Hard Working Class Heroes, the annual showcase of emerging Irish talent, has announced the acts who've been chosen to take part in this year's festival, which will take place over the weekend of 4th, 5th and 6th of October.
Tickets for the event are now on sale through entertainment.ie/tickets. Snap 'em up while you can!
On to this year's participants:
A Dark Horse // A Lazarous 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 Chateux // 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
HWCH organiser Angela Dorgan was quoted as saying: "It's truly remarkable that here we are at then years of the festival and Irish music continues to surprise us. The judges around the globe were incredibly impressed with the quality of the acts, as well as the diversity. Both are really well reflected in the line-up. As nearly half of the bands have never played the festival before we are also continuing our task of unearthing brand new acts for everyone to discover."
As well as the music, the usual industry events and talks will return. More details on them when we have 'em.
The venues for this year's festival will be The Button Factory, The Mercantile, The Grand Social, Twisted Pepper, Meeting House Square and The Workman's Club.
