Longitude Welcomes Back The Dirty Old Town Speakeasy Stage

We're only two weeks away until the gates of Longitude are unlatched and swung open for the public. To add a cherry on top of our excitement, the Dirty Old Town Speakeasy stage and Comedy Caravan stage acts have been revealed.

Describing itself as the eccentric aunt of the festival, the Speakeasy welcomes all the most outré, quirky and extraordinary characters to its flamboyant, colour-filled tented pavilion.

The zany area consists of one part cirque de musique, one part kooky cultural brothel. It shines on the periphery of the Marley Park festival offering stupendous musical treats, felicitous theatrical displays and the chance to break into uncontainable laughter.

From the melodic songstress' Leila Jane, Eileen Gogan, Emma Lou and Lola Bailey to the Jamaican ska influenced funksters Interskalatic, the Dirty Old Town Speakeasy harbours every imaginable musical concoction from the minute the gates open until someone has to forcibly pull out the mic cord from the socket.

Whether it's the infectious West African rhythms of Manden Express, or the thought provoking hip-hop of Lethal Dialect and gritty emcee Costello, or the New Orleans style urban brass ensemble Stomptown Brass - who return to clog up the instrument room, or the disco-tastic frenzy of Le Freak and Attention Bebe, it is where those in need of rejuvenation go.

Resident beatbox champions Kamil and Amaron, chortle unimaginable surprises and be on the look-out for plenty of surprise guests to add a dash of pizzazz. And if that wasn't enough, right beside the Speakeasy, huddled into a 1960s caravan, are 34 comedians, ready to unleash a torrent of belly clasping stories and one-liners.

The Dirty Old Town Speakeasy line-up:

Interskalactic, Lethal Dialect, Third Smoke, Old Hannah, Emma Lou & The Agenda, Eileen Gogan & The Instructions, Costello, Le Freak, Dave Thomas, Zaska, Loah Bailey, Maiden Express, Stomptown Brass, The Luna Boys, Leila Jane & The Healers, Attention Bebe, CC Brez, Harbouring Oceans, Kamil Fedorko, Amaron, Spud Gun, Brownbread Mixtape, Paddy Dennehy.

Comedy Caravan line-up:

Andrew Stanley, Emman Edama, Alison Spittle, Jim Elliot, Ronan Grace, Dave Reilly, Danny Ryan, Trevor Browne, Martin Angolo, Emma Doran, Niamh Marron, Luara Byrne, Peter Flanagan, Keith Fox, Paul Marsh, Ger Staunton, Andrea Farrell, Aidan Green, Bernard Casey, Steve Bennett, Niall Farrell, Stephen Ryan, Teresa Coyne, DJ Atkinson, Billy Anderson, Gary Doyle, Lisa Keegan, Cian McGarrigle, Ashlee Bentley, Duane.