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T BEGINS with a frantic drumbeat and squall of feedback, before the distorted guitars kick with a punk style descending chord riff, and a voice sings in a melody worthy of a fifties and sixties girl groups: “You look at me as if I’m some drama queen...”

SWOON, THE debut album from Galway indie band Dott will be launched at a gig in the Róisín Dubh on Saturday November 9 at 9pm.

DUBLIN ELECTRO-pop trio Swords, whose music The Irish Times described as “neatly clipped electro-pop tunes and smart elegant hooks”, are coming to Galway.

‘A CHANGE is as good as a rest’ and ‘travel broadens the mind’ are two of the oldest chestnuts out there, but these sayings have stuck around because they have more than a grain of wisdom in them.

GALWAY AND Derry talent will play the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm as part of the 20th IMRO Showcase Tour.

THE COMMUNITY Skratch Games 2011, celebrating turntable manipulation and sample culture, opens this evening at 8pm at the 126 Gallery, Queen Street.

LAURA SHEERAN has two reasons to celebrate this month. On April 19 she celebrate sher birthday and two days earlier, on Sunday April 17, she will launch of her debut album - The Fresh Blood/Lust Of Pig.

Having played many times with Scottish folkie James Yorkston and the late great John Martyn, Mayo man Seamus Fogarty’s music pedigree is in no doubt, but you can check out this singer-songwriter’s self-described “mongrel breed of folk, country and blues” for yourself in Cleere’s (tonight) Friday February 26 at 9pm.

The Spanish Arch in summer is a natural place of congregation and this week even more so as the medieval landmark will form the backdrop to three open air gigs, each taking place at 9pm.