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Murphy’s Big Night Out has announced Mercury prize winning, multi platinum selling and general all round international superstar Florence and the Machine as the headline act for this year’s Murphy’s Big Night Out, at the Opera House, Cork on Saturday December 5th. Tickets are extremely limited and in huge demand for Murphy’s Big Night Out so apply now by logging on to www.littlebignightsout.com or Tel: 01 5224850! Check out the Leo Zero Remix of the Florence and The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise it up) here

RTE 2fm’s Jenny Huston presenter of Friday’s new music show and The Annex on 2fm, has just launched , In Bloom her book featuring in-depth interviews with many of the Irish music artists that filled the radio airwaves in 2009. The bands speak frankly and honestly about their highs and lows, record deals signed and lost, touring and chart success. The bands featured are Bell X1, The Blizzards, The Coronas, Cathy Davey, Delorentos, Duke Special, Fight like Apes, Mick Flannery, Fred, Lisa Hannigan, Jape, Messiah J and the Expert, Mundy, Republic of Loose, Villagers.

Due to illness, Charlie Winston’s gig in Dolans has been canceled. He was to tour here to coincide with the Irish release of his album ‘Hobo’. Signed to Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records Charlie recorded his album with David Bowie producer Mark Plati at the desk and is among the 10 artists set to take home a 2010 European Border Breakers Award in January. The gongs will be presented by Jules Holland at a ceremony in The Netherlands, recognising acts from the EU that have found success abroad. Other winning acts include Portuguese outfit Buraka Som Sistema and Peter Fox of Germany. Former winners include Adele, The Ting Tings and Damien Rice.

Limericks finest indie-punk-rockers The Hitchers called it a day in 2001, yet have done more re-union gigs and had more releases than some bands who brazenly profess to be on the go in the interim, and this year is no exception, the band have now confirmed this years gig for Dolans on the 28th of December. Here’s their video for Strachan …

Niall Quinn, he who saw much active service with The Hitchers releasing two critically acclaimed albums in the late 90′s (i.e no one bought them but lots of people claimed they did) has released his debut single under the monkier THEME TUNE BOY. Described as something of a pocket rocket ‘Rose’ clocking in (and out) at a concise 49 seconds “Rose” will be available in a number of formats including download from all the usual suspects, hard copy with extra tracks or you can go for the DELUXE Have It Your Way Package wherein Theme Tune Boy will re-record the lead vocal changing Roses name, which is mentioned on average every 7 seconds, to that of any girl, boy, treasured pet you like.
Just try and keep the name under three syllables.

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More information on themetuneboy.com.

Today FM’s Donal Dineen is putting on a series of 4 live gigs as part of his Fresh Air Festival. 4 live gigs, all on Sundays, in Galway, Cork, Limerick and Dublin.  All 4 gigs will have Donal’s live visuals, and the wonderful Katie Kim will be artist-in-residence for each gig, with special guests joining her in each city. These live gigs are part of an overall on-air festival of new music called Fresh Air which is curated by Dineen, and sees a new live guest playing in Studio for every Small Hours show in November.   These special shows, which collectively will host over 20 live acts, will all be available to listen back to on a special Today FM Page throughout the month.
Sunday 15th November – CORK
Sunday 22nd November – GALWAY
Sunday 29th November – DUBLIN
Sunday 6th Decebmer – LIMERICK – Daghdha Dance Space at St. Johns
Donal Dineen, Katie Kim, and special guests

The Cranberries reunion kicked off in the US last Friday (12th Nov) in Baltimore with a 2000 capacity sold-out show. Guitarist, Noel Hogan commented afterwards “1st show went amazing last night, it was great to play the old tracks again”. The set comprised of Cranberries classics and some material from Dolores O’Riordan’s solo work. Here is the setlist
01.- How
02.- Animal Instinct
03.- Linger
04.- Ordinary Day
05.- Wanted
06.- Just My Imagination
07.- Dreaming My Dreams
08.- When You’re Gone
09.- Daffodil Lament
10.- I Can’t Be With You
11.- Ode To My Family
12.- Free To Decide
13.- Waltzing Back
14.- Switch Off The Moment
15.- Salvation
16.- Ridiculous Thoughts
17.- Zombie

ENCORE
18.- Lunatic
19.- Empty
20.- The Journey
21.- Dreams

Punk/poet Jinx Lennon mixes folk/electro/spoken word to deliver a ferocious live show that is beautifully complimented by Jinx’s stage partner Miss Paula Flynn’s tender vocals. He is back in Limerick this month as part of his MAGIC RAWNESS AND RAGE tour to promote the DVD of the same name. Funny and insightful tracks like “Get the Guards” and “Everyones got a mental home inside their head” have won Jinx plenty fans and plaudits not least from Christy Moore who said of Jinx in a Sunday Tribune interview “For me the best songwriter in the country at the moment is Jinx Lennon, and he matters. He matters to me. And we don‘t hear him because he’s telling the truth. He’s singing about this island we live in as it is, and he doesn’t get airplay. Why doesn’t he get airplay? …Because he’s telling the truth.  And why can’t people deal with that truth?… Because it’s very raw, and he doesn’t sugar it up”. Check him out on Nov 20th at Bakers supported by Niall Quinn’s Themetuneboy.

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Limerick band Roper have called it a day. From their web site they stated, “10 years of a legacy is a difficult thing to look back on, but we’d rather do that with a positive mindframe than any other. To bring things to a graceful end now allows us to do that.” Despite describing Ireland as “a tough bastard of a place to be in any sort of a band thats not considered mainstream” the band won the Miller Strat Band of the Year competition in 2005, gigged continually and built up a loyal following over the years culminating in the release of their LP Gallows Hill. Check out Regardless We Rust below. A farewell gig is not planned at time of writing.

Philip Brennan is an artist, singer, naturalist, writer and teacher from County Clare.
Recorded at Denis Allen Studio, his album Tobartaoscan is out now.

Tobartaoscán – Philip Brennan

Philip says “I wrote Tobartaoscan as we came into the new millennium. It’s a jaunt through the disappeared landscape of my childhood. ‘Tobar’ is Irish for a well and a ‘taoscan’ is a draught of water.” The song won the Humours of Tulla newly-composed song contest in 2000.
Phillip has an exhibition of his painting, called ‘Shorelines’ starting Thursday 12th Nov 2009 in The Great Hall, Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis, Co.Clare.