Hard Working Class Heroes 2011

  By Lisa McInerney | August 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm | The Culch

I am working-class. I am hard-working. I enjoy heroics. This is the festival for me.

Hard Working Class Heroes, the “annual showcase festival and conference for new Irish music”, has just announced details of its 2011 line-up, one hundred Irish bands who will play in Dublin city centre from the 6th to the 8th October. The quality is bloody impressive, but I’m going to go mental and blindly recommend you catch Bitches With Wolves, Moths, Grand Pocket Orchestra, Overhead, The Albatross, Owensie, Toby Kaar, Sleep Thieves, The Holy Roman Army, Bats, We Are Losers, Cfit and Culch favourites EleventyFour and The Dying Seconds. Mmm, eclectic. *drools*

The festival venues are The Button Factory, The Mercantile, The Grand Social, Shebeen Chic, Twisted Pepper and The Workman’s Club, none of whom I can be arsed to link to. Just Google Maps ‘em, will yis? Kids today with their sense of entitlement. This is about working-class heroes! Or hard-working heroes who are class. Either or. My point stands.

Full line-up is available on the website. Tickets are on sale now from Entertainment.ie and usual outlets, with weekend tickets priced at €45.00 plus fees, and nightly tickets at a pocket-friendly €20 plus fees.

About Lisa McInerney

That cranky young wan from award-winning blog, Arse End Of Ireland, Lisa’s also noted for her dedication to cobbling together unrelated imprecations to make new and bemusing insults, mostly because she’s not eloquent enough to otherwise explain her deep-seated terror of genre fiction and Fianna Fail. In 2006, The Irish Times called her “… the most talented writer at work in Ireland today”, and her mam still can’t understand why this is better than being the new Marian Keyes. Which it totally is. Alright? Website Twitter: @SwearyLady Facebook.com/sweary Last FM: LeislVonTrapp

2 Responses to Hard Working Class Heroes 2011

  1. Eleventy Four says:
    August 12, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    Aww shucks, thanks for the favouriting… and with these italics you are really spoiling me!

  2. Eleventy Four says:
    August 12, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    Aww shucks, thanks for the favouriting… and with these italics you are really spoiling me!