An exciting batch of new talent.
This year’s Hard Working Class Heroes music festival will take place between October 1 and October 3 in Dublin.
The festival showcases Ireland’s best emerging new talent and also gives bands an opportunity to get tips from people in the industry at various workshops across the weekend.
The line-up was revealed in the Irish Times today, here are some of the acts we’re already looking forward to.
Talos
Staring at Lakes
Bitch Falcon
Lilla Vargen
Hare Squead
Elastic Sleep
Heroes in Hiding
I Have A Tribe
Slow Skies
TELL NO FOXX
Altered Hours
The full line-up is here:
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Acrobat
AikJ
Ailbhe Reddy
Anderson
Arborist
Atlas Moon
Bad Sea
Bagels
Basciville
Benihana
Bitch Falcon
Buffalo Sunn
Buffalo Woman
Callum Orr
Carriages
Cfit
Color//Sound
Comrade Hat
Corner Boy
Darling
Dear Desert
discopunks
DVO Marvell
Elastic Sleep
Electro Sensitive Behaviour Feat. Perry Blake
Elephant
Elm
Everything Shook
EXPLODING EYES
Fergal O’Connor
Florence Olivier
Frankenstein Bolts
Half Of Me
Hare Squead
HAWK
Heroes in Hiding
Hot Cops
I Have A Tribe
Inni-K
Jennifer Evans
Johnny Stewart
Joni
Katie Laffan
Kobina
Lie Ins
Lilla Vargen
LORIS
Maija Sofia
Maud in Cahoots
Me Auld Flower
Mere Moths
Miles Graham
MKAI
Mongoose
moossmann
My Tribe Your Tribe
Neon Atlas
New Pope
New Valley Wolves
Nocturnes
Not Monsters
Oh Boland
Old Hannah
PALE RIVERS
Participant
Patrick Freeman
Pine The Pilcrow
Pleasure Beach
PLUTONIC DUST
PolyGlove
PORTS
Pranks
ProFound
Róisín O
Rusangano Family
Ryan O’Shaughnessy
S I S T E R S
Saint Sister
Sample Answer
Samyel
Silences
Slow Skies
SlowPlace LikeHome
Staring At Lakes
STAY GOLD
Strength
Swimmers
Talos
TELL NO FOXX
The Altered Hours
The Fontaines
The Journals
The Man Whom
The Soft Look
Third Smoke
This Other Kingdom
Tiz McNamara
We Raise Bears
We, the Oceanographers
Tickets are on sale with weekend passes for €45 (plus fees) and per-night tickets €20 (BUY HERE) . You can also buy tickets for each individual venue per night and these will be €10 each on the door.
It’s a brilliant weekend, you’ll probably find your new favourite band there.
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