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The musical woodwork of Mullingar will be well and truly emptied this weekend as the great, the good, and the grateful of this vibrant scene descend on the Stables for a three-night celebration of the life of one of the pioneers and stalwarts, the late Cani Bruton.

THROUGH THE fusion of dream pop and grunge, and flying a flag for 1990s indie virtues, while pointing new ways forward, Warpaint have reinvigorated alternative rock, and shown that guitar bands should not be the sole preserve of men.

BOB MARLEY, a cultural icon, a prophet and hero to Jamaicans, and one of the worlds most loved musicians will be celebrated and remembered in Galway next week.

On September 12 2003, the world lost one of its greatest music legends. Johnny Cash, the Man in Black, left a legacy of music that will last forever. Now that legend is brought to life when the band American Cash get on stage. American Cash deliver a truly powerful live tribute to the great man himself and his music and they play The Stables on Friday January 28.

Tonight, Friday December 3 The Stables, Mullingar will be hosting brand new Irish jazz fusion band Circumflex, with a host of other talent. Circumflex was started by John Owens and Charlie Bernath, the band’s guitar players, in 2009. Originally a guitar duo the band was formed in August of 2010 adding Mullingar’s own Tommy Moore on bass/vocals and from Maynooth, Hugh Denman on drums.

The Disconnected Bliss kick start their December tour with a hugely anticipated show in The Palace Bar, Athlone tonight, Friday December 3.

There was an amazing sense of nostalgia as I had dinner in this relatively new restaurant on the main street in Loughrea. The building was originally a private house owned by the O’Loughlin family and on many, many, nights in the early seventies I practised all my best moves and chords as we played hits by people like Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, and many more in what we thought was the best rock band on the planet. The band had the rather unusual name of Skab Law. How the neighbours put up with the deafening levels of guitars and drums is a credit to their tolerance.

INDIE IS the self-confessed home of all that is ‘quirky’ in pop and rock and in Darwin Deez the genre may have found a singer worthy to carry on its fine tradition of off-centre pop eccentricity.

That’s the title to one of the songs played by Jason and The Scorchers in the Set Theatre last Sunday night and everyone in the packed out venue would surely agree.

HE USED to lead the Co Meath pop-punk trio Turn in the days when he was called Ollie. Today he plays more melodic, Beatles influenced, music and goes by his full name Oliver.