REMY: Photos: Dublin Quays Festival 2018

Wednesday, 25 July 2018

Photos: Dublin Quays Festival 2018

Photo: Billy Cahill

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Gabriel Paschal Blake - Live @ The Sound House - Dublin Quays Festival

Info: In an ever congested festival calendar which now seems to run for most months of the year bar maybe February and March, and of course peaks in the summer months, it takes something special and well organised to jostle capably for position. The second Dublin Quays Festival did just that, a take over of venues straddling the north and south banks of The River Liffey, from Thursday 19th to Monday 23rd of July in Sin É, The Sound House / The Wiley Fox, The Grand Social, The Workman's Club and The Liquor Rooms. The standard of acts performing was incredibly high, and it was run like clockwork, it really was easy to get from venue to venue within a short time too. On the Friday night I managed to get from The Sound House down to The Grand Social in 5 minutes, and from there across the river to The Workman's in roughly the same time, ensuring I got to see 3 headline acts in one night.

I was only able to make the first half of the festival due to other non-music related commitments (ugh), but managed to keep abreast of what was happening online for the remainder. Below are a selection of photos from the first two nights, a massive thanks to photographer Billy Cahill for sharing his amazing photos with me, you can see his full sets on the Dublin Quays Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/pg/DublinQuaysFestival/photos/

Also gratitude to Sarah Ryan for snapping The Murder Capital on the Thursday night, they were amazing, I'm comfortable admitting that their set was so intense I was scared at times. I really, really enjoyed every band I saw, they were all 'into it', as a punter that's all you can ask for, kudos to Andrea and Karen the festival organisers for putting on such a fantastic spread.

(Photos: Billy Cahill (Girlfriend, Tanjier, ELLY D, FXY, The Stasi), Sarah Ryan (The Murder Capital), and Remy Connolly (Silverbacks, Megan Nic Ruairí, Gabriel Paschal Blake, Gemma Bradley, and others where specified!)