Announcement: Le Galaxie, O Emperor, Gavin James & Cave Ghosts to play The Erics!

We've been keeping this under wraps for a while but now we can finally tell you that the musical line-up to the latest installment of The Erics has been finalised - and it's a doozy!

The Erics, entertainment.ie's fifth annual celebration of everything fun and irreverent on our island, will be celebrated with a gig in The Button Factory on Thursday January 30th with live (and extended) performances from Le Galaxie, O Emperor, Gavin James and Cave Ghosts. Tickets to the gig are on sale now at the frankly very sound price of just €12. Click that button above this paragraph to get in on the action.

The polls are open across sixteen categories in the 2013 iteration of The Erics, including Best Irish Band of the Year, Best Irish Albums of the Year and Best Irish Festival. Head over yonder to get your voting on!

The ten nominees for Best Irish Band of the Year are:

And So I Watch You From Afar
Delorentos
The Script
Little Green Cars
Bressie
Le Galaxie
The Strypes
Villagers
Kodaline
Glen Hansard

The ten nominees for Best Irish Album of the Year are:

Villagers - {Awayland}
Bouts - Nothing Good Gets Away
O Emperor - Vitreous
Bell X1 - Chop Chop
Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero
The Strypes - Snapshot
Bressie - Rage and Romance
And So I Watch You From Afar - All Hail Bright Futures
Lisa O'Neill - Same Cloth or Not
Kodaline - In a Perfect World

The ten nominees for Best Irish Festival are:

Forbidden Fruit
Castlepalooza
Big House Festival
Sea Sessions
Longitude
Dublin Fringe Festival
Dublin Theatre Festival
Oxegen
Camden Crawl Dublin
Electric Picnic