New Dublin one-day festival In The Meadows announces Lankum headliner

From the people behind iconic Irish festivals All Together Now and Forbidden Fruit Festival, the inaugural edition of the one-day festival In The Meadows will be held this summer right in the heart of Dublin.

Held across two stages at The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, the event will take place on Saturday, June 8th, 2024. The event is strictly for those over 18, and gates will open at 3 pm.

Tickets for the event start at €59.35 including booking fee and will go on general sale on Wednesday, December 13th at 9am via Ticketmaster Ireland, with a promoter pre-sale on sale from 9 am December 12th.

Headlining the event will be folk heroes Lankum, playing their only Dublin show for 2024 on the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Other acts include Mogwai, Black Country, New Road, John Francis Flynn and This is the Kit, with more to be announced in time.

Royal Hospital Kilmainham grounds has been host to some of the biggest acts in the world, including Leonard Cohen, Bon Iver, Blur, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Patti Smith, and The War On Drugs. It has also been the home of Forbidden Fruit Festival for the last 12 years, and just this year has seen Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and the Grammy-Award nominated indie supergroup boygenius on its grounds.