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New Music, Festival: Hard Working Class Heroes 2011

  By Culch.ie | October 5, 2011 - 2:06 pm | Festivals
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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 … There’s more →

Competition CLOSED: Eleventyfour to the floor

  By Lisa McInerney | August 18, 2011 - 12:00 pm | Comedy, Competitions, Music, Site News, The Culch
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EleventyFour does not do four-to-the-floor kind of kicks; I just thought it made a nice little retrotechno title. We love Eleventy at Culch. You may have noticed already. We were utterly thrilled, then, to hear that the kooky cutie is making her Electric Picnic debut this year, playing the Love Letter Stage in the Body & Soul village on Saturday September 3rd. She’s also playing Hard Working Class Heroes in October, but we already told you that last week. Pay attention, for Christ’s sake. Anyway, Eleventy is so thrilled that we’re thrilled that she’s given us two copies of her very lovely debut EP, The Joy Imperative, to give away to a couple of readers willing to be thrilled alongside. Want one? Drop us a comment, telling us something that makes you smile, after the jump!

Hard Working Class Heroes 2011

  By Lisa McInerney | August 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm | The Culch
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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 … There’s more →

New Music: EleventyFour

  By Sinead Keogh | May 9, 2011 - 1:39 pm | The Culch
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Since Cork’s EleventyFour told us that she hoped we were enjoying the sunny day when she sent in her EP for review, we felt a bit predisposed to like her. We liked her a bit more when we saw that her promo pic is of a beaming girl on a pogo stick… We just plain loved her by the time we sat down with the headphones in to check out the tunes. A perfect mix of comedy and heart, Eleventy is a genre all her own that could probably be called ‘Happy Acoustic’ - and you don’t get much of that now do you? The Joy Imperative debut EP comes after 3 years on the music scene in which she’s gigged on Arthur’s Day (as part of it mind, sure couldn’t we all busk on Grafton Street and say we gigged on Arthur’s Day ), as part of the Hard … There’s more →

Hard Working Class Cousins

  By Kitty Catastrophe | October 6, 2010 - 9:00 am | Gigs, Music, The Culch
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There’s some really dynamite collective nouns out there. Murder of crows aside, there’s a smack of jellyfish, a sleuth of bears, a pounce of cats, an unkindness of ravens and (apparently) an implausibility of gnus. Recently while walking up O’Connell Street I came up with a “depression of junkies”, but now I need one for cousins. Maybe a carafe of cousins? The reason for this is that in the run up to this year’s Hard Working Class Heroes, members of three Dublin based acts on the rise and in this year’s lineup have outed themselves as none other than a carafe of cousins. Chris and Laura Coffey of The Holy Roman Army, Dorothy Cotter aka EleventyFour and Billy Fitzgerald of The Dead Flags, to be precise. All three acts will be performing over the coming days for this year’s festival, and if Dorothy gets her way they might even come … There’s more →

Culch.ie Calling Cards - Gigs - October 4 - 10 2010

  By Will | October 3, 2010 - 11:59 pm | Gigs, Music, The Culch
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GIGS New Northern Ireland band General Fiasco are playing a series of all ages gigs (Over 14s show – No alcohol served) across the country this week. Kicking off at 6pm its Roisin Dubh in Galway on Tuesday 5th October then to Dolans in Limerick on Thursday 7th and finally in Dublin’s Academy 2 on Friday 8th. Something for the not that young artists section, Donovan is playing the Olympia on 4th October. From 1966 through 1969, Donovan scored a string of eleven Top 40 hits in a row, including Mellow Yellow and Sunshine Superman. Of interest to Beatles fans, the one of the few artists to collaborate on songs, contributing lyrics and vocals to the song Yellow Submarine. So that earworm is partially his fault. “The Nameless” is Cathy Davey’s third album and she is promoting it with an Irish wide tour. First signed by Parlophone’s Regal Recordings after … There’s more →

Culchie Calling Cards – Gigs – August 23 – 29 2010

  By Will | August 22, 2010 - 11:59 pm | Gigs, Music, The Culch
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TICKETS Thin Lizzy is touring again. OK, obviously this is Thin Lizzy without its former very famous front man Phil Lynott. The new line-up is Scott Gorham (Guitar - Thin Lizzy), Brian Downey (Drums - Thin Lizzy), Darren Wharton (keyboards - Thin Lizzy), Vivian Campbell (Guitar - Def Leppard), Marco Mendoza (Bass Guitar - Whitesnake, Ted Nugent) and Ricky Warwick (Lead vocals/Guitar), and they are playing The Waterfront on 16 February and Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on 17 February 2011. Tickets for both concerts go on sale next Friday 27 August 2010 at 9AM from usual Ticketmaster outlets nationwide or directly from the venue box offices. Hard Working Class Heroes have announced the 100 Irish bands to play this year’s festival in the Temple Bar area (mostly Andrews Lane Theatre, The Button Factory, The Mercantile, The Grand Social, Sweeney’s, Twisted Pepper and The Workmans Club), Dublin on Thursday 7, Friday 8 … There’s more →

Hard Working Class Heroes 2010

  By seanear1ey | July 1, 2010 - 12:24 pm | Events, Gigs, Music, The Culch
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Hard Working Class Heroes (or HWCH) is a festival held in Dublin each year to expose and promote homegrown talent in the form of Irish bands and musicians. HWCH 2010 takes place from the 7th - 9th of October across Dublin and will see over 100 bands perform in 7 venues including The Button Factory, Pravda, Andrew’s Lane Theatre, Sweeney’s, The Mercantile, The Workman’s Club and the Twisted Pepper itself. Last night we were treated to four of those said bands at the Twisted Pepper on Middle Abbey St for the HWCH 2010 Launch party. Live music on the night was provided by Enemies, At Last an Atlas, Noveau noise and Squarehead who finely showcased the type of fresh Irish musical talent we should expect across the program of the festival. Bottles of Bulmers Berry and bags of Burdocks chips were in plentiful supply on the night to the assembled … There’s more →