFA conjure a live performance that simply has to be experienced.
On top of this, Having just played to over 200,000 people in just three nights supporting Ed Sheeran in Australia earlier this month, Ryan McMullan’s star continues to rise, and the singer-songwriter will reutrn to Ballymully Cottage Farm this summer.
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Also on the bill are; The Craig Charles Funk and Social Club, Derek Ryan, The 4 Of Us, Tom Middleton, The Logues, Joshua Burnside, Rosborough, Roe, Le Boom, The Irish Video Game Orchestra, Hunkpapa, The Eskies, Ursula Burns, Tony Villiers and the Villains, Mean Mary, The Swingtime Starlets, Waldorf & Cannon, The Ocelots, Electric Octopus, The Pox Men, Dream Awake, The Wood Burning Savages, Runabay.
More line-up announcements are due in the coming weeks.
Tickets for the event are available now on www.stendhalfestival.com