ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN will take to the stage on the Saturday night in Dublin for the first time in almost 2 years to exclusively perform at the 2013 May Bank Holiday festival. 

New Young Pony Club have also been added to the bill for the Friday 3rd May Launch Party Event at Whelans. They join the bill which already includes Montreal’s Dirty Beaches, London’s Tropics and Big Deal and Cork’s Meteor Choice Awards nominees Windings. Tickets purchased for Dirty Beaches cancelled show on 8th May at Workman’s Club will be honoured for this show. 

In addition to the Bunnymen coup and on the other end of the spectrum, an additional stage curated by Nialler 9 has been added to accommodate some fantastic new Irish talent, including the mysterious Adultrock, intricately layered sonics from Come On Live Long, dark ambient dubstep producers Ghosts, Cork’s Hunk, the raw and quirky presence of Liza Flume, Slow Skies’ melodic folk pop and down tempo electronica from Dublin’s Terriers. 

In other non line up related news, Wednesday 3rd April sees the release of the second in a series of three Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin of download compilations in conjunction with our digital music partner 7digital. CC2013 Mixtape #2 features 15 FREE downloadable tracks from the likes of The Black Lips, Lanterns On The Lake, Concrete Knives, Darkstar, PVT, Three Trapped Tigers and many more acts appearing at this year’s festival. The compilation is available to download from 7digital.

Camden Crawl Dublin 2013 at Various Venues, Dublin between Fri 3rd to Sun 5th May 2013 Tickets on sale here