2011 ARTISTES
We would like to acknowledge the assistance of Cavan-Monaghan LEADER, the Minister and Department of Community, Environment & Local Government,
the EU and EAFRD in part-funding this project.
FUNDED BY THE IRISH GOVERNMENT UNDER THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN, 2007-2013
Is fiontar comhpháirteach é LEADER Cabhán-Muineacháin idir Breifne Aontaithe Teoranta agus Forbairt Aontaithe Teoranta Muineacháin chun an Clár Forbairt Tuithe Éireann 2007-2013 a thoirbhirt i gcontaetha Cabhán agus Muineacháin.
Cavan-Monaghan LEADER is a joint venture between Breffni Integrated Ltd. and Monaghan Integrated Development Ltd. for the delivery of the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 in counties Cavan and Monaghan.
LIST OF ARTISTS
A very welcome late arrival folks ...
none other than the great.... SAM SHEPARD
.....( yes 'THE' Sam Shepard ) He'll be playin' Geetaaar and reading from his plays !
JOHN BANVILLE
Irish novelist and screenwriter. His breakthrough novel The Book of Evidence was short listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He sometimes writes under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. Banville is known for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators. His stated ambition is to give his prose "the kind of denseness and thickness that poetry has".
MALCOLM - iBRUTE - BENNETT
This beatnik rascal had us in stitches last year with his pomes.Scouser crazy.And he's back!
NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL
One of Irelands' finest Gaelic language poets who writes astonishingly about mermaids and Kerry and all.We love her at Flatlake.Its her first visit but we still do.
ROBERT FISK
Robert Fisk is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. Middle East correspondent of The Independent, he has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported on the United States's war in Afghanistan and the same country's 2003 invasion of Iraq. Fisk is a brilliant journalist and writer ...and holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent.
KEVIN BARRY
Did youse not read his THE CITY OF BOHANE yet?There is good shooting in it and talk like sort of gammon in 3D.It gets 1000000 stars here.Also has wroted SHORT STORIES,'THERE AE LITTLE KINGDOMS'.
CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY
Christine Dwyer Hickey will be reading from her 6th novel The Cold Eye of Heaven which will be published in September by Atlantic Books
ROSITA SWEETMAN
Rosita is a genius.We hope she will talk about her seventies books and her visual art exhibition recently on in Dublin-about 'Our Lady.'
DECLAN GORMAN
Declan was co-founder of the ground breaking CO-MOTION theatre company and is now working with great success in cross border communtiy theatre as well as developing his own prose works.
MUNDY
A big hit last year. Teamed up with Shane McGowan and blew the roof off the Butty Barn.
He’s coming along with a coupla’ mates to finish it off fer good.
B & THE HONEYBOY
B & The Honeyboy are a deliciously rootsy, country tinged duo, who are currently recording their second album. B has been described as a cross between Adele and Dolly Parton and ‘a real discovery, her voice filling your head with pure soul as she gets under the skin of the songs and sings them from the inside out’ . Honeyboy, K.J. Mac is ‘one of Ireland’s unsung guitar heroes and songwriters’ and has a kick-ass full on guitar style for the which the word gritty may have been specially coined’. Not to be missed!!
TOM MC INTYRE
Played in goal for Cavan and has writted more masterpieces than you could shake a stick at,including THE CHAROLAIS(A novel)and our personal favourite short story THE MAN KEEPER.O and hunreds of plays for the Abbey theatre and all.
THE BOUDOIR SESSIONS
The Boudoir Sessions will be providing an exotic mix of vintage entertainment throughout the weekend. Details to come.
SOPHIE COYLE
Sophie Coyle’ s particularly haunting brand of folk has gained her a place on the soundtrack to horror film “Spiderhole” (UK and Irish release in 2010) with the single Delirium. She has supported Mundy, Scottish folk legend Dick Gaughan, John Spillane and Jinx Lennon this year and is a regular feature on the Electric Picnic line-up. One reviewer of her latest tour in Scotland said, “A natural talent and someone I wouldn't hesitate to recommend others to go and see.”
FRED
Where's yer biog, Fred ?
THE SUPER GROUP
Super tunes from a Super group all the Super classics - songs with a Super acoustic Super twist
AN EVENING OF MIND MAGIC
Witness mind-magician Shane Gillen as he messes with your minds through a unique, warm and charismatic style of magic. Shane has performed for celebrities such as Denzel Washington, Kelsey Grammer and Samuel L.Jackson and is currently touring his stage show ‘The Arrow of Time’. Join Shane in an audience-interactive experience that promises to delve into the depths of theatre of the mind as Shane waltzes with your inner thoughts in both an arresting and humorous fashion.
THE INISH TURK BEG SESSIONS
Imagine ‘your sex is on fire’ played by the Irish Flute.
Well that’s what yer gonna’ get …and much much more.
This brilliant collective have just recorded an album
on Clare Island, accompanied by a fantastic book.
They are sort of a reverse Horse Lips, the flute playing the lyric lines
from some cracking songs like Superstition, Crazy, Uprising ( my fave )
and the Strangler’s Golden Brown along with some trad classics.
Not to be missed!
BELLA–A-GO-GO
A wonderfully beautiful, silly and sexy cabaret form the imaginations of Bella A Go Go and her fine array of performers. Open your heart and mind and lose your inhibitions to incontrollable laughter and delight, from the finest burlesque and cabaret starlets in Ireland.
MIK ARTISTIK
Of all the most unique talents wandering around the festival circuit and beyond, Mik is definitely one of them. A firm Flat Lake favorite, he’ll make you laugh until your reinforced festival gusset turns yellow.
PAUL MURRAY
Here look-did youse read FLIPPER DIES yet?Youse did?Well then youse are liars because there is NO SUCH BOOK! Its called SKIPPY DIES and right here we give it 10 Million stars.
THE BIG FLAT LAKE POLITICAL DEBATE
‘Could the Queen be Catholic ?’
This is just one of the deeply thought provoking motions put forward for this year’s fruity debate, paneled by a host of surprise literary and political heavyweights.
THE FLYING TESTIFY POETRY SQUADRON
The Flying Testify Poetry Squadron are a fullblooded fireworking poetry performance ensemble. We bring strong writing alive as individuals, multi-vocal, and in madcap antics.
TENTH AVENUE DJ'S
Tenth avenue DJ’s has been entertaining the masses for years, at gigs including the annual closing awards night of clones film festival, if your not dancing at this its your money back.
That's if you actually paid to get in...
HUMBUZZER
Humbuzzer spring from the debris of the postmodern like reclaimed victorian garden follies. Look forward to their sonic blend of the new and the old. They write catchy songs held together with the memories of fishing and sailing and walking and chimney sweeping, industrial unresting, factory conditioning, rolling down hills, text messaging, farming and black smiting.
ROBERT SHEEHAN
Charismatic Bafta nominee, Robert, is sure to wow the audience when he arrives to do some 'Misfit'-style acting in the Gonzo. And helping The Captain to announce the writers.
BIPOLAR EMPIRE
“U2 GAIN SOME YOUNG STADIUM RIVALS: Witnessing Bipolar Empire at close quarters performing live on the set of the video shoot for the title track of their debut album... yours truly was reminded of the unbridled passion, energy and dynamism of '80s rock that is so often missing in these days of introspective indie. Not since the heyday of U2… has there been an Irish band that has so unashamedly taken it to the audience rather than the other way around... This is music with a big heart. It deserves a big audience.” Hot Press Magazine 21 April 2011.
THE STRYPES
The Strypes are a four piece BEAT group from Cavan! They bin on telly! They play vintage R&B! They really good! They eat sleep MOD! They Chuck Berry! They turtle neck! They groove up slowly! They love their Mums! They Slim Harpo! They winkle pick! They Rock-a-billy! They bin on the wireless! They Holy-Roller! They Flatlake Floozy with the Floy Floy!
LITTLE JOHN NEE
Turned up in year one and won the hearts and minds of every being on the site. Is still living in the Butty Barn under a green canvas cover and has consequently lost a lot of white weight.
THE BAHH BAND
I play Indian Classical music and would love to be part of the Flat Lakes festival this year. I currently and touring the West Coast with my fusion group, the Bahh Band and have a visiting tabla player from Italy.
We would love to be involved in your festival.
We could play a concert and also teach a workshop on the basics of Indian music if you are interested.We would only ask a very small fee to cover our travel costs.
Obviously, we said yes.
BOB QUINN’S LAST FILM EVER
‘’Vox Humana’ is an 80-min film antidote to ‘Wock & Wole’, an escape from populist noise.
ANTHONY CRONIN
Look if Anthony needs an introduction then you have been dead for the last sixty years.His presence is a great honour for Flatlake.
ULICK O CONNOR
The same goes for Ulick. Some say he is opinionated. But then the people who say that wouldn't know an opinion if it bit them on the arse.
JINX LENNON
Jinx Lennon an odyssey through the dark underbelly of Hibernia seen from a cracked glass border schizo point of view chock full of humanity and dark humour.
Part of the Flat Lake furniture, always superb, always on, always lit.
BINGO WITH DAVE McSAVAGE
1st Prize - 85 Kilos of Hilton Orchard Sausages.... with the ascerbic McSavage calling out the numbers.
SATURDAY NITE BURLESQUE SHOW
Saucy Stuff in the Big Top
LOUIS DE PAOR
Reading new poems in Irish with bastardised translations in English.Louis has a long flowing mane of red hair and looks like the type of client in a tunic with a brooch that might cleave you with a spear in the 'old days',shouting 'fag an bhealach!' or just 'Rrrrr!'
ANNE HAVERTY
Anne is one of Irelands' most respected writers.Some people say 'girl' writers don't they? But we think that is stupid.
Her many celebrated novels include ONE DAY AS A TIGER.
CLONES FILM FESTIVAL CINEMA MARQUEE
To mark our 10th birthday this year, Clones Film Festival is gearing up for a year of celebrations, and Flat Lake is one of our favourites! All weekend we will screen a mix of features, shorts, documentaries, animation and kids' films and along the way there will be chats with some of our film-makers, so drop in anytime... A definite highlight will be our open-air screening of 'Black Orpheus' on Saturday night... Don't forget to ask us about submissions for our short film competitions and our 48-hour film challenge to be in with a chance of winning a coveted 'Francie' award on closing night at CFF in October. And don't forget to come back for Clones Film Festival, October bank holiday weekend 26 - 30..!
THE FLAT LAKE KIDSZONE
The dedication of Pat Fairon, with the help Darren Rooney on the sports day side, has taken this important segment of the festival from strength to strength over the years.
See the programme for details of this kiddies paradise, but items include....
THE FRIDGE DOOR POETRY SHOW - LEN GRAHAM and JACK LYNCH
PADDY O'NEILL (THE MOY) Fiddle and flute dancing music (on request) for dancing feet on the Smallest Fully Sprung Dance Floor in Ireland
CALL THIS ART # 987 17/9/09 One two thousand four hundreth part of Anthony Gormley's One&Othe (The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square work) This time reflecting life at Flat Lake.
Most of Pat's materials come by way of generous donations so we'd like to thank the following.
Euroguttering - Smurfitt Kappa - Robert Horne - McElvaney Waste and Recycling - Bravo Outdoor Advertising.
and many big thanks to the Make Waste Things Play Things Team .. in full......They 've all been working hard preparing and the show wouldnt work without them...and particularly for the Big Bros/Sisses ...and for the Juniors its important that their contribution is recognised.
Mr Fairon, I' can't keep updating this 'effin' list !!!!!
KATH BEST
Kath Best started singing - aged 14 - at the 'One Ton Club' in Tottenham Court Rd and has been entertaining jazz audiences for over 30 years. She's an Angela Carrington Singing Award Nominee, hosted by the Vortex in London. She also studied acting at the Lee Strasburg Theatre Institute in the big apple that is NYC. Theatre appearances include Julia's Party at London's Royal Court and has toured Germany with The Katherine Hart Jazz Band. She'll be singing songs by FRAN LANDESMAN & Simon Wallace. Landesman's songs are inspired by curent themes, set where real life emotions meet the world of fantasy and art.
RADIO BUTTY
Broadcasting all day in a box. Tune in to Radio @£$%^/7 FM.
Listening to McCabe's pastoral gibberish is worth the entrance fee alone.
CROW BLACK CHICKEN
This band has been chosen to play at the Flat Lake coz we love their name and nothing to do with the battle of the bands for a gig at Glastonbury thing that they recently one won.
KITESMITHS
Although a good name for a speedy metal band, they actually just fly kites .... loads of 'em ...in the sky above our Flat Lake heads.... for any of you kite geeks they fly mainly single line, and usually try to get 20 or more up together, depending on space and weather.
How much air-space does a kite 'effin well need ?
CONAL CREEDON
Did you ever hear the weird Frank Zappa style lingo they have in Cork?
Ask Conal about it.
I love the nightlife, I love to boogie...
www.conalcreedon.com
THE SONS OF ROBERT MITCHUM
These guys are rather Cool. The Sons of Robert Mitchum play modern neo-noir, from a dark night of forsaken city streets, vistas of blissful angst and unholy pilgrimage. Their songs reflect on deadly dames, drunken losers, dangerous hoods, crooked cops, broken dreams, flawed heroes, crime and punishment. Songs steeped in the neon glimmer of purgatory, dives, cigarettes and booze, bad livers and broken hearts. All tainted with the likes of Cave, Waits and Brel.
Bring the kids.
BOB QUINN
Fillum man par excellence. ATLANTEAN and POITIN and all. Also MAVERICK and SLEEPY HOLLOW books. Renaissance man in Irish.
Gray Fitzpatrick's Dead Zoo
.....are a combo of sea shanties and stuff with double bass, harmonicas and banjourines.
PETER MURPHY
Wooooo it's Peter-he was born in a storm. If you don't believe me, read his book JOHN THE REVELATOR.
GINA MOXLEY
Gina Moxley is an actor and playwright. However, she’ll be doing none of that. Instead, she’s going to read ye some stories – if ye’re good. Even if you're not,rest assured she will be.One of Ireland's finest thespians.
MICHAEL HARDING
Reading from DISPLACED IN MULLINGAR, a chronicle of midlands irish life, and weekly column in The Irish Times.Michael has also written BIRD IN THE SNOW.Maybe he'll read a bit from that.Or do a piece of his play.UNA POOKA-that was a cracker,about THE POPE.
CLAIRE KILROY
Claire Kilroy is the author of three novels. Her debut, All Summer, (2003) is a literary thriller about a stolen painting. Her second, Tenderwire, a love story between a young Irish violinist and an old Italian violin, (2006), was shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Novel of the Year as well as the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. All Names Have Been Changed, set in 1980s Dublin and centring around a great Irish writer and his Trinity writing class, was published in 2009. She’ll be reading from her novel on the Irish boom and bust, to be published next year. She was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2004.
AIDAN COLEMAN
A powerful passionate versatile voice,
performing an eclectic mix of songs ranging from Pavarotti to Bowie to Pink Floyd to Tom Waits to Billy Joel to world music in up to 17 languages to original music settings of words from James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett , W. H. Auden.
TED MC CARTHY
Ted Mc Carthy will be reading from his upcoming collection of poetry published by Moth Publishing. Ted was the opening act of the first Flat Lake Festival. His poems have been published world-wide in hard copy and can be seen floating about in cyberspace like some of those asteroids and other mad things Brian Cox does be raving about.
PETER TRANT/KRISTA RUSHING-HAMILTON
Will be doing their show about the great poet TED HUGHES.
Who was maried to SYLVIA PLATH (oops!)
THE GONZO THEATRE MARQUEE
KATE KERRIGAN'S LITTLE READING PARLOUR
Author Kate Kerrigan will be parking her Little Reading Parlour on site – a converted Bedford Bambi where she will host intimate readings with various special guests. Father Tony will be setting up his festival presbytery in a corner and selling Day Pass Ordinations for €1 so you can try on the collar for size and see how it fits.
ATTENTION ALL WRITERS, POETS & HOOVERERS !
Kate Kerrigan's Little Reading Room will be available to selected writers and poets - budding and Booker winning - for short and/or impromptu readings throughout the Flatlake Festival. A classic Bedford Bambi pimped-into-a-parlour it holds a maximum audience of 8 (12 with people standing on crates looking in the windows) so if you want to share your work in this small, cosy environment the only condition is that you don't drop biscuit crumbs on the carpet and that you allow yourself to be recorded for Kate's Little Reading Room Youtube Channel.
So tuck some of your work in with the tent, and bring it along to Kate on Saturday morning. She'll have the tea and the boxers boxty on.
DAVID MONAGAN
Mr. Radio Butty sez of this hot [when stolen] travel essay: "In Ireland Unhinged David Monagan is on the loose in a poisoned Eden littered with deflated bouncy castles, abandoned SUVs and Euro-funded motorways slicing through the ancient Hill of Tara. His book is incisive, wry and witty, but also coldly surgical and captures the zeitgeist perfectly... There's Mad Max stuff in here, 'Aisy Rider in the Land of the Bouncy Castle, a witness to almost unforgivable felo-de-se, unique in our history." Felo-de-se??? Comme ci, or comme ca.
SUZY ALMOND
"Hailing from the London and New York folk scenes, with the voice of a torch singer and a penchant for off-beat storytelling, Suzy Almond returns to Flatlake for the fourth year running with her own unique brand of alt-folk.
“A majestic voice, at once earthy and exotic, carrying finely wrought songs of love, faith and soul.” Last Chance Salon.
FELICITY MCCALL
South Armagh reared artist/activist and BBC journalist Felicity McCall reads from her latest Arts Council work, her novels and stage plays- and hopes this will encourages fellow writers and readers to give her some reasonably constructive criticism and feedback and generally share their craic
MUSIC-ART CHAIRS EXIBITION
‘Show of quirky interactive Music-art Chairs including a few ‘Bum Notes’.
CASTLEBLANEY CHORAL GROUP
The Castleblayney Choral Group, under the musical direction of Cara Murray, hope to entertain with an eclectic presentation of songs both old and new.
Cinemandala
Curator, Seamus Harahan, is a Belfast based artist and film maker. He has exhibited internationally and is a current recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation awards for artists. He is co-founder of Cinilingus and ex-director of Catalyst Arts. Cinemandala is a dark space on wheels, where you can be transported to beautiful, odd and challenging places for a moment. It will screen international and Irish film and video works by Guy Ben-Ner, Phil Collins, Muzi Quawson, Torsten Lauschmann, Duncan Campbell, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Mark Orange, Yael Bartana, Shana Moulon, Ciarán O'Dochartaigh, Miriam de Búrca, Nicolas Keogh, Maurice Doherty and more.
'Pulling the Devil by the Tail'
Award winning Letterkenny filmmaker/animator Stephen Mc Collum's series of stop motion claymations follow the adventures of Stosis, Ireland's first Folk-Punk band and their encounters with goats, witches, leprechauns, ghosts, poitin and even the Devil himself. And there’s a wee tractor in it too.
THE CAVAN Rugby Club MALE VOICE CHOIR
If there's anything left of them after their trip to the Hieneken Cup final, they'll be warming the cockles of your hearts with an array of male voice classics.
BEAUTIFUL ROOMS
Nothing to do with interior decorating - a Music item - Waiting a biog her guys an' gals!
THE YOUNG FOLK
Born of Folk and Fire, this five piece have taken the festival circuit by storm over the past year. With a well received debut album already under their belt and their sophomore offering slated for release later this year, the young folks much lauded live sets are fast becoming the stuff of legend. Turn On. Tune In. Folk Off.
HA'PENNY MARIACHI
Ha'penny Mariachi is a Mexican-flavoured band based in Dublin. The Ha'penny's play regularly around Dublin and at festivals such as Fivelamps Arts festival, 'Cinco de Mayo' Festival and the Latin American Festival.Combining Mexican Mariachi classics with traditional and contemporary tunes, Ha'penny Mariachi infuse any occasion with laughter and dance. Trumpet, ukelele, violin, guitarra and bass create a sound wall of soulful songs and tunes.
MICHAEL HARDING
What's this?Michael again?Get off,Hardy boy!
CATHERINE CUNNINGHAM
Heartfelt, political and thought provoking, Catherine Cunningham’s songs take her listeners on a journey through terrains beautiful and fantastical, lyrical and disturbing, poignant and irreverent.
As with the rest of nature, her songs pay little heed to notions of rules, expectations or categorization, but rather they question these and all the certainties we have come to believe in. With song titles such as “Bothering the Dead”, “There are No Sheep in Heaven” and √2, you can expect that not only is the subject matter unusual, but so is its delivery. A songwriter for the times we live in.
MIKEY & THE SCALLYWAGS
Mikey and the Scallywags are rapidly rising band based in Galway Ireland churning out hits that span many genres including Bluegrass/Swing/ Folk Rock/Hip Hop/ Gypsy this lively and highly danceable band were reviewed as “the most surprising band of 2010’s Electric Picnic”
SUE GOGAN
Sue, where's yer biog, love ?
THE POETRY CHICKS & CONNOR KELLY
Abby Oliveira and Pamela Brown are performance poets collectively known as The Poetry Chicks. They are based in Derry and are regular performers on the British and Irish poetry scenes, including appearances at Glastonbury, Electric Picnic, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and Flatlake Literary Festival.
Since 2009 they have been performing alongside Piano aficionado, Connor Kelly and together they perform uncompromising and original work.
OLIVER MOORE & THE BOUDOIR SESSIONS
Ollie will present The Boudoir Sessions in his own custom made marquee -
A charming and disarming den of iniquity, with sounds and visions from the Edwardian era right up to the cusp of rock and roll.
So expect swing and cabaret, klezmer and calypso, mariachi and mento, a puff-of-smoke photo booth and some swell berries. Nice. Expect fresh faced close harmonies tag teaming with gypsy fiddling from Bohemia itself. And its all strait from the fridge Daddy oh.
In short, the look, feel and allure of global urbane nitelife around the middle of the last century, with occasional contemporary affectations and meanders. Sorry, that wasn't really short, was it?
No, it flipping well wasn't.
Jenny K and the Rhythm Katz
Lovely little swing combo from Belfast ...all the old greats.
KITTY THE HARE
One cailin, 2 legs and her magic brogues! Guerilla style sean nos dancer with portable dance floor! If there be trad on the horizon, the click of the brogues will be rising!
MICHELLE FAGAN
THE YOUNG ONES
This has nothing to do with Rick Mayall or Adrian Edmonson.
THE TRAMPZ
Influenced by almost everything they come in contact with, from 60′s motown, 70′s funk, 80′s electronica, 90′s rap, horror and sci-fi movies, stand up comedy and chick flicks, the Trampz have forged a unique sound and style that'll have you shaking your ass with a smile on your face.
MISS PAULA FLYNN
An enchanting balladeer, Miss Paula Flynn is blessed with crystal clarity of expression reminiscent of classic country singers such as June Carter Cash and more contemporary exponents like Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis. A soulful female, pure as driven snow. Her goosebump inducing vocals go down a storm.
She really gives it her all on stage.
THE GOMBEENS
These 2 FOOLS from the West of Ireland are back with a suitcase full of surprises. Their Unpredictible, Irrevererent and Gate-Crashing appearances will meet a different world of Poetry with brilliant comic timing.
HEADFUNK
We're a groovy combination of Funk and Blues... and when the beat's flowing and the bass drops, it's like being teabaged by a rainbow!
THE HOT SPROCKETS
The Hot Sprockets hail from the delta blues mecca that is, South Dublin. They are five friends who came together with a shared love of Rock N’ Roll music…The kind of Rock N’ Roll music that is haunted by the ghost of country and blues…
SLOWFOOT
Slowfoot formed during the Great Recession Sessions at Carberry’s in Drogheda and return for their second Flatlake with 25% More Mojo than last year. And that’s a lot of Mojo. A stomping mix of hillbilly blues and zydeco bluegrass that’ll put hair on your chest or at least get you up and dancing.
BLUE WALL ART GALLERY
LOUISIANA JOYRIDE
Louisiana Joyride started out as a 2–piece with a difference back in 2008. The successful coupling of both Owen and Orla's vocals and guitar styles hinted from the offset LJ were offering something a little different. The pair quickly turned heads in local venues catching the attention of promoters and radio stations from an early stage, with an array of lyrically and musically engaging songs. Joined down the line by Russty Li-Nesbitt on bass and currently on the hunt for a permanent drummer, LJ are still going strong with a second EP soon to be released and list of festival appearances throughout the UK and Ireland.
THE BEAUTIFUL ROOMS
The Beautiful Rooms are a disparate band of likeminded musical souls who gather together when the stars align and the gods allow to make soothing but heartfelt folk and electro folk music. Needless to say, they truly love a nice room.
BLIND YACKETY
Morphine, Syncopated by a hand that feeds me stylish rhythms, i did pass upon a field of metaphors and sly decisions,
if being beats off nothingness then sitting feels quite grand, an ocean full of passion-fruit played into my right hand,
a demon by the name of ricky lifted up his shirt, as silent raindrops fell down from a sky just outside Gort,
he wasted all his peppered steak on hamlets Broken daughter, he fished Out of a dirty lake four spring lambs ripe for slaughter,
"Oh doctor doctor can't you see, my eyes are weak, my back is feeble, my pudding bowel is empty but for mice and fresh black treakle, oh doctor doctor give to me that gift that only you can give, my eyes are weak, my back is dim, a little taste just for my sins....
Steady on lads ...
THE SPIRIT STORE - INKSTORM POETRY DEPOT
In the SpiritStore-InkStorm Poetry Depot a team of trained writers is waiting to sit down one to one with you, to write you a poem of any kind, on any topic you want! We have a special interest in finding the most powerful or interesting poem we can with you, but we're delighted to write any and everything.
GERRY MCBREEN
Songsmith,tunesmith and with the ability to strike while the iron is hot..could have been a blacksmith.
PADDY NASH & THE HAPPY ENCHILADAS
Paddy Nash formed The Happy Enchiladas in 2009 and they released their debut album in March 2010 to huge critical acclaim. Performances at Glasgowbury, The Foyle Folk Festival and The Carnivale of Colours to name a few have seen them gain a reputation for their high energy live performances. Great songs that make you think and then get up and dance. The Spring of 2011 will see the release of their new single The Moneyman’s Dead and the band will be embarking on their first tour of the mainland.
THE PRUFROCKS
The Prufrocks are five astonishingly brilliant female poets, known to each other through the writer, Nuala Ni Choncuir. Most of these award-winning writers will be reading from recently published collections.
EARTH DUMPLING
Formerly Og and the Uglies – high energy, upbeat, original bluegrass plus some old school ditties!
FRANKIE DEAN
Frankie is a gentleman entertainer who likes music from a bygone era. He has a heart for people. Frankies Catchphrase is I luv Ya All and he really does. Frankie walks in the steps of Sinatra and Dean Martin and trys as best he can to live the lifestyle Frankie is a fashionista He likes nothing better than to doff hisTrilby hat to passing ladies. Frankie aims to bring old fashioned crooning from the heart and a taste of the cabaret to this years Flat Lake He cant wait to see all Flat Lakers and sends big hugs to all !
JULIAN LLOYD
DJ Supreme – arrived from Kempton racecourse last year in a 3 piece suit, switched on the turntable and rocked the barn to bits. Pour him a glass of decent burgundy and he'll spin you a request but for fecks sake don't ask for Abba.
30 POUNDS OF BONE
Thirty Pounds of Bone is the solo alt-folk project of Johny Lamb. His most recent album ‘Method’ was released last December on Armellodie Records to much critical praise, being announced album of the year (2010) in both The Spill and Scotland’s Elba Sessions as well as being release of the week in Scotland on Sunday and gaining four stars in Mojo. Johny currently lives in West Cornwall researching folksong at University College Falmouth, where he can occasionally be found lecturing in Popular Music.
CRAZY DAVE’S JUKE BOX
Songs with meaning. Discussion welcome. Disagreement not tolerated.
Radiohead, Morrisey, Van, Shane McGowan etc.
PAUL DUANE
Ireland's 'edgiest auteur' and proud father of 'Nudie Scandal.' He wears two suits every day.Will be assisting The Captain in his brodcasting box when he's not playing on the sand.
PULLING THE DEVIL BY THE TAIL
These stop-motion films document the adventures of Stoisis, Irelands first punk folk band, and their encounters with goats, witches, leprechauns, ghosts, poitin and even the Devil himself. And there’s a wee tractor in it too.
PRIME CASUAL
TRILECHEILE
Trilecheile are 3 lovely lassies based in West Cork with songs sourced from around the globe and their own self penned ditties!Trilecheile have enthralled audiences in (amongst other places) De vidas,of Bandon, De Barras of Clonakilty and now they are heading for De Flatlake!
THE FLAT LAKE KIDS BEACH
THE AMAZING FEW
The Amazing Few, founders of Psycho-POP music . A 14 piece band notorious for mayhem and complete madness. Be prepared to be un prepared !!
SAM MORE'S PETTING FARM
SAM be gracing the KIZONE with lots of lovely cuddly animals for the kids.
SPORTS DAY
KIDS TREASURE HUNT
SPEED DATING
GOOD SOOP
The GOOD SOOP marquee will feature DJs Busteed and Staley playing fad-jazz-rock-schlock-acousto-electro-saz-pop that will tickle your brain and your toes, alongside new work by artist-in-residence Dawn Richardson and crafty offerings from the Crafty Belfast workshop.
THE BIG PIANO ( And Typewriter ) HAPPENING
with Michael Holohan, Connor McCann & lots of Tippetty Tappetty Guests
Michael has won numerous prizes for his compositions and has attended masterclasses with Messiaen, Boulez, Xenakis, Berio and Lachenmann in France. His music has been performed and broadcast both in Ireland and abroad. His orchestral works ‘Cromwell’ (1994), ‘Building Bridges’ (1995), ‘Leaves of Glass’ (1995) and ‘The Lost Land’ (1996) have all been premièred by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. He has collaborated regularly with well known Irish poets such as Seamus Heaney, Richard Murphy, Dermot Healy and Susan Connolly. In 2002, with the poet, Paul Durcan, he won the Celtic Music Prize as RTÉ’s entry at the Celtic Film and Radio Festival in Brittany.
SCANBITZ VNTAGE CARS
MR & MRS
BLUE VALENTINE'S CAFÉ SESSIONS
Joe Keenan & Niall Walsh will be running the programme in the big top on Sunday. These two have helped put a creative buzz into Cavan town over the last couple of years and the Flat Lake enjoys their company.
THE BIG TOP VARIETY PAVILION
FAMILY CAMP SITE
FULL BAR
INCREDIBLE FOOD
FIDDLER ORIEL CAMPFIRE SESSIONS
HOLISTIC GARDEN
VISUAL ARTS INFLATABLE MARQUEE
CAMERA OBSCURA
MONAGHAN MUSIC & PIANO CENTRE
VISUAL ART GALORE...
...AND MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE !
