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IN THE Mid 1980s, a band of Scottish musicians came to County Galway and between the city and An Spidéal they created the album many see as their masterpiece.

BETH ORTON has embraced and eschewed the ‘singer-songwriter’ tag throughout her career, never opting solely for the one guitar, three chords, and the truth approach.

THE UNTHANKS, the award winning English folk band, led by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank, return to the Róisín Dubh on Sunday February 24 at 8pm.

Katelyn Molloy, a Leaving Cert student from Cregmore, Claregalway has qualified for the semi-final stages of the All-Ireland Music Competition where a recording contract and representation at TMI awaits the winning act. Seventeen year-old Katelyn, a cousin of pop star Una Healy of The Saturdays will be contesting for a place in the final at the West County Hotel, Ennis, Co Clare on January 4 where she will have to battle against 15 other competitors in the penultimate stages of the competition.

Rockers 2Minutes2Midnight are touring around Ireland from this month to promote their brand-new EP How Did This Happen. They will be bringing their no-nonsense rock and roll sound and unmistakable showmanship to The Stables, Mullingar on Friday November 23.

Upstairs @ Halo welcomes Exceed this Friday, November 9 These guys are a cover band on a mission – consisting of Mick Warnock [vocals], Niall Ward [Guitar and Backing Vocals], Rob McTiernan [Bass] and Eddie Delaney [drums].

THIS MONTH’s North Beach Poetry Nights will have a fiction slant as the night will see the launch of a new short story anthology.

RADIOHEAD have always explored and experimented, journeying from the alternative rock of The Bands to the prog-rock of OK Computer, to more avant garde sounds more recently.

Seamus Fogarty performs as part of his God Damn You Mountain tour tonight, Friday October 5 in the Passionfruit Theatre Athlone. Support on the night by Athlone native Brendan Coyle.

THE SAW Doctors, DruidMurphy, The Waterboys’ Mike Scott, paintings by Jack B Yeats, and the presence of Uachtarán na hÉireann, will be part and parcel of the 35th Annual Clifden Arts Festival.