Forget about this dull and predictable Arcade Fire ticket fiasco, here’s the lineup for the Hard Working Class Heroes festival which takes place on the weekend of my burfday on the 27th/28th of September in the POD complex. My boys the Bonus Party are there, as well as other nialler9 recommended artists such as Channel One, Chicks (Have they returned?), Dark Room Notes, Cathy Davey, Dry County, Fight Like Apes (sure they are playing every festival going), Halves, Miriam Ingram, Ten Past Seven, White Noise and You’re Only Massive. These bands will be joined by 14 others from Northern Europe which have yet to be announced.
The line up is after the jump:
Aleko
Alphastates
Angel Pier
Autumn Owls
The Black Tokens
The Blonde Majority
Channel One
chrome horse
Colenso parade
The Chakras
Chicks
Cry Yuma
rhob cunningham
Dark Room Notes
DALI
Cathy Davey
Declan de Barra
Dirty Epics
Disfunkional
Distractors
Dry County
Mick Duffy
The Elliots
Elspeth
evil harrissons
fifteen minutes
Fight Like Apes
The Flaws
Floyd Soul and the Wolf
Paula Flynn
Valerie Francis
Gavin Glass
The Ghostwood Project
Grand Pocket Orchestra
Green Lights
Halves
Ham Sandwich
hassle merchants
Ray Heffernan
Herm
Hooray for Humans
Miriam Ingram
Walter Mitty & The Realists
Jaded Sun
JODAVINO
kill city defectors
The Keds
Michael Knight
The Kybosh
The Laundry Shop
Les Bien
Leanbh
Jenny Lindfors
Loko Parentis
Los Langeros
MIGALINX
The Minutes
My Brother Woody
The Negative Way
New Amusements
Not Men But Giants
Offshore
OMB and the Furious Tree
One Day International
Panda Kopanda
Paranoid Visions
Push Borders
Queen Kong
The Radio
gavin ryan
seeping into cinemas
The Sensors
Stoat
Straglers
Sub Rosa
Super Extra Bonus Party
Ten Past Seven
The Terribles
tidal district
Twinkranes
We Should be dead
White Noise
Youre Only Massive
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
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everyone go see disfunktional.. u won’t be sorry.. hottest act around.. and u should see their new set.. mpcs and everything going
everyone go see disfunktional.. u won’t be sorry.. hottest act around.. and u should see their new set.. mpcs and everything going
i am so hot right now
😉 x o x – paris
i am so hot right now
😉 x o x – paris
piles of goodness
piles
yeah disfunk are so hot right now
*m
piles of goodness
piles
yeah disfunk are so hot right now
*m
Hard Working Class Heroes- such a great idea, but has diluted every year. Cathy Davey? Love her, but she has a major label deal with frickin Parlophone- hardly slumming it with all the rest. .
And if all of these bands are so ‘hard working’ how come I’ve literally never laid eyes on half of them. The Negative Way- aren’t they together like a week or something- probably played 2 gigs in their entire career. Most bands just use HWCH as their only hope of getting an A&R presence at one of their gigs.
Hard Working Class Heroes- such a great idea, but has diluted every year. Cathy Davey? Love her, but she has a major label deal with frickin Parlophone- hardly slumming it with all the rest. .
And if all of these bands are so ‘hard working’ how come I’ve literally never laid eyes on half of them. The Negative Way- aren’t they together like a week or something- probably played 2 gigs in their entire career. Most bands just use HWCH as their only hope of getting an A&R presence at one of their gigs.