New Young Pony Club, The Stunning, The Undertones for Temple House Festival

The first acts have been announced for the Temple House Festival, a new boutique-style event that will take place in Temple House, Ballymote, Co. Sligo from September 10th-12th. The line-up will feature New Young Pony Club, The Undertones, The Walls, a Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order) DJ set, 202s, Exit Calm, Ronan O Snodaigh, Donal Dineen, Davide Swarup and John Conneely, Arveene & Misk (Live), Barry Redsetta, Clampdown DJs, Motion Control, The Whiteliars and Maser (artist). There'll be plenty more announced over the next few weeks too.

Tickets for the event, which will also feature 'poetry readings, face painting, holistic therapies, art exhibitions, farmers' market, vintage clothes and jewellery fair plus a plethora of other carefully selected attractions', are priced at 59 euro including booking fees and camping.

New Young Pony Club to play Tripod

13 March is the date as the rather excellent New Young Pony Club come to Dublin - the same month will see the release of their second LP, The Optimist. The five-piece seemed to bear the brunt of a 'nu-rave' backlash to a certain extent when their debut, Fantastic Playroom, was released. Which was a shame, because 24-carat tunes like 'Ice Cream' and 'The Get Go' deserved to be acclaimed as the works of sleek pop genius that they were.

NYPC were one of the first bands of the Friday evening at Electric Picnic a couple of years back, and got the party started to such superb effect that I'm not sure they were bettered all weekend. My Bloody Valentine were playing that weekend, people. This one is not to be missed.