Over 50 acts confirmed for Glasgowbury 2010

EVERY year, without fail, a small festival with a massive heart knock us for six with a line-up of talent guaranteed to make your eyes water with excitement.

Glasgowbury, the homegrown music festival on our own back doorstep, and officially Ireland's Best Small Festival, has once again promised to deliver to us a day so filled with talent and excitement that the next 50 days can hardly go quickly enough.

The 'small but MASSIVE!' festival, which celebrates its tenth birthday this year, made a series of announcements last week regarding information on the coveted line-up for its milestone celebrations.

And what a shed-load of announcing it was. Ahead of their second album, provisionally titled Bones Of The Twilight, Derry punk trio Fighting With Wire have been announced as this year's main stage headliners.

Due to top last year's event the lads were forced to pull out when called to America to begin work on said follow-up, replaced instead by the majestic And So I Watch You From Afar who have hardly had time to set foot in Ireland again since, such has been their colossal success.

But Cahir, Jamie and Craig will be welcomed home on Saturday 24th July to propel Glasgowbury into a new decade. Joining them on the day will be over 50 other acts including:

LaFaro, Fight Like Apes, General Fiasco, Duke Special, Joe Echo, Adebisi Shank, Henrietta Game, Junior Johnson, Little Hooks, Deep Fried Funk DJs, Cashier No 9, In Case Of Fire, Yes Cadets, Rams Pocket Radio, mojoFURY, Not Squares, Futurechaser, Paul Shevlin, Paddy Nash & The Happy Enchiladas, Paul Casey, Building Pictures, Keith Harkin, Rupture Dogs, Key Of Atlas, The Last Tycoons, The Jane Bradfords, Stand Up Guy, The Riptide Movement, John Shelley & The Creatures, Lowly Knights, Strait Laces, Aaron Shanley, Pocket Billiards, Wonder Villains, Team Fresh, More Than Conquerors, Axis Of, Panama Kings, A Plastic Rose, Furlo, Here Come The Landed Gentry, Silhouette, The Q, Colenso Parade, Swanee River, Fingersmith, John Edgar Voe, Chipzel, Gascan Ruckus, Triggerman, The Vals, Captain Kennedy and Jackson Cage...phew.

We could tell you that this is the most exciting line-up Glasgowbury has ever announced, but of course you knew that already. And what else would you expect from a festival that's spent ten years at the heart of new music in Ireland?!

And let's be honest. If last year's line-up gave them the power to steal the Best Line-Up award from Oxegen, this year's should allow them to comfortably lock it away in the safe for another year.

This year's bill encompasses the very best in emerging and established talent from throughout Ireland - north and south - including scores of acts out to promote new albums such as LaFaro, mojoFURY, In Case Of Fire and southern noiseniks Fight Like Apes.

Needless to say, being Mid-Ulster based, we're also over the moon to see so much local talent in the line-up including Silhouette, Building Pictures, Joe Echo and General Fiasco - all of who are working their asses off and doing really exciting things at the moment

After ten years in the festival business Paddy Glasgow told us he was happy to still be here, putting on such an established event.

"We never expected to be here ten years after the first festival so to be celebrating this ten year milestone is a great achievement for us in itself," Paddy told us.

"We received a record number of submissions this year and we have been overwhelmed by the response from right across the UK. We hope that the line-up we have set out will appeal to a wide audience and we look forward to celebrating with everyone on July 24th."

And as if 54 confirmed acts wasn't enough, Paddy and the Glasgowbury team have announced that some special guests will be attending this year's festival to help with the celebrations. They wouldn't be drawn on exact details, but rumour has it we should expect good things...

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