Hot Sprockets & Raglans for KnockanStockan

KnockanStockan Independent Music and Arts Festival returns to its idyllic Blessington home for the seventh year from July 26 - 28 this summer.

Last years festival featured performances from The Strypes, Windings and Myles Manley amongst others, and proved to be a huge hit with punters as Knockanstockan was named 'Best Small Festival', 'Best Family Festival', and also selected for 'Best Lineup' and the 'Social Responsibility Award' at the Irish Festival Awards.

This year the KnockanStockan crew have been at it again, and have just announced the first batch of the 150 acts that will take to the stages over the weekend. Full line-up details that will include a host of international acts will be revealed at next month's official launch.

Here's who we have so far though:

The Eskies, Ross Breen, The Hot Sprockets, John Blek & The Rats, The FitzaFrenic, Earthship, Niwel Tsumbu, Cocaine Ponytail, Blind Yackety, Veroa, Sinead White, Corner Boy, Rocher, Sarah Red, The Rusty Fixtures, Quincy, Val Normal, The Radioactive Grandma, Tandem Felix, Redwoods, Land of the Giants (UK), Liza Flume, The City Apples, Tic Til Friday, Conor Linnie, Crow Black Chicken, Raglans, Arrow in the Sky, Rufus Coates & The Blackened Trees, Niamh Regan, Indecent Cigar Emporium, Saucy Jack & The Bang Bang Band, New Valley Wolves, Punch Face Champions, Hassle Merchants, She’s A Beauty, Wyvern Lingo, Fox. E & The Good Hands, Those Creeps, Mikey & The Scallywags, Stephen Young & The Union, The Gorgeous Colours, New Secret Weapon, Tod Doyle & The Troubled, Markas Carcas.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Wednesday, April 10) at 9am via [link]knockanstockan.ie.[/link] A limited amount of early bird tickets are available at €75. Once they've gone weekend tickets are €95. Sunday day tickets are priced at €40 while a family ticket costs €95 and admits one adult and two children under 12.