Hard Working Class Heroes 2012 – The bands playing in A-Z and my picks

Hard Working Class Heroes (HWCH) has announced the bands playing the festival this year for their 10th birthday from the Thursday 4th to Saturday 6th October in The Button Factory, The Mercantile, The Grand Social, Twisted Pepper, Meeting House Square and The Workman’s Club. The full list of bands is below with links where you can do your homework.

Five I’ve yet to see but want to: CLU, Eatenbybears, Ghosts, A Dark Horse and Faws.

Also: Forrests but they’ve yet to play a gig.

Five I’ve seen but you should if you haven’t already: Come On Live Long, Young Wonder, Ships, Ginnels and White Collar Boy.

Incidentally, I was one of the judges for about 20 bands and one discovery I made which didn’t make it in was Max Zaska’s Groove, a weird funk band that completely threw me off.

Full list of bands

A Dark Horse
A Lazarus Soul
Aisling Quinn
Autumn Owls
Benny Smiles
Biggles Flys Again
Bouts
Carried By Waves
CFIT
CLU

Cocophone
Come On Live Long
Conor Mason
Croupier
Daithi
Deaf Joe
DOGS
Dott
Dylan Tighe
Eatenbybears
Elaine Mai
Electric Penguins
Eleventy Four
Familiar Creatures
Faws
Forrests
Frank B
Frankenstien Bolts
Futures Apart
Gavin James
Ghost Estates
Ghosts
Ginnels
Girl Band
Grand Pocket Orchestra
Groom
Hello Moon
Heritage Centre
Hudson Taylor
Hush War Cry
I <3 The Monster Hero
Inni–k
Jogging
Junah
KaraKara
Kid Karate
Kool Thing
La Faro
Lamont/Bailey/Wall
Land Lovers
LAST DAYS OF 1984
Le Galaxie
Leanne Harte
Lemonada
Lisa O’Neill
Little Bear
Low Sea
Moo!
More Than Conquerors
Nanu Nanu
Niamh Regan
Nouveaunoise
Owensie
Pearse McGloughlin and Nocturnes
PolyDROID
Red Sail
REID
REPLETE
Sans Chateaux
September Girls
Sertone
Ships
Si Schroeder
Simon Bird
Skelocrats
Sleep Thieves
SPIES
Steve McEvoy
Tandem Felix
Temper-Mental Misselayneous
The Alice Kona Band
The Animators
The Casanova Wave
The Depravations
The Dirty 9s
The Gorgeous Colours
THE MIGHTY STEF
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock
Twin Terrace
Water Cycle
White Collar Boy
Wiltz
Windings
Young Wonder

Tickets are €45.00 plus fees, Nightly Tickets €20 + fees.

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