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Review: Hard Working Class Heroes – Saturday

Review: Hard Working Class Heroes – Saturday

Saturday began with a fantastic performance from Come On, Live Long in the Grand Social. Their expansive rock was enough to fill the room left lamentably empty of punters. One of the highlights of the show was new track ‘Elephants and Time’ (which is free to download now from their Bandcamp page). The Debutantes followed [...]

Review: Hard Working Class Heroes – Friday

Review: Hard Working Class Heroes – Friday

“We’d like to thank Buckfast Berry for supporting this festival” is the first thing I hear from a band on Saturday night as I arrive just after the start of Squarehead’s set. They play a sort of pop punk in the same vein as Ash or early Weezer. And while they seem to really enjoy, [...]

Hard Working Class Heroes Stage time breakdown

Hard Working Class Heroes Stage time breakdown

So here we go another Hard Working Class Heroes, another 101 top Irish acts showcasing their abilities. The lines have been draw. The stages are set. The venues and bands now have a full stage breakdown of who is playing where and when. So here it is, plenty to agonize over. The festival runs from [...]

HWCH Applications Closing soon!!!!

HWCH Applications Closing soon!!!!

HWCH APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSING SOON! Holy Crap that crept up really quickly. It closes in 10 days on July 30th. So this is the gentle nudge to remind Photographers and Bands wanting to get themselves involved should get their applications in NOW!. Just Visit  - www.hwch.net and click the ‘BANDS APPLY HERE’ button or if your [...]

Hard Working Class Heros Weekend Review

Hard Working Class Heros Weekend Review

(Click Pics for Full Size) If you follow the GP twitter feed you’ll know we were doing our best to cover this years Hard Working Class Heros Festival last weekend, a herculean effort seeing as we were faced with 100 acts over 6 venues, but being the little troopers we are, we battled on regardless [...]

HWCH Demo Dip Day (BANDS READ THIS!)

HWCH Demo Dip Day (BANDS READ THIS!)

If your in a band and want help with your sounds, opinions and feedback, this is the ticket for you. Each Year FMC (First Music Contact) run Demo Dip Day. FMC also deliver the following projects for musicians www.firstmusiccontact.com www.hwch.net www.musicfromireland.org www.breakingtunes.com Demo Dip Day is a chance to meet a professional from the music [...]

HWCH Lineup Announced

Thats right were nearly at that time of year where Ireland best acts take to the dublin stages in temple bar and rock the place to the foundations, people find a new favourite band and the next big thing normally starts to emerge. This year Northern hopefuls Fighting With Wire and rising Dublin electro act [...]

HWCH 2008

HWCH 2008

The Hard Working Class Heros festival returns this Septemeber to various venues around Dublin. Now in it’s 6th year, HWCH once again offers the best in new Irish music crammed into one action packed weekend. HWCH has returned to Temple Bar for this years festival after taking up residence in the Pod complex for last [...]