Spilt Milk Festival returns with edition #2 and moves online

16 Irish artists will feature over 3 days including Myles Manley, Brigid Mae Power and Moving Still

From the 27th to the 29th of November, Spilt Milk, the west of Ireland’s festival of music, film and art, will return for its 2nd year. This time, the festival will be presenting a special online edition called Transmission, which will be a three-day tapestry of forward thinking and homegrown music and art. All together in a rich and varied programme.

Starting on Friday, with a full live performance from Yop, a Ballina-based two-man band of kraut-punkers. They will be followed by a Zoom broadcast from the Dublin-based producer and DJ Moving Still, whose unique approach to the dance floor is informed by his Irish and Saudi heritage.

On Saturday, the festival will stream a rich anthology of pre-recorded live performances and special broadcasts, coming from a wide range of musicians and artists. This includes work from Sligo-based performance artist Jessica Bruen and The Clumsy Giantess & Trenchurian, a ‘dreamscape in three bits’, audio-visual collaboration between the respective solo projects of musicians and artists Tara Baoth Mooney and Rian Trench. There will be a collaborative performance between electro-acoustic composer and improviser Amanda Ferry and the analogue synthesis of musician Declan Synnott, and a solo performance from multi-instrumentalist John Francis Flynn, whose work draws from traditional music of Ireland and abroad. Howlbux, the new project from Crevice members Elaine Howley and Irene Buckley, will be premiering a video scored to their tracks ‘Nightfall’ and ‘Over, and the Belfast-based, ambitiously eclectic rock band Junk Drawer, hot off their new, debut album Ready For The House, will perform.

The line-up also features Sligo’s own DIY pop star Myles Manley, whose new album, Cometh the Softies, is out this November. M(h)aol, a Dublin-based five piece, also have new music out, with the single ‘Laundries’, and will be bringing to the festival all their post-punk fire and fury. While the Glasgow-based Aibhe Nic Oireachtaigh, who has performed with acts such as Woven Skull and Circuit des Yeux. will perform her striking solo work, a mix of viola and tape delay which which is inspired by a mix of early and modern music. Brigid Mae Power, whose 3rd album Head Above The Water was released earlier this year, will be bringing her blend of folk and country and deeply personal and textured tunes, as one of Ireland’s most gifted singer-songwriters, while Pretty Happy, the absurdist, art punk three piece from Cork will be premiering the music video for their new single, ‘Sea Sea Sea’. In The Hills Have Ears there will be an unique audio-visual collaboration between artists Ruth Clinton, Aoife Hammond, Cormac Mac Diarmada and Niamh Moriarty. This special presentation will be an exploration of the abandoned railway lines that line and once linked Sligo, Leitrim and beyond and which, by extension, are a site for exploring wider ideas of western identity and of Irish history and progress.

Ten Past Seven will host a special listening party for their new LP ‘Long Live the Bogwalrus’ which will get a full airplay along with accompanying videos and banter from the band.

The festival will wrap then on Sunday with a special radio broadcast, The Split Milk Sunday Brunch, conducted by musicians Natalia Beylis and Willie Stewart from their home in Leitrim.

All events will be free-to-air, more information about the programme, schedule and how to stream can be found at http://spiltmilkfestival.com/.

Spilt Milk Festival is funded by Sligo County Council under the Contributions to the Arts Grant Scheme and Creative Ireland (Sligo).