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Do you know your eighties? If so, prove it at The Twelve Hotel, Fri Nov 12 at 8.30pm sharp when an eighties table quiz followed by an ’80s DJ until late.

Over the past 12 months Langton’s Set Theatre in Kilkenny has quickly gone from being the city’s newest music venue to being one of the most talked about venues in the country.

AMERICAN FOLK, traditional, and country music is a convergence of the folk and trad styles that the Irish, Scots, English, and German emigrants brought with them to the New World.

THE REPUBLIC of Loose, the original Celtic funk-soul brothers, will bring their horny funk, salacious soul, and libidinous rhythms to Monroe’s Live on Thursday June 24.

Mullingar-based groovesters The Aftermath will step up a level in the pantheon of Irish music this summer when they play at Electric Picnic and the Rose of Tralee festival, and continue with the baton of excellence recently passed on by the dormant Blizzards.

SHEFFIELD WAS an important hub of steel and coal production during The Industrial Revolution of the 1800s and was nicknamed ‘The Steel City,’ but in the 1970s and 1980s international competition and the anti-union stance of Margaret Thatcher meant industry in the area collapsed.

A Kilkenny man scooped two prestigious accolades this May Bank Holiday weekend at the Stormont Hotel, Belfast, where the Diamond Jubilee International Brotherhood of Magicians Irish Magic Championships took place.

Fans of classic musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof, Chicago, and Les Misérables are in for a genuine treat this weekend with a special concert in St Canice’s Cathedral.

MAY 18 marks the 30th anniversary of the suicide of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the seminal cult band Joy Division.

“WHEN I’M a’walkin’ I strut my stuff, then I’m so strung out” were the first English language lyrics to be broadcast on Raidió na Gaeltachta, exactly five years ago.