Bacardi & Sea Sessions

Bacardi Gets Ready to Mix It Up at Sea Sessions Surf Music Festival this weekend

Come Together and Make Waves With The Freshest Bacardi Cocktails

BACARDI is pleased to announce their involvement with Sea Sessions this weekend. The BACARDI Airstream will roll into Bundoran, Co Donegal just in time for the opening of Europe’s best surf, skate and music festival on Friday.

A firm favourite at Ireland’s best music festivals, BACARDI inspires the three main ingredients that help ignite the ultimate festival experience – togetherness, freedom and a passion for life.

The BACARDI Airstream bar will be the best place to soak up exclusive party atmosphere while being the ultimate place to get together with friends. BACARDI’s own mixologists will be on hand creating classic cocktails for you and your friends such as Ireland’s festival favourite – the BACARDI Mojito and the Daiquiri.

This year the Sea Sessions line-up includes an eclectic mix of bands and DJ’s such as The Villagers, Japanese Popstars, Bell X1, GO Team, Ham Sandwich, Roy Seven and Ziggy Marley as well as a stellar list of DJ’s who will be performing at the new “Beat Shack” Dance Tent. You never know what acts you may meet at the BACARDI Airstream bar enjoying a cocktail.

Commenting on this weekend’s festival BACARDI’s Tiernan O’Morain said, “We are delighted to bring the taste of BACARDI to Sea Sessions Surf Music Festival this weekend – we will simply go back to basics with the ultimate party mix: good friends, great music and festival favourite BACARDI cocktails.”

BACARDI rum has a long standing history as a patron of proper music. In the early 1920’s in Cuba, the BACARDI family legacy in music was cemented by Facundo BACARDI – grandson and namesake of the Company founder – who would share the BACARDI family’s passion for music, creating a festive music environment by throwing open the doors of the family home to parties featuring El Trio Matamoros – which became the hottest act in Cuba.

Remember to always enjoy Bacardi responsibly

Family Friendly policy

Sea Sessions Family Friendly Policy

At Sea Sessions we love kids and want to ensure they can enjoy our event in a safe and appropriate environment. Under 12s are free while those 12 to 17 must purchase a ticket and be accompanied by their legal guardian/parent. Legally under 18s are required to leave the site at 10pm. Details below but all familys should

*You need to pre book
All families who intend to bring children under the age of 18 need to register at seasessionsfamily@gmail.com
There will be no sales to Under 18's unless part of a pre booked family unit.

*You need to sign in
Once you've booked your tickets just drop an email notifying us that you are a family with under 18's.
We will keep a note of it and enter your details on our family sign in list.
On the weekend simply come to the collections office opposite the main entrance and sign in to get your wristbands allocated.

*Responsibility
If under 18's are found on site unaccompanied by their parent or legal guardian, they will be escorted to a safe area and the appropriate local authorities will be notified. It is an offence for a parent or guardian not to be in custody of the child in their care at the event.

*Accommodation and Camping
The Sea Sessions campsite located on the Main St. at the rear of the Phoneix Tavern is strictly for over 18's only.
There are a fantastic range of family friendly accommodation options available in the area and a great family campsite at the Lakeside Centre in Ballyshannon. The local GAA are also providing a campsite for family’s. For details email seasessionsfamily@gmail.com

Beat Shack headliners

Dance your Pants Off at the “Beat Shack”
this June at “Sea Sessions Surf Music Festival 2011”



BEAT SHACK line-up (with more to be announced!):


FRI JUN 24TH

HERBALISER (OLLIE T DJ SET)

Ollie T is one half of the production team known as The Herbaliser. Onstage DJ with The Herbaliser live band, also part of the Hip Hop supergroup Soundsci, with members Jonny Cuba (DSP/Ninja Tune), Audessey (ex-Mass Influence), U-George (The Hemisphere) and legendary UK Hip Hop engineer 'No Sleep' Nigel.


KWAME (BOUNCE)

DJ KID CAM (SOL CUMBIA)

ROYDABOY (SHENZHEN BEATS)

DJ COLEY (LONDON 45'S)

DEADBEAT CONTROLLER (BOURNEMOUTH)



SAT JUN 25TH

EROL ALKAN


Erol Alkan is a London-based Turkish electro DJ. He was resident DJ and co-founder of London club Trash, one of the most influential clubs of its time. Until its closure in 2007, Trash saw performances by Peaches, LCD Soundsystem, Klaxons, Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Electric Six and many more. He released a series of mash-ups using the alias Kurtis Rush in the early 2000s. Erol also uses the alias Mustapha 3000, and is half of the psychedelic rock act Beyond The Wizards Sleeve. According to UK’s Top Magazine, he was acclaimed to be the best DJ of the world in the year 2009.


Erol Alkan has remixed tracks from artists including Franz Ferdinand, Justice, Mylo, Interpol, Bloc Party, Daft Punk, Hot Chip, The Chemical Brothers, The Rapture, Scissor Sisters, Digitalism, Mystery Jets, Death from Above 1979, Alter Ego and Klaxons.

SUN JUN 26TH

SCRATCH PERVERTS


The Scratch Perverts are a U.K. based DJ/hip-hop duo comprised of members Tony Vegas and Prime Cuts. The Scratch Perverts were resident DJs at the hip London club Fabric, and created a buzz in the UK remixing gigs for artists including Clinton, Johnny L and Sacrosanct. This lead to the release of their debut album, B-Boys Revenge: History in the Making.

Quiksilver Sea Sessions Expression Session

Quiksilver Expression Sessions

Sea Sessions is delighted to host the Quiksilver Expressions in 2011 which has been upgraded to an ASP Speciality Event. The ASP who run the world tour of surfing has sanctioned only a few Speciality Events in Europe and this will be the first ever to hit the UK or Ireland. The speciality events place emphasis on allowing surfers the freedom to free surf and go for bigger moves. Head of ASP Europe Gregorie Puget stated it is “ Great to see Quiksilver get into the thing, great to see Irish surfers enter as it will be a great opportunity for ASP Europe to highlight theses kids' performance, far from the usual South West Coast of France and Basque Country” . The ASP are sending over their top water photographers to capture the action. Local Irish surfers will be given the chance to compete against top European Surfers in the expression session for bragging rights, €5000 in cash, festival hospitality among many other prizes. Surfers already confirmed are former World number 3 Aussie Mick Campbell, Welsh legend Carwyn Williams, English ripper Oli Adams and Irelands top free surfer Cain Killcullan. There is a strictly limited number of contestants, entry fee is €20 and if interested in entering email seasessionssurf@gmail.com

Online Comp

In addition to our Expression session comp we have an online comp for the best turn/air. We have 3 categories open, U21 and bodyboard. The best 5 or 6 will be posted on our website with some great prizes for the surfer and camera person of each category. The waves must be filmed during 2011 and within the island of Ireland.

Short film

Sea Sessions is hosting the “Go Big or Go Home” extreme sports film festival in 2011 which will show case the best of extreme sport films from around the Globe. More details will follow on this. As part of this film festival we are having a short surf film competition. The competition is aimed at budding surf movie makers within Ireland. There will be cash prizes for the winners. Below is the entry Guidelines for the shorts. So for your opportunity to reach this audience and be part of the “GO BIG OR GO HOME” family, submit today!

Email seasessionssurf@gmail.com with submissions.
Entry Guidelines:
Your film should fit the following criteria
1. Be an amateur production.
2. Be filmed and produced within the past 12months.
3. Be no longer than 10 minutes.
4. Deadline date 1st April 2011
4. Comply with the video formats outlined below.
5. Agree that your film may be utilised in part or in full as a part of promotional activities for the “Go big or go home film festival” & “SEA SESSIONS SURF & MUSIC FESTIVAL”
6. By submitting your film you have agreed to these conditions
These criteria have been put together to ensure that the quality of all submitted films screened at the GBOGHFF & Sea Sessions remains as good as when they were originally edited and are the best possible representation of the artists work.
Here are the technical requirements…
1. Shoot your video footage in the highest quality allowed by your video camera.
2. Shoot, edit and save your footage using 'Progressive Scan', rather than 'Interlaced' video i.e; 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080p and not 480i, 576i, 1080i.
3. Save your video edit in the highest quality possible (the higher the quality you give to us, the better your film will look during the competition).
Formats such as AVI, MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 & MP4 are file 'containers' and have no bearing on the quality of the video or audio. The CODEC used to compress the video and audio is the deciding factor in the final quality. Aim to use the best quality codec you can and with the lowest compression rate.
Examples of high quality video codecs are;
H.264 (also called 'MPEG-4 Part 10' or 'MPEG-4/AVC')
DV (progressive scan)
DivX & XviD (quality should be set to very high/max)
Please try to provide your film entry in the form of a video file and not as a DVD, SVCD, VCD (this will help us to maintain the video quality of your film).
Ultimately, we will accept film entries in any and all video formats. However, ensuring you maintain as much of the original video quality of your footage as possible, can only mean you will have a better chance in the competition

Short surf film Competition

Sea Sessions is hosting the “Go Big or Go Home” extreme sports film festival in 2011 which will show case the best of extreme sport films from around the Globe. More details will follow on this. As part of this film festival we are having a short surf film competition. The competition is aimed at budding surf movie makers within Ireland. There will be cash prizes for the winners. Below is the entry Guidelines for the shorts. So for your opportunity to reach this audience and be part of the “GO BIG OR GO HOME” family, submit today! Email seasessionssurf@gmail.com with submissions.

Entry Guidelines:

Your film should fit the following criteria

1. Be an amateur production.

2. Be filmed and produced within the past 12months.

3. Be no longer than 10 minutes.

4. Deadline date 1st April 2011

4. Comply with the video formats outlined below.

5. Agree that your film may be utilised in part or in full as a part of promotional activities for the “Go big or go home film festival” & “SEA SESSIONS SURF & MUSIC FESTIVAL”

6. By submitting your film you have agreed to these conditions



These criteria have been put together to ensure that the quality of all submitted films screened at the GBOGHFF & Sea Sessions remains as good as when they were originally edited and are the best possible representation of the artists work.

Here are the technical requirements…

1. Shoot your video footage in the highest quality allowed by your video camera.

2. Shoot, edit and save your footage using 'Progressive Scan', rather than 'Interlaced' video i.e; 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080p and not 480i, 576i, 1080i.

3. Save your video edit in the highest quality possible (the higher the quality you give to us, the better your film will look during the competition).

Formats such as AVI, MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 & MP4 are file 'containers' and have no bearing on the quality of the video or audio. The CODEC used to compress the video and audio is the deciding factor in the final quality. Aim to use the best quality codec you can and with the lowest compression rate.



Examples of high quality video codecs are;

H.264 (also called 'MPEG-4 Part 10' or 'MPEG-4/AVC')

DV (progressive scan)

DivX & XviD (quality should be set to very high/max)



Please try to provide your film entry in the form of a video file and not as a DVD, SVCD, VCD (this will help us to maintain the video quality of your film).



Ultimately, we will accept film entries in any and all video formats. However, ensuring you maintain as much of the original video quality of your footage as possible, can only mean you will have a better chance in the competition.

Seasessions 2011 sports/arts

Seasessions 2011

Surf Event
Expression Session
The annual Seasession Expression Session will give the top local surfers the chance to compete against the top Pros from around Europe. The emphasis is always on high performance moves and cash prizes will be on offer. This year the level of surfing will be upped by the arrival of Pros from the UK and Beyond.
Big Wave comp
We have a prize worth a 1000euros to the biggest wave photographed between the launch of our tickets on the 18th of November until the day of the festival. The prize will be split between the photographer and surfer
Online Surf Comp
This year will also see the launch of the Seasessions Online Surf Comp. Surfers or videographer/photographers can upload video/photo clips to compete for some great prizes. There will be different categories including Best move and Best Barrel. Will also for the first time have a best Bodyboard move.
Surf/Extreme Sports Film festival
2011 will see the start of the Seasessions Extreme Sports Film Festival. The film festival will showcase the best of International and local Extreme Sports movies. The festival will have an International award for full length films and will also have an award for short films for local film makers to gain recognition.
Tag Rugby
Seasessions was delighted with the response to the Tag Rugby in 2010 and has decided to expand the competition and is offering 500euro plus festival hospitality to the winning team. The event will have a competitive and fun level.
Beach Soccer
Seasessions 2011 will also have a Beach Soccer comp with again with some great prizes on offer. There will be an exhibition matched played by some old legends of the game as well as an open competition open to all.
Ultimate frisbee
Seasessions will also for the first time have an ultimate Frisbee beach comp.
Ultimate frisbee , if you havn't heard of it before, is a mixed non-contact team sport involving two teams of 5 players (7 on grass) playing on a rectangular pitch trying to score points in opposing endzones.
The sport is played by 1000's the world over and next year will see the world beach championships held in Italy. The Irish national team is coming along to show case this growing sport.

Wrist Band Special Offers

Bundoran welcomes our Sea Sessions Wristband holders and to prove it many of the bars and restaurants will have specials on the menu or cocktails on this weekend that are available to you.

Sea Sessions Wristband holders ONLY can avail of the following discounts:

10% off total purchases at Glamour Girl Fashion and Accessories, Market Square Shopping Centre

20% off all cosmetics and makeup at Cara Pharmacy, Main Street, Bundoran. The range of brands available includes Smashbox, Loreal, Rimmel, Essence, Elizabeth Arden, Isa Dora, etc

10% off all gifts, cards and purchases at Hallmark Cards, Market Square, Bundoran

Café Italia – Sea Sessions Special – Panini, Tea or Coffee € 7

10% off all purchases at Sweeney Todds Music and Bits ‘n Pieces, Market Square Shopping Centre

10% off all purchases at Castle Lighting, Market Square Shopping Centre

10% off all purchases at Good Buys Discount Store, Market Square Shopping Centre

€2.50 off per person for a Seaweed Bath, normal price €22.50 per person, must be booked and paid for in advance, available to all Sea Sessions wrist band holders this weekend. Normal terms and conditions apply! In other words, this is subject to availability and you must be sober and fit to take the bath – no messin’.