Win tickets to Body & Soul Festival 2012

Would you like to come to the Body & Soul Festival at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath this weekend? Thanks to Havana Club I have tickets for you to win.

The last music festival I was at was Wittness in 2000. I’m heading to Body & Soul, the third year of the event this weekend with high hopes and no small degree of expectation given its reputation. I’ve had to be persuaded to go but still, photos like these make it look kinda cool.

The competition, thanks to Havana Club and Casa Habana:

Havana Club, the only authentic Cuban rum in Ireland is proud to present Casa Habana, a lively, unique and intrinsic element of the 2012 Body & Soul festival experience.

An independent festival with a heart-shaped mind and a cutting-edge soul, Body & Soul once again plays host to Havana Club’s blend of hot Latin vibes and hand-crafted Cuban cocktails.

Featuring live sets and workshops from a host of renowned DJs and performers, Casa Habana is situated within the spirited corner of the Walled Gardens. While enjoying your Havana Club cocktail in the atmospheric setting, you will be transported to Cuba by the authentic tastes, sights and sounds.

With artists including Ashley Beedle, Groovalizacion, Billy Scurry, Timmy Stewart and Disconauts, Casa Habana offers Body & Soul visitors an eclectic and exciting mix of heavy beats and laid back Latin rhythms, with a veritable splash of Cuban jazz thrown in for good measure.

Entry to Casa Habana is free of charge for all Body & Soul festival goers. For more information visit Havana Club Ireland on Facebook here.

Thanks to Casa Habana from Havana Club I have a pair of festival tickets up for grabs. Just leave a comment below. The winner will be picked and emailed on Thursday.

There are also competition tickets up for grabs over on Facebook.

Thanks to Ian at Conway Communications for offering and arranging the competition.

228 Responses to Win tickets to Body & Soul Festival 2012

  1. Comment!

    • Karina on said:

      WE LOVE YOU BODY AND SOUL!
      xx

    • I would love to get down to the festival,, please help!!!

    • Eimear on said:

      Yes please!

    • joanne on said:

      HI,
      i’d love love love to win the tickets for body and soul because i’ve never been before and all my friends go on and on about how amazing it is as they have been at the last 2 festivals, they all say its ”’the best” small festival just like a mini electric picnic , so rain or shine i would love to go and have a great weekend with my friends who are going and also i can celebrate my birthday too while im at it!!
      xx
      J

    • joanne on said:

      i want this year to be my first body and soul year as it looks amazing the line up is unreal , wanna wanna wanna GO
      pretty please

  2. Michelle O'Brien on said:

    Yes pls! wud luv 2 go.

  3. Conor Berkeley on said:

    Throw us in the hat please!

  4. Hello, could I have a pair of free tickets please? And thank you :)

    Dan

  5. pick me! pick me! I love Body&Soul !:)

  6. Clare Aherne on said:

    I REALLY WANT TO GO TO BODY AND SOUL FESTIVAL 2012! :-)

  7. Would loooooooove to go to this!!

  8. frank hughes on said:

    Would be thrilled to go if i won!

  9. Ooh! I would love to win tickets to the Body & Soul Festival! Thanks Yay and Casa Habana!

  10. Pick me, pick me, pick me!
    Please.

  11. if i don’t win a ticket i’ll have to sneak in to see some of the bands, and we can’t be having that!

  12. Conor O'Nolan on said:

    I’d absolutely love to go! The joys of being a broke student mean I cant go see M83 >_<

  13. Hey, would love to go. Looks magical.

  14. ticket get!
    yay!

  15. Mimi Rouge on said:

    Hello – I have prayed to the competition gods to win tickets to Body & Soul, I really hope my prayers are answered or I shall be faithless!

  16. Throw my anim in the fez please Darragh, B&S is my favourite festival of the year bar none x

  17. Deadly Prize! Would love to go!

  18. I’d really love the chance to go!

  19. Roisin Clear on said:

    Body and Soul tickets please!

  20. Please pop me in zee hat!

  21. Brian Hayes on said:

    Hook a brother up please! ‘Twould be awesome! Cheers

  22. Oh please please please, me and my best friend Aine BOTH got broken up with last weekend!! We NEED to go :D !!! Dancing with havana club in hand, to jazz players sounds WAY better than sobbing into our cats this saturday night :D !!!

  23. This looks like the festival of the summer! Amazing artists and such a nice vibe. I’d LOVE to go but just don’t have the funds!

  24. John McNamara on said:

    Tent…..Check
    Sleeping bag…….Check
    Poncho & Wellies …..Check
    Fun lovin attitude……Check
    Ticket……….Ah go on please??

  25. Just leaving a comment here, hoping for something good in return.

  26. Siobhan on said:

    Pick me!

  27. Oooooh. May I please have a pair of tickets? Pretty please? With a cherry on top. :)

  28. Yes please

  29. Finbarr Nevin on said:

    Yes please!

  30. Helena Barker on said:

    Everything ready, just need the tickets…. :)

  31. Sharon Earls on said:

    Yes please, an awesome festival! Have everything that we need except the tickets, please please please!

  32. John Kenny on said:

    Would love to go! Love B&S. Thanks so much! J

  33. John Dalton on said:

    Need two tickets to surprise the most awesome girlfriend ever please!

  34. Darragh, would give my right arm and left leg to go. This way I’d still have one leg to stand on and one arm to drink with!

  35. Ercus Long on said:

    Please!

  36. John Casey on said:

    Body and Soul is the best festival in the country by a long way! Yes purlease!

  37. i very much want to be there, but have no monies. please be my solution. thanking you

  38. Brian Lanigan on said:

    I wouldn’t mind some tickets… Fingers crossed!

  39. I’ve entered LOADS of competitions for this and would love to go. Please Havana, make my day.

  40. Michelle on said:

    The last I wanted to see M83 my exams were on & I was crushed!! John Talabot too.. immense!! PLEASE send me a ticket

  41. Would LOVE to go to this. Fingers crossed!

  42. Laura Jean on said:

    DYING to drink Havana in a field listening to unreal music.
    Havana for the Body, Spiritualized for the Soul!

  43. Would love to go!

  44. Yes please! This would make my summer!

  45. Aisling on said:

    I’m commenting on the fact I’d love to go to B&S!

  46. Yay, would love to go to B&S. Great music & rum = win. Fingers crossed.

  47. Aisling on said:

    May I please Havana the tickets?!

  48. Aisling on said:

    nomnomnomfreetickets

  49. Deirdre Redmond on said:

    Havana go so badly!!

  50. CiaranM on said:

    Come on ticket Gods – you owe me one!!!

  51. Dying for B&S but don’t have the bob’s to experience it :(
    ƒree tix would be Ace!!! :)

  52. Throw me in the hat, please!

  53. Ah g’wan, I’d love to go!

  54. Caimin Walsh on said:

    i wold love two tickets! PLEASE!

  55. Ah, g’wan g’wan g’wan g’wan g’wan g’wan g’wan g’wan g’wan g’wan, GO ON!!!
    Purty please?! Ciara :)

  56. Finbarr Nevin on said:

    Would love those tickets!

  57. I have heard its very creative and highly visual festival and also interactive. Be great to shoot both photo and Vid id say.

    Hope you have a good time :-)

  58. I would really love to go to Body & Soul plz & thank you :)

  59. Rebecca tighe on said:

    Great site. Will def be coming back! Would also loooooooooooove to win the B&S tickets!

  60. Rebecca Tighe on said:

    Great site. Will def be coming back! Also would loooooooooooooooove to win a ticket to B&S!

  61. I would love to attend the Body & Soul festival

  62. Please include me in this comp. Im dying for a weekend away. Thanks pal

  63. Patrick on said:

    It looks awesome!!!

  64. I think I deserve a ticket because I’m great, in fact, I think I derserve two, in case the first one doesn’t work.

  65. Bernadette Gray on said:

    Hellllpppppppppppppppppppppppp depressed.com and would love a pick me up of tickets to Body & Soul 2012… some cuban rum and dancing around the fire would definitely warm the cockles of my heart and take me out of my depression!! :)

  66. Dee Maher on said:

    Please pick me! x

  67. Adam Taylor on said:

    Yes please. Would love to go to this festival. I am a huge M83 fan.

  68. Yes please! I’d love some tickets as I’m poor but reallllyyyy want to go! :)

  69. Rebecca Halliday on said:

    Will those lit up dancing robots be there again? Please say yes n please can I have some tickets? :,)

  70. If you’re not in, you can’t win! Would really love to go to this – fantastic line-up and venue. Thanks.

  71. Louise B on said:

    Please sir pick me! Im only a poor broke student, this would make me so happy!

  72. Hi, I’ll take those tickets off your hands shur. Cheers. Sound. Savage.

  73. Would love tickets!

  74. Andy McGeady on said:

    Gaudi.

    The man’s incredible.

    Would LOVE to win tickets!!

  75. Marie Kelly on said:

    pretty pleeeease pick meeee! This would make my summer magical! :-D

  76. B&S best festival ever….. Been last 2 years & would LOVE to go again :) )

  77. I’d love to win tickets for this – it’s a great festival.

  78. ah go on then

  79. James mcgill on said:

    A Ticket would definitely make my birthday

  80. Saoirse Whelan on said:

    THIS IS A COMMENT!

  81. John Magee on said:

    Tickets please and i will be forever in your debt. John Magee…

  82. Sarah Donohue on said:

    i’ll do anything for the tickets

  83. Chris McGlynn on said:

    Id love to go so be great to win these!

  84. Yes please, would love to go!

  85. Would love to win some tickets :)

  86. Graham Morgan on said:

    It would be a great reason not to do 160k cycle in the bureen this weekend if I won the tickets

  87. I’d love a pair of golden tickets!

  88. Tickets please!!!!!

  89. The Fresh Prince of Kildare on said:

    Would love to be victorious in winning these tickets. From a man who has never won ANYTHING of value! Cheers

  90. Michelle Kennedy on said:

    Would love, love love to win tickets :-)

  91. Liese O'Malley on said:

    Oh it would be amazing to win this !!! would love to hang out at your Havana club and listen to beautiful cuban sounds and dance the night away!! xxx

  92. Alex D on said:

    I don’t deserve to win (in a reverse psychology kinda way)

  93. Paula McNamee on said:

    Howiya buddy. Do me a solid, yeah? Thanks! :)

  94. Paul Moran on said:

    Giz dem bleedin tickets……………

  95. Denise on said:

    Can I come too?

  96. Caitrina Cody on said:

    Tickets pleeze! Tks! Wooop! :) :) :) :p

  97. Fantastic prize – please pick me :)

  98. mark byrne on said:

    Would love to go

  99. Johnny Keegan on said:

    Officially throwing my name in the hat. Thanks. :)

  100. Mick Brennan on said:

    Oh please, please, pretty please, pick me,
    For Body and Soul I really want to see,
    The thought of missing it, I sincerely dread,
    This festival is the best thing since sliced bread :-)

  101. Jo Willis on said:

    Would love to go! Here’s hoping :-)

  102. Daniel Fitzgerald on said:

    I totally wouldn’t mind if you picked me, really, it wouldn’t be problem, there would be no need for you to feel uncomfortable, just go right ahead, I’m fine with it, seriously.

  103. Claire on said:

    I’d like to go!

    sure, see ya if I see ya…!

  104. I caught annie clark’s eye back in October in the Button Factory, i now must voyage to the depths of west meath so i can allow our relationship to blossom. She could have been looking at the guy beside me. But i must know..

  105. Thomas O'Reilly on said:

    Would LOVE to go. Been so broke. Fond memories of sipping on Havana at Elecric Picnic last year with the girl who is now my gf. Be great to relive these memories.

  106. TICKETS….pleeeeeaaaasssssssssseeeeee…. :o

  107. Wow, what a deadly prize! Would LOVE to win this.

  108. Aoife McGovern on said:

    I too would love body an soul tickets! Please and thank you! :)

  109. TICKETS….pleeeeeaaaasssssssssssseeeeeee…!

  110. Yurt!

  111. Ray O'Neill on said:

    I’ve entered about 10 different competitions for tickets to no avail!

    I would love to win !

  112. Sinead McGrath on said:

    I’d so appreciate those tickets!

  113. Mary Johnston on said:

    I would love these tickets! :-)

  114. I’d love some tickets. I’ll leave any amount of comments you want! :)

  115. Gary long on said:

    Roll on casa habana

  116. Liz Bond Blanch on said:

    Oooh yes, I would love to go to B&S but funding a little low at the mo :(

  117. No mun no fun….unless tickets are won!!! (see what I did there?):0)

  118. John woods on said:

    Two of my favourite things A Havana club mojito and Body and Soul

  119. Amanda on said:

    Body and Soul would be good for my soul!

  120. natalie kerrigan on said:

    the last festival you were at was Witness?? thats a shocking fact !! But Body&Soul will be an excellent way to get back into the festival spirit!! Its a great little festival!! nice and chilled in a brilliant venue with some lovely peoples!!
    I cant wait!!! :)

  121. Why Oh Why did I not get to hear about this already, pretty please to a chance to see the great acts

  122. jessica on said:

    Please put me in the hat!! Favourite festival and its the first year I can’t afford to go!x

  123. Elaina Hickey on said:

    Hey,

    So I really want to go to Body and Soul…..I just found out I passed 4th yr Architecture…on my third attempt!…so I am delighted and I think I deserve to celebrate….preferably next weekend at Ballinlough Castle Westmeath!!! Pick me please!!!!!!

  124. Niamh O'Sullivan on said:

    To all the people who have commented above, best of luck to all of you..To those that have not been before; going to Body & Soul is better than winning the lottery. Last year I went for the first time, not knowing what to expect. My mind was blown away. The sheer creativity, fun and friendliness that I experienced over the whole weekend, left me with a great feeling about the future. This years theme ‘Year of the Dragon’ and the its ethos that ‘we are masters of our own destiny’, has never been more important. So whoever wins, good luck to ya and soak it all up!! Whether I win the tickets or not, I’ll be there, I hope you all are too. Ar son na hÉireann!!! xxx

  125. antoinette on said:

    count me in please!!

  126. Martin Leen on said:

    Hi,
    I’D love to go to Body and soul

    Yes please sir

    Martin

  127. I would really really really really love to go!! Jus’ sayin’ ;)

  128. Lisa Mc Mahon on said:

    Fingers crossed!

  129. Aisling on said:

    Pleeeease pick me :)

  130. Aine Gallagher on said:

    YEOW!

  131. What’s the difference between an oboe and an onion?
    No one cries when you chop up an oboe.

  132. Marissa Martin on said:

    Tickets Please! Would love to go!!

  133. Go on, give us those tickets.

  134. C’mon tickets please!

  135. This would make my week!

  136. Suzy McMahon on said:

    Givin’ our body n soul for a chance to fricken forget we’re on the dole

  137. Would love a free ticket to Body and Soul!!

  138. I’d love to be heading back to Ballinlough this weekend!

  139. Aisling on said:

    Oh would love to win tickets-this would be my summer holidays..sad but true! Love me some body & soul!!

  140. I want them tickets

  141. I have never been camping.

    My children have never been camping.

    I have never been to a festival (even though I’m nearer 40 than 20!).

    My children have never been to a festival (even though they’re nearer 9 than 19!)

    We’d love to go to Body & Soul. But if we won tickets, we could go to B&S and pay something off the gas bill as well!! :)

    Cheers!

    Hazel

  142. Deadly, would love to go

  143. would love them there tickets.

  144. MOnika on said:

    I guess the chances are slim but still, yes, would love a couple of passes.

    thanking you
    monika

  145. Stephen K on said:

    good god this place is full of scroungers! ahem..

  146. Hey guys, I’d really love to win some yummy chocolate and a ticket to BodiSoul if that’s ok? Thanks! I’m eating it in my head already.

  147. Lorcan on said:

    Would love to go!

  148. stephen on said:

    Please Sir, may I have some tickets?!!

  149. Fiona Henderson on said:

    This would be a perfect start to,my holidays.would so love to be there..please pick me.:) looks like a really cool festival

  150. Me please!

  151. EoghanM on said:

    Would love to win!

  152. I would love to win this!

  153. Treasa on said:

    Me please :)

  154. Plz pick me….

  155. Rachel Clancy on said:

    I’ll be there one way or another, love yo win tickets though!

  156. I would LOVE to go to Body & Soul this weekend – I’ve never been before and it sounds amazing! Fingers & toes crossed!

  157. Would love the tickets, pretty please! :)

  158. never been! dying to go. too broke! PLEASE

  159. Ciara Cummins on said:

    Dying to go to this festival, please can I have tickets? X

  160. Yay!

  161. Karen Geraghty on said:

    I conceived a child at body and soul two years ago and haven’t been to a festival since.Also I’m at a loose end this weekend, let’s make this happen!

  162. Lorraine Monagle on said:

    Pleeeeeeassssssssee

  163. up ya boi.

  164. Ciara O'Hare on said:

    would lOVE TO GO!

  165. Ciara O'Hare on said:

    would love to go :)

  166. Festival tickets would be lovely

  167. Michael FitzGerald on said:

    Yes I would love to go! Please.

  168. Katie Hennessy on said:

    This would make my summer! I’ve never been and have heard so much about it!

  169. I’ts my Birthday and I have no money, PLEASE CAN I HAVE A TICKET. xx

  170. Claire Boylan on said:

    I had tickets to last years B&S but had to miss it to get a root canal done :( I promise I ate loads of apples since & I wont need another one this weekend. I would love love love to go more than anything! It looks so much better & totally different than any other festival out there x

  171. Keith Brady on said:

    Your not in if you can’t win…. gimme them tickets!

  172. Grainne on said:

    Body and Soul aligns with the Summer Solstice and evokes all kinds of playful trickery, new journeys, endless giggley fun and an opportunity to just unleash good vibes on our earth and personal worlds.

    Body and Soul beats to my kind of drum

  173. liobhan on said:

    Please pick me im broke but would love to go. It looks amazing and ive never been before.pretty please…..if i win ill drink havana club for the rest of my life

  174. I would ❤ to go…. Pick me, please!

  175. Thomas monahan on said:

    Body and Soul, yay. Cant wait.

  176. Brian Dillon on said:

    I want to run and laugh and play at Body and Soul this weekend sooooo much, please think of me – my soul needs cleansing!:)

  177. David Chapman on said:

    Would love two tickets, gonna have to buy otherwise!

  178. SERIOUS FESTIVAL FEVER GOIN ON – HELP A SISTER OUT

  179. Marie Mullane on said:

    Hi guys, I would be absolutely overjoyed and ecstatic to win tickets to this unreal event. I would love to experience body and soul for the first time. I am immigrating to Oz next week and it would be the best send off ever leaving beautiful Ireland to find a money making job.

  180. Jack Maher on said:

    Body: Check
    Soul: Check
    Tickets: ….?

  181. niamh burgess on said:

    please and thank you!!! really really really really reaaaaaaaaalllllly wanna go!!!!!!!!xo

  182. Cormac Mc Swiney on said:

    Oh. Me please.

  183. Ciara Kavanagh on said:

    I LIKE TURTLES.x

  184. Helena Barker on said:

    Yes please, this would make my day :)
    Love Body & Soul xxx

  185. Mary Johnston on said:

    Would love these tickets!1 :-)

  186. Billy Kinane on said:

    YES PLEASE! Dying to hit up Body and Soul since it started!

  187. Please can I win these tickets… pretty pretty please xxx

  188. Áine McPartlan on said:

    Would love some tickets :)

  189. Please can I win these tickets…pretty pretty please xxx

  190. Grainne on said:

    Oh let the fun flow – “ticéadí le do thoil”

  191. Paraic on said:

    Would love tix for this.
    Cheers

  192. Would be great to win these tickets!!

  193. Brianan McCloskey on said:

    Please please please I would love to be going!! :)

  194. Gemma Byrne on said:

    I have visions of myself bopping ecstatically to Django Django, and running like a headless chicken between the Herbaliser and Kormac and his Big Band as they are on at the same time. But please please let me go!!!! I would love love love to win a ticket.

  195. Leeona on said:

    Pick me Pick me!!
    would love to go but broke!!!
    xxx

  196. danielle on said:

    can i go pretty please?? It would make my summer to experience the body and soul festival, it sounds like a dream!!!thanks :)

  197. Shelley on said:

    Oh I would LOVE to win these tickets and join my friends in the all fun :)

  198. Let me into the walled gardens!!!

  199. Would LOVE tickets!!! Thanks.

  200. Ballinlough Castle is where it’s at
    Over the coming weekend,
    Don’t disappoint us, please
    Yay.ie – to us your tickets send.

    A chance to hear Spiritualized,
    Not to mention
    Dancing under the Stars.

    Session after session,
    On stage after stage,
    Until the real world is
    Lost in lakeside leisure.

    For three days,
    Everything will be fun,
    Says the wonderful Havana Club – but
    Tea and Sympathy will be necessary – if
    It’s the end of the World as we know it -
    Very necessary then.
    Although funky groves upstage say otherwise – Oh, and
    Look at this comment acrostically.

  201. Emma P.S on said:

    Would LOVE to go! Please&Thanks!

  202. Síomha Murray on said:

    So here I go, my final forlorn stab at getting a ticket to body and soul. Have entered about 15 competitions, called every contact I know trying to get work at the gig in order to go and am just short of calling into the bank to overdraw an amount of money I do not have in order to go. Have never won anything in my life and thought maybe just this once cuz I really need it I might win one! So with all my positive energy and karma heres to hoping it happens for me….just this once so I can scream a hearty “YAY!!!–YOU’VE MADE MY DAY!”

  203. gerard on said:

    i’ve never eaten a pineapple

  204. Emma Kelly on said:

    Sure, it’d be rude not to! :)

  205. Kevin O'Brien on said:

    I would love these tickets!
    Otherwise I might have to use the hot air balloon on the left to get over the fences!

  206. louise perris on said:

    would love to go it’d be deadly

  207. I would love to win Body and soul tickets please. I’m a good person if that helps.

  208. James O Nuanain on said:

    Great Site…great comp.please give me tickets!!

  209. Jo McGrath on said:

    Yeah Buddy…i want my name in the proverbial hat!!!

  210. Anna Cosgrave on said:

    Let me win these tickets. I would give my arm and leg to go. i ADORE THEE.

  211. Rachel on said:

    I would really love to win these tickets xx

  212. Ksymena Gwiazdowska on said:

    I really want to go to the festival! Pick me!

  213. Ciara Martin on said:

    Down with this sort of thing!

  214. I so desperately want to go to Body and Soul this year! Its such an amazing and unique event, and an experience you’ll never forget. I really want to be able to dance through the forest again this year under the stars.. Please PICK ME!! =)

  215. Ciara Cummins on said:

    Please can I have Body&Soul tickets, I NEED to go. xxx

  216. body and soul total niceness!

  217. Alex Davey on said:

    I would do anything to have the opportunity to go to body&soul. I’m broke!

  218. Emma Davey on said:

    Because I like Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain, bodyandsoul will not take its toll. Air fisting beats, delicious rum, how could I not come? Good friends, craic and fun, I would love to win and come to bodyandsoul :)

  219. James Walsh on said:

    Tickets please I’d really like them, got damn ! :)

  220. Aoibheann on said:

    I live so close but can’t afford tickets would love to get to see Django Django, rain or shine it’ll be a great weekend

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