Irish Daily Mirror

SEA SESSIONS LINE-UP STARTS TO MAKE WAVES

- BY KATIE GALLAGHER

Sea Sessions festival WILD Youth and Jax Jones have been added to this year’s Sea Sessions line-up.

Organisers revealed yesterday The Magician, Boots And Kats, Inhaler and Sugarhill Gang with Grandmaste­r Melle and Scorpio will also be performing at the beach festival this summer.

Viral comedians The 2 Johnnies – who are currently embarking on their “Get Loose” tour around the country – will also be on stage.

The new additions join Norwegian breakout star Sigrid, Clean Bandit and Two Door Cinema Club who were previously announced as headliners at the music event in Bundoran, Co Donegal.

Le Boom, Hermitage Green, DJ Hype, Columbia Mills and Montauk Hotel were also confirmed across the weekend.

Festival director Ray O’donoghue said: “We’re delighted to have booked such a strong bunch of acts and we’ve a couple of surprises still up our sleeves.

“Sigrid is a bonafide pop star in the making, Clean Bandit have a bunch of huge hits and we’re big fans

Cinema Club.

“Last year was unbelievab­le and probably the best Sea Sessions yet, we’re hoping we can go one better again for 2019. Bring on the summer.

“We’re delighted with this year’s line-up and with our new additions.

“We think it is by far our strongest line-up yet.

“We’ve sold out the last of Two Door four years so we expect this year to be no different.”

The festival, which kicked off in 2008 as an after party for a surfing competitio­n, now hosts a weekend of music and surfing as well as the world’s top skateboard­ers and Bmxers. This year it is taking place from June 21 to 23.

Early Bird tickets have been already snapped up but general tickets are on sale now via Ticketmast­er.ie and Seasession­s.com.

Tickets are priced from €119.90 for three days and €149.90 to include four nights camping. There are limited single-day tickets available from €54.90 + VIP upgrades for €50. HOT STARS Sigrid, Jax Jones, Wild Cut, Clean Bandit will perform in Donegal in June

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