Live Report: Obskür deliver beaming closing set at the Longitude Heineken Stage

It's no easy feat to be the closer act at the Longitude Heineken Stage, clashing with superstar Doja Cat over on the Main Stage. And yet, with Dublin duo Obskür on the turntables yesterday, the place was still packed full of dedicated fans, ready for one last dance.

After a full weekend of spirited festivities, you would have expected the crowd to have tired itself out - but you'd need more than lack of sleep to stop the Longitude audience from enjoying every second of this weekend long party.

Although there can be no dancing without appropriately infectious beats - and if Faustas Astrauskas (Fausto) and Lorcan McCarthy from Obskür know how to do one thing, it's to send a festival ablaze.

Obskür at Longitude 2024. Copyright Miguel Ruiz.

Entering the Heineken Stage tent at 9pm felt like entering a sonic vault, your eardrums and chest vibrating with every hard-hitting beats that the boys played.

With a sound so dazzling, there was no need for any flourishes or heavy visuals, the screen only occasionally lighting up with psychedelic visuals or shiny, bold letters that read "Obskür forever".

Obskür at Longitude 2024. Copyright Miguel Ruiz.

Obskür is a unique duo within the Irish dance music scene. The depth of their bass, the heaviness of their beats are contagious, gripping, unmistakably inspired by more hardcore techno sounds that mix themselves perfectly with more classic house music remixes. The result is an array of club tunes that you can't help but feel transported by.

It's that palpable energy, all roaring basslines and relentless beats, that managed to turn the Heineken stage into a full-blown late night club - aided, of course, by maniacal flashing lights and bright stobostopes.

The boys' chemisty is nothing that needs to be proven anymore - the two of them have been friends for 10 years, and that proximity bled into every parts of the show, Fausto and McCarthy sharing full smiles as the crowd roared with excitement, a twinkle of incredulity in their eyes as they seemed to realise, perhaps for the millionth time, that they truly made it.

Obskür at Longitude 2024. Copyright Miguel Ruiz.

The Longitude stage is only a hometown stop in the series of gigs that will take Obskür to some of the world's party capitals this summer, with stops in Malta, Croatia and the US - and even an Ibiza residency.

If there is one takeaway from this particular show, it's that this success in infinitely deserved - as proven by the glorious end to a rousing festival weekend that the lads offered the Longitude Heineken Stage.