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JANUARY IS often a drab and dull month. It is the post-Christmas slump, the winter is not yet over, and the New Year has not yet fully kicked off.

Now in its third year, the Certain Three Tour comes to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar next Thursday night, January 12 which will include Katie Kim, The Lost Brothers and Puzzle Muteson. The creation of Irish based booking agency Word of Mouth, the idea is to feature three acts each with something different to offer and send them out as a triple bill with an alternating running order. The two previous tours have featured O Emperor, We Cut Corners, Alessi’s Ark and The Ambience Affair amongst others.

THE CERTAIN Three 2012 Tour, featuring Katie Kim, The Lost Brothers, and Puzzle Muteson, comes to the Róisín Dubh on Thursday January 26.

WHEN YOU have created two of the best and most memorable Irish albums of recent years, won awards, had Brendan Benson play your songs at his DJ sets, and had people singing your words back at you in concert, the question must arise: How do I follow that?

The Raconteurs co-founder, Brendan Benson returns to Ireland for a nationwide tour this autumn which sees him play The Stables, Mullingar on Saturday October 2.

His name may have raised one or two eyebrows when his 2002 album Lapalco appeared alongside luminaries like Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys and The White Stripes on The Irish Times’ top 20 albums of the last decade.

BRENDAN BENSON was born and raised in Royal Oak, Michigan, a suburb of the port city of Detroit. The city is known as the world’s centre of the automobile industry, but it is even more famous for its music.

HE USED to lead the Co Meath pop-punk trio Turn in the days when he was called Ollie. Today he plays more melodic, Beatles influenced, music and goes by his full name Oliver.

And a Happy Christmas to you too!