Given that entertainment.ie is your home for everything summer festival related in Ireland this year, we thought it only fitting to show some love to our newest ticketing partners and keep music fans clued in when it comes to this year's festival options.
There is a frankly massive range of options open to you when considering where to spend your hard-earned shekels this summer. No longer are we limited just to the veteran festivals like Electric Picnic and Oxegen, there is quite literally something out there for every taste and budget imaginable and below are just a few of the options you have at your disposal.
10 Days in Dublin
Ireland's only open format festival, 10 Days in Dublin is exactly what you think it might be - a multidisciplinary festival featuring all manner of artistic endeavours across a range of different performance spaces and venues.
More info: 10daysindublin.ie
Sea Sessions
Ireland's only surf n' music festival, Sea Sessions is gaining steam and has become one of the centrepieces of Ireland's summer festival calendar. This year's edition will feature headline performances from Bastille, Xavier Rudd, Fat Freddy's Drop, The Strypes and Le Galaxie.
More info: SeaSessions.com | entertainment.ie/tickets
Helium Festival
Helium Festival has this year assembled its finest line-up yet, with The Stunning, Mick Flannery, Fight Like Apes, Kila and Wallis Bird all confirmed to appear at the one-day festival in Co Longford. As always, all proceeds from Helium will go to the very good cause of Ataxia Ireland.
More info: HeliumFestival.com | entertainment.ie/tickets
YouBloom
Designed to help in the unearthing of talent from home and abroad, youbloom@Dublin will see 100+ performances across our capital city, curated by some of Ireland's most influential tastemakers.
More info/tickets: entertainment.ie/tickets
Valentia Isle
A festival of music, magic and mingling! Located on island off the coast of Kerry, the festival have yet to announce their 2013 line-up but if last year's is anything to go by it should be pretty special.
More info: Valentia Isle Facebook
Big House Festival
International theatre, musical adventures, visual feasts, art, dance - the Big House Festival will have it all this year. Taking place at Ireland's only true palace, Castletown House in Co. Kildare, Big House will open its doors on the August Bank Holiday weekend providing an oasis of entertainment for all those in attendance.
More info: ThePerformanceCorporation.com
Don't forget that you have until the last week of May to enter out Golden Ticket summer festival competition, where you can win a pair of passes to five or Ireland's best festivals this summer. Surf on over here to enter!