Fri. 18 - Sun. 20 Nov
Weekend pass €35 / €17.50 (u21s) | Individual event tickets also available
After three years of multi-venue hopping around various pubs, clubs, galleries, cafes and spaces across Sligo town, Spilt Milk, the north-west festival dedicated to experimental and alternative sounds, returns to The Model, its new primary home. Over three days, from 18th to 20th November, the festival will once again prod the margins of Ireland’s leftfield musical spheres.
For the 4th edition, the curatorial approach remains unchanged with this year’s line up featuring a mix of returning faces, some in new guises, along with a selection of debuts and rare appearances from Ireland’s experimental, electronic, punk and folk scenes.
The full schedule for the weekend can be reviewed below:
Programme of Events
DECLAN SYNNOTT, EXTRAVISION, THE NUMBER ONES, SNAKE (Live Performance)
Fri. 18th Nov, 7pm,
€15 / €7.50 (u21s)
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Friday at Spilt Milk starts on a very powerful and raucous note.
Expect pounding rhythms from melodic post-punk trio Extravision resurfacing with a new lineup.
The Number Ones also make a welcome return to the live stage with a new iteration, these east-coast rockers will bring their energetic power-pop.
Making the furthest journey is the Cork-based DIY stalwart Declan Synnott, re-working his new album based around synthesised and accidental sound for a live setting.
New band Snake come with their blistering cacaphony of hardcore punk.
AUTUMNS, THE BONK, CLARA TRACEY, JUNIOR BROTHER, MARGE BOUVIER, MOVING STATUES & RÚN (Live Performance)
Sat. 19th Nov, 4pm,
€25 / €12.50 (u21s)
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An eclectic and varied line up, seven bands, across one stage.
Saturday sees Junior Brother make their first trip to Sligo and for their performance at Spilt Milk will play as a four-piece. The project of Co. Kerry singer Ronan Kealy, conjures music that is both excitingly forward-looking and anciently evocative.
Autumns is an outlet for electronic post-punk, fused with elements of dub and sound experimentation.
Elsewhere Clara Tracey will sprinkle her jazz-infused sensual sounds, The Bonk evoke elliptical rhythms and repetitive ritualistic wordplay and Rún, the experimental collaboration of Tara Baoth Mooney, Rian Trench and Diarmuid MacDiarmada offer a visceral sonic feast.
Completing this lineup are local beat poets Marge Bouvier, returning to Split Milk after their debut appearance in 2019 and Moving Statues, a new collaboration from Galway veterans Brian Kelly and Keith Wallace offering up noise-damaged synth pop.
JUNIOR JAM: COSTUME-MAKING WORKSHOP & KIDS CONCERT WITH JESSICA BRUEN, FULACHT FIADH & DJ SINISTER PETE
Sun. 20th Nov., 11.30am - 2pm (Workshop & Concert)
General admission (ages 6+): €5
Accompanying adult: Free
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Please note that all children must be accompanied by an adult. Both child and adult will need individual tickets, with adults going free.
Join textile and theatre artist Jessica Bruen, for a hands-on workshop in making mystical dance party costumes and enjoy the music of synth druid Fulacht Fiadh with DJ Sinister Pete on MC duties! Decorate your very own, pre-made gnome hats and put your own mark on accessories to help power up the musical energy of Spilt Milk!
JUNIOR JAM: KIDS CONCERT WITH JESSICA BRUEN, FULACHT FIADH & DJ SINISTER PETE
Sun. 20th Nov., 1pm - 2pm (Concert Only)
General admission (ages 6+): €5
Accompanying adult: Free
Location: The Model Theatre (standing)
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Please note that all children must be accompanied by an adult. Both child and adult will need individual tickets, with adults going free.
Junior Jam is a new programme to Spilt Milk Festival introducing young people and their families to experimental music with a gig of their own in a safe and fun environment.
A PAGE OF MADNESS: 16MM DIRECT ANIMATION WORKSHOP & A PAGE OF MADNESS FILM SCREENING WITH LIVE SCORE PERFORMED BY AOIFE WOLF, CAMERON CLARKE AND PHIL QUINN
Sun. 20th Nov., 4pm - 7pm
General Admission (Workshop & Screening): €10
Location: The Model Atrium & Theatre
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Learn to make a camera-less film with 16mm analogue film through the process of direct animation. Followed by a screening and live score of the Japanese silent horror “A Page of Madness”.
A trio of Belfast based musicians made up of multi-instrumentalist Phil Quinn (Grave Goods), sonic artist Cameron Clarke and singer-songwriter Aoife Wolf present their bespoke live-score of 1920s Japanese Silent Horror “A Page of Madness”.
A Page of Madness, Dir: Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926, Japan
A PAGE OF MADNESS: FILM SCREENING WITH LIVE SCORE PERFORMED BY AOIFE WOLF, CAMERON CLARKE AND PHIL QUINN
Sun. 20th Nov., 5pm
General Admission (Screening only): €10
Location: The Model Theatre (seated)
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Screening and live score of the Japanese silent horror “A Page of Madness”.
A trio of Belfast based musicians made up of multi-instrumentalist Phil Quinn (Grave Goods), sonic artist Cameron Clarke and singer-songwriter Aoife Wolf present their bespoke live-score of 1920s Japanese Silent Horror “A Page of Madness”.
A Page of Madness, Dir: Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926, Japan
It tells a powerful, hallucinatory story of a janitor in an insane asylum who wants desperately to help his inmate wife after she attempts suicide. Kinugasa’s use of editing and cinematography work to reflect the emotional unfurling of the patients depicted in the film, using experimental techniques unrivaled at the time of the film’s production.
