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Post-Punk Podge and the Technohippies
Friday, 10.15pm, Rising Sons Stage
One of Limerick’s best kept musical secrets, envelope-clad Post-Punk Podge continues cementing his name as a must-see live experience, alongside co-conspirator Dr. Asparagus Montague. Last seen causing unmerciful amounts of wreck at Body & Soul, after bring profiled in this very organ.
2.
HappyAlone
Friday, 1.30am, Rising Sons Stage
Having hit Ireland’s Spotify Viral 50 with last year’s single ‘Colours’, headlining the Friday of the Rising Sons Stage is the latest in a series of milestones for the Cork indietronica/post-pop trio.
3.
Spekulativ Fiction
Saturday, 5pm, Rising Sons Stage
A harbinger of doom and turmoil, Spekulativ Fiktion channels his worldview into starkly honest boom-bap hip-hop. New EP Effigies released in January via Limerick label The Unscene, with Clare wunderkind Mankyy on production.
4.
Katie Kim
Saturday, 6.45pm, An Sibín
With a Choice Prize nomination under her belt for 2016 album Salt, Waterford singer-songwriter Katie Kim has spent the past decade spinning ethereal tales that honestly take on struggles, internal and external.
5.
Sister Sledge
Saturday, 8.30pm, Main Stage
Synonymous with the commercial development of disco, investing the genre with elements of soul, the legendary Sister Sledge bring their songbook of all-time classics to TLC, including ‘We Are Family’, ‘He’s the Greatest Dancer’ and ‘Lost in Music’.
6.
RÍRÁ
Sunday, 2.30pm, Main Stage
The original Irish MC, and one of the pioneering Scary Éire group, RíRá is still doing it all these years later, and enjoying the respect that comes with laying the foundations for the current golden age of the genre in Ireland.
7.
Kíla
Sunday, 5.45pm, Main Stage
Trad fusionists Kíla have been busy as usual in recent times, but touring has centred on the 21st anniversary of breakout album Tog É Go Bog É, continuing a seemingly unending graft of gigs around the world.
8.
General Levy
Sunday, 9.30pm, Main Stage
In spring 1994, jungle MC Levy was approached by independent label Renk Records to collaborate with producer M Beat. The resulting track, ‘Incredible’, was unleashed that June and after causing a massive storm on the underground, went on to be licensed to London Records, subsequently achieving UK top-ten status.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZeluQiGoXo
9.
Chancer
Sunday, 5.45pm, Rising Sons Stage
Dublin math-rockers Chancer have quietly been part of the genre’s quiet second wave, emerging in a post-Richter math scene with a healthy balance of the hefty and the angular, alongside a healthy dose of pop-culture grin-inducement.
10.
Bicurious
Sunday, 8.45, Rising Sons Stage
Erring more on the side of latter-day ASIWYFA than Chancer’s Adebisi-esque pop deftness, Bicurious’ festival-sized math-stompers are a perfect way to close off your TLC proceedings.
Townlands Carnival happens this weekend at Rusheen Farm in Macroom, Co. Cork. Tickets are still on sale, over at townlandscarnival.com
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