SPILT MILK FESTIVAL
Various venues, Sligo
18th - 21st November 2021

Spilt Milk Festival is an annual festival of music, art and film which takes place in November around venues in Sligo town. Spilt Milk Festival was founded in 2019 to extend Sligo’s artistic and festival calendar into the winter and provide a platform for experimental art across music, sound art, video and film. Presenting national and international artists alongside emerging local acts drawn from the leftfield and fringes of alternative music.

We are delighted to announce the third edition of Spilt Milk Festival. We will be returning, live and in person to various venues around Sligo this November 18th to the 21st. Like 2019, this year’s programme will feature a live music line-up along with a visual strand of installations, film screenings and workshops.

The festival begins Thursday the 18th with an 'Introduction to Zine-Making' workshop at the Pulled Art Studios and the launch of the Idris zine and audio trail, running the length of Doorly Park and the festival with pieces from musicians Ní Laoi, Fulacht Fiadh, Dreamcycles, Katie Kim, Olivia Furey & Natalia Beylis.

On Friday there will be a special all-ages show at the Zero Gravity Skate Park featuring Dublin's synth-industrial master Rising Damp and absurdist Kerry pop trio Messyng. Launching at Pulled Screen Print (viewing from the street) on Friday at 10am – and running throughout the weekend until 6pm daily – is ‘Our World in a Window’, a window exhibition featuring the animations and mechanised artwork produced by 49 children in 18 counties in Ireland as part of Helium Arts remote ‘Distance Creates’ programme. Also launching at Pulled Screen Print on Friday and running throughout the weekend is ‘Footfall’, a live installation by the BaHa visual art collective.

Later that evening there will be a stellar, palette-spanning bill at The Model. Headlined by Cork DJ and producer, Syn, this show will also feature fast-rising Dublin DJ, producer, and founder of collective/club night Lepton, Ngoni Egan, Donegal experimental electronic auteur Aengus Friel aka Shammen Delly, School Tour wielding cold casio wave from Mt. Errigal., and Sligo-based Warmer Climes the latest synth-noise incarnation of Taf Hassam.

In addition to our ticketed music events, Spilt Milk will be presenting on Saturday an early evening music trail at venues along the banks of Sligo’s Garavogue River. First up in Heart’s Desire, Woven Skull’s drummer Willie Stewart, will bring us into the Post After Party that is his Worship My Panther project, be ready to experience lo-fi botched noise dance rhythms. Grab some liquid refreshments if you wish in a nearby watering hole and then rejoin us in The Yeat’s Building patio for celebrated saxophonist and sound-artist Cathal Roche. A saxophonist specialising in extended techniques. The party will continue later that evening at The Model with a show featuring Dublin art rock band Silverbacks, the folk horror inflected sound of Cormorant Tree Oh and the Cork-based experimental three-piece Patty & Selma.

The festival will conclude on Sunday, with afternoon performances at The Model from acclaimed harpist Alanna Thornbaugh and Dublin -based experimental folk artist Branwen. In the evening, at Serious Business, there will be a screening of Dusty Stacks of Mom, a joyous rock opera from the American experimental animator Jodie Mack, followed by a afterparty to close a fresh and exciting programme.