Galway Arts Festival, in association with POD Concerts, announces 2 brand-new dates Live at The Festival Big Top adding some hot talent to the bill of boutique events at the Fisheries Field this July. 

Galway Arts Festival Big Top will host Primal Scream, Spiritualized and DJ David Holmes in a sensational triple -bill on July 24, Nigerian legend Femi Kuti, the standard bearer for Nigeria's funky, feisty afrobeat sound will also play Live at the Festival Big Top on July 22.

Galway Arts Festival takes place from 13th -26th July and has already announced Festival highlights - Bon Iver, David Gray, David Kitt, The Kronos Quartet and British superstar David Hockney as part of the visual arts programme. Galway Arts Festival 2009 is set to be the ultimate summer getaway for the festival chic set with a line-up Live at the Festival Big Top that sparkles with sensational musical talent. Galway Arts Festival will up the festival fun factor, featuring an inspiring mix of the very best in alternative culture with an eclectic blend of stompingly good tunes from rising stars, established favourites and surprise collaborations.

Primal Scream has inspired a generation of fans. Winners of the first ever Mercury Music Prize for 1991’s Screamadelica, they changed the face of British pop music with their fusion of dance, dub, techno, acid house and rock. The band set the tone for a musical style that would define the 80s and 90s with a succession of hit songs including Movin on Up, Loaded and Gets Your Rocks Off. Always teetering on the brink, always dangerous, Primal Scream retains the ability to shock and delight.

Twelve years ago, Spiritualized set the world alight with their stunning album Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, a space-rock odyssey of epic soundscapes, Afro-American gospel and blues. Since then writer, composer, singer and only constant member of the band, Jason Pierce, has continued to push the boundaries of experimental music incorporating shoe- gazing styles with blues, soul and gospel. Inspired by a serious illness in 2005, main man Pierce created the recently-released Songs in A&E (2008),
One of his most gorgeous albums yet.” NME 

Belfast born DJ maestro David Holmes will complete this anticipated triple bill. His new album Holy Pictures was release to critical acclaim last year and he has spent the last year in an eclectic series of exciting new ventures and collaborations in music and film. He created the score for Hunger, the debut feature film from Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen that was awarded the prestigious Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. As remixer he has reworked tracks by U2, Doves, The Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream, Page and Plant, and Ice Cube. He has a creative relationship with Stephen Soderbergh and has worked on Out of Sight, Oceans Eleven and Oceans Twelve.