Tinie Tempah, CMAT and Alan Fitzpatrick will headline this year’s Trinity Ball, Trinity Ents announced this evening.
The lineup for this year’s Ball was announced tonight at a sold-out event in Workman’s nightclub.
The lineup also includes Irish rapper Biig Piig, electronic duet Prospa, DJ Seinfeld, Obskur and Kilkenny-based electronic duo 49th & Main.
Plantain Papi and Just Wondering will also play the Ball, as will DUDJ, the Trinity orchestra and Luke O’Neill’s Metabolix group.
The Ball, one of the biggest events of the Trinity calendar, is taking place on Friday, April 22nd and tickets will go on sale this Wednesday. For the first time, tickets will be sold exclusively online – ending a long tradition of students queuing outside House Six to purchase them. Tickets for the ball were priced again at €91, after they increased from €87 in 2019.
Each student and faculty member will be allowed to purchase a maximum of two tickets each.
Tinie Tempah is a British rapper best known for singles such as “Pass Out” and “Written in the Stars”. He’s collaborated with a range of artists spanning multiple genres, including Ellie Goulding on “Wonderman” and “Miami 2 Ibiza” with Swedish House Mafia. He played Trinity Ball in 2010.
CMAT, or Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, is a Dublin singer-songwriter who has risen to prominence in Ireland and beyond over the past year. Her debut album, If My Wife Knew I’d Be Dead was released earlier this month.
Southampton-born Alan Fitzpatrick is “one of the most popular techno DJs in the world”, according to his Spotify page, with over 650,000 streams of his raw, hard-edged sounds on Spotify.
Metabolix is fronted by Trinity’s own Prof Luke O’Neill. The band describes itself as on “a mission to prove rock, pop and funk are the best medicine”.
The University Times revealed last week that musicians Malaki and Gracey would be included in the lineup for this year’s Trinity Ball. Ents Officer Greg Arrowsmith told this newspaper in an email: “Gracey’s style of pop is making real waves, garnering her a large monthly followership with lots more to come.”
“Meanwhile Malaki, who is produced by and performs with final-year Trinity student Matthew Harris (aka Chameleon), is a rising force in Ireland’s rap and spoken word scene. His performances last year at the online Trinity Festival were eye-catching, and he has emerged from a lockdown in which he released the ‘Chrysalis EP’ with a sold-out Irish tour. His unique style and intense energy on stage make him one that’s not to be missed at this year’s Trinity Ball.”
The lineup was widely circulated on social media today but Arrowsmith declined to confirm to this newspaper whether it was the real list of acts. Leaks of the lineup are a near-tradition ahead of the Ball – Tinie Tempah’s headlining the 2020 Ball was leaked ahead of time when Rejjie Snow, who was also performing that year, posted the lineup on Facebook.
Snow posted a photo of the Trinity Ball lineup – which contained already-announced acts Franc Moody and DJ Seinfeld – hours before the announcement was due to take place.
