New Music, Festival: Hard Working Class Heroes 2011

Hard Working Class Heroes – 2011 Annual Showcase Festival and Conference for New Irish Music runs 6th / 7th / 8th October

100 Bands - 3 days - 6 Venues - 1 Ticket

HWCH And The City returns for a third year, bringing artists out of the nighttime music venues and into additional city centre bookshops, cafes and alternative venues. HWCH And & City will present lots of free events across the 3 days of the festival. These are not to be missed all-ages opportunities to check out your favourite Irish bands in very intimate and up-close surroundings.

The HWCH Convention begins tomorrow [Thursday 6th] at 5pm with the first BandTips session taking place downstairs in Filmbase. The industry panels start on Friday at 2pm in The Button Factory with the first panel being Meet The Geeks followed at 3.30pm with The A Team. For all the details on the convention and a list of the Irish and International industry attending – log onto http://hwch.net/industry.html.

There is also a Photography Exhibition up and running in Shebeen Chic.

• Dates: Thursday 6 / Friday 7 / Saturday 8 October
• Tickets: Weekend Tickets €45.00 plus fees, Nightly Tickets €20 plus fees
• Get Them: Box Office Filmbase Curved Street, Temple Bar
• Venues: The Button Factory, The Mercantile, The Grand Social, Shebeen Chic Twisted Pepper and The Workmans Club
• More info: www.hwch.net

Gonna Be There - Try ’45 Sound’
Ever wanted to make a video of your favourite band? Well this year at HWCH you can be the film maker by following 4 easy steps.
Step one - At any of the gigs you attend at HWCH, when the mood takes you and the music moves you, take out your phone and film it for posterity.
Step 2 - Keep an eye on #hwch11 and when the band you film comes up as UPLOADED, go to www.45sound.com
Step 3 - Upload your footage to 45sound.com.
Step 4 - 45sound.com will send you back your video synched with a pitch perfect recording from the desk. Et voila your very own video for your favourite band for you to share.

Can’t Be There - Try ‘Aer TV’
Can’t make one of the gigs? Has a family member / best friend emigrated and you’d like them to share the HWCH experience with you? Four of the nights will be filmed AND streamed live by the wonderful people at Aer TV. Hard Working Class Heroes will be streamed live from selected venues on Aertv.ie on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. Updates will be announced via Aertv’s Facebook page – www.facebook.com/aertv.

The HWCH Pop Up Record Shop

The HWCH Pop Up Record Shop will give 14 leading independent Irish labels the chance to sell their wares on Saturday 8th on Curved Street Temple Bar outside the Box office. The labels taking place are :

• 10am -2pm Quater Inch Collective, Popical Island, Delphi, Long Lost, Skinny Wolves, Osaka, Out on a limb
• 2pm -6pm Small Town America, Psychonavigation, CF Records, Rubyworks, All City Records, Eleven Eleven, Richter Collective

For the full schedule head over to www.hwch.net and be sure to follow the twitter updates on www.twitter/hwch11 over the weekend as they’ll lead you around the city for some very special HWCH performances.

A note on Bulmer’s Berry:
Bulmer’s Berry is a unique blend of 17 varieties of apple, similar to Bulmer’s Original, fused with the finest selection of blackcurrants, raspberries and strawberries. - they’re the sponsors so fair play to them and Culch.ie says drink sensibly. Frankie says Relax.