Safe Harbour review: Opening ritual gives a bit of pagan rave and a masked Cillian Murphy
Opening ritual at Elizabeth Fort for Sounds from a Harbour. Picture: Bríd O’Donovan
Everybody who entered the sold-out Elizabeth Fort for the Opening Ritual of Sounds From A Safe Harbour on Thursday night was given a green wristband and a handful of magic mushrooms. Ok, the fungal gift is an exaggeration, but in truth it mightn’t have been out of place at the first night of the biennial Cork festival.
The brainchild of folklorist Billy Mag Fhloinn felt a bit like Clannad had been spiked by the Rubberbandits and run off to join Spiral Tribe.
