Orbital to play AVA Belfast 2020, new outdoor site announced

AVA Belfast will return the end of May, bringing a free conference at the Mac, an arts exhibition, installations and a new outdoor ticketed multi-stage festival site at Boucher Road Fields.

The remodelled site will be newly designed by the AVA team, offering a headline ready main stage, whilst incorporating the raw, industrial intimate stage experiences with lighting and visual art and the iconic Belfast Boiler Room and Red Bull Stage. The festival will showcase the very best that electronic music and Irish visual art has to offer and inviting pioneers of the scene to play alongside the freshest breakthrough talent to the legendary Irish crowd.

Now marking its sixth year, AVA has received a plethora of industry accolades. It was recently crowned as one of UK's top ten festivals by the Guardian and among the Evening Standard's top 20 dance music festivals. The festival's dedicated team are pulling out all the tops for 2020 with stand-out production and unmatched programming.

Homegrown hero Max Cooper will kick off the event with an electrifying opening live show before two days of carefully curated electronic music. Sitting proud at the top of the bill, seminal producer and DJ Laurent Gariner makes a long awaited return to Belfast after a seven-year hiatus for a headline show sure to become a 2020 highlight. Joining him at the top of the bill in Belfast and heading up the London event, are the iconic and pioneering act, Orbital. The Belfast fan favourites return to town after headlining the BBC Big Weekend, this time showcasing their critically acclaimed live show for the Irish crowd.

Denis Sulta also takes a headline slot, the multi genre wonderkid has experienced a seismic rise to notoriety and makes a welcome addition to the Belfast line up with a back to back session alongside Mella Dee, this show - a first for Ireland - and is among the event’s most hotly anticipated performances and is not to be missed. Techno queen Helena Hauff also joins the first wave of headliners, with the Berlin based selector always bringing the perfect blend of stylised beats and big underground vibes to every show. Rounding off the first wave of headline acts, multi discipline musical genius Fatima Yamaha returns to AVA after a legendary live show at 2017’s event.

General admission tickets go on sale at 11am on Thursday, Feburary 6.