REVIEW: Townlands Festival

Macroom, Co Cork

Watching self-professed “46-year-old black man from Brooklyn,” Jeru The Damaja being taught to chant “Ooh, ah, up the ‘Ra” by a small but devotedly rowdy crowd of Macroom lads at the main stage at Townlands Carnival pretty much sums up the festival, really: slightly haphazard, possibly a little deranged, but very good fun.

“I wonder what that actually means,” the rapper broke off, to much hilarity.