Win Tickets to Cork xSW Festival

21st Jul 2008

Murphy's Live presents
CORK X SOUTHWEST 2008
Skibbereen, Co. Cork - Saturday July 26, 2008
*TICKETS ON-SALE NOW@€50*
*FROM WWW.CORKXSW.COM AND SELECTED LOCAL OUTLETS*

New artists and a range of interesting sideshow events have been added to the line-up for this year's budding eclectic music festival Murphy's Live presents Cork X Southwest.

The Walls: more Clare men taking on Cork this weekend.

The Main Stage will now feature Clare's favourite sons The Walls and melodic LA jazz-electro outfit Helios Jive as well as acclaimed national and international music acts, including Cathy Davey, Jape, Malian virtuoso guitarist Afel Bocoum and The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir with their ferocious combination of traditional blues, Appalachian folk and ragged gospel. The main stage will also see performances from local bands Avatar, Television Room, The Church, Chucklehead and Murphy's Live 2008 winners, Gorbachov.

The Rula Bula Tent will offer the very best local and international DJs and dance acts. Headlined by DJ and producer extraordinaire Andrew Weatherall, the stage will also feature Cork's finest, Fish Go Deep, and Scribble/Bodytonic scratch maestro DJ Kormac, as well as local DJ's Colm Kenfenick, Richie Allen and Ollie Brook.

Jape and an apple. We're assured he stands up for performances.

For the first time, Cork X Southwest hosts an acoustic offering, De Barra's Sitting Room Sessions,which will see performances by John Spillane, Roesy, Preston Reed, Juno Falls, Thomas Truax, Tadgh Cooke, Armoured Bear, St. Bourbon and Gavin Moore hosted by the world famous Clonakilty venue.

In keeping with the West Cork vibe, Cork X Southwest will use local producers providing delicious organic festival treats, cooked in the slow food ethic. Local artists and sculptors, including the Skibbereen Working Artists Studio, will contribute to the ambience of the festival site.

A new addition to the festival, The R 'n' R tent, will be a refuge from the hustle and bustle of the festival, hosting a variety of quirky events. Don't have the time to travel around the emerald isle?

Rosey

Check out A Long Drive Around Ireland and save yourself the trip! Play Sensible Soccer with your mates for free - it's the greatest game in the world - or if that doesn't suffice give Ringo a try, guess the intros to songs within 30 seconds and be crowded the king of music bingo for music nerds.

Stuck for green space in your urban retreat? Check out Malcolm Rutherford's lecture on 'Growing A Garden in Your Flat' and turn your indoors into outdoors.

In addition to the above, festival-goers can immerse themselves in the wonderful world of Thomas Truax - an instrument inventor from New York, the Cork Music Photography Slideshow, and a seminar on bikes from the Cork Bike Community Movement. The No Frontiers Dance Company will present BMX Ballet, a choreographed dance extravaganza featuring bicycles, bmx, skateboards, wheelchairs, rollerblades and unicycles.

The Cinemobile will also be on site, screening music documentaries including The Adventures Of Flannery,the story of Cork-born singer, songwriter and enfant terrible Cathal Coughlan and Shellshock Rock, a documentary on Belfast's punk-rock scene in the late 1970's. Other musical choices include The Irishmen: An Impression of Exile (1965), Freedom Highway and Dambe: The Mali Project (2008).

Preston Reed

Friday July 25 will also see the addition of a Festival Fringe, to kick start the weekend. Some of Skibbereen's finest hostelries will host live performances from the cream of up and coming Irish bands such as Stanley Super 800 (performing their popular country set), Moebius, Ian Whitty and The Exchange, The Civilians, Setmaker and the Ceili All Stars.

Hosted in the picturesque Showground's on the outskirts of Skibbereen, Murphy's Live presents Cork X Southwest is a thriving new one day event that brings together a veritable feast for the senses - music, food, art and quirky sideshows, presented in a friendly, informal, relaxed atmosphere. Following the huge success of this year's Murphy's Live, Ireland's biggest band competiton, Murphy's are delighted to announce their continuing support of quality live music in presenting this year's Cork X Southwest festival, helping it to grow in both size and variety.

A music festival, run by music fans for music fans, Cork X Southwest is a long-term labour of love, which will be carefully nurtured and lovingly tended to over the coming years.

Murphy's Live presents Cork X Southwest 2008
The Showground's, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
Saturday July 26th.

For tickets and further information log on to www.corkxsw.com
Tickets also available from Plug'd Records, Washington St., Cork (021 4276300), Directors Cut, Skibbereen, (028 22284), De Barra's, Clonakilty (023 - 33381), Hickey's Music, Bantry (027-51666), Eric Hickey's Newsagent, Bandon (023-41176) Music Zone, Carrigaline (021 4377768), Tom Baylor's Music, Fermoy (022-31012) Music Express, Killarney (064-33077)

CONFIRMED LINE-UP TO DATE:

MAIN STAGE
THE WALLS, CATHY DAVEY, JAPE, HELIOS JIVE, AFEL BOCOUM & ALKIBAR, THE AGNOSTIC MOUNTAIN GOSPEL CHOIR, AVUTAR, THE CHURCH, TELEVISION ROOM, CHUCKLEHEAD, GORBACHOV

THE RULA BULA TENT
ANDREW WEATHERALL, FISH GO DEEP, DJ KORMAC - SCRIBBLE/BODYTONIC, COLM KENFENICK, DJ RICHIE ALLEN, DJ OLLIE BROOK

DE BARRAS SITTING ROOM TENT
JOHN SPILLANE, ROESY, PRESTON REED, JUNO FALLS, THOMAS TRUAX, ARMOURED BEAR, TADGH COOKE, ST. BOURBON, GAVIN MOORE, CEILIDH ALL STARS

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