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Aoife Moriarty

Brand new LGBT music festival comes to Kilmainham this August

A brand new music festival is coming to Dublin this summer.

LOVE SENSATION will take place at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on August 17 and 18.

Created by the team behind Mother, the new festival is aimed at the LGBT+ community and their allies.

Lily Allen and Clean Bandit will headline the festival’s inaugural line up. There will also be performances by a host of other acts, including Gossip, Kelis, Horse Meat Disco, Andy Butler (Hercules & Love Affair), Kelly-Anne Byrne, Soulé and Daithí.

The festival organisers promise "tons of surprises from The George stage, a Mother Dance Tent you won’t want to leave" plus a host of RuPaul’s Drag Race stars including Monet X Change, Naomi Smalls, Jujubee, Laganja Estranja and Sonique.

Promoter and founder of Mother, Cormac Cashman, said: “Love Sensation feels like a natural progression for us. We’ve wanted to run a music festival for years, something that caters to our community and focuses on inclusivity, fun, good music, good times and sound people. We’ve been lucky enough to have amazing success with our Pride Block Party, now in its ninth year, so 2019 feels right for us to grow even bigger and launch our very own music festival!”

Further line up details will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets go on sale Friday 29 March at 9am. Super Early Bird tickets cost €96.25 including booking fees.

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