Hard Working Class Heroes have announced their lineup for this year’s edition taking place on the weekend of october 1st to 3rd in The Workmans Club, The Mercantile, The Academy, Bad Bobs, The Grand Social, Hangar. Tickets are on sale now from €20 + fees per night or €45 for three nights.
The festival will also include talks, mentoring sessions, speed sessions, a tech convention and more. The festival is sponsored for the second year by HMV Ireland with help from The Arts Council, Failte Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and the NDRC. 500 bands submitted applications. The 100 below were chosen. I was one of the judges who are drawn from the local and international music industry.
Delighted to see Rusangano Family, Carriages, Elephant, Bitch Falcon, Hare Squead, Joni, Pleasure Beach and I Have A Tribe in there.
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Acrobat
AikJ
Ailbhe Reddy
Anderson
Arborist
Atlas Moon
Bad Sea
Bagels
Basciville
Benihana
Bitch Falcon
Buffalo Sunn
Buffalo Woman
Callum Orr
Carriages
Cfit
Color//Sound
Comrade Hat
Corner Boy
Darling
Dear Desert
discopunks
DVO Marvell
Elastic Sleep
Electro Sensitive Behaviour
Elephant
Elm
Everything Shook
EXPLODING EYES
Fergal O’Connor
Florence Olivier
Frankenstein Bolts
Half Of Me
Hare Squead
HAWK
Heroes in Hiding
Hot Cops
I Have A Tribe
Inni-K
Jennifer Evans
Johnny Stewart
Joni
Katie Laffan
Kobina
Lie Ins
Lilla Vargen
LORIS
Maija Sofia
Maud in Cahoots
Me Auld Flower
Mere Moths
Miles Graham
MKAI
Mongoose
moossmann
My Tribe Your Tribe
Neon Atlas
New Pope
New Valley Wolves
Nocturnes
Not Monsters
Oh Boland
Old Hannah
PALE RIVERS
Participant
Patrick Freeman
Pine ¶he Pilcrow
Pleasure Beach
PLUTONIC DUST
PolyGlove
PORTS
Pranks
ProFound
Róisín O
Rusangano Family
Ryan O’Shaughnessy
S I S T E R S
Saint Sister
Sample Answer
Samyel
Silences
Slow Skies
SlowPlace LikeHome
Staring At Lakes
STAY GOLD
Strength
Swimmers
Talos
TELL NO FOXX
The Altered Hours
The Fontaines
The Journals
The Man Whom
The Soft Look
Third Smoke
This Other Kingdom
Tiz McNamara
We Raise Bears
We, the Oceanographers
