Small But Massive Main Stage Artists in alphabetical order. Actual schedule will be available at Festival

Fifteen years, ten hit albums, twenty hit singles and an Ivor Novello Award. Now Northern Ireland's biggest selling band of all-time finally bag a Draperstown gig ! The Downpatrick legends will be the most antipated performers to grace the festival with hits from '1977' to 'Twilight of The Innocents'

www.myspace.com/ash

ANDSOIWATCHYOUFROMAFAR

With a 7" coming out on Field Records, not to mention "Tonight the City Burns pt2..!" It's relentless gigging and touring, with ASIWYFA this highly acclaimed instrumental guitar band from the North coast. Debut album "This is our Machine and Nothing can Stop It" Out Now.

www.myspace.com/andsoiwatchyoufromafar

FIGHTING WITH WIRE

The album 'Man Vs Monster' already making a huge impact plus the single 'Everyone Needs A Nemesis' winning over luminaries including Radio 1's Zane Lowe, rocking with Atlantic Records in New York and appearances MTV. A heroes welcome awaits the Wire when they make their festival 'homecoming'.

www.myspace.com/fightingwithwire

Furlo are a four piece hard hitting melodic indie band from Limavady. They forged a path in the music scene with they're first e.p. 'Concussed Girls' gaining them a respect from critics and press."

www.myspace.com/furlothemusic

An Oxegen slot and a Steve Lamacq Radio 1 Session, effortlessly cool, they pull pop gems out of the air with consummate ease, ringing them round gigantic, sing-along choruses that thrill to the core of their ridiculously large fanbase

www.myspace.com/generalfiasco

First single, Sad Songs, which called to mind acts such as Jesus & Mary Chain, Pavement and the Smiths, with an ultra-cool female singer and a crazy guitarist.
Two more singles and debut album 'Carry The Meek' debuting in the Irish album charts leading to claims of Ireland's greatest cult band.

www.myspace.com/eathamsandwich

The Q are a bluesy punk outfit hailing from Derry City. Their soulful sound is influenced by countless bands and artists ranging from The Clash to Kasabian, the Stones to the Strokes,

www.myspace.com/theq42

Recent appearance at Glastonbury. Critically acclaimed performances with Duke Special. Success in France, Poland and Switzerland. Headliners of the recent One World Festival and have supported the Harlem Gospel Choir.

www.myspace.com/inishowengospelchoir

Definition: Having the power of divination. We prefer ' 7 piece,funk~rock behemoth!'. New singer, new album and new outlook, Mantic have become reborn and are the hottest 'band-most-likely-to' at the moment. Guaranteed to be one of this year's highlights.

www.myspace.com/experiencemantic

Pop disco for electro punks, fantastic noise, and a debut which kicks with motoric insistence while keeping to a regimen of hook and switch melody. just some of the plaudits heaped upon Oppenheimer's 'Take The Whole Mid Range And Boost It'.
The North's finest purveyors of fuzz pop make their second festival appearance.

www.myspace.com/oppenheimer

Already drawing comparisons with indie luminaries such as Modest Mouse, Pixies, and the Walkmen, Panama Kings employ razor-sharp Gang Of Four guitars over dance-rock rhythms, frenetic keyboards and just enough Sonic Youth noise to stay this side of melodic,

www.myspace.com/panamakings

Best described as a fusion of "dance enhanced rock with electrifying pop melodies",
the E.P "Naked Us" has already proved to be their most successful record to date gaining them wider acclaim and radio play throughout Ireland and the UK.

www.myspace.com/skruffderry