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IF IT was not for Terri Hooley there might never have been a punk scene in Ireland. Dublin was never convincing, Cork was virtually silent, and Tuam’s Blaze X ploughed a lone furrow west of the Shannon.

DUBLIN TRIO KNOTS, an abbreviation for King’s Now On The Stage, play Monroe’s Live tomorrow night at 10pm.

THE NINETIES was when indie went from the underground to overground and spawned such genres as shoegaze, grunge, and Britpop.

THREE OF the most exciting Irish indie bands - one from Dublin, one from Tuam, the other from Donegal - play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday March 7.

THEY HAVE scored five Number 1 singles in the download charts, appeared on TV show Fade Street, and enjoy regular radio play.

CANTERBURY WAS at the centre of English psychedelia in the late 1960s and early 1970s, being home to the melodic Caravan and the “out bloody rageous” Soft Machine.

SONGWRITER, SINGER, poet, bass player, band leader, Black Irishman, icon - Phil Lynott is all of these things and Galway will pay tribute to the late master this week.

WITH HIS mix of French House and Balearic Beat, Vito De Luca has established himself as party-starting DJ and a star remix teams of the nu-disco scene.

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.

HE WAS a member of the high priests of sleaze rock Mötley Crüe, he has toured with LA Guns, and worked with KISS’s Bruce Kulick.