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Festival frenzy – ATL Summer Live
Across The Line presenter Rigsy is putting on his wellies and pitching the ATL gazebo at some of the biggest and best music festivals in the land to provide ´óÏó´«Ã½ Northern Ireland viewers with the ultimate soundtrack to the summer.
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The new four-part series ATL Summer Live is bringing this summer's festival frenzy to the small screen as Rigsy gains access all areas to Oxegen at the Punchestown Racecourse, Co Kildare; Glasgowbury in Draperstown, Co Londonderry; and Belsonic at Custom House Square, Belfast.
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Rigsy will be catching up with the biggest and best acts, reliving some of the most blistering
performances and speaking to the festival-goers.
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He says: "Every year ATL is at the festivals, bringing live music and behind the scenes
banter, but now we're totally delighted to bring the TV cameras along to capture the biggest live music events in Northern Ireland and beyond.
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"The biggest names in rock and the best new talent from home will be rubbing shoulders on stage from Oxegen to Glasgowbury.
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"Pimp your wellies, dust off your poncho and join us front and centre somewhere in a field this summer."
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ATL Summer Live kicks off on Thursday 7 August at 9pm on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two Northern Ireland with an hour-long special looking at the highlights of year's Oxegen Festival, including live music from Kings of Leon, The Ting Tings, The Prodigy, Black Kids, Vampire Weekend and Fight Like Apes, among others.
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Rigsy says: "Oxegen boasted, without doubt, the best Irish festival line-up of all time and also featured a strange yellow spherical object in the sky which experts identified as 'the Sun'.
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"This hour-long special will have fantastic live music, backstage chats, field reports and craic.
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"We talk to The Prodigy, capture Kings of Leon's headline set and bring you some of the biggest buzz performances from Ireland's finest musical weekend."
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The following week, on Thursday 14 August, ATL Summer Live will turn its attention
to the Glasgowbury festival in Draperstown, featuring live music and chat from headliners
Ash and other acts, including Fighting With Wire.
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The show will also boast a feature on the
north west's Celtronic festival, a week-long celebration of electronica featuring live
music from local acts such as Alloy Mental and Japanese Popstars. Ìý
And in the final two programmes, on Thursday 21 August and Thursday 28 August, ATL Summer Live will be reliving all the magic from Belfast's Belsonic festival with exclusive coverage of the three-day event from Custom House Square.
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Acts performing at Belsonic include The Flaming Lips, The Zutons, The Enemy, The Mystery Jets, Mogwai, The Go! Team, Oppenheimer, Jape and Reverend And The Makers. Ìý
So whether music fans want to relive the festival frivolities of the summer or check out what they missed, they can catch all the music and madness on Thursday nights on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two NI with ATL Summer Live.
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And, of course, the ever-reliable ATL team will also be providing festival news, reviews and highlights over the summer on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Ulster every Monday night at 7.30pm
and online at bbc.co.uk/atl.
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Notes to Editors
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The above information is correct at the time of going to press. Live events may be subject to change outside of ´óÏó´«Ã½ÌýNorthern Ireland's control.
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JM4
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