Hard Working Class Heroes: live shots

Check out our pics from the weekend...

The Hot Press Newsdesk, 09 Oct 2012

We'll be giving you a full review of Hard Working Class Heroes in next week's issue of Hot Press, but until then, you can feast your peepers on our selection of shots from the weekend.

The event saw a whole host of Irish acts take to the respective stages of the Workman's Club, Grand Social, Button Factory, Mercantile and Twisted Pepper. HP's roving reporters Celina Murphy and Maeve Heslin were particularly taken by instrumental rockers Wiltz, sultry R&B act Frank B, shoop poppers September Girls, psych rockers Tandem Felix, ska/blues act Familiar Creatures and husky Dublin songsmith The Might Stef, to name but a few.

Read their review in full in next Thursday's issue of HP, and click to see pics from Friday and Saturday.

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