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The Mantua Festival has announced some more headline additions to the three day event taking place in Ballinagare, Co.Roscommon from the 1st - 3rd of August for the fourth time. Múm, Daedelus, Poets Of Rhythm, Infomatics, Jinx Lennon, Bats, Terrordactyl, Gravenhurst, Clark, Shackleton have been added with a full line-up after the jump.
The first line-up for Mantua Festival in Roscommon is out of the bag, and it’s now a three day festival. Here’s the names on the board so far:
Clark (Warp, UK) / Taskforce (MFTC, UK) / Shackleton (Skull Disco, de) / Couds (live) (Nopa, 2nd Drop, FL) / Cotti (Soul Jazz, Bassface, UK ) / Ital [...]
Update: Deleted rumoured line-up to save confusion.
Deep breath…
Sex Pistols, Sigur Ros, Grinderman, Franz Ferdinand, George Clinton & The P-Funk Allstars, My Bloody Valentine, Goldfrapp, Christy Moore, Wilco, The Gossip, Duffy, Underworld, Tinariwen, CSS, Tindersticks, New Young Pony Club, Josh Ritter, Lisa Hannigan, Cathy Davey, That Petrol Emotion, The Breeders, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Sinead O’Connor, [...]
But it’s OK because we’ve got daily updates from the State team!
Day One - Johnnie Craig
Day Two - Johnnie with Photos by Dan Dennison
Day Three - Johnnie with Photos by Dan Dennison#
Day Four - Johnnie with Photos by Dan Dennison
I’ll update this list as the week progresses.
But alas not to be. Maybe next year? No, definitely next year. I was looking at CubikMusik’s planned schedule for the week and turned green with envy. The bastard..
Anyhow, Cubik is an expat living in Austin and runs a super blog as you know , right? Well himself and a fellow team of Austin bloggers [...]
The Shibeen Bass Festival is taking place in Rush, North Co. Dublin on the Saturday 3rd May (a Bank Holiday Weekend). A host of promoters are involved and it’s early days but so far !Kaboogie are bringing over Benga, FFF and Ruffneck Discotek crew. Superb! More details as they are announced.
If you missed it the [...]
I’ve been getting excited about this as it will be the first time I catch a live Boxcutter set.
Stasis Collective present Boxcutter in 4 Dame Lane on the 22nd of February. The set will consist of a live 3-Piece Band (Drummer / synths / sampler / guitar) booming on a €6,000 rig. Boxcutter, known [...]
Just a heads up on a festival happening in Bray this Friday and Saturday. There will be two stages and it’s only a tenner in for both nights. The promoters are organising transport for Dublin gig-goers too. For more info and links check out the Sugarlips myspace page.
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Thanks to photographers who let me use their Hard Working Class Heroes photos in the slideshow. Big bualadh bos:
kDamo - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdamo/
Ian Oliver - http://www.flickr.com/photos/letcombe/
Lili Forberg - http://misslili.blogspot.com/
nialler9 contributor and SEBP member Mike giving it air-tennis socks at HWCH on Friday night. Photo courtesy of kDamo.
Wonderful weekend in the Pod for HWCH which I will now summarise in bullet form.
Despite my reservations about the Pod complex being the venue this year rather than scattered in venues across town, it was (for me [...]
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