AVA's 2024 Boiler Room line-up revealed

Tickets on sale now!

Published 22nd Mar 2024
Last updated 22nd Mar 2024

Celebrating 10 years of AVA Belfast, this year's dance/trance festival continues to shine with another EPIC lineup including a selection of AVA friends and family over the past decade.

📍31st May - 1st June 2024

🗓️ Titanic Slipways, Belfast

A message from AVA explains: "For a decade now, the high-energy Belfast crowd has served as the backdrop for kickstarting the careers of many iconic artists. Now it’s time for Boiler Room to return to “their favourite place” once again.

"We’ve joined forces once again for 10 years of Boiler Room at AVA. Expect some seriously exciting debuts alongside some of the most respected international names in electronic music and the return of some AVA festival favourites, this June."

This year's Boiler Room includes...KI/KI, Special Request b2b Anz, DJ Boring b2b salute, Narciss, Nick Leon, Sam Alfred, Juicy Romance, Space Dimension Controller, Aika Mal and Sloucho Live.

World-class duo BICEP will deliver their experimental CHROMA A/V set, a visionary performance that is part DJ set, part live show, accompanied by lights and visuals designed by David Rudnick that will stun the crowd.

BICEP have been a part of AVA since day dot, so this will prove to be a very special show from them. Also on board is junglist producer x vocalist Nia Archives, who has been heading up the jungle revival in past years with her stellar productions and live performances.

House king, techno pioneer and all-round innovator Kerri Chandler is set to touch down, bringing a blend of classic grooves and bangers to alight the spirits of the AVA crowd.

Barry Can’t Swim makes his AVA debut, bringing warm, uplifting and bold house sounds to beautiful Belfast on the back of his mercurial trajectory and sold out tour.

Packing in harder sonics, Helena Hauff will return to AVA for the third time with industrial techno that sits perfectly in the shipyard setting.

Making their AVA debut, masked artist and viral sensation HORSEGIIRL will deliver a set flying from hard-dance to heavy techno, whilst UKG, bassline and grime fans can look forward to highly anticipated debuts from Sammy Virji, Flowdan and Neffa T.

Making their debut versus session Bogota’s Bitter Babe and London-based Melbournite Surusinghe will be heating things up at the titanic slipways – these two powerhouses are among the biggest breakthrough artists of 2023. For fans of faster sounds, MCR-T will bring a multidimensional set led by trap and ghetto house, whilst DJ Gigola and TraTraTrax affiliate Nick Léon will bring trance, breaks and Latin-infused electronica to Belfast.

With more names to be announced soon!

A statement from the team at AVA Festival reads: “At the heart of their programme for 2024, will be Irish talent ranging from headliners BICEP to celebrated MC EMBY, breaks master Kessler, and hometown heroes Timmy Stewart, Marion Hawkes, Cromby, Holly Lester, Jordan Nocturne, Reger, Inside Moves and so many more.

"Many of these names have grown with AVA across the past 10 years, being part of the festival's ongoing dedication to nurturing talent both on stage and behind the scenes."

How to get tickets for AVA Belfast 2024:

Tickets for AVA’s mighty 10th birthday are on sale now from avafestival.com/belfast

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