MCD brings back Sunstroke festival for 2020

Sunstroke 1993 headliner Faith No More will also headline the comeback event, alongside Deftones, at Punchestown Racecourse next summer

News By | 27 November 2019

Punchestown was formerly home to Oxegen, which last took place in 2013 © MCD

Faith No More and Deftones will headline Sunstroke when the ’90s alternative-rock festival returns to Ireland next summer. Sunstroke, promoted by Denis Desmond’s MCD Productions, debuted in 1993 in Dublin’s Dalymount Park, when it was also headlined by Faith No More, according to RTE.

Faith No More and Deftones will headline Sunstroke when the ’90s alternative-rock festival returns to Ireland next summer.

Sunstroke, promoted by Denis Desmond’s MCD Productions, debuted in 1993 in Dublin’s Dalymount Park, when it was…

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