2022-08-28 The Playing Fields Festival

2022-08-28 The Playing Fields Festival - Clane GAA

It's been 3 years since The Playing Fields Festival last happened, and we all know why that is. It begins with a 'P' and ends with 'andemic'.

Thankfully, TPFF (as we shall refer to it from here on in) returned this year with a great lineup of Irish music.

Look, I could go on and on about who played what, who was my favourite, what the craic was like and so on, but I won't. What I will say is that TPFF is a fantastic 2 day festival run by a great team in Clane, who obviously love their Irish music.

I did, however, manage to miss one act. Whilst Xona was on stage, I was at the back of the arena, by the time I got up to the stage, their set had finished! So yeah, sorry about that Xona.

I took a lot of photos, and I mean a lot! I'm not going to post over 100 shots here though, you'd be scrolling for weeks. However, if you'd like to view them all, pop over to my Instagram.

So, photos from Day 1 in no particular order:

HamsandwicH

Jerry Fish

Qween

Hermitage Green

HamsandwicH

Kovanta

Jerry Fish

Ragerra

Oski Bravo

Hermitage Green

Qween

And now for Day 2:

Tebi Rex

N.O.A.H

Lea Heart

Abbaesque

Chasing Abbey

Lea Heart

Bradley Marshall

N.O.A.H

Bradley Marshall

Tebi Rex

And that's The Playing Fields Festival done and dusted for another year. Roll on TPFF '23!

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