Check out the 100 Irish bands that will play at Hard Working Class Heroes in October

The festival will showcase some of the best Irish talent out there at the moment...

Hard Working Class Heroes returns this October and we're delighted because it's one of the festivals we most look forward to every year. HWCH is in its twelfth year and the idea behind it is to showcase the best in Irish music, Delorentos, The Coronas, Fight Like Apes, Villagers, Lisa O'Neill and Hozier have all played it down through the years. This year's festival, which is sponsored by HMV Ireland, will run over three days on October 2,3 and 4 in the following Dublin venues - The Button Factory, The Workmans Club, The Mercantile, The Twisted Pepper, Bad Bobs, The Grand Social and Meeting House Square. Over 500 bands applied via First Music Contact’s self-built platform Breakingtunes.com and these 100 bands were chosen independently by the top Irish and international music industry professionals. A Lazarus Soul Acrobat Affleck Arborist Atriums Benihana Benny smiles Brian Casey Buffalo Sunn Buffalo Woman Carriages Carried By Waves Cfit Ciaran Lavery Cloud Castle Lake Clu Codai Color // Sound Columbia Mills Conor Walsh Contour Deaf Joe Dear Desert Death In The Sickroom Dogs Dott DVO Marvell Eamon bode Elaine Mai Elastic Sleep Elephant Eoin Dolan Fallen Rule Floor Staff Florence Olivier Frankenstein Bolts Galants Ghost Estates God Knows + mynameisjOhn Grim Hags Hare Squead Hauer Hawk His New Atlas Hugh Hick I have a tribe I’m Your Vinyl Imploded View Jet Setter Kobina Kormac little xs for eyes Liza Flume Low Sea Maija Sofia Maud in Cahoots Me & My Dog Me Auld Flower Meltybrains? Mere Moths MKAI moossmann Myles Manley Neon Atlas Old Hannah Otherkin Paddy Hanna Participant Planet Parade Princess Red Queen Contest Replete Satori Je Silences Sisters Skelocrats Sleep Mc Evox Somerville Spies Subplots Tell No Foxx The Academic The Bedroom The Black Sea Fleet The Boxing Plot The Clameens The Debutantes The Hard Ground The Late David Turpin The Loafing Heroes The Magpies The Pale The Run Ons The Shaker Hymn The Statics The Vincent(s) Tino Ras Val Normal Vann Music Voids Walpurgis Family Wild Promises Yes Cadets For more information and updates, check out the festival website http://hwch.net.