Forbidden Fruit festival review: Lorde magnificent for Irish debut at Kilmainham
Lorde performing at the Forbidden Fruit Festival at the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham, Dublin. Picture: Kieran Frost/Redferns
In the video to her 2021 single Solar Power, Ella Yelich-O’Connor – aka New Zealand pop goddess Lorde – celebrates the sublime joy of a heatwave by dancing on a tropical beach. Those conditions were not quite recreated on the second day of Forbidden Fruit festival, which unfolded at Royal Hospital Kilmainham against a backdrop of brooding clouds and where rained on and off (mostly on) throughout the afternoon.
But Lorde was determined to bring the sunshine and by the end of her first ever Irish performance the swirling weather was vanquished, a sell-out crowd basking in imaginary rays.
