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ONE OF the darkest days of the Irish music scene occurred on July 31 1975 when three members of The Miami Showband band were killed by UVF paramilitaries at a fake army checkpoint outside Newry.

He may come from a land down under but Rory Faithfield is very much a songwriter in the Irish tradition.

NOW THAT we are in a recession, people are casting their minds back to the bleak 1980s and early 1990s when, as Tommy Tiernan said “you couldn’t get a job if you tried”.

For what seems like forever now, there’s been nothing but misery wherever we turned. Job losses, out of control finances, political ineptitude, murder again in Northern Ireland and public unrest. And then all of a sudden, the sun comes out on Patrick’s Day, a decent Kilkenny parade, two Offaly men share some weed in the White House and a feelgood factor returns to the Emerald Isle, begorragh!

The Aftermath return to Ireland after a successful UK tour which saw then feature on BBC’s Tom Robinson and Radcliff and Maconie shows for the final release of debut album Friendlier Up Here.

The Live Lounge is the Radisson SAS Hotel’s new entertainment centre which will host shows from the Camembert Quartet, U2 tribute band Rattle and Hum, and rising Irish soul singer Laura Izibor.

KILDARE MAN David Geraghty began his musical journey in the mid-1990s when he joined Damien Rice, Paul Noonan, Dominic Phillips and Brian Crosby in the band Juniper for the recording of their second EP Manna. When Rice left the band in 1998 the remaining members continued to play together and formed the band Bell X1. To date Bell X1 have released four critically-acclaimed albums and have been gaining success in the United States in recent years, with Paste Magazine describing them as “one of Ireland’s greatest bands”. Geraghty released his debut solo album Kill Your Darlings in 2007 and earned himself a nomination for the Choice Music Prize alongside Roisin Murphy, Kila, and Delorentos. Next week sees the release of his second solo album The Victory Dance and as part of a nationwide promotional tour he plays Roisin Dubh on Friday September 11.

Saving J, a local pop/rock band have been enjoying monumental success recently and the group is guaranteed to progress further in the industry if recent press is anything to go on.

Damien Dempsey will stage an electrifying solo performance in the intimate setting of Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, this Sunday, September 27, at 8.30pm. Considered one of Ireland’s most outstanding contemporary singer/ songwriters, Dempsey has produced a series of critically acclaimed chart-topping albums, the most recent of which is The Rocky Road, featuring the cracking single reworking of “The Rocky Road to Dublin”.

Extra extra, read all about it, the Republic of Loose are playing in Kytelers on December 4.