Knockanstockan shuttle bus schedule:

€12 single / €20 return.

FINAL CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!!

Knockanstockan will be closing its volunteer application process this weekend.

Please attend meeting in Sweeney’s (Le Cirk) on Dame Street this Saturday 17th July @3pm.

Volunteering involves two 7hour dayshifts or one 8hour night shift spread out over the weekend.

All queries regarding volunteers to:
knockanstockan@gmail.com
rachel – 0862338890
maeve – 0876550684

Download a copy of the NEW VOLUNTEER FORM.

ASIWYFA are Headlining Friday night July 23rd at Knockanstockan!

Northern Ireland sensations And So I Watch You From Afar had an amazing start to their 2010, returning from this years EuroSonic Festival courtesy of RTE 2FM to find out they have been nominated for both Irelands Choice Music Prize and the XFM New Music Album of the Year for 2009 in the UK putting them up against some of the UK and Irelands finest bands and artists, Cementing them as one of the finest in the UK and Ireland.

Touring in 2010 has brought the band to the US and a total of 17 countries in Europe. As well as festival shows, the bands own shows, they have had time to slot in a support tour with non other than Them Crooked Vultures!!! This tour had the band cross Europe again ending with a mind-bending show at the Brixton Academy. What next? Record demos for upcoming releases in between festival appearances such as Lowlands and Sonisphere all the way as far as Latvia.

“A sensational debut couldn’t fade into the wallpaper if it tried.”
10/10 – State Magazine

“They make Mogwai sound like McFly.”
Dan Hegarty RTE 2FM

“If the apocalypse is televised, these guys will provide the soundtrack.”
10/10 – BBC R1

“…the album is set to drop, we’ve heard it and it’s awesome, so there.”
Rock Sound – Ones To Watch 2009

“…the sound of someone crashing an oil tanker through Sigur Ros’ ice flow.”
NME

“It’s rare for a body of work to be so dreamy and elegiac yet conversely monstrously heavy…  sounds like the end of the world”
KKKK – Kerrang!

“And So I Watch You From Afar effortlessly deliver, bringing a brain-annihilating barrage of rhythms [like a] Rottweiler, what’s just been kicked in the knackers.”
9/10 – Drowned In Sound

“Imagine if Mogwai were from Belfast and had massive balls, or if Pelican still meant it.”
8/10 – Vice

“One of the most hotly tipped British bands around at the moment.”
Big Cheese

See their MySpace page

Bio

Other bands talk about it, And So I Watch You From Afar do it. In 2009, ASIWYFA played a mammoth 170 gigs all over Europe. From extensive tours in the UK to opening Pukkelpop festival in Belgium in front of 4500 captivated people to Novarock festival in Austria, gigs in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine and Russia, this is a band that means business.

Their hometown Belfast shows are legendary from the 1,000 capacity headline Christmas homecoming gig in the Ulster Hall right down to a small secret basement party that was shut down by the police late in the night for being too insane.

Everything about ASIWYFA is gargantuan. Their critically-acclaimed, self-titled debut album released in 2009 is exhibit A. From the ironclad riffs to the pummeling crash of the cymbals to the palpable positivity of the music, it’s everything great rock (never mind just instrumental rock) music should be. Even the song which take in titles like ‘Set Guitars To Kill’, ‘Clench Fists, Grit Teeth… GO!’ and the ASIWYFA practice what you preach mantra ‘Don’t Waste Time Doing Things You Hate’, are epic in scale.

Filled with monstrous guitars, bulging rock histrionics and genuinely breathtaking moments, And So I Watch You from Afar is easily one of the best records of 2009.

Revered music publications like The Quietus (‘Quite some distance ahead of the rest of ’09’s guitar albums so far’), NME (‘The sound of someone crashing an oil tanker through Sigur Ros’ ice floe’), Kerrang! (‘ It’s rare for a body of work to be so dreamy and elegiac yet conversely monstrously heavy’) and Vice (‘rescuing the instrumental ship from the deepest depths of irrevocable mediocrity’) all agree.

ASIWYFA are a band that are only going to get bigger and more inspiring. The Letters EP released in January 2010 and there will be further releases throughout the year. Meanwhile, catch the band’s incendiary live show at a venue near you.

The festive season is upon us again – the music festival season that is, so it’s time to chip the mud off last year’s wellies and unfurl that stinky tent. For something smaller and more personal, there is the Knockanstockan Independent Music Festival, which takes place on the shores of Blessington Lakes in Wicklow on July 23rd to 25th.

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Volunteer meetings in Sweeneys (le cirk) Dame lane:

Saturday 26th June @3pm
Sunday 4th July @ 5pm
Saturday 10th July @ 3pm
Saturday 17th July @3pm

All queries regarding volunteers to:

knockanstockan@gmail.com

rachel – 0862338890

‘Tune in for Artbeat on Dublin City FM tomorrow at 8pm, which will be all about summer festivals! First up Sadhbh will be speaking live in studio with Peter Keogh about the Knockan Stockan Music Festival – a fun independent music festival since 2007, which takes place in the the picturesque setting of the Blessington Lakes in Wicklow 23rd-25th July.’

Knockanstockan were interviewed for Artbeat – audio file here:

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Knockanstockan Launch Party, 21st May, The Sweeney Mongrel, Dame St

3 floors of madness from 9pm to 2:30am

Line-up(s) to include:

Teaser of Knockanstockan Documentary film

Meet the crew behind the festival

All are welcome

Knockanstockan Documentary Screening, 26th May, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar

Press screening at 4pm, with wine and cheese generously supplied by the Porterhouse

Public screening at 8pm

Bring your friends and witness the creation of something truly different, a festival built on good vibes alone