Returning for its third year to Leeside, Music Cork once again welcomes a host of music industry professionals to the city for a three-day event comprising insightful discussion, workshops, high calibre panels and some fantastic live music taking place throughout Cork venues. Delegates to Music Cork will have the opportunity to meet and network with music industry figures from Ireland and abroad, hear about and discuss industry trends and innovations, benefit from years of experience and knowledge while enjoying a relaxed three days around the vibrant steets of Cork.

TRUE TIDES

Formed in 2017, True Tides is the intrepid pop project of Cian, Conor and Eoghan MacSweeny, three brothers from Cork, now living in Dublin. Through a reasonably simple set-up of drums, guitar, bass, electronics and vocals, they create bold and expressive guitar music that’s at once shamelessly catchy and sneakily complex. Although the brothers have technically been making music together their whole lives , they played their first gig as True Tides in January 2018 at arts and mental health festival First Fortnight, on a bill curated by ALL TVVINS. They are currently writing their debut album.

milk.

milk. are a four-piece alternative pop band from Dublin, Ireland, made up of Mark McKenna (vocals/ rhythm guitar), Conor Gorman, (lead guitar), Conor King (bass) and Morgan Wilson (drums). We make music spanning many genres – our sound ranges from subdued modern RnB to pop-rock. We are influenced by acts such as The 1975, Foals, U2 and The Japanese House. Our debut single Drama Queen was met with positive reception. Described by Nialler9 as “sonically, the ultimate feel-good track” before requesting “more of this please”. It was also covered by GoldenPlec, Dork Magazine and Dansende Beren in Belgium, having amassed 10,000 streams across all platforms within 24 hours of its release.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/milkthemusic

Xo Mo

Xo Mo are a Pop Duo Presently Featured on Spotify’s Editorial Playlists such as New Pop Revolution, A Breath of Fresh Éire and A New Éire as well as having been featured on New Music Friday with their most recent singles. Xo Mo blend vocally serene yet adventurous melodic experiences over ambitious yet tight production. Pulling together a wide variety of influences from Kanye West to Christina Aguilera, using Hip-Hop sounds beneath Disney soundscapes, consciously and sonically channelling both the emotions of the naughties with anecdotes of modern romance and living.

Jrdn (Vocals) and Elliott Mo (Production), both raised in the small town of Mullingar, developed their sound and craft over years of experimentation and study across many genres. They set out to bring you an emotional experience from pop ballad, to an all out stomper, carrying you across emotions with thumping drumbeats and serenading melodies alike.

Setting out to appear on the charts, at your next basement rave or rocking a festival stage, Xo Mo are sure to soundtrack your life, love and next emotional rollercoaster with their own Blood, Sweat and Tears.

https://www.facebook.com/XoMoMusic/

Aislinn Logan

Melding disparate sounds into a cohesive whole, Aislinn makes unlikely genre bedfellows a natural fit. Her scene-setting lyrics are delivered with a vocal that conveys someone who has lived through her subject matter. Wound through thoughtful production (crafted with Ghostpoet / Bear’s Den / Belle and Sebastian collaborator Kristofer Harris), the tracks are often polished versions of her bedroom recordings.

Traces of Aislinn’s eclectic musical interests inform everything she does without being obvious touchstones. She has a love for metronomic repetition, with patterned layers weaving their way into her music.

Aislinn is signed to Faction Records; home to James Vincent McMorrow, All Tvvins and Search Party Animal.

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