All Together Now 2024 highs and lows: Barry Can’t Swim ends up bowled over, a Glastonbury bad habit creeps in

Ed Power - The Irish Times - 05/08
From Natasha Bedingfield in the Saturday sun and a smoking-belching dragon to headliner confusion and annoying festivalgoers

All Together Now (ATN) returned to the Curraghmore estate this bank holiday weekend, with 27,000 people flocking to Co Waterford for three days of music, culture and good craic. Here are some of the highs and lows of this year’s event.

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Jessie Callaghan from Mayo and Miriam Verdon from Wicklow at All Together Now Festival. Photograph: Gareth Chaney

Welcoming vibes

It was hard to feel out of place at Curraghmore this year. The festival doesn’t have a type. Attendees young, old and somewhere in the middle mingled with good cheer. Festivals are often aimed at a specific demographic, but ATN felt it was for everyone.

A line-up with something for everybody

ATN had all bases covered this year, from the stomping retro rave of The Prodigy to the thinking person’s doom pop that is the forte of Saturday headliners The National. In between there was lots of alternative rock (Slowdive), gothic folk (Øxn) and chin-stroking electronica (Kiasmos). Mad for it, sad for it or trad for it, ATN hit the spot.

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