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Hard Working Class Heroes line-up announced

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With over 500 bands having applied, the line-up for this year’s Hard Working Class Heroes festival has been announced.

Having showcased some of the country’s finest breakthrough talent over the years – everyone from Hozier to Villagers – the line-up for this year is as follows:

A Lazarus Soul / Acrobat / Affleck / Arborist / Atriums / Benihana / Benny smiles / Brian Casey / Buffalo Sunn / Buffalo Woman / Carriages / Carried By Waves / Cfit / Ciaran Lavery / Cloud Castle Lake / Clu / Codai / Color // Sound / Columbia Mills / Conor Walsh / Contour / Deaf Joe / Dear Desert / Death In The Sickroom / Dogs / Dott / DVO Marvell / Eamon bode / Elaine Mai / Elastic Sleep / Elephant / Eoin Dolan / Fallen Rule / Floor Staff / Florence Olivier / Frankenstein Bolts / Galants / Ghost Estates / God Knows + mynameisjOhn / Grim / Hags / Hare Squead / Hauer / Hawk / His New Atlas / Hugh Hick / I have a tribe / I’m Your Vinyl / Imploded View / Jet Setter / Kobina / Kormac / little xs for eyes / Liza Flume / Low Sea / Maija Sofia / Maud in Cahoots / Me & My Dog / Me Auld Flower / Meltybrains? / Mere Moths / MKAI / moossmann  / Myles Manley / Neon Atlas / Old Hannah / Otherkin / Paddy Hanna / Participant / Planet Parade / Princess (pictured) / Red Queen Contest / Replete / Satori Je / Silences / Sisters / Skelocrats / Sleep Mc Evox / Somerville / Spies / Subplots / Tell No Foxx / The Academic / The Bedroom / The Black Sea Fleet / The Boxing Plot / The Clameens / The Debutantes / The Hard Ground / The Late David Turpin / The Loafing Heroes / The Magpies / The Pale / The Run Ons / The Shaker Hymn / The Statics / The Vincent(s) / Tino Ras / Val Normal / Vann Music / Voids / Walpurgis Family / Wild Promises / Yes Cadets.

Tickets for the festival – set to take place throughout Dublin from October 2-4 – are on sale now, priced at €45.00 (and fees) for Weekend Tickets and €20 (and fees) for Nightly tickets.

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