Underworld are among the acts announced for the 2020 music festival in Dublin city centre on the June Public Holiday Weekend, 2020
Next year’s Forbidden Fruit marks the tenth anniversary of Dublin’s first and longest-running city centre music festival .
The weekend festival is in the grounds of the Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham on 30th and 31st May, 2020, with Underworld, Loyle Carner and Fatima Yamaha (Live) among the first batch of acts to be confirmed by the organisers, POD.
Underworld, aka Rick Smith and Karl Hyde, are a true one-off – at home headlining the world’s biggest festivals and events, playing underground techno clubs and warehouses, sound-tracking theatre productions or taking over art galleries, disused shoe shops, and Japanese department stores. Having cemented their place in the ’90s underground techno scene, the group’s definitive breakthrough came in 1996 when their timeless anthem Born Slippy (Nuxx) became the soundtrack of a generation after it was featured in the film Trainspotting.
The following two decades saw them build on that success while never compromising; selling millions of albums, performing countless sold-out shows, providing scores and sound-tracking the Opening Ceremony to the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The critical and commercial success of the band’s Grammy-nominated 2016 album Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Futuresaw them headline stages at Coachella, Glastonbury and Summer Sonic.
Over the course of the last year, Underworld have been publishing new material every week as a part of their ambitious DRIFT series.
DRIFT Series 1 is out next Friday, 1st November 2019 – a collection of new material released as a box set/LP/CD/DL and on streaming services. The box set features 7 CDs, a Blu-ray and an eighty-page full-colour book.
From playing a sold-out Forbidden Fruit in 2016 to then headlining the debut year of All Together Now in 2018, this marks Underworld’s return to Dublin in 2020 to headline what will be a very special 10th anniversary for the festival!
Tickets for the festival are now on sale.
