Whelan’s venue have announced the first names playing the Ones to Watch Festival, which will return finally in 2023 from January 5th to 8th 2023 for the first time since 2020.
Here’s whose playing across the venue’s 3 rooms from Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th of January..
- D CULLEN
- KÎND
- DRYING WEATHER
- LATE NIGHT PHARMACY
- SHORT BACK AND SIDES
- OF ALL LIVING THINGS
- CABLE BOY
- LIFTS
- CABL.
- DAIRE HEFFERNAN
- THE FAE
- AILSHA
- SPEARSIDE
- ANIE VALENTINE
- BASHT
- STILL BLUE
- LAST APOLLO
- SAMMY COPLEY
- POST PARTY
- DUNLUVLY
- HIS FATHERS VOICE
- GURRIERS
- FILMORE!
- DECARTERET
- KAYA T
- FIND-JOY
- BIG SLEEP
- LES SALAMANDAS
- SAIBH SKELLY
- REEVAH
- SCOTH
- DEF NETTLE
- NERVES
- SKINNER
- LA DI DA
- VJ JAXSON
- BLOOD DONOR
- KINGFISHR
- TROPHY WIFE
Tickets are €7 day or €15 for the weekend including a pint of Hop House 13.

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