Every year at HWCH, Culture Ireland rows in with a huge amount of support for the festival - most notably they fund the attendance of the international industry in an effort to help the artists to develop links and opportunities beyond our own shores.
This year there will be a wide range of industry delegates attending - from bookers to bloggers, as well as media and label experts.
Don't forget to book your tickets for Hard Working Class Heroes via entertainment.ie/tickets.
Here’s a look at the International Industry attending this year’s event:
ADAM LEWIS / Co-Owner of Planetary Group
ANDY MCLEAN / NXNE
BJORN PFARR / Head Of Music Programme, Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg
BRENT GRULKE / Creative Director at SXSW
CATHY PELLOW / Sargent House
CLIVE GARDINER / we7
DARREN HEMMINGS / PIAS
DAVID ADAMS / SoundCloud
DEV SHERLOCK / The Hype Machine
JASON EDWARDS / 13 Artists
JOSH DALTON / Crack In The Road
LAURA WEBB / MTV’s WORLD OF JENKS (Music Supervisor)
LISA PAULON / The Camden Crawl
LIZZY NEWTON / South By Southwest (SXSW)
MATT MCDONALD / CMJ
NATASHA HADDAD / The Great Escape
NATHANIEL GRAVELY / I Guess I'm Floating | Small Plates Records
ROBERT MEIJERIN / EuroSonic Noorderslag
ROD S. KUKLA / American Recordings
And the Irish Industry partaking:
ALAN CULLIVAN / Manager, ASIWYFA
ALEXIS VOKOS / Delphi Music
ANTHEA MCTIERNAN / The Ticket
BRIAN ADAMS / Head of Music, Today fm
CATHAL FUNGE / Phantom 105.2
CHARLENE HEGARTY / Smalltown America
CILLIAN STEWART / Castlepalooza
DAN HEGARTY / / RTÉ 2fm
FEIDHLIM BYRNE, Nielsen Music
GUGAI / Booker, Roisín Dubh
IAN WILSON / RTÉ 2fm
JENNY HUSTON / RTÉ 2fm
JENNY HEADEN / Entertainment Architects
JIM LAWLESS / Manager, The Coronas
KARL GERAGHTY / The Workmans Club
KEITH JOHNSON / IMRO
KEN ALLEN / Faction Records / Manager James Vincent McMorrow
LEAGUES / Aiken promotions
MAGGIE BREATHNACH / Ceol ar an Imeal
MICHAEL ROE / Richter Collective <
NIALL BYRNE / Nialler 9
NIALL MORRIS / MCD / Oxegen
PAUL MCLOONE / Today fm
PHIL UDELL / State Magazine
SEAN HARROLD / Dolans, Limerick
SHANE DUNNE / Indiependence
STEVO BERUBE / Berube Communications
SOPHIE GORMAN / Editor, Day and Night Magazine, Irish Independent
SPEED SESSIONS (for the bands)
Friday 7th 10.am to 1.00pm, The Button Factory, Curved Street, Temple Bar
Saturday 8th 10 am to 1.00pm, The Button Factory, Curved Street,Temple Bar
THE PANELS (hosted by Jim Carroll, The Irish Times)
MEET THE GEEKS - Friday 7th 2pm The Button factory
THE A TEAM - Friday 7th 3.30 pm The Button Factory
BIOGDIVERSITY - Saturday 8th 2pm, The Button Factory
THE FREE AGENDA - Saturday 8th 3.30pm The Button Factory
