HWCH18 Announces Second Round of Delegates

Hard Working Class Heroes (HWCH18) festival, which recently announced its line-up of 50 acts that will perform at this year’s showcase, has now revealed its second round of industry delegates, which you can check out in full below.

The development and progression of the conference over the last few years has earned HWCH a good strong reputation, both locally and internationally, for being a must-attend event for anyone working in music in Europe.

It is the largest gathering of bookers, labels, managers, music supervisors, radio folk and journalists from around the world and here at home. HWCH annually brings Ireland to the world and the world to Ireland over one weekend.

The HWCH18 conference will take place in the Chocolate Factory across the three days with panels and workshops involving Irish and international delegates. The the second round of industry delegates include the following:

Nick Robinson - Kobalt
Molly O’Brien - Beggars Music
Paul Jones - Rough Trade Records
Adam Read - Deezer
Stephen O’Reilly - ie:music
Jake Sheppard - Triple Management
Almudena Heredero - Primavera Pro / Primavera Sound
Nathan Stein - Arts & Crafts
Adam Lewis - Planetary Group
Alisa Preisler - Ground Control Touring
François Missonnier - Europavox
Corinne Sadki - Le Bureau Export France

Just announced! A second round of delegates for @hwchfestival https://t.co/ba91YxMkEH pic.twitter.com/C102Buck1l

— IMRO (@IMROireland) 15 de agosto de 2018

The HWCH Music Conference delegates are funded through a 'See Here' award from Culture Ireland and forms the first step of First Music Contact’s export strategy. The conference is also supported by Dublin City Council Local Enterprise Office, IMRO (the Irish Music Rights Organisation) and Help Musicians UK.

Since its inception in 2003, the festival has showcased many of Ireland’s best-known acts including Maria Kelly, Saint Sister, Choice Music Prize winners Rusangano Family, Villagers, 2013's breakthrough act Hozier along with Girl Band, Ailbhe Reddy, Delorentos, Soulé, Jape, Coronas, Pleasure Beach, Talos, Le Boom, Otherkin and many more.

Currently running is an intiaitave between HWCH and media partners RTÉ 2FM which will see all fifty HWCH 18 acts being playlisted on 2FM between now and the festival. Beginning this week, every day two new acts from the line up will be added to the coveted 2FM playlist.

At the start of August, Hard Working Class Heroes announced the 50 acts that will make up the line-up for HWCH18, Ireland’s Annual Music Showcase and Conference, which takes place from 27-29 September in Dublin.

HWCH made the annual call for bands to apply in June and had a huge response with over 600 bands applied via First Music Contact’s platform Breaking Tunes. The bands were chosen independently by top international and Irish music industry professionals.

Last year HWCH reduced the number of bands showcasing to 50 and highlighted the need for acts to have a development plan and an eye on international activity. The success of this move resulted in a record number of Irish acts being selected for overseas showcase events in 2017 including Eurosonic, SXSW, The Great Escape, Reeperbahn, Primavera Pro and more.

Some of last year’s big successes to progress from the festival include acts such as Soulé, Roe, Bitch Falcon and David Keenan who played at Eurosonic in January / Fontaines, Æ Mak, Jafarais Lilla Vargen and Jealous of the Birds who showcased at The Great Escape / Paddy Hanna and Le Boom who recently graced the Primavera Pro stage in Barcelona.

HWCH hopes to see the same success from this years acts, 37 of which have not showcased before. The live showcases will take place across Friday 28th and Saturday 29th September across five city centre venues (see below). HWCH18 Venues for the three-day event are The Workman’s Club, Tramline, Tengu, Doyles and The Grand Social.

On Thursday 27th September, the opening night, a targeted networking social event will take place in the Chocolate Factory where all the international delegates will have the chance to meet with their Irish counterparts and artists attending the HWCH conference. (The conference is free to all musicians with a Breaking Tunes profile). This will be Ireland’s largest gathering of bookers, labels, managers, music supervisors, radio folk and journalists from around the world and here at home.

The weekend will see a mixture of workshops, discussions and panels which are growing in importance year on year for artists across all levels to meet with people one-to-one who can make a difference.

Here's the line up of the 50 bands for HWCH 2018:

1000 Beasts
A. Smyth
AE MAK
Alan Finan
Awkward Z
Bad Bones
Beauty Sleep
Bicurious
Brenna Carroll
Chanele McGuinness
Crook
Damola
Darce
Evans Junior
Feather Beds
Flynn
Hand Models
Hunkpapa
I Have A Tribe
Jack O’ Rourke
Josh Gray
Joshua Burnside
Just Mustard
Kitt Philippa
Laoise
Leila Jane
Malojian
Maria Kelly
Molly Sterling
New Atlas
New Pagans
Ódú
Owen Denvir
Pearly
Pillow Queens
Roe
Rosa Nutty
Sam Wickens
Sean OB
Silverbacks
Sonja Sleator
Tadgh
The Wood Burning Savages
Thumper
Tim Chadwick
Tiz McNamara
TRUE TIDES
Wastefellow
Wild Youth
Xo Mo

📣 TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR HWCH 2018!

Discover your new favourite artists this September at Hard Working Class Heroes.

Go to https://t.co/6Bwpo2Plum for tickets! pic.twitter.com/kMZI28drKv

— Hard Working Class Heroes (@hwchfestival) 26 de julio de 2018

HWCH18 Venues include The Workman’s Club, Tramline, Tengu, Doyles and The Grand Social. Tickets are available via Eventbrite and are priced as follows (excluding charges):
Delegate Ticket (Thursday, Friday & Saturday) €55 / Live Ticket (Friday & Saturday) €35
Conference Ticket (Thursday, Friday & Saturday) €25 / Live Ticket (Friday/Saturday) €25
Single Venue Ticket €12.50 (only available on the door at live music venues)
For further information check out
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/hard-working-class-heroes-2018-tickets-48066392875

Featuring some of the acts from the forthcoming @hwchfestival on @rte2fm tonight - 'Love Flush' from @AEMAKofficial #NowPlaying on @rte2fm https://t.co/kZLq1dNcxa pic.twitter.com/VgixRLBluX

— 🎤 Dan Hegarty 🎧 (@talldanhegarty) 15 de agosto de 2018