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TOMORROW NIGHT from 9pm Monroe’s Live will be pulsing to the reggae, dub, drum’n’bass, and Celtic trad, when Intinn take to the stage.

IT HAS been a decade since Roddy Woomble has played Ireland. Back then it was as lead singer of Idlewild. This month he returns as a solo artist, armed with a set of songs and perspectives that reflect the many changes in his life over that time.

INTINN, the west of Ireland band who reggae, dub, and drum’n’bass with Irish trad, play The Backstage Bar at Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.

TERRY REID could have been the lead singer in Led Zeppelin. Richie Blackmore wanted him to be Deep Purple’s frontman. Both incidents have gone down in legend to cast Terry as rock’s ‘great nearly man...’, but to think this way is to forget that Terry Reid has always been his own man.

JOHN SPILLANE, Eleanor Shanley, Frankie Lane, Mick Hanly, and Paul Kelly are coming together for a major night of folk’n’trad entitled Folk The Recession.

IN THE late 1970s and early 1980s, punk and new wave were not the only choices for those who wanted music that was alternative to the mainstream - there was also British ska.

The much anticipated Kilkenny Youth Music Awards, organised by Ossory Youth, was held in Desart Hall Youth Centre. The competition drew talent from all over the county with 10 acts participating on the day.

The Ronan Collins Showband Show “Reelin In The Showband Years” which was a complete sell out last year, returns to The Springhill Court Hotel, Kilkenny on Saturday January 22.

IN THE early 1990s boy band and girl band acts dominated the British and Irish charts. Take That, The Spice Girls, East 17, and Boyzone sold millions of singles and were constantly on television.

The Ronan Collins Showband Show; Reelin In The Showband Years returns to The Greville Arms Hotel, Mullingar on Thursday January 20.