Music
21 Jun 17

Your essential information for Body & Soul 2017

Body & Soul is just around the corner. Ireland's most unique weekend music festival kicks off this Friday, in beautiful Ballinlough. The Making the trip down to Westmeath for this three day flight of fancy is no simple task however, but to help us, Body & Soul have give t some helpful tips and info, which should let you get the most out of your weekend.

GETTING THERE

There is a dedicated Body & Soul bus leaving from the Custom House Quay. The buses depart at 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 14:30, 15:00, 15:30, 18:30 and 19:00 on Friday, and 11:00 on both Saturday and Sunday. Tickets can be purchased on the festival website.

Alternatively, you can organise a car-pool. This year Body & Soul have partnered with GoCarShare to organise lifts to and from the festival, you can register yourself and either offer a lift or request one through their website. This way you'll hopefully arrive at the festival with some sound new mates!

GET THE MUDDY APP

There is such a variety of acts, activities and experiences to take in at Body&Soul it can be no small feat keeping on top of what's going on and where!

Thankfully, the festival's official app MUDDY is here to make sure that the days of missing one of your favourite acts are a thing of the past. Download Muddy now and begin planning your perfect Body&Soul weekend! It also has a song recognition feature, so if you stumble across some crazy new act, you'll be able to find out who they are.

ALCOHOL POLICY

The most important question of all! While you are allowed to bring a certain amount of lovely drink, there are limits. You will be unable to nip out to Mullingar for a top up either, as once you're wristbanded, you cannot bring in any drink. Don't forget to decant any spirits and wine into plastic bottles before you arrive as there are no glass containers permitted at Body&Soul.

EACH INDIVIDUAL IS PERMITTED:

24 X 500 ml cans of beer, cider or ready mix drinks
Or
1 X 750ml bottle of spirits
Or
3 bottles of wine (decanted into a plastic bottle) / or 1 x 2 litre wine box

NOTE: No alcohol permitted on Sunday day passes.

This applies to all ticket holders, performers and event staff.
You will be checked at point of wrist-banding.
Absolutely no re-entry with alcohol once wrist-banded.
Sunday ticket holders are not permitted to bring any alcohol – it will be confiscated at point of wrist-banding.

There will of course be alcohol for sale at the festival. You can even return your plastic pint glasses for 20c per glass, therefore both helping the environment and contributing to your next pint!

DRESS FOR SUCCESS

Make sure you have clothes suitable for both extremes of weather. Bring a raincoat, wellies and a warm jumper as well as a sun hat and sunscreen. Essentially, be prepared for the best and the worst weather over the weekend. And always bring spare socks!

And for Hot Press' most important tip of the weekend........ make sure you catch King Kong Company at 1am at the Midnight Circus stage. You won't want to miss it.