Belfast Vital

Tennents ViTal is music festival originally held in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The festival was first held in 2002, and takes place in August each year. In 2007 the venue changed to Ormeau Park.

As with T in the Park in Scotland, the festival is sponsored by Tennents. Originally a one day weekend event, the festival now takes place over three midweek days.

Lineups

2009

Kings of Leon and Muse have both been rumoured to be headling the festival in 2009, but neither of the two has confirmed this on their websites.

2008

On June 27th organisers announced that the 2008 festival was cancelled due to difficulties securing high-calibre acts.. It was also confirmed that the Kings of Leon were already booked to play, but there was difficulty securing more headline acts.

2007

• Razorlight
• Manic Street Preachers
• The View
• The Hold Steady
• Oppenheimer
• Justice
• Alloy Mental
• I Was A Cub Scout
• Black Alley Screens
• General Fiasco
• Steer Clear
• Nice 'n' Sleezy
• The Killers
• Kasabian
• Mark Ronson
• The Shins
• Albert Hammond, Jr.
• The Holloways
• Kharma 45

2006

• Snow Patrol
• Kaiser Chiefs
• The Raconteurs
• ¡Forward, Russia!
• Be your own PET
• Duke Special
• Ed Harcourt
• Editors
• Mumm-Ra
• The Pigeon Detectives
• Iain Archer
• Oceansize
• Republic Of Loose
• The Crimea
• Panda Kopanda
• The Dangerfields
• The View
• The Tides

2005

• Kings Of Leon
• Faithless
• Franz Ferdinand
• Maroon 5
• Scissor Sisters
• Jem
• The Coral
• The Futureheads
• Driving By Night
• The Cribs
• The Brakes
• Dutch Schultz
• Alloy Mental
• Leya

2004

• The White Stripes
• The Darkness
• Ash
• New York Dolls
• Jurassic 5
• Peaches
• Goldie Lookin Chain
• The Answer
• Acidtone
• Blanche

2003

• Zero 7
• The Streets
• Roger Sanchez
• Death in Vegas
• Richard Fearless
• Roots Manuva
• Nightmares On Wax
• Jon Carter

2002

• Primal Scream
• Badly Drawn Boy
• Idlewild
• Snow Patrol
• Gemma Hayes
• Fatboy Slim
• Stereo MC's
• Pacha Futura