Over Coachella? Four Irish festivals to get to for substance over style

With America's Coachella weekenders getting it in the neck for losing their edge amid the arrival of a wider audience, here are four festivals closer to home that put the tunes first

All Together Now: this year's edition of the festival features a hugely expanded offering. Picture: Aerial.ie

The modern-day weekend outdoor festival has been a thing for decades now, and in Ireland has grown from its roots in the Mountain Dew Festival, a major outdoor gig in Macroom for blues legend Rory Gallagher, to a bustling array of events for a wide variety of tastes, genres and audiences.

Recent social-media patter from the States suggests that the two-weekend-long spectacle of the industry-leading Coachella festival, in the Colorado Desert in Indio, California, has finally lost its appeal.