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Listen up, people.

The annual festival showcasing the best new talent in the country that was once called Hard Working Class Heroes and is now called Irish Music Week is almost upon us.

Among the dozens of local acts performing in multiple venues across the capital will be a number of artists that we have covered here on Broadsheet including Basciville, Sun Mashene and Laura Elizabeth Hughes. And that’s not to mention all the music industry conferences full of movers and also shakers.

If you would like to win Two FREE passes giving access to both the concerts and the conferences simply tell me below who is your favourite new Irish artist and why.

The winner will be chosen by my robot butler Cyril.

Lines close at 2.45pm Extended until 5.05pm 11.45pm.

Nick says: Living la vida local.

Irish Music Week Showcases
Irish Music Week conferences

Thanks to Liza Geddes at Recode Publicity.

On Wednesday, we posted Dublin band Porn Victim’s excellent video and song tribute to the Trip To Tipp entitled ‘A Fabulous Weekend’.

Using archive footage, it celebrated the return of the festival to Thurles this weekend.

Broadsheet commenter ‘Italia ’90’ writes:

Oh dear sweet mudder of gawd but that’s me at 3.24 to the right in 1994. Got fired from Bewley’s the following Monday for not getting all my deliveries done in Tipperary that Friday.Good times. Moved to NY a few months later…

In fairness.

Wednesday: Days Of Wine And Roses

Free tomorrow?

Fancy a vintage train porn blowout?

Taxi!

The Atrix – Teasure On The Wasteland

Like a phoenix from the embers of Dublin’s fabled post-punk new wave scene, The Atrix have risen.

Tonight a reconfigured line-up featuring two members of the original band (Hugh Friel now sings in place of the late John Borrowman) as well as Horslips‘ Jim Lockhart on keyboards plays The Sugar Club, Dublin 2, where they will launch a new retrospective album of their finest songs.

With perfect timing, a new video for the band’s seminal 1980 (Midge Ure-produced) hit Treasure On The Wasteland (above) has just been uploaded to YouTube directed by Alex Bradley of Guns And Butter.

It’s a visually stunning piece of work that does justice to the pioneering spirit of the group when they were in their pomp.

If you want to read a definitive in-depth feature on the history and legacy of The Atrix then check out John Fleming’s piece in the Irish Times here.

Nick says: Hidden Treasure gleams the brightest.

The Atrix at the Sugar Ciub (Sugar Club)

Stop that.

Medieval map porn addict Natalie Grueninger writes:

What a wonderful map of Ireland/Hibernia from 1567!

It was made by John Goghe with additions by Sir William Cecil.

I love the ships and sea monsters!

Hibernia, 1567 (Uk National Archives)

Christy Dignam: My Crazy World by Christy Dignam (with Damian Corless)

This morning/afternoon.

The sales are in.

Via Aslan:

Well we couldn’t be more proud of you Christy!!

Christy Dignam” My Crazy World is……NUMBER 1 this week on the HB non fiction best-sellers!!

Thank you everyone who has purchased Christy’s book to date.

The book launch event in Eason [O’Connell Street, Dublin 1] tomorrow evening is Sold Out!

Christy Dignam: My Crazy World

Aslan (Facebook)

Porn Victim – A Fabulous Weekend

For the weekend that’s about to be in it.

PV writes:

Footage of Thurles during the Féile festivals of the 1990s Sample taken from Eddy Grant’s Electric Avenue.

Voices of Michael Lowry TD, Gerry Ryan DJ, and some Christian lunatic.

Long live the Féile!

Hic.

Feile 2019

Pic: Wally Cassidy.

Previously: Enjoy This Trip
Thanks PV

Joni Morris – When The Party’s Over

Tá ‘s ad nach mbeidh mé riamh gan thú
A fhad ‘s go mbeidh mé n-ann análú
Toram deis breathnaigh mo éadan
Is tú an chúis mé beo ar éigean

Pop goes our mother tongue.

Teenage sensation Joni Morris has already racked up over 20,000 views on YouTube since she posted this mesmerising video of her singing Billie Eilish‘s hit as Gaeilge.

Named after Joni Mitchell, the 14-year-old from Greystones, County Wicklow, cemented her love affair with the Irish language during trips to Colaiste Lurgan in County Galway.

Joni also sings in a trio called Fuze.

Nick says: Billie Irish, anyone?

Carlow Weather Guy tweetz:

This photo sums up the [National Ploughing Championships] @NPAIE #Ploughing19

Beautiful lines (if sloppy ‘ripple’), In fairness.

Not like last year then.

National Ploughing Championships 2019