Homelights festival

Now this sounds just fucking great. As has been mentioned on here many times before, one of 2009's finest albums - national or international - is Adrian Crowley's Season of the Sparks. Crowley, having recently signed to the Chemikal Underground label, is having the album reissued at the end of November. Coinciding with this is the inaugural Homelights festival which will take place in Whelan's, Dublin on the weekend of November 27th - 30th. Crowley himself will kick things off on the Friday possibly joined by the likes of James Yorkston et al. Yorkston will play on Saturday 28th but, most exciting of all is the fact that the rarely seen Vashti Bunyan will play the same venue on Sunday 29th. A limited number of weekend tickets priced at €45 are available here.

Friday, November 27th (Upstairs @ Whelan’s, 8pm, tickets €12)
Adrian Crowley & Friends (solo performances & collaborations)

Saturday, November 28th (Whelan’s, 3pm – 10.30pm, tickets €20)
Adrian Crowley (full band performance)
James Yorkston
Adem
Alastair Roberts
& special guests tbc

Sunday, November 29th (Whelan’s 3pm – 1.30pm, tickets €25)
Vashti Bunyan (full band performance)
Adrian Crowley (accompanied by Geese)
Andy Irvine
Minotaur Shock
Lord Cut-Glass
& full line-up tbc

Monday, November 30th (Whelan’s 8pm – 11pm, tickets €15)
Dosh
Hulk
& special guests tbc