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Fleadh Festival Cancelled
afuture1 by Andrew Future June 5th, 2003
Don’t all cry at once but there'll be no London Fleadh Festival this year.

The annual celebration of Irish tinged music from around the world has recently been held in Finsbury Park around the same time as other events taking place there. However, it has been cancelled this year because the organisers claim ‘they could not find a suitable headliner’.

What’s wrong with The Darkness? They’re playing everything else!

The real reason for the cancellation, is that it’s being sold off due to its unprofitability.

2001’s Fleadh famously saw a ruck develop between Ash and Starsailor before Neil Young played a three hour set in front of a field full of muddy, drenched alcoholics with their daddy’s eyes.

DIScuss: the most inventive way to murder Starsailor...



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